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2011-03-19T04:27:44.860
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<p>I shifted to Ubuntu 10.10 now I am facing problem to have C/C++ compiler. What are the possible ways so that I can use C/C++ compiler using all the libraries (like graphic, math, conio, stdlib, etc) as in Microsoft Windows creating executable file?</p>
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2013-01-09T17:51:02.543
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Can I use a C/C++ compiler?
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31013
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2011-03-19T06:09:52.580
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<p>I'm trying to install the ath5k driver in Maverick, but the instructions at <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC/Fixes#Wireless" rel="nofollow">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC/Fixes#Wireless</a> don't work. I've tried to install (sudo apt-get install) <code>linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generi...
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866
2011-05-24T08:39:52.307
2011-05-24T08:39:52.307
How do I install the ath5k driver?
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31016
1
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2011-03-19T07:41:44.737
2
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<p>I am suffering from a bug/crash in Natty, which I have logged in Launchpad: <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/737928" rel="nofollow">https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/737928</a></p> <p>The response I got back on my bug was a "provide us with a .crash file, or we won't look into it". Not very helpfu...
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2012-07-09T13:56:41.840
2012-07-09T13:56:41.840
How to report a crash when there isn't a .crash file
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31020
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2011-03-19T08:03:13.080
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<p>The question is in the title, I always remove applications that I do not use after installing or upgrading, this includes games etc (wish it was possible to install Ubuntu with no applications then add the ones I require after, is this possible?) Anyway after removing the applications they still show under the insta...
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null
2011-03-19T08:09:36.787
Uninstalled aplications still show launcher icons under installed aplications?
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31023
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2011-03-19T06:31:11.967
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<p>How to manually configure <code>eth0</code> in Ubuntu? I don't have any DHCP server. Do I need IP address when I am just going to capture packets?</p>
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235
2011-03-19T16:46:47.900
2024-03-29T06:03:22.603
How to configure eth0 manually?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You don't need IP address for capturing packets in promiscuous mode (when you want to capture all traffic, not just traffic destined to your computer). You can put that interface up using command</p>\n\n<pre><code>ifconfig eth0 up\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>This do not assign IPv4 ...
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Dhinesh
31029
1
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2011-03-19T09:26:11.230
4
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<p>I put in the wireless LAN card into the usb port, being new to Ubuntu i'd expect something like Windows... Auto installing itself, but nothing happened. </p> <p>With the card I have a disc for the wireless LAN card to install. Inside of the disc there is a folder called Linux. I'm assuming that that is how I instal...
9838
9838
2011-03-25T18:48:35.430
2012-08-21T06:32:03.853
How do I get a Ralink RT2070 wireless USB stick to work?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You need to extract the .tar.gz into a folder. To do that you can right click on the file and choose <em>extract</em>. Once the file is extracted, go into the folder, and look at the readme or install files. Follow the instructions on how to install the driver. </p>\n\n<p...
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31032
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2011-03-19T10:20:41.877
1
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<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/22735/disable-locking-the-screen-after-resuming-from-suspend">Disable locking the screen after resuming from suspend</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>I would like to be able to bounce straight back to where I left off and...
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2017-04-13T12:24:49.530
2011-03-19T17:06:28.943
Can I disable the lock screen that happens when I close my Dell d430?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I'm not sure i clearly understand what you're looking for, but i found these:\n<a href=\"http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/24847/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/24847/</a> and\n<a href=\"http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?s=0282c09fc59593ce6a3c6c22d221...
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2011-03-20T13:52:05.630
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user12652
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2011-03-19T11:19:03.567
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<p>So here's the short story.</p> <p>I wanted to compile the latest Transmission client from source but in order to do that I needed the libevent-2 library which is not available from Ubuntu 10.04's repository.</p> <p>Therefore, I grabbed libevent-2's source code, compiled it and installed it (sudo make install). </p...
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2012-02-24T03:41:46.843
Compiling library from source code, how to overwrite current package?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Was unable to set my path right apparently, a symbolic link like this worked: </p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libevent-2.0.so.5 /usr/lib/libevent-2.0.so.5\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "content...
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31047
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2011-03-19T12:03:30.990
3
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<p>I often update my system with <code>apt-get update &amp;&amp; apt-get dist-upgrade</code>. This caused me a few problems with natty and nvidia drivers.</p> <p>Someone on IRC told me that's because I did a partial upgrade, but I did not know.</p> <p><strong>How do I know if apt-get is going to do a partial upgrade?...
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2012-06-25T16:13:02.423
2012-06-25T16:13:02.423
How do I know if apt-get is going to do a partial upgrade?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Typically you should be wary of using \"dist-upgrade\" during the development release, if the archive is in an inconsistent state it will remove things and this will happen. This always isn't easy as you might have upgraded part of the system and the bits that they depend on might no...
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user70540
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2011-03-19T12:06:22.760
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<p>I have a laptop that has a trackpad for the mouse. I'm not using all the multi-touch capabilities of the trackpad and am currently only able to get left click working. Is there any way to setup Win+Click as right click? This would be kind of like Command+Click on Apple machines.</p>
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2019-02-27T08:47:54.850
Trackpad Mimic Apple's Command Click
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31051
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2011-03-19T12:08:47.563
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<p>This was from <a href="http://wiki.karen.net.nz/index.php/Network_Diagnostic_Tool_%28NDT%29" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p> <p><strong>Extract the patch</strong></p> <pre><code>tar -xvzf /usr/src/web100-2.5.22-200810130047.tar.gz bzip2 web100/ web100-2.6.27-2.5.22-200810130047.patch </code></pre> <p><strong>Test t...
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2011-03-19T13:29:11.910
2011-03-21T04:58:23.163
Why is bzip2 needed in the kernel patch instructions?
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31063
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2011-03-19T14:01:55.880
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<p>The command history between sessions is not getting saved. I'm using guake and the history for the session is working fine.</p> <p>I noticed that <strong>.bash_history</strong> had some commands I executed in <code>sudo -s</code> mode and tried the same again and all the commands while in the session got saved so I ...
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2020-08-21T14:49:41.923
2020-08-21T14:49:41.923
Bash command history not working
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>The commands are not visible because Bash saves history to the .bash_history file only after the shell quits, and this happens very rarely with Guake. There is <a href=\"http://www.cuberick.com/2008/11/update-bash-history-in-realtime.html\">a simple workaround</a> to make Bas...
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user1094181
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31064
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31074
2011-03-19T14:02:32.070
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<p>Google have just published their <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/program/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2011" rel="nofollow">list of accepted mentoring organisations</a> for Summer of Code 2011, but Ubuntu isn't listed there. Jono Bacon has confirmed that Ubuntu applied for a position, so I can only conclude t...
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2011-11-11T01:34:24.117
2011-11-11T01:34:24.117
Ubuntu isn't on Google's list of Summer of Code participants
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>As far as I know Ubuntu did not get through. It is not there in the list.</p>\n\n<p>Ubuntu got <a href=\"http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2010\" rel=\"nofollow\">through last year(2010)</a> where we had a few projects (one I can remember was Harvest)</...
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user2405
31067
1
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2011-03-19T14:19:02.407
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<p>I have installed ubuntu 10.10 on my pc. I dont have internet connection. </p> <p>Now i haven't installed third party software like for music, video, graphics, display. So how do i do that?</p> <p>Please help me.</p>
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667
2011-03-19T14:38:41.310
2011-03-19T14:38:41.310
How do I install non-free drivers and codecs without an Internet connection?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I think you should take a look at <a href=\"http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/01/offline-ubuntu-updater-keryx-hits-1-0/\" rel=\"nofollow\">this</a>. This program allows you to download packages from one computer, save them in a USB drive and install them on another computer whi...
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user12664
31069
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31071
2011-03-19T14:35:02.233
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<p>When I work in terminal, sometimes I want to open the current directory in a GUI file manager. And then to click the items in the window to run the application. How can I do this? </p>
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667
2011-03-19T14:43:32.383
2020-12-04T18:50:14.153
How to open a file manager of the current directory in the terminal?
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user8260
31076
1
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2011-03-19T15:12:38.067
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<p>My clock starts running out of sync in Ubuntu which doesn't happen in Windows. The problem is that it just starts losing time after a moment of syncing it with an NTP server, that means the clock is broken. </p> <p>So How can I make the system use the hardware clock instead(I tried adjtimex).</p> <p>BTW: please do...
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2013-07-08T23:33:27.933
How can I force Ubuntu to use the BIOS internal clock instead of NTP or whatever its being used?
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31077
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31084
2011-03-19T15:12:39.660
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<p>First i tried with youtube-dl and all the times ( and all days) for all videos it gives this same error:</p> <pre><code>youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zWwTTAc7O8 [youtube] Setting language [youtube] 6zWwTTAc7O8: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] 6zWwTTAc7O8: Extracting video information ERROR: fo...
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2013-04-14T19:26:00.453
2013-04-26T18:30:16.873
How can I download Youtube videos?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You can use <a href=\"http://www.miksoft.net/mobileMediaConverter.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Mobile Media Converter</a>, which will do this task with ease in 32 bit systems.</p>\n\n<pre><code>The producers haven't delivered yet a 64 bit version, but the 32 bit will download vi...
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2011-04-30T01:54:04.343
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31080
1
31248
2011-03-19T15:33:54.123
4
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<p>So I was facing weird graphics drivers issues due to the <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/30088/thinkpad-w510-with-default-graphics-drivers-shows-weird-brightness-issues">default nouveau drivers that came installed with Ubuntu 10.10</a> hence I installed the latest nVidia graphics drivers &amp; the weird gra...
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2017-04-13T12:23:27.200
2012-01-24T15:52:41.810
Installing nVidia drivers for Quadro FX 880M on 10.10 caused shutdown/startup issues
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1
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-03-20T17:46:51.370", "id": "35007", "postId": "31080", "score": "0", "text": "definitely a driver issue, the reason it doesn't evidence itself on the login screen is that it's still using the old plymouth driver(generic) and not the REAL driver for whatever. file a bug w...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Ok. I think I figured out to resolve this. I can't believe it is so simple. Just went to this page on Ubuntu Wiki - <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia</a>\nand then followe...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Ok. I think I figured out to resolve this. I can't believe it is so simple. Just went to this page on Ubuntu Wiki - <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia</a>\nand then...
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31081
1
31082
2011-03-19T15:02:28.683
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<p>What's the difference between the Server version of Ubuntu and the Desktop version?</p>
12670
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2022-04-18T12:02:13.860
2022-04-18T12:03:20.680
What's the difference between the Server version and the Desktop version?
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1
CC BY-SA 4.0
[ { "creationDate": "2013-06-25T20:42:20.783", "id": "394952", "postId": "31081", "score": "1", "text": "which one is better? I have an Acer Aspire One 1gb RAM, 1,60GHZ processor... It's an old computer, but I've always used Ubuntu distros with it. I recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 and it's too sl...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Copied as-is from <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ServerFaq#What.27s_the_difference_between_desktop_and_server.3F\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Ubuntu docs</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>The first difference is in the CD contents. The &quot;Server&quot; CD avoids inclu...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Copied as-is from <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ServerFaq#What.27s_the_difference_between_desktop_and_server.3F\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Ubuntu docs</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>The first difference is in the CD contents. The &quot;Server&quot; CD avoi...
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oneat
31086
1
null
2011-03-19T16:27:37.317
3
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<pre><code>Checking for a new ubuntu release Done Upgrade tool signature Done Upgrade tools Done downloading extracting 'maverick.tar.gz' authenticate 'maverick.tar.gz' against 'maverick.tar.gz.gpg' tar: Removing leading `/' from member names Reading cache Checking package manager Reading package lists....
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2011-03-19T20:29:17.740
Upgrade 10.04LTS to 10.10 problem
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>The first hit on Google (searching for \"AttributeError: 'Template' object has no attribute 'official'\") yields the next Ubuntu Forums thread: <a href=\"http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1595020\" rel=\"nofollow\">Upgrading to 10.10: \"AttributeError: 'Template' objec...
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31094
1
31262
2011-03-19T17:37:07.077
9
18754
<p>What is the way to be able to type Japanese characters? Could someone make a how-to in order to explain the few steps to get it?</p>
5592
24694
2012-03-18T01:04:29.137
2021-06-10T08:30:03.090
How can I type Japanese characters?
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0
CC BY-SA 3.0
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Since Ubuntu 9.10, you just have to follow those few steps :</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Install <a href=\"http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/ibus-anthy\" rel=\"noreferrer\">ibus-anthy</a></li>\n<li>Go to System -> Preferences -> Keyboard input methods</li>\n<li>Accept to activate iBus (pop-up window)</li...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Read the following:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JapaneseInput\" rel=\"nofollow\">Japanese Input</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SCIM\" rel=\"nofollow\">SCIM</a></p></li>\n</ul>\n", "commentCount": "0", ...
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31100
1
31116
2011-03-19T18:37:04.117
24
91284
<p>What is best way to install a Cisco VPN client application in Ubuntu?</p>
11749
36499
2011-12-22T04:19:56.790
2016-11-30T16:22:57.487
How do I install the Cisco VPN client?
[ "vpn", "cisco" ]
4
2
CC BY-SA 3.0
[ { "creationDate": "2011-03-19T19:52:43.700", "id": "34876", "postId": "31100", "score": "0", "text": "Which client are we talking about here? VPNC? AnyConnect? Or the network-manager-vpnc plug-in? Or are you asking \"what clients are available?\" in which case, I might just have answered yo...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You need to install network-manager-vpnc, then configure it through network manager.</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install network-manager-vpnc\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>That will install <code>vpnc</code>, <code>network-manager-vpnc</code> and <code>network-manager-vpnc-gnome</code>.</p...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You need to install network-manager-vpnc, then configure it through network manager.</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install network-manager-vpnc\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>That will install <code>vpnc</code>, <code>network-manager-vpnc</code> and <code>network-manager-vpnc-gnome</c...
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31102
1
null
2011-03-19T19:22:38.597
1
442
<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/78522/how-to-open-the-unity-dash-when-hitting-the-top-left-corner-of-the-screen">How to open the Unity dash when hitting the top left corner of the screen?</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>Gnome Shell gives uses the optio...
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-1
2017-04-13T12:24:13.310
2012-01-24T08:35:22.867
Will Unity lets users flick the left upper corner to reveal launcher?
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1
0
CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Try this:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Install <code>xdotool</code> (a program that allows you to simulate X11 keyboard/mouse input).</li>\n<li>Run <code>ccsm</code> (the CompizConfig Settings Manager).</li>\n<li>Activate the <em>Commands</em> plugin (probably will crash Unity, do <kbd>C...
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null
2012-01-24T15:56:09.023
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user12671
31103
1
null
2011-03-19T19:25:19.017
10
1509
<p>Getting this set up was relatively simple on Windows, but I can't quite figure out how to go about doing it in Ubuntu.</p> <p>My phone is paired with the Ubuntu machine, and I simply want to pipe the audio from the phone to it. However, I have no idea how to do this.</p> <p><strong>Note:</strong> I have <a href="h...
5
5
2011-03-20T04:48:00.627
2011-03-24T07:08:01.657
How to get my bluetooth-enabled phone to pipe its audio through my Ubuntu machine?
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1
CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>here u go u should take a look at <a href=\"http://jprvita.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/1-2-3-4-a2dp-stream/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>A2DP</strong></a> </p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", ...
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31104
1
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2011-03-19T19:38:53.797
0
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<p><a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/sisu" rel="nofollow">sisu</a> is an application for documents structuring, publishing in multiple formats and search.</p> <p>I was wondering </p> <ol> <li>How well it is received by users, and if there are other similar applications that are comparable to or even better...
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25863
2012-06-18T18:12:40.730
2012-06-18T18:12:40.730
Any introduction on how to use sisu?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I believe the SiSu homepage itself has a very thorough document on using sisu: <a href=\"http://www.sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_manual/sisu_intro.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.sisudoc.org/sisu/sisu_manual/sisu_intro.html</a></p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [],...
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31105
1
31114
2011-03-19T19:47:16.433
3
1280
<p>How can I add new logical partition?</p> <p>I already have an extended partition, so I tried to use GParted to add a new logical partition.</p> <ol> <li><p>I tried to resize the extended partition, but such an option is not available.</p></li> <li><p>I tried to add a new logical partition but it only gave primary ...
12139
10581
2011-03-20T13:43:18.440
2011-05-28T10:53:02.230
How can I add new logical partition?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-03-19T21:12:13.153", "id": "34881", "postId": "31105", "score": "0", "text": "Could you please show the output of fdisk -l /dev/sda (or whatever is the disk in question) ?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "11616" } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You cannot resize the extended partition if any of the partitions on it are in use.</p>\n\n<p>Boot into a LiveCD and use the GParted <strong>without</strong> mounting the partitions. Remember to make a backup before proceeding.</p>\n", "commentCount": "6", "comments": [ { ...
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31109
1
31120
2011-03-19T20:09:49.793
10
3641
<p>I was wondering if there are some applications for downloading files from some popular hosting websites, automating the procedure of waiting and fetching links and downloading files, once we give the applications the links?</p> <p>Examples of such websites are </p> <ul> <li>Rapidshare,</li> <li>Uploading,</li> <li...
1471
25863
2012-06-18T18:12:35.393
2020-01-16T11:56:51.227
Is there some application to download files from popular file hosting websites?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p><a href=\"http://jdownloader.org/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">JDonwloader</a> does exactly that - with some capthca skipping (that doesnt work on all sites)</p>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-03-19T21:47:59.310", "id": "34891", "post...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Firefox has an add-on for that purpose, called <a href=\"https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/skipscreen-incredible-rapidsha/\">Skipscreen</a>.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/skipscreen-incredible-rapidsha/\">Description from AMO</a>:</...
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31115
1
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2011-03-19T21:03:27.897
2
25311
<p>When I run: </p> <pre><code>svn co http:://mysvnserver.com/trunk --username myuser </code></pre> <p>I get error: </p> <pre><code>svn: Can't create directory .svn': Permission denied </code></pre> <p>(I set folder permission to 755 with : <code>chmod -R 755</code> + <code>umask 022</code>, but I get error above)...
12139
10581
2011-03-19T21:24:14.807
2011-03-24T02:05:35.977
Error: svn: Can't create directory .svn': Permission denied
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1
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-03-19T21:18:39.990", "id": "34884", "postId": "31115", "score": "0", "text": "Please update your [original question](http://askubuntu.com/q/31107/6969), do not create a new one if the original question has no answers or comments yet.", "userDisplayName": null, "us...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Your command creates a directory named \"trunk\" in your current directory. You should have write permissions to that folder.</p>\n\n<p>If you want to put the checkout in a different directory, pass it to the command:</p>\n\n<pre><code>svn --username myuser co http://host/tru...
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31119
1
31130
2011-03-19T21:25:53.567
1
4253
<p>I have an Asus EeePC 1005PE netbook and I'm planning on doing a massive re-partitioning (going to install Ubuntu, Mint, XP, etc).</p> <p>I've noticed it has 2 &quot;special&quot; partitions:</p> <ul> <li>a 10Gb Fat32 RESTORE hidden partition (used by BIOS &quot;F9 recovery&quot; feature)</li> <li>a 16Mb &quot;unknow...
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955434
2021-11-21T09:07:43.450
2021-11-21T09:07:43.450
Install Ubuntu on Asus Eee-PC 1005PE - Dealing with special partitions
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1
CC BY-SA 4.0
[ { "creationDate": "2013-03-12T13:41:34.480", "id": "334458", "postId": "31119", "score": "0", "text": "Any official information is TOP SECRET and it is necessary to sign a Non Disclosure Agreement with own blood only :( If the half of mankind would not be forced to discover the wheel each day ag...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I have an eeePC 1000HE and have partitioned it many times. First I must say that if you think to delete this 2 little partitions you will lose your boot booster and it will boot with \"ASUS\" gray boot screen instead of quick black screen.(which is very important and will give you a...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I have an eeePC 1000HE and have partitioned it many times. First I must say that if you think to delete this 2 little partitions you will lose your boot booster and it will boot with \"ASUS\" gray boot screen instead of quick black screen.(which is very important and will gi...
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31122
1
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2011-03-19T22:05:22.157
0
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<p>I have been on 9.10 for over a year on the grounds that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. However, I had a spare weekend and figured it was probably about time...</p> <p>I performed an upgrade to 10.4, and everything seemed to proceed smoothly, so I took the plunge and went for 10.10.</p> <p>Disaster.</p> <p>My tw...
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2011-05-22T14:22:32.823
2012-02-15T12:37:27.183
Twinview broken on upgrade to 10.10
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1
CC BY-SA 3.0
[ { "creationDate": "2011-03-21T02:56:24.003", "id": "35065", "postId": "31122", "score": "0", "text": "What nvidia card do you have? There's a known bug with 8400 cards which has exactly these symptoms. Workaround is to go back to the 173 driver.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1243...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I used TwinView on 10.10 without problems, so I think it's just an issue with old settings.</p>\n\n<p>Try deleting Xorg.conf altogether (that's okay to do, because no Xorg.conf file is default now), restarting, and then checking that your Hardware Drivers is selected on the r...
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31126
1
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2011-03-19T22:58:19.410
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<p>I'm trying <kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>SysRq</kbd> + <kbd>REISUB</kbd> to see how it would be used to restart my system safely in case of emergency.</p> <p>However, I find that <kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>SysRq</kbd> + <kbd>REISUB</kbd> hangs at "resetting" (without actually resetting/restarting) in Maverick.</p> <p>All other...
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169736
2014-05-26T22:37:16.007
2014-05-26T22:37:16.007
ALT+SysRq+REISUB hangs at "resetting" (without actually resetting/restarting)
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5
CC BY-SA 3.0
[ { "creationDate": "2012-08-17T08:24:27.327", "id": "218927", "postId": "31126", "score": "1", "text": "Does SysRq+O (for Off) work? I used to have a system where that worked, but not reBoot, despite all my efforts.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "20965" }, { "creationDate":...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p><strong>Alt + SysRq +</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>R</strong> - takes keyboard and mouse control from the X server. This can be useful if the X-Server crashed, you can change to a console and kill the X-Server or check the error log.\nNOTE:- The documentation refers to this key...
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user12681
31129
1
51393
2011-03-19T23:15:45.177
2
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<p>I managed to get my wireless working beautifully (ath5k driver working great), and it works over a disable/enable wireless cycle, even a suspend/wakeup cycle (read some people have issues with that). Unfortunately, I discovered that if I press Fn+F2 on my keyboard (Asus EeePC 900HA, so that's the wireless toggle key...
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null
2011-07-01T11:33:58.413
ASUS EeePC Fn+F2 ruins wireless until restart
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2
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-05-01T08:59:35.410", "id": "42605", "postId": "31129", "score": "0", "text": "Did you try Ndiswrapper for the wi-fi? Does it give you the same issue?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "271" }, { "creationDate": "2011-05-06T08:41:51.993", "id": "4453...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I too have Maverick on a eee900A and I was having the same problem with the wireless.\nI found \n<a href=\"http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1415671\" rel=\"nofollow\">this fix</a>, it worked beatifully for me.\nHope it helps</p>\n\n<p>Ciao</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "co...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I have an Asus EeePC myself too, the 1005PE, but im using Lucid 10.04 instead. Ive bought it soon after Lucid was released, and decided to stick with an LTS release. After all, netbooks have limited hardware, and i depend on it on a daily basis, for work and college, so bleed...
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31131
1
31133
2011-03-19T23:42:54.957
15
7063
<p>The default behavior of my shell window is to create tabs. I can switch between those tabs but only one tab can be visible at a time.</p> <p>Is it possible to open multiple shells in the same window? E.g. have a window split 4-ways with each pane running it's own instance of a shell. I would prefer this over tabs s...
1202
12435
2011-03-21T03:00:56.473
2022-12-10T22:26:45.503
Multiple shells in one window
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5
1
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p><a href=\"https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/terminator\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">terminator</a> <a href=\"http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/terminator\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://hostmar.co/software-small\" alt=\"Install terminator\"></a>\n can do exactly this. It i...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p><a href=\"https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/terminator\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">terminator</a> <a href=\"http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/terminator\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://hostmar.co/software-small\" alt=\"Install terminator\"></a>\n can do exactly th...
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31139
1
31151
2011-03-20T01:00:35.297
2
397
<p>I wanted to test out XFCE, so I installed Xubuntu-Desktop, but unfortunately, it's changed my logonscreen, and all those other types of pre/post session screens. How do I return them to the Gnome defaults? I can't find any options within Gnome itself, like I could in my brief fling with KDE.</p> <p>Thanks for your ...
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null
null
2011-03-20T04:10:18.177
How do I get the Ubuntu loginscreen etc back after installing Xubutu-Desktop?
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1
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-03-20T01:49:50.357", "id": "34923", "postId": "31139", "score": "0", "text": "I will post detailed information later. You will have to change multiple things to get them back to normal.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1992" } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You need to update the default splash screen. For that you need to type:</p>\n\n<p><code>sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth</code></p>\n\n<p>It should present a list of alternative splash-screens. Select the one your want.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": ...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Run this in terminal:</p>\n\n<pre><code>dpkg-reconfigure gdm\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>and say that you want gdm to be default login manager.</p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-03-20T02:38:30.073", "id": "34925", ...
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31147
1
31166
2011-03-20T03:14:52.043
17
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<p>I'm having trouble with read/write permissions on my Samba server, how do I fix my smb.conf and file permissions to have a more unified access?</p> <p>smb.conf</p> <pre><code>[global] workgroup = workgroup netbios name = LnxNAS server string = %h wins support = no dns proxy = no security = user encrypt passwords =...
10965
10965
2011-03-20T22:41:09.617
2022-11-13T04:18:34.013
How to grant write permissions in Samba?
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4
0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Samba has its own layer of access control for each share. There are two basic options</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><code>read only</code>: by default every share is read-only, regardless of filesystem permissions,</li>\n<li><code>writeable</code>: in order to allow write access you should set <c...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Samba has its own layer of access control for each share. There are two basic options</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><code>read only</code>: by default every share is read-only, regardless of filesystem permissions,</li>\n<li><code>writeable</code>: in order to allow write access you shoul...
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31148
1
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2011-03-20T03:34:50.720
2
289
<p>I have a DSL internet connection. For a long time the internet functioned fine in Ubuntu using the default Network Manager. Recently however, my ISP was bought by another ISP, and the service name had to be changed in the DSL settings. In Windows, it connects without any issue whatsoever. But in Ubuntu, the first ti...
12689
3940
2011-03-20T09:42:55.790
2011-04-20T20:18:20.937
How to connect to the internet reliably
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3
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-03-20T09:40:06.073", "id": "34943", "postId": "31148", "score": "1", "text": "To answer this we need to know more. How is your box connected, DSL modem only, or router? What **exactly** did change for your ISP's settings? There is no sensible reason why network manager sh...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>There's a service name field in the settings on the main page for DSL connections. You should file in the service name there, as well as the usual username and password information.</p>\n\n<p>If you find you're having issues with the service name entered, try to set the conne...
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<p>this is how a maximized window looks when unity runs for the first time:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4eB1O.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>and this is how a maximized window looks when i click on the "maximize" button - after i restore it:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/...
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2011-03-20T13:52:32.253
2011-03-22T16:54:21.313
Maximized windows on Unity start without covering the sidebar - how can i do that manually?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I'm sorry, but there is none. The behaviour that you see in the first screenshot is the result of bug <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/731786\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/731786</a>. If you want to have the launcher visible, you'll have to s...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I'm sorry, but there is none. The behaviour that you see in the first screenshot is the result of bug <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/731786\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/731786</a>. If you want to have the launcher visible, you'll h...
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2011-03-19T03:44:13.847
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<p>How to install Ruby on Rails and MySql on my Ubuntu 10.04 OS?</p>
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2015-06-01T13:18:49.630
2015-06-01T13:18:49.630
How to install Ruby on Rails and MySql?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p><strong>Ruby on Rails</strong></p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>sudo apt-get install rails</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>For details, see the Ubuntu Help <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/ruby-on-rails.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">here</a>.</p>\n\n<hr>\n\n<p><strong>MySQL<...
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2011-03-20T08:12:49.627
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<p>According to <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/6491/laptop-immediately-suspends-when-going-onto-battery-power">this thread</a> I can disable this thing altogether but this battery-critical-power-down not always happens. Is there a way or terminal command that can stop the power manager shutting down my comput...
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2017-04-13T12:23:59.520
2011-09-11T21:02:16.297
How to stop turning off sequence when power manager says that battery is too low and want to power down?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>As far as i know, the computer can be set to either Shutdown, or Hibernate (free space/swap space providing).</p>\n\n<p>If Hibernation is something you consider an alternative, then you should be able to change it in the Power Manager.</p>\n\n<p>If not, then the system is try...
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2011-03-20T09:03:08.183
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<p>I want to write a small tools in the form of Applet, but not just a "applet". I want to show a listview or anything in the applet, unfortunly it seems that ONLY Menu/MenuItem can be add into applet. But anyone using rhythmbox must use the "Previous||Pause||Next" button on the sound-applet So can anyone have a solut...
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9781
2011-10-16T10:04:44.190
2011-10-16T11:12:56.037
How to add a rich control(not just MenuItem) for a applet like Rhythmbox
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You're probably talking about <em>indicators</em> and not <em>applets</em>. The available controls are very limited. Anything other than normal menu enties are provided by libido. </p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "conte...
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2011-03-20T10:44:02.587
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<p>I'm testing Natty, and Compiz keeps crashing on me. However, it doesn't always give me the option to restart Compiz, and for some reason doesn't have a fallback window manager(WM) configured. </p> <p>Without a WM, all my programs are still running, but they're not accepting input from the keyboard, and I can't swit...
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2016-08-09T00:40:53.403
2016-08-09T00:40:53.403
How can I restart Compiz from a TTY? (& Related, how can I set up a fallback WM?)
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Switch to terminal number 1 (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F1</kbd>) and run </p>\n\n<pre><code>DISPLAY=:0 unity --replace \n</code></pre>\n\n<p>or</p>\n\n<pre><code>DISPLAY=:0 compiz --replace\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Sometimes it doesn't restart. Just kill all <code>compiz</code>...
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2011-03-20T11:06:35.560
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<p>I have a USB 3.0 external hard disk which I am unable to mount. The entry appears in the "lsusb" command, but I do not exactly understand how to mount it.</p> <p>This is the output for my lsusb command. "ASMedia Technology Inc." is the USB 3.0 device. I would appreciate some help in mounting and accessing the hard ...
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2011-03-21T16:53:05.733
2012-01-17T06:36:35.330
Cannot mount external USB 3.0 Hard Disk
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Depending on the partition format, and the partition number (both of which can be found with <code>sudo fdisk -l</code>), the syntax for the mount command would be something like this:<br />\n<code>sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /media/mountPoint</code> <br />\nNote that the co...
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<p>my dell mini 10v running Ubuntu 10.10 runs ok for hours, but then will suddenly slow down drastically. Switching to a console shows lots of error messages, which also get into <code>/var/log/syslog</code>. These errors happen every couple of seconds. I'm figuring that the disk is failing, but is there anyway to be s...
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2011-06-07T02:55:33.037
2011-06-07T02:55:33.037
Disk failing on Dell Mini, are there diagnostic tools?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>If you go to \"System\" > \"Administration\" > \"Disk Utility\", you should see a list of your hard drives.</p>\n\n<p>Click on the drive in question, and you can check the drive for errors, or view the SMART data and have the drive run some of it's own tests.</p>\n\n<p>It doesn't loo...
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2011-03-20T12:29:43.153
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<p>I want to write shell script file that has a GUI with multiple input boxes for user entry. I already tried <code>zenity</code>. Any ideas or advice would be appreciated.</p>
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Need an interface for a gui shell script more powerful than zenity
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2011-03-20T12:44:55.710
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<p>Edit: Since setting Appearance -> Visual Effects up to a stunning "Normal", I now get ~35 FPS in <code>glxgears</code> right after login, with nothing else running :(</p> <p>I'm getting terrible graphics performance in <strong>NeverWinter Nights</strong> (native with SoU+HotU+CEP2) on my Eee PC 1005HAB. Even with a...
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2011-03-20T14:52:49.853
2011-05-01T14:49:38.767
Graphics performance of 945GME
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2011-03-20T12:56:45.493
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<p>I have the following problem every time i run apt-get install:</p> <p>for example : installing python-django-south</p> <pre><code>... Unpacking python-django-south (from .../python-django-south_0.5-2_all.deb) ... Setting up sun-j2sdk1.6 (1.6.0+update22-linux-i586.) ... update-alternatives: error: alternative path ...
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2011-03-20T13:46:38.517
2012-09-08T22:39:24.903
apt-get install problem: Errors were encountered while processing: sun-j2sdk1.6
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>As per the line:</p>\n\n<pre><code>update-alternatives: error: alternative path /usr/lib/j2sdk1.6-sun/jre/plugin/amd64/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so doesn't exist.\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>you have an invalidly set <code>java</code> path. So run from a terminal:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo...
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2011-03-20T13:09:15.600
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<p>How do I list top or bottom 10 lines from the line that matched the word 'error' in a file.</p> <p>I'm using <code>grep 'error' /var/log/logfile.log &gt; errors</code> to print and save the lines that matched the word 'error' in to the file called 'errors'. How could I change this to suite my requirement?. Anybody ...
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2011-03-20T13:36:50.257
List top/bottom ten lines of a word matching in a file
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2011-03-20T13:10:43.867
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<p>Msn keeps "connecting" without actually doing so eventually.<br> isn't the:<br> server: messenger.hotmail.com<br> port: 1863?</p>
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2012-02-16T00:08:48.217
Msn account not connecting on Empathy
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I had the same issue last night. Check if you have telepathy-butterfly installed and remove it.</p>\n\n<p>See Ubuntu Software Center and search for telepathy-butterfly then click remove</p>\n\n<p>or remove it by using terminal</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>sudo apt-get remove te...
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2011-03-20T13:12:58.093
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<p>I have a 3-4 years old laptop (Compaq V3000), which had Win Vista with Ubuntu 10.10 in dual boot configuration. The graphics card inside is an old Nvidia GeForce Go 7200.</p> <p>One fine day, my graphics card died (of old age, presumably) - resulting in myself being initially unable to boot to WinVista and Ubuntu 1...
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2011-10-10T08:13:25.530
2011-10-10T08:13:25.530
How to get disable nVidia Graphics Card (which has recently expired) so that I can boot Desktop?
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2011-03-20T13:56:42.413
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<p>I'm in desperate need of a decent comfortable mouse that will give me maximum performance on Ubuntu. I'm looking at a wireless Microsoft mouse, but I am concerned it will not work effectively with Ubuntu.</p> <p>Is there a list of wireless mice that are confirmed to work well with Ubuntu?</p> <p>Is there a place w...
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What wireless mice work well with Ubuntu?
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<p>My Ubuntu one is saying that my account is full. It has done that for over a week now, but its the account is not full at all.</p> <p>I have tried this guide:</p> <ol> <li><p>Quit the Ubuntu One Preferences, if open</p></li> <li><p>Open (Lucid): Applications->Accessories->Passwords and Encryption Keys (Maverick): ...
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2011-03-21T16:09:10.590
2011-03-22T00:39:46.510
Ubuntu One says that my account is full, but it's not
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Could it be that your UbuntuOne account's disk space is full, and not your local disk space?</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-03-20T15:59:34.827", "id": "34981", "postId": "31198", "score": "0", ...
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2011-03-20T15:33:22.713
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<p>usually, the video I played on YouTube completed I can find it on temp folder, but now nothing inside there after being played completely. </p>
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2011-06-06T15:05:27.263
2011-06-06T15:29:41.620
Where does the video we play on YouTube go?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<h2>Take a look at <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/31077/how-can-i-download-youtube-videos/31084#31084\">this</a>, posted here for your convenience:</h2>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>You can use <a href=\"http://www.miksoft.net/mobileMediaConverter.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">M...
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2011-03-20T16:10:51.923
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<p>Each time I want to use Skype, I have to go in the sound preferences. And there, turn the audio-in to "<em>webcam</em>" and uncheck the "<em>mute</em>" button. It's quite annoying. Is there a way to always keep the same configuration ?</p>
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2017-09-10T18:49:55.590
How can my audio input always be the webcam microphone?
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2011-03-20T17:10:17.980
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<p>I know that in bash you can set up aliases in a <code>.bash_aliases</code> file, so that the command you type doesn't need to be a command stored in the binaries in the system. Is there any way I can get aliases into <code>zsh</code>?</p>
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How to set up aliases in zsh?
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2011-03-20T17:36:15.990
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<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/15318/how-to-remove-the-unwanted-entries-from-the-boot-menu">How to remove the unwanted entries from the boot menu?</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>I want to limit the number of kernels shown in my boot screen to say onl...
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2017-04-13T12:24:29.360
2011-03-20T18:54:00.850
How to limit number of kernels shown in boot menu?
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2011-03-21T16:19:17.160
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2011-03-20T17:59:51.767
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<p>I have more than 150 ubuntu systems connected in a network. Can someone suggest a good monitoring application to monitor all these systems?? For example, I want to check whether all the IPs are up or down and so on.</p>
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2017-03-15T10:28:12.137
Software to monitor all Ubuntu systems
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Another option I've seen used at several different shops is <a href=\"http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">xymon</a> .</p>\n\n<p>It was originally a clone of the now non-free \"big brother\" then changed to \"hobbit monitor\", before mutating into <a h...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Canonical sells licenses to its <a href=\"http://www.canonical.com/enterprise-services/ubuntu-advantage/landscape\">software called Landscape</a>. Free trials are available.</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Landscape is an easy-to-use systems management and monitoring service. Manag...
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2011-03-20T18:03:51.573
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<p>I'm not experienced with PATH (Any good reference would be appreciated), but I made a mistake and did <code>PATH=/google_appengine</code>, which I'm assuming completely overrid PATH.</p> <p>Still, I restarted bash and echo'd PATH and found that the folders were back. </p> <blockquote> <p>mark@mark-laptop:~$ echo...
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2011-03-20T18:24:00.530
PATH command not found
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You mustn't use spaces around <code>=</code>, so it should look like this:</p>\n\n<pre><code>PATH=$PATH:/google_appengine\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-03-20T18:24:...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You mustn't use spaces around <code>=</code>, so it should look like this:</p>\n\n<pre><code>PATH=$PATH:/google_appengine\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": ...
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2011-03-20T18:59:49.170
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<p>Last week I bought a AMD E350 (AMD Fusion platform) based Sony VAIO (VPCYB15AG) having AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphics, I removed Windows that came along with and installed Ubuntu 10.10 (AMD64) using USB drive.</p> <p>During installation my touchpad was not working, I managed through keyboard, but after completing inst...
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2011-04-24T00:21:03.290
Ubuntu on AMD based Sony Vaio VPCY B15AG
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<h3>For touchpad support :</h3>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>Open <code>/etc/default/grub</code> in superuser mode and then\nchange the line <code>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=\"\"</code> to <code>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=\"i8042.reset i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.noloop\"</code></p></li>\n<li><p>Run the <code>sud...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<h3>For touchpad support :</h3>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>Open <code>/etc/default/grub</code> in superuser mode and then\nchange the line <code>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=\"\"</code> to <code>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=\"i8042.reset i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.noloop\"</code></p></li>\n<li><p>Run the <...
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2011-03-20T19:43:44.750
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<p>I want to put two commands together</p> <p>I need the script to login:</p> <pre><code>ssh root@192.168.0.188 </code></pre> <p>Then I need to the script to run (while logged in to root@192.168.0.188 via ssh ):</p> <pre><code>find /var/mobile/Media/Music/ -name "*.mp3" -exec ln -s {} /var/mobile/Media/Music/"All S...
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8844
2011-03-20T21:23:55.507
2011-03-20T21:23:55.507
Combine Two Commands In a Script
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You can include a command to run on the remote machine as the last argument to ssh</p>\n\n<pre><code>ssh root@192.168.0.188 'find /var/mobile/Media/Music/ [...]'\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-03-20T20:16:34.490", "id...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You can include a command to run on the remote machine as the last argument to ssh</p>\n\n<pre><code>ssh root@192.168.0.188 'find /var/mobile/Media/Music/ [...]'\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-03-20T20:16:34...
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2011-03-20T18:15:48.133
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<p>Is there any way I can switch the application running in one workspace to another on command line? I use Ubuntu 10.04 </p> <p><strong>UPDATE1</strong><br> As per suggestions below </p> <pre><code> wmctrl -l 0x02200003 -1 bond Bottom Expanded Edge Panel 0x02200049 -1 bond Top Expanded Edge Panel 0x02000020 0 bond...
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12580
2011-03-21T18:41:37.653
2014-04-06T04:59:53.347
how to shift applications from workspace 1 to 2 using command
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>If you are using compiz, then look here at the <a href=\"http://wiki.compiz.org/Plugins/Dbus\" rel=\"nofollow\">compiz wiki</a>. There you find several examples. Look at the \"put\" plugin.</p>\n\n<p>Example</p>\n\n<pre><code>./compiz-dbus-send.py put put_viewport_right_key\n...
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2011-03-20T20:49:44.850
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<p>I have some troubles installing python2.7 on ubuntu 10.10 I ran <code>sudo apt-get install python2.7</code>(*) but when I try to run an example program I get the </p> <pre><code> ~/Downloads% python2.7 clockwindow.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "clockwindow.py", line 1, in &lt;module&gt; impor...
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2011-03-21T00:08:04.163
2011-03-21T00:08:04.163
How to install python 2.7?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>It looks like there are a few broken or missing things regarding pygtk with Python2.7 under Maverick (pygobject-dev maybe).</p>\n\n<p>Unless you really need Python2.7, you will save yourself a lot of stress using the Python2.6 version of pygtk included in Maverick.</p>\n", ...
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2011-03-20T22:35:23.053
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<p>I have scanned some family albums on my flatbed scanner. The scanner glass has room for three photos, so I ended up with nearly 500 <code>JPEG</code>s that needs to be cropped to three images each.</p> <p><a href="http://www.gimp.org/">GIMP</a> seems to be a little slow for this kind of job. Is there any other phot...
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2020-08-10T04:03:21.520
2020-08-10T04:03:21.520
What application can I use for cropping quickly (selecting multiple areas of an image)?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Looks like you may find a solution on the Ubuntu forums here; <a href=\"http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1429439\" rel=\"noreferrer\">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1429439</a> download the python script install the pre requisites, </p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get in...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Take a look at gThumb it has good basic editing capabilities including cropping. I use gThumb for my default viewer.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-03-21T00:4...
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2011-03-20T23:05:51.103
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<p>I am trying to modify the clock frequencies in nvidia-settings. I have added the Option Coolbits 1 in my <code>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</code> file and restarted gdm, and even my computer.</p> <p>The options are now available in nvidia-settings, and I can slide the slider up and down, but when I choose "Apply" it simply...
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2011-06-10T18:43:41.727
2012-08-28T18:22:17.377
How to enable nvidia-settings and nvclock to set clock frequencies
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Option \"Coolbits\" \"1\" </p>\n\n<p>Should look like this, not sure whether quotes do it any good but seems to be working in my system with 9500gt.</p>\n\n<p>Also be sure you added it in Section \"Screen\".</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityO...
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2011-03-20T23:13:04.180
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<p>I have messed up my partitions so now grub doesn't work correctly, and I end up with a <code>grub&gt;</code> prompt. &nbsp; I used the LiveCD to open up <code>gparted</code>, and found the following: <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/BpLsS.png" alt="image from gparted running off of the livecd"></p> <p>Can someon...
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2011-03-21T03:01:05.100
2011-04-20T16:41:01.313
Grub: Fixing Partitions So Ubuntu Is Bootable
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>(NOTE: I edited the question, so I'm going to answer based off my edits)</p>\n\n<p>I believe that when you were working with the partitions, you ended up formatting the 10.04 partition (which should be ext4) as an NTFS partition, because as you can see in gparted, everything ...
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2011-03-20T23:34:54.250
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<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/1488/is-there-a-way-to-stream-netflix">Is there a way to stream Netflix?</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>I've tried Boxxe and Moonlight but nothing works.</p>
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2017-04-13T12:24:29.360
2011-04-20T11:41:01.390
Is it Possible to View Netflix Instant Movies on Ubuntu?
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2011-04-20T14:32:28.367
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2011-03-20T23:46:59.233
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<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/27141/nothing-happens-when-i-connect-my-iphone-3g-to-my-laptop">Nothing happens when I connect my Iphone 3G to my laptop</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>I get the following error each time I plug in my Iphone 3gs to usb....
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-1
2017-04-13T12:25:03.423
2013-01-29T08:50:39.750
Unable to mount Iphone
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I suggest using ifuse, once installed your iphone will mount when connected:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmcenery/ppa\nsudo apt-get update\nsudo apt-get install ifuse\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>then update using update manager under System menu</p>\n\n<p>Now Your ...
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2013-01-29T19:28:28.937
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2011-03-20T23:51:10.663
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<p>The title pretty much says it all: how can I type Unicode characters - specifically the em-dash —?</p>
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2016-05-27T13:13:20.860
2022-09-03T03:23:08.770
How can I type a Unicode character (for example, em-dash —?)
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<ul>\n<li><kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>U</kbd>, then <kbd>2</kbd> <kbd>0</kbd> <kbd>1</kbd> <kbd>4</kbd> and <kbd>Enter</kbd></li>\n</ul>\n<p>or</p>\n<ul>\n<li><kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>U</kbd>+<kbd>2014</kbd></li>\n</ul>\n<hr />\n<p>Control-capital-u means <em>Unic...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<ol>\n<li><p>Go <strong>Character Map</strong> app (<a href=\"https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gucharmap\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><code>gucharmap</code></a>, on <a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/fxpw3.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Applications → Accessories</a>).</p>\n</li...
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2011-03-20T23:51:46.340
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<p>I just installed <a href="http://www.ultrapico.com/ExpressoDownload.htm" rel="nofollow">Expresso</a> via Wine Windows Program Loader. The installation seemed to be fine.</p> <p>But when I click the program item from Applications -> Wine -> Programs -> Expresso -> Expresso, the cursor rotated a few seconds and then ...
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2011-03-21T05:35:37.410
2017-03-09T16:32:26.240
Has this Windows application been successfully installed via Wine?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>If Expresso is just a .Net application, you'd probably have more success running it with <a href=\"https://mono-project.com\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Mono</a> <a href=\"http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/mono-runtime\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://hostmar.co/softwa...
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2011-03-21T00:01:44.660
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<p>I asked for <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5312301/is-there-some-good-visual-regular-expression-editor/5314830#5314830">recommendations for Regex editors</a> on stackoverflow a while ago. Following is <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5312301/is-there-some-good-visual-regular-expression-edi...
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2017-05-23T12:39:45.983
2020-03-08T21:27:34.667
Recommendation for Regex editor?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>By far, the best tool for the job is <a href=\"http://gskinner.com/RegExr/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">RegExr</a>.</p>\n\n<p>The link above will take you to the online version, which is awesome and definitely the best RegEx tool I've ever used.</p>\n\n<p>If you're looking for something you ...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>By far, the best tool for the job is <a href=\"http://gskinner.com/RegExr/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">RegExr</a>.</p>\n\n<p>The link above will take you to the online version, which is awesome and definitely the best RegEx tool I've ever used.</p>\n\n<p>If you're looking for someth...
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2011-03-21T01:04:17.967
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<p>I have home server (Ubuntu Server 10.04) which boots from single 80Gb HDD drive, now I want to make it boot from 2x500Gb RAID-1. I've already successfully created it through MDADM.</p> <p>But how can I move system to this array so that it can boot?</p> <p>I've seen some guides in the internet about adding second h...
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2011-03-21T01:53:08.783
2011-04-20T23:55:39.110
How to migrate installed system to RAID1?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Briefly:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>make a backup of anything important </p></li>\n<li><p>make a boot cd or usb stick and test it</p></li>\n<li><p>make the mirror pair and a partition on it</p></li>\n<li><p>(optional) make an lvm pv on the partition, then a logical volume on that</p></li>\n...
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2011-03-21T01:22:27.260
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<p>I used to play videos from MP4, wma files, as well as form DVDs, but for some reason, I can no more. The file gets loaded and the player starts, but it is always a black screen. No display at all.</p> <p>What could go wrong ?</p>
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2011-03-22T10:25:25.307
how can I reinstall the codecs so I can play my videos back
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-03-21T01:23:23.687", "id": "35055", "postId": "31271", "score": "0", "text": "Note: I also get no error message. The player simply starts, but black screen.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1464" } ]
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<ol>\n<li>Open <strong>Gnome Terminal</strong> to give you a command-line</li>\n<li>Manully run <code>vlc yourmovie.mpg</code> from the terminal.</li>\n<li>What debugging/error messages appear?</li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>On the specific point of which packages the codecs live in. The co...
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2011-03-21T01:22:44.640
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<p>I would like to include a zenity progress bar for this part of my script:</p> <pre><code>zenity --question --title "GUI" --text "Sync Music to iPad?" if [[ $? == 0 ]] ; then scp -r "$FOLDER" root@192.168.0.188:/var/mobile/Media/Music ssh root@192.168.0.188 'rm /var/mobile/Media/Music/"All Songs"/*' ...
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2022-03-21T08:35:58.530
Add Progress Bar
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>According to <a href=\"http://library.gnome.org/users/zenity/stable/zenity-progress-options.html.en\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"GNOME documentation\">GNOME Documentation</a>, it looks like <code>--progress</code> should get you what you're looking for.</p>\n", "commentCoun...
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2011-03-21T01:43:27.997
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<p>As far as I know, both Wine and Mono are used to run Windows applications under Ubuntu.</p> <p>So I was wondering </p> <ol> <li>what their differences are? Are they both virtual machines? Or does each belong to some other category?</li> <li>It is better When to use which for what kinds of Windows applications? For...
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2011-03-21T02:04:33.010
2014-06-20T22:19:52.893
Difference between Wine and Mono
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Successfully running a program requires that three things match:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CPU instruction set</strong> (Eg. <strong>x86</strong> in your PC, <strong>ARM</strong> in your mobile phone, <strong>PowerPC</strong> in some Apple Macs, <strong>Java bytecode</strong> for Java...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>The short answer: </p>\n\n<p>.NET is Microsoft's answer to Java, and Mono is an open source implementation of it. Wine is for native exes and has nothing to do with Mono except that you can maybe run the .NET runtime with it, like any other native Windows software.</p>\n\n<hr...
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2011-03-21T03:38:42.030
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<p>I'm creating a package that will automatically install some repositories to all hosts in the LAN. The package will be accessible from the central repository.</p> <p>I've discovered that repo lists can be dropped in '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list'. Now I need to import their keys, for instance, <a href="http://deb....
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2011-03-21T03:59:52.247
2023-08-02T12:32:50.687
Additional keyrings for APT in trusted.gpg.d
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Keys downloaded from repositories should be joint into a new GPG keyring so you can drop them into '/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/*.gpg', like this:</p>\n\n<pre><code>gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring ./Opera.gpg --import Opera.key\nsudo cp Opera.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/Opera.gpg\n</cod...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Keys downloaded from repositories should be joint into a new GPG keyring so you can drop them into '/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/*.gpg', like this:</p>\n\n<pre><code>gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring ./Opera.gpg --import Opera.key\nsudo cp Opera.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/Opera.gp...
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2011-03-21T03:53:20.833
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<p>I have windows XP professional installed on 1 hard drive and Ubuntu 10.10 on my second hard drive. On start up the computer completely skips the grub menu and boots straight into 10.10.</p> <p>I have tried running os-prober with the windows hard drive mounted and then updating grub but it didnt work.</p> <p>Any id...
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2011-03-23T04:22:15.797
2011-11-19T07:34:59.497
Dual booting on separate hard drives
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-03-21T07:48:05.607", "id": "35104", "postId": "31289", "score": "0", "text": "Please run boot info script as explained here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1291280 and post the RESULTS.txt along with the output of `sudo os-prober`.", "userDisplayName": null,...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Grub must be installed in the hard drive that the computer <em>boots</em>, regardless of which OS you want to run. That means the hard drive that is set as 1st boot device in BIOS.</p>\n\n<p>You BIOS is probably set up to boot your \"2nd\" hand drive, where Ubuntu might be th...
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2011-03-21T04:02:20.747
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<p>trying to sync about 80 gigs of data. It has been several days. This is my syncd log <a href="http://paste.ubuntu.com/583164/" rel="nofollow">Log</a></p> <p>exceptions log <a href="http://paste.ubuntu.com/583165/" rel="nofollow">Ex Log</a></p>
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2013-02-10T15:34:04.460
Ubuntu one stuck in rescan
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Your case seem this FAQ <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/FAQ/WhyIsItTakingSoLongForMyFilesToSync\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/FAQ/WhyIsItTakingSoLongForMyFilesToSync</a></p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "cre...
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31298
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2011-03-21T04:43:42.843
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<p>I have these three files: <code>1.zip</code>, <code>1.z01</code> and <code>1.z02</code>. I would like to extract and join them into a single file, by right clicking <code>1.zip</code> and selecting <em>Extract Here</em>. But then there comes an error:</p> <pre><code>7-Zip 9.04 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavl...
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2021-11-03T12:07:01.060
2021-11-03T12:07:01.060
How to extract and join files xxx.zip, xxx.z01 and xxx.z02
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[ { "creationDate": "2024-01-09T03:42:38.023", "id": "2627072", "postId": "31298", "score": "0", "text": "Supplemental advice -- use \"file x.z01\" to possibly get critical information about the relevant compression algorithm. For instance, the zip utility wouldn't work on my multi-part zip, but o...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I have the same issue today with Mass Effect 3. Someone broke the installation of Mass Effect 3 in new version of origin on windows and my wine of course too (installation hangs on 99%). I have to make manually installation:</p>\n\n<pre><code>cp /mnt/cdrom1/Mass\\ Effect\\ 3.z01 ~/te...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>According to reading <a href=\"http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/man1/unzip.1.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"><code>man zip</code></a>, \"<strong>Split .zip</strong>\" archives can be recombined and unpacked using <code>unzip -FF</code>.</p>\n", "commentCount": "5", "commen...
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2011-03-21T05:39:25.207
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<p>I started using LibreOffice and when I had laid out the formulas I pressed F9 like I normally did in Excel and nothing happened. </p> <p>I couldn't figure out the keyboard shortcut to refresh and neither could I find it in the application menu.</p> <p>How do I do it?</p>
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How do you refresh formulas in OpenOffice/LibreOffice Calc?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p><strong>Simple Recalculation:</strong></p>\n\n<p>Recalculates all changed formulas. If AutoCalculate is enabled, the Recalculate command applies only to formulas like RAND or NOW.</p>\n\n<p>Choose <strong>Data - Calculate - Recalculate</strong></p>\n\n<p>F9</p>\n\n<p>Press <kbd>F9</k...
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1
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2011-03-21T07:51:27.070
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<blockquote> <h2>Final Update:</h2> <p>So it turns out that the drive was indeed defective and I was able to get it replaced - the replacement works great!</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>What happens:</strong></p> <ol> <li>I insert the flash drive.</li> <li>I try to copy 2GB of files.</li> <li>About 600MB (but n...
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2017-04-13T12:23:59.520
2017-07-13T06:35:19.077
Why can't I copy a large number of files to my USB flash drive?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Pretty sure the drive is broken.</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>Is this a file system problem? <strong><em>No.</em></strong></p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/782544#782544\">Badblocks comes up clean</a>.</li>\n<li>I had George try wiping the FAT partit...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>If the file system of your USB is fat 32 or 16 Maximum file size of 4 GB (minus 1 byte) for fat32 for fat 16 less. try to format your USB to NTFS file system.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://forum.notebookreview.com/hardware-components-aftermarket-upgrades/332023-guide-fat16-fat3...
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2011-03-21T08:14:36.883
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<p>I run Ubuntu on my laptop. Roughly 75% of the time, I'm at work with a second monitor attached. The rest of the time I'm running with just the laptop screen. I can configure my panels (and a few misc things like Conky) fine with dual monitors, but then when I run with my laptop only things look messed up (multiple t...
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2012-11-21T21:35:55.197
2012-11-21T21:35:55.197
How to customise one session for dual monitors, and another for single monitors?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Someone may wish to embellish this answer but I hope its useful as a starting point and might involve a bit of learning.</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>Your panel settings are stored somewhere in your GNOME settings in your /home/user/ directory. Probably .gconf/ or .gnome2/, you can se...
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31314
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2011-03-21T10:13:50.473
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<p>I wanted to auto-mount my ntfs drives on boot time, so I went through this article to do so using <strong><em>pysdm</em></strong>. </p> <p>I followed this article <a href="http://maketecheasier.com/auto-mount-your-ntfs-partition-in-ubuntu/2009/04/14" rel="nofollow">auto-mount-your-ntfs-partition-in-ubuntu</a>. ...
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2011-03-21T12:32:34.850
2011-03-23T11:27:59.947
Problem after auto-mount using pysdm
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Solved. With help from <code>@sagarchalise</code> and from this question<br>\n<a href=\"https://superuser.com/q/260273/70791\">problem-after-auto-mount-ntfs-drives-using-pysdm</a>.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC ...
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2011-03-21T11:42:07.937
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<p>Can the shell (command line) display GUI generated commands?</p> <p>Example:</p> <ol> <li><p>Go to: <code>Applications =&gt; Programming =&gt; Netbeans</code></p></li> <li><p>When Netbeans starts I want to see in shell <code>$ netbeans / gksu netbeans</code> </p></li> <li><p>(Edit) When I doing with netbeans sv...
12139
12139
2011-03-21T16:50:38.200
2011-03-21T16:50:38.200
Can shell (command line) display GUI generated commands?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-03-21T12:53:25.317", "id": "35130", "postId": "31316", "score": "0", "text": "What would you like to do? Run a script when an application is started?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6969" } ]
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You can also use <strong>top</strong> or <strong>htop</strong> to display running services.\nYou can do a search for netbeans in there?</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate...
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2011-03-21T11:47:15.363
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<p>I have Ubuntu 10.10 installed on my Asus G50VTX5. Sound works for the speakers but there's no sound from the headphones. Headphones are working fine in other devices. </p>
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2012-01-25T23:21:38.210
2012-04-10T10:17:20.420
Why are my speakers working but not my headphones?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-03-21T12:45:03.743", "id": "35128", "postId": "31317", "score": "0", "text": "Headphone: Make and model? USB or plugged into sound card?", "userDisplayName": "user4815", "userId": null } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>its an issue! I've opened a bug about this issue but canonical didnt give much attention. athough I've managed to put Headphones working</p>\n\n<p>I've explained how to solve on page's bug report\n<a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/660715\" rel=\"nof...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Your headphone output is probably muted. Open the sound control panel and check that you don't have any outputs muted.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-03-28T06:01:48.503", "id": "36255", "postId": "31321...
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2011-03-21T12:46:35.613
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<p>Ubuntu 10.04 64bit on a Dell Latitude E6400 laptop.</p> <p>I want "None" under Visual Effects (on the Appearance Preferences), but when I reboot it reverts to Normal. I've tried uninstalling Compiz but that clearly upsets the gods because then I lose my title bars. Googling for help on this produces answers involv...
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2011-03-21T15:18:00.043
2011-03-23T21:32:30.240
I want 'None' for Visual Effects but they keep reverting back
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Compiz Fusion Icon may be helpful.</p>\n\n<p>Take a look at this: <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/27461/emerald-window-decorator-fails-to-start-sometimes/27468#27468\">Emerald window decorator fails to start... sometimes</a>, posted here for your convenience.</p>\n\n<blockq...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Try this:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Press <kbd>ALT</kbd> + <kbd>F2</kbd></li>\n<li>Type: <code>metacity --replace</code> (It will give compiz the blue pill)</li>\n<li>Go to System -> Preferences-> Appearance</li>\n<li>Go to Visual Effects tab and Select NONE.</li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>The pro...
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2011-03-21T13:09:49.103
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<p>I have a dualboot Ubuntu and Windows XP on my PC.</p> <p>Does Ubuntu require drivers for the onboard Ethernet card? If not, how can I make an Internet conection using an ADSL modem?</p>
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2014-04-07T22:46:56.010
2014-04-07T22:46:56.010
How can I connect to the Internet using an ADSL modem?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I think the command line tool to turn on the DSL connection is called \"pon\" and to disconnect you type \"poff\" . The command is </p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo pon dsl-provider \n</code></pre>\n\n<p>(but I think you can define arbitrary dsl connection names (\"dsl-provider\" is ju...
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2011-03-21T14:16:30.220
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<p>I am creating a script that backups a mysql db using the mysqldump utility. I am writing this script in the shell "sh". I would like to capture the output status of mysqldump in the script (i.e. if the mysqldump command failed or succeeded) so I can report if the script was successful or not. </p> <ul> <li>Does mys...
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2011-03-21T14:19:12.903
2011-03-21T14:33:53.057
Does mysqldump return a status?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You could use bash exit codes.</p>\n\n<p>Pseudocode</p>\n\n<pre><code>if $? == 0 then successful else ....\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-03-21T14:33:53.057", "id"...
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2011-03-21T15:14:50.840
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<p>As you can see in the <a href="http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/l/linux-meta/linux-meta_2.6.35.28.36/changelog">changelog for the Linux kernel</a>, there are update messages like "Bump ABI - Maverick ABI 28".</p> <p>According to the <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/BuildSystem/ABI">Ubunt...
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2015-02-05T17:46:46.567
What is an kernel update with "Bump ABI"?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p><strong>NB:</strong> <em>I'm no kernel expert - so this is based on collected knowledge and experience.</em></p>\n\n<p>An ABI \"bump\" should not bring new features, even though it may \"fix\" bugs in some modules/applications that are looking for a higher version of the ABI. You sho...
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2011-03-21T15:37:56.387
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<p>Google always helps to find solution, but most of the time i just copy paste all the codes that are suggested. Sometimes it works like charm, sometimes i screw up my Ubuntu. Not anymore. I really want to know whats under the hood and how these things work. So, please suggest me how to get started from the very basic...
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2011-03-21T16:20:13.977
One year of Ubuntu experience, still not an expert?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You mentioned the problem.You just copy and paste the commands.You search and find your answers so the command you're finding are needed.Search for them and learn about them.</p>\n\n<p>An alternative solution is <code>man</code>.For sure you know about it.<code>man command</c...
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2011-03-21T16:20:58.780
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2011-03-21T16:35:36.190
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<p>Can some one give me an example scenario where this package can be used? <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/simpleproxy" rel="nofollow">http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/simpleproxy</a></p>
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2011-04-20T21:01:59.180
2018-01-31T17:38:29.387
How do I use simpleproxy?
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>The <a href=\"http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/dapper/en/man1/simpleproxy.1.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">manual page</a> is very descriptive:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>The simpleproxy program acts as a simple tcp proxy. It opens listening socket on local machine and forwards a...
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2011-03-21T17:01:41.607
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<p>I am dual booting Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat and Windows 7 on my Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop. And I have installed the latest Firefox 4.0 on both the operating system. However when I click the organize tab button on windows, I can see the firefox personna theme applied in the background as shown in the screenshot b...
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5855
2011-03-22T15:33:09.957
2011-09-16T06:55:44.363
Firefox 4.0 Theming
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>It might have something to do with the fact that the actual window decoration is not themed by the persona. It would look out of place and it would probably be by design that it isn't themed?</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLic...
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2011-03-21T17:08:32.417
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<p>The default Python version on Ubuntu 10.04 server edition is 2.6.5. The latest version of the Python 2.6 series is 2.6.6. Does Ubuntu support 2.6.6 or should I leave it at the default version. If I can upgrade the version, what's the corresponding apt-get command to upgrade the Python?</p>
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2011-03-21T17:30:12.923
On 10.04, should I upgrade from Python 2.6.5 to 2.6.6?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>if Ubuntu will support to Python 2.6.6 when you run:</p>\n\n<pre><code>apt-get update\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>and then:</p>\n\n<pre><code>apt-get upgrade\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>automatically youll see the new version of python to upgrade, meanwhile you can keep the version 2.6.5...</p>\n\...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>if Ubuntu will support to Python 2.6.6 when you run:</p>\n\n<pre><code>apt-get update\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>and then:</p>\n\n<pre><code>apt-get upgrade\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>automatically youll see the new version of python to upgrade, meanwhile you can keep the version 2.6.5.....
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2011-03-21T17:37:31.373
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<p>I installed Google Earth as per <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10583845" rel="nofollow">this walkthrough</a> and now I can't open or use Skype.</p> <p>I had to use a sudo prefix on some of the steps to edit files and do things without "permission denied" errors.</p> <p>I desperately need Skype b...
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2011-03-21T18:04:54.487
Installed Google Earth now can't open Skype
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The only step that looks like can cause a problem in that walk-through is the dynamic linker configuration changes. I'd try this steps:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Delete the <code>/etc/ld.so.conf.d/googleearth.conf</code> file.</li>\n<li>run, as root, <code>ldconfig</code> again.</li>\n</ul>\n...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>From one (relative) n00b to another, the quickest way to fix this is probably to reinstall skype. My guess is that the google earth install messed with some shared component.</p>\n\n<p>After I installed adobe air google chrome would no longer play flash. I reinstalled chrome ...
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2011-03-21T17:48:16.417
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<p>I am running 10.10 Desktop version and it has been working for a month or so. All of a sudden, I am getting "random" freezes from 5-15 minutes after startup. The system never comes back and I have to reboot. I am an Ubuntu/Linux newbie, so I don't know how to begin to diagnose the problem. Another thing to ment...
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2011-03-27T18:48:01.440
Random 10.10 Freeze Diagnosis
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The problem was caused by VirtualBox and the fact that I had 4 virtual processors set for the virtual machine. After changing this back to 1, everything worked correctly.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2....
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2016-02-07T11:57:50.710
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2011-03-21T18:16:00.873
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<p>I'm using Dell Inspiron 5010. Recently, I installed 10.10 Ubuntu Netbook Edition within Windows 7, but there's no extra graphical effects. Once I try to activate them, why does it say graphic effects could not be changed? My laptop has laptop uses 1 GB VGA as well.</p>
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2011-03-22T10:24:03.607
2012-01-24T13:17:27.557
Extra effects does not appear on Dell Inspiron 5010
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>In a regular Desktop Edition install, the graphic effects you are looking for are done by a program called <strong>Compiz</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>The Unity interface you see in Ubuntu Netbook Edition uses <strong>Mutter</strong>, a new program that also generates graphical effect...
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1
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2011-03-21T18:21:17.060
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<p>Is there a way to configure nautilus to use vim keybdings. </p> <p>By vim keybindings I am not saying just <kbd>h</kbd> <kbd>j</kbd> <kbd>k</kbd> <kbd>l</kbd> but other things like regex search on filenames too.</p> <p>I know I can simply use a command line, but sometimes I have to use this crap file browser for b...
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2011-10-16T18:41:18.190
Vim keybindings for nautilus
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>There's an old manager called rox-filer wich have some keyboard friendly features. </p>\n\n<p>'.' opens an input textbox to select files by a wildcard</p>\n\n<p>'/' opens an input textbox to navigate filesystem using directory names and featuring tab text completion.</p>\n\n<...
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<p><a href="https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-nettool/+question/149292" rel="nofollow">Link to original launchpad discussion</a></p> <p>Basically for a few weeks my wireless hasn't been working properly. I could see wireless networks, but not connect to them. Asked launchpad on how to help, and when I...
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2011-03-22T05:46:20.200
2011-03-22T05:46:20.200
Intel 3945ABG wireless not working at all
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-03-22T09:22:54.223", "id": "35275", "postId": "31374", "score": "0", "text": "Can you try to connect / list the network list and post the output of `grep -E 'Network|wlan|wpa' /var/log/syslog | grep \"$(LANG=C date +'%b %d')\"`?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You can undo those changes, remove <code>/etc/modprobe.d/iwl3945.conf</code> by running:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/iwl3945.conf\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5"...
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2011-03-21T19:41:04.793
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<p>I have more than 60 ubuntu systems in my network. I want to copy files from one system to other ubuntu systems. All IP addresses are listed in a text file.</p> <p>So what command can I use to complete the task? Any bash programs?</p>
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2011-03-21T19:53:18.417
2011-03-22T01:59:41.670
How can I distribute a file across multiple systems in a network?
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-03-21T19:50:30.370", "id": "35198", "postId": "31377", "score": "0", "text": "You sound frustrated. Please do not use that many question marks. What kind of file is it? Can't you setup a server from which the other computers download files from?", "userDisplayName": n...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>suppose that you have your IP addresses in a file named ips.txt, each IP in a line. create a file named, for example *scp_all.sh* and copy the following text bellow in it:</p>\n\n<pre><code>#!/bin/bash\n\nwhile read LINE ; do\n scp $1 root@$LINE:$1\ndone &lt; ips.txt\n</code></pre...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Lekensteyn is correct -- you should probably be pulling the files from the server, rather than pushing them to the clients from the server.</p>\n\n<p>If you're going to be doing this regularly (especially with a large number of files), I would set up <a href=\"http://en.wikip...
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2011-03-21T19:49:43.413
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<p>Is there a way to reset kubuntu to the initial state? Under initial state, I mean the system and all settings are as kubuntu was installed on a clean disk, but to preserve installed packages.</p> <p>If possible I would like to avoid making data backup and reinstalling kubuntu.</p>
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How to reset kubuntu to initial state?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>If the idea is to return KDE to the default state, if you rename your ~/.kde folder (hidden) to something like kde-bak, then when you log back in you'll see the desktop as it was when you first installed. That will do away with some configurations that you might miss though, like fo...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>If the idea is to return KDE to the default state, if you rename your ~/.kde folder (hidden) to something like kde-bak, then when you log back in you'll see the desktop as it was when you first installed. That will do away with some configurations that you might miss though,...
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2011-03-21T19:55:21.670
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<p>I get this black bar across the bottom of my screen when ever I boot up, tried reboot and no joy, keep getting messages from docky telling me to "enable composting". Was using dual monitors before this happened, take the monitor out and i'm stuck with this</p>
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2011-03-21T21:18:39.913
2011-03-21T21:18:39.913
Docky "Enable Compositing" error and black bar visualized instead of it
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Docky requires a <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compositing_window_manager\" rel=\"nofollow\">Compositing Window Manager</a> to function properly. The black bar you see across the bottom is the area where Docky would be showing up if it could run. The usual composit...
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2011-03-21T20:01:38.497
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<p>Ubuntu 10.10 here. On the command line, I'm trying to do:</p> <pre><code>gem install railsless-deploy </code></pre> <p>I get this message:</p> <blockquote> <p>The program 'gem' can be found in the following packages: * rubygems1.8 * rubygems1.9.1 Try: sudo apt-get install </p> </blockquote> <p>So I did...
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2011-03-22T05:46:50.403
2011-03-22T05:46:50.403
Can't get "gem" command to work - Why?
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-07-05T02:46:58.943", "id": "57879", "postId": "31381", "score": "0", "text": "This question applies to Natty (11.04) as well. The accepted answer from @Mikel also applies to 11.04", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "21112" } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>rubygems1.9.1 is a virtual package that seems to only exist for backwards compatibility.</p>\n\n<p>It installs ruby1.9.1.</p>\n\n<p>ruby1.9.1 provides <code>/usr/bin/gem1.9.1</code>.</p>\n\n<p>So, if you want Ruby 1.9.1, you should run <code>gem1.9.1</code> instead of <code>gem</code...
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