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what is the package name for firefox 2.0?
it's just firefox. In edgy.
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{"user_question": "phuzion", "user_answer": "ArrenLex"}
I just got Ubuntu Netbook Remix Jaunty for my Eee PC and it's running extremely slowly. Are there any tweaks I can do to make it quicker?
the netbook versions aren't suppourted here as far as I know.
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{"user_question": "phuzion", "user_answer": "sebsebseb"}
on 11.04 how can i get to the package manager for adding ppa? dumb question but i havent used ubuntu in a lil bit
or else sudo update-manager and then settings
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{"user_question": "zus", "user_answer": "KNUBBIG"}
Hi, do I need composite?? Unfortunally ATI doesnt support it with DRI yet ... but what is it? Can I use ie: Bery/compiz?
no. Don't you love ati?
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{"user_question": "Morrissey", "user_answer": "Seveas"}
hey guys i just install 11.04 and i want to know is 'fglrx' in repo have tear free or i have to install from amd.com ?
you should enable the proprietary drivers in the hardware admin section and then it should download it without you requiring to get it from amd.com but
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{"user_question": "tomatobros", "user_answer": "KNUBBIG"}
how do I turn off the system messages like leaving room in Pigin?
I answered your question. It's a pidgin add on.
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{"user_question": "vyoman", "user_answer": "storm-zen"}
<d00d> HOw can you hide all desktop icons
gconf-editor -> apps -> nautilus
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{"user_question": "d00d", "user_answer": "mneptok"}
hi ... is it ok to ask for laptop/notebook buying advice ?
http://www.linux-laptop.net/
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{"user_question": "charlie5", "user_answer": "diskus"}
Any reason I can't get permission from terminal to change things. I tried to view sudoers with root and root password and it won't accept me.
just do a sudo-s at the start of the session, and enter your password?
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{"user_question": "Apollo", "user_answer": "jts"}
how can I change mouse speed?
System -> Preferences -> Mouse
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{"user_question": "Hoxzer", "user_answer": "Moon_Rabbits"}
Hey, any idea why ALT + TAB isn't working in Natty with Unity?
Type in a terminal 'sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager'
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{"user_question": "KNUBBIG", "user_answer": "BlouBlou"}
hi, what does a green dot next to your name mean in Xchat IRC?
maybe that you're a channel operator?
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{"user_question": "Fred_Sambo", "user_answer": "poolie"}
has anyone had any success in running gnome shell off a base xubuntu install? It's a long story....
you could have a dozen de's installed if you wanted. but you can get a lot of extra apps that way. but they should all work
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{"user_question": "pip__", "user_answer": "Dr_Willis"}
Solarion, is 6.10 server still ok for a box with only 128Mb of RAM?
alternate installs a desktop, or a GUIless one, server just installs GUIless, has the LAMP preinstall option, and installs a modified server kernel
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{"user_question": "vaccine", "user_answer": "Flannel"}
Where can i find my terminal logs?
system > admin > log viewer should be in there
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{"user_question": "tevfikt", "user_answer": "Pelo"}
how can I install java on firefox?
install package sun-java6-jre from System > Administration > Synaptic
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{"user_question": "world_citizen", "user_answer": "savvas"}
anyone know where to set klick behavior in kubuntu like in windows (click to select files, dubleclick to open)
Try the mouse settings, it was somewhere there.
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{"user_question": "hoelk_", "user_answer": "nekr0z"}
anyone here use the bcm43xx driver?
it will not work with ubuntu
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{"user_question": "jamesbrink", "user_answer": "zspada15"}
Tomcat:_ ok so is there a apt-get for FF2 in dapper , manually as in what for example?
http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/ will install it for you. :-)
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{"user_question": "bilss_", "user_answer": "Williamts99"}
Hi, I have the flash player plugin for firefox, but most flash-thingys on the web needs version 8 of flash ... how do I get this?
there is a beta version of flash available on their site
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{"user_question": "GnarusLeo", "user_answer": "Williamts99"}
It's not looking promising for Ubuntu on my Thinkpad T41 :( safe graphics mode doesn't work either :(
try textmode
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{"user_question": "folder", "user_answer": "whiteandnerdy"}
why go through all this for 64 bit when from what i've read it's not really much faster vs just using i386 compiled versions?
for those of us who are still new to linux, though, we've been buying into microshaft's demands for bigger, newer, more powerful hardware for their so-called-wonderful new os's for so long...it's hard to give up that way of thinking...it's been so ingrained
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{"user_question": "mcquaid", "user_answer": "dennister"}
Is there a way I can reorganize my gnome menu? I've uninstalled wine, but the menu item is still there.
system -> pref. -> main menu
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{"user_question": "J-_", "user_answer": "DjViper"}
thanks for that bot help but that doesn't really say anything concerning the driver that I had downloaded from ati.com. It mentions doing it through terminal but doesn't say anything about the ati-driver-installer-8.40.4-x86.x86_64.run that I had downloaded.
because you aren't supposed to use the one from ati.com, use the one from the repos
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{"user_question": "n00blet", "user_answer": "jrib"}
what command do you write to get out of manuals in the terminal?
if you want out of man just press q
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{"user_question": "pip", "user_answer": "alwa"}
hello! how can I change my password on ubuntu?
passwd
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{"user_question": "velho", "user_answer": "gregoryfenton"}
how to install compiz-fusion 7.2 on Gutsy
It is install by default, just needs to be enabled.. and the video drivers / card need to be comp with it
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{"user_question": "gilan", "user_answer": "Jack_Sparrow"}
how can I recover some files I just deleted from an ext3 filesystem? (it isn't critical, but I'd like to get them back)
You might get lucky if you can find the inode you might beable to recover it
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{"user_question": "Falstius", "user_answer": "H3g3m0n"}
anyone know why Disk Utility created my raid array on md127 instead of md0?
See http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10907831&postcount=6
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{"user_question": "gunarm", "user_answer": "TJ-"}
Hello, I had an error with the 64 bit version upgrade of 7.10. The update manager package failed, and now there's no way for me to upgrade my system. It says everything is up to date, even though it isn't. Is there any way to force the upgrade to run again, or look through the logs to fix the failed package?
try the console version: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
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{"user_question": "Zaehlas", "user_answer": "Dynalon"}
How do I change in GIMP the input device from mouse to Wacom tablet (both USB devices)?
they probably know better
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{"user_question": "andy", "user_answer": "Doow"}
sorry, how can i resize my screen resolution? i need to make it smaller
System->Preferences->Screen Resolution
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{"user_question": "nclife", "user_answer": "Doow"}
pls... anyone... ive tried to install BERYL and EMERALD themes in my Edgy 6.10, ATI X700 with 3D acceleration enabled, but the official guide didnt worked for me ;( ... anyone can help me?
Compiz is supposedly smoother, faster, and more stable... look into that too.
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{"user_question": "XCute4God", "user_answer": "javaJake"}
how can I do cp without it omitting a hidden folder?
cp -a ?? man cp
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{"user_question": "graulich", "user_answer": "erUSUL"}
re how to play this video: video formats vob bup ifo - this is what I have. what do I do? There are lots of files instead of one AVI file. Normally I like to use VLC
That's a dvd.
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{"user_question": "tripelb", "user_answer": "taglass"}
what do I need to do to get networking started up from a text-only installation of xubuntu?
what are you looking at, just a standard ethernet?
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{"user_question": "daylighter", "user_answer": "bruenig"}
I got a problem, I need to have the nvidia dev headers for OpenGL available for a program i am using, but when I use synaptic to install them it conflicts with the manually installed drivers I have and gnome stops working. any suggestions?
instructions are on nvidia's site
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{"user_question": "Recon69", "user_answer": "gnomefreak"}
how can i force to remove a package even if dpkg returns some error code?
--force-all
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{"user_question": "chaoslynx", "user_answer": "cherubiel"}
hello. when installing ubuntu, is the main partition and swap supposed go be primary or is the main supposed to be primary and swap logical?
primary and logical partitions are only interesting if you want to stay flexible with regard to your partition-scheme
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{"user_question": "HTCPX", "user_answer": "rumpe1"}
hi! Where to put a command that should be executed at boot?
in the init scripts for 6.0.6 in upstart deps script for edgy
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{"user_question": "aimtrainer", "user_answer": "ikonia"}
I was editing the Applications menu to move stuff around when it lost focus and I accidentally deleted one of the root folders. I clicked 'revert' on menu changes I made, and it reverted the structure but just deleted any things I had in custom folders I made... how do I restore them?
how do you accidently delete the root folder? thats pretty impossible
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{"user_question": "MK``", "user_answer": "syrinx_"}
i am using 6.10... tried to upgrade but my /boot/ is full... how do i clear out old kernel configurations and fill with only the newest one
There are free drivers for ATi
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{"user_question": "user__", "user_answer": "Cpudan80"}
whats more popular, and comes standard with most commonly used distros? gnome/gtk or kde/qt?
suse used to hand out KDE - but they stopped doing that... so... gnome it is!
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{"user_question": "Tarkus", "user_answer": "Cpudan80"}
Q: I have 8 GB of ram, and using 64bit kernel, why system monitor shows that I have 7.7 GB of RAM? :S
or GiB instead of GB
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{"user_question": "Milos_SD", "user_answer": "kitche"}
skype has suddenly stopped working , how to fix it ?
mv ~/.Skype/shared.xml ~/.Skype/shared~.xml
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{"user_question": "silv3r_m00n", "user_answer": "MK``"}
I'm installing xubuntu from the alternate CD, and I'm getting a screen saying No network interfaces detected. The installation can continue successfully in spite of that, right?
Yes, you don't need an Internet connection.
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{"user_question": "anthony_", "user_answer": "GenNMX"}
hi, can i ask questions about edgy here?
just ask ;)
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{"user_question": "fgeller", "user_answer": "PFA"}
hi, what is the easiest way to upgrade from 5.10 to 6.06 ?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DapperUpgrades
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{"user_question": "etla", "user_answer": "Jowi"}
what package do i need to install top use svn?
subversion IIRC
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{"user_question": "jimle", "user_answer": "orbin"}
how do i find the PID of vlc?
use 'ps -aux | grep vlc'
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{"user_question": "heroin", "user_answer": "CharminTheMoose"}
Is there a way of remotely controling a local computer but seeing the same display? So when I open a video it will display on the remote computer?
XDMCP or VNC
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{"user_question": "highneko", "user_answer": "umops"}
hi, somebody already installed visio 2010 in ubuntu10.10 with wine?
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=31
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{"user_question": "xro2", "user_answer": "Starminn"}
Where in Gnome is it possible to change the file associations (mime) ?
rightclick file , > properties > open with
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{"user_question": "SlimG", "user_answer": "defrysk"}
I installed phpmyadmin and tried to go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin but it says 404 Not found. can someone help me please?
please look at /usr/share/doc/phpmyadmin/
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{"user_question": "rogue780", "user_answer": "Seveas"}
in other news, how do I launch a task-manager in gnome? Is there one that already launches according to some key combo?
pretty sure it is there
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{"user_question": "orangey", "user_answer": "rogue780"}
hallo -- can anyone help with a termcap/terminfo type problem with gnome terminal?
check the keyboard shortcuts in system >`prefs > kb shortcuts
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{"user_question": "slick_nick", "user_answer": "Pelo"}
is it posible to burn a cd from the terminal? I killed my GUI trying to install XGL. :(
cdrecord -dao -eject -data <isofile>
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{"user_question": "linuxnewb", "user_answer": "jbroome"}
Hi, I plugged in a usb keyboard last week for an hour or so and ever since my laptop has num-lock on by default - any ideas? I'm running Gnome on Ubuntu 7.04
i think there is an option for that in the menu. under user pref.'s keyboard maybe
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{"user_question": "matason", "user_answer": "gonzoism"}
I get some horizontal lines when watching .vob video files. does anyone know if it's a codec problem or a linux ati driver problem?
you might try changing the output or display setting. like the xv or opengl option
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{"user_question": "frank_b", "user_answer": "gonzoism"}
is the superbowl still on ?
Did you read what it says.. they exceeded their bandwidth.. try again later
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{"user_question": "gonzoism", "user_answer": "Jack_Sparrow"}
Anyone have time to help me configure my home network. I have DSL line (soon to be changed) where I get a static address to server (A). A has an additional NIC which I want to hook up a D-Link wireless router (R). To R I want to connect two other computers (C1 and C2). Now I had/have a setup working connecting C1 to A with DHCP, but I am stumped getting this to work.
I can give it a shot, do you want to pm me ?
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{"user_question": "marcellus", "user_answer": "hipitihop"}
I want to build ffmpeg but 'sudo apt-get build-dep ffmpeg' complains it cannot find source package, what do I need
enable the -src repos , update package list, and try again
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{"user_question": "hipitihop", "user_answer": "Dr_Willis"}
hi, can anyone help me with setting up a wireless connection in ubuntu? its not connecting and i cant figure out why
try iwlist eth1 scanning (or eth0 or wlan0, whatever your wlan device is)
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{"user_question": "koshea", "user_answer": "salim"}
can someone help me? i know kubuntu, not ubuntu, and am trying to help a friend over the phone., What is the Gnome GUI for isntalling packages called?
the simplest one is Add/Remove Programs (though it's still Synaptic really)
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{"user_question": "BCMM", "user_answer": "LjL"}
hey guys. lil problem: i start compiz with 'compiz --replace' but how do you fall back to classic metacity, i.e. quit compiz ? thx.
metacity --replace
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{"user_question": "pequatre", "user_answer": "h1st0"}
i have problems with my wireless broadcom adaptor. It's a 4311 model. I've did all the steps in the wiki pages. Extraced bcmwl5.sys in the /lib/firmware dir , modprobe bcm43xx. The device is there when i do iwconfig. But i can't do anything with it. On boot time, i've get an error message 'IRQ0 not found for bcm43xx'
try to 'echo 'blacklist bcm43xx' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist'
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{"user_question": "Enoxs", "user_answer": "Hattori"}
can some one give me a url that describes how to make a shortcut script that will open up multiple applications at once. Skype, xchat (specific rooms), firefox (with four sites) and etc
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1624175 here is the ur;
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{"user_question": "ftjla", "user_answer": "food__"}
is there a way to add some extra option to boot parameters in ubuntu's grub2 autogened mess?
is /etc/default/grub not enough?
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{"user_question": "rooks", "user_answer": "LjL"}
I've used Photorec, but am still uncertain how to recover the file names themselves.
I don't think you can
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{"user_question": "chad___", "user_answer": "h00k"}
i have a lot of partitions on my disk so there are two disks on my desktop but i want to clear it .. is there any way i can hide them from the desktop but not change anything else?
I think there is a gconf setting for it in nautilus
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{"user_question": "joules", "user_answer": "Jordan_U_"}
so can anyone tell me why lately when I reboot my laptop I have to ifconfig eth1 up then run dhclient.
do you have auto eth1 in /etc/network/interfaces ?
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{"user_question": "sigger_", "user_answer": "wastrel"}
I want Ubuntu (6.10) to start without opening any windows from its previous use, so I have changed my session configuration, unchecking the save session changes automatically option. My problem is that i don't know how to prevent from appearing two windows: the session manager and a Nautilus window showing my home directory. I have tried to remove the gnome-session-properties from the current session tab in the session manager
save a new session with nothing open, and _then_ disable the save session-feature
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{"user_question": "Limulf", "user_answer": "nolimitsoya"}
can I choose which kernel to download and install during installation - on the alternate / minimal CD image perhaps?
you can always install a custom kernel when the default install finishes before you reboot
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{"user_question": "SpAc", "user_answer": "Boohbah"}
hey: how do i restart the apache-server?
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
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{"user_question": "nette", "user_answer": "skreet"}
are all torrents considered illegal? I use it to download Ubuntu all the time.
no, but new moon torrents are...
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{"user_question": "FewClues", "user_answer": "jrib"}
Hey how do you save a file in the terminal , i done sudo nano /usr/bin/startxgl.sh and pasted some stuff , i need to save them now
ctrl+o
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{"user_question": "timo90", "user_answer": "Kim^J"}
A question about rss-feeds. I just installed Liferea and when I click one of the news in it I get like two rows of text and when I click it Firefox opens the real article. Isn't there a way to have Liferea show me the entire article right away and just read all news there? Or is rss just a 'oh-there's-something-new-on-this-page-i'll-go-check-it-out-then'-thing?
sometimes rss feeds are shorter versions of a full article, it depends on the feed, most that I read are more than 2 lines though.
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{"user_question": "hgh", "user_answer": "mrobbert"}
I unblacklisted the r818x wireless driver, and now my WPC11v4 is working without ndiswrapper. It has the name wlan0. Only thing is, when I try to connect to my network, it cuts the last letter off of the essid.
So add another letter to the essid beyond what you type in.
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{"user_question": "cellofellow", "user_answer": "MrObvious"}
anyone know anything about gMPlayer with Quicktime?
as long as you have the codec, it should work
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{"user_question": "cellofellow", "user_answer": "kalikiana"}
how to delete .debs in /var/cache/apt/archives
apt-cache clean
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{"user_question": "Kishore", "user_answer": "tapas"}
are there any one who know short-cut key for viewing desktop in ubuntu?
press and hold the super key to see a list in unity of key shortcuts
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{"user_question": "xorox90", "user_answer": "Dr_Willis"}
Sorry - this question is not about Ubuntu, but The GIMP. How do I make a black frame around a picture?
Eh no.. not image size. Increase canvas size.
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{"user_question": "Wikzo", "user_answer": "Tomcat_"}
hellow , i want to ask a problem : why does my ubuntu have a diffrent time about windows?
probably because windows is using local time and ubuntu is using UTC
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{"user_question": "kissfire", "user_answer": "neil__"}
I'm trying to get Beryl installed on Edgy-AMD64, but can't find xserver-xgl for Edgy on AMD64 (as a packaged binary) in any of the repositories I've checked. Does anyone know of a source I can add?
http://wiki.beryl-project.org/index.php/Install/Ubuntu/Edgy/XGL
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{"user_question": "roach_", "user_answer": "TMX"}
does anyone know about hidden PCI busses, found lots of references but no solutions... someone must know
maybe lspci -vv
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{"user_question": "kurisu", "user_answer": "nix"}
hi people, how do I find which applications accesses a file or device ?
lsof
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{"user_question": "K3rl0u4rn", "user_answer": "FallenHitokiri"}
ok, i have the fglrx drivers installed. They work. Xgl and Beryl work. Direct rending works. But, ctrl-alt-function key doesn't (it gives a garbled screen). Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this?
I meant Ctrl-Alt-Del
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{"user_question": "RevFrSanctus", "user_answer": "watchme"}
Can anyone tell me how to set an archive password in Archive Managr?
i used to have the same problem, then i use unrar from terminal,but forgot now
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{"user_question": "Tsingi", "user_answer": "sc4ttrbrain"}
hey anyone know a channel to discuss computer components?
or you can just PM me
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{"user_question": "MN--", "user_answer": "edbian"}
really, so I can just pkill k3b, for example?
aye.
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{"user_question": "Jewfro-Macabbi", "user_answer": "gyaresu"}
hi people, How do I find out available space on my HDD?
df -h
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{"user_question": "LordMetroid", "user_answer": "highneko"}
hi, I hope someone can help me, i'm trying to install ubuntu, but when i get to 'select a disk' it shows me the partition i want to setup on (which is in /dev/mapper) but it will only allow me to resise the disks (/dev/sda) how to i get an option for the dev/mapper paritions in this manual partition reseze section, thx for readin anyway :p
/dev/mapper? are you using some sort ofencryption software?
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{"user_question": "lk11mn", "user_answer": "nolimitsoya"}
ok simple question is it possible to run 64bit binaries in a 32 bit os?
I can't imagine that it would be...
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{"user_question": "wedderburn", "user_answer": "whyameye"}
Hey I need a little advice with partitioning. I have a disc where there is a extended partition that contains 5 partitions, sdb5 sdb6 sdb8 sdb9 sdb7 in that order. Now I want to delete sdb8 and make 3 new partitions of it, but then it tell me to umount any partitions with a number higher than 8, now I can do that if I do it from a live cd. But I need to know if the partition with a higher number sdb9, will change name when I delete sdb8 and make 3 new ones sin
if you need that many partitions you're better off using LVM
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{"user_question": "TLE", "user_answer": "iwaterball"}
how do I automatically have a command execute on startup?
add it to /etc/rc.local (will run as root)
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{"user_question": "neobonzi", "user_answer": "bimberi"}
so I cant upgrade to gnome3 from 10.10?
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/11/install-vanilla-gnome-3-in-maverick/
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{"user_question": "damno_", "user_answer": "ActionParsnip"}
hey, i was here a while ago and someone suggested a gnome-panel app to put the computer into presentation mode (stops screensaver) --does anyone know the name of it?
There is the classic inhibit applet for gnome-panel and there is kaffine for Unity.
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{"user_question": "tich", "user_answer": "Jordan_U"}
what is the best way to get the computer to emit play a sound when someone on irc triggers it?
Most chat clients have an option to play sound when you receive messages.
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{"user_question": "improveupon", "user_answer": "paulsomebody"}
Hey all. What cool software can I add to my edgy machine to spiff out my desktop? I'm thinking along the lines of a compositor or xplanet or some linux version of Mac OS X's dashboard widgets. What software might I not have heard of before?
beryl , bb ( ascii animation demo ) , kiba-dock ( composited dock with a physics engine, requires composited WM like beryl )
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{"user_question": "erpo", "user_answer": "Jordan_U"}
I am trying to setup a cron job via these directions and it isn't working. http://bit.ly/eV0gdQ Anyway to debug cron jobs and actually see if they are being called?
pipe the output to a text file in the crontab entry.
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{"user_question": "ericbarnes", "user_answer": "meganerd"}