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Missing Top bar on my second monitor, Any fix?
I've turned on my computer to awaken to no top bar on my second monitor however it was there before i shutdown the day before,
I dont remember touching anything to do with my monitors and would like ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 Wubi internet problems
I have Ubuntu 11.10 Wubi installed on a VM, and it has suddenly stopped being able to connect to the internet, it says connected, but the VM says there are no active IP addresses and it's not ...
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Trouble with an USB modem on Ubuntu 11.10
I need to connect my laptop using an USB modem. I have tried the modem on a
Windows 7 machine and it works fine, so I regard my trouble is software
related. But I use Ubuntu 11.10 on daily basis, so I ...
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Transition from dual boot single hard drive to multiple drives
Hi I'm looking for tip or things to watch out for, while I make the following changes to my system:
I currently have a dual boot setup on one hard drive (win7 and ubuntu), I am going to change to a ...
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How to fix sudo: setreuid(ROOT_UID, user_uid): Operation not permitted error?
I am using LDAP authentication on my Ubuntu 11.10 server. I installed libpam-ldap, and configured things accordingly. It works great, except that I get this error every once in a while when I try to ...
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Sound out of the internal pc speaker
my problem is that on my system hp/dc7900 i have allways the same sound like on my soundcard on the internal pc speaker. i check all settings and don't find an option to
disable the internal pc ...
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Add wrong device to software raid?
a few days ago my raid5 had an crash. i replaced the hdd and add the wrong device to the raid (i add the device and not the partition)
Now the raid seems to work with follow config:
md0 : active ...
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wpa_supplicant ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
I just installed Ubuntu Server on a spare computer with a broken graphic card, and I needed to setup my wifi.
I thought No problem, I've done it before from the command line, in Arch Linux., only the ...
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Adding ReplayGain tags
I have been always using FooBar2000 to add ReplayGain tags to my music library (consisting of .mp3 or .ogg files). On my new computer I would like to avoid installing Wine for just this task.
Are ...
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UbuntuOne mobile complete folder sync to desktop
if I want to sync my phones data towards my desktop, how can I select full folders?
There is the opportunity to add some files, but i'll have to have it synched just like the phones pictures are ...
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App for advance Sound editing (Alternative to Cool Edit Pro)
Looking for an alternative to Cool Edit Pro which is a sound editing software for Windows that can do a lot for sound. Any tool in Ubuntu that helps me edit sound, channels, etc.. as close or advance ...
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Tools for 3D animations, models, skeletons and other animation techniques
I am looking for apps in Ubuntu that I can work to create 3D animations, models and other similar stuff. Similar for example to Maya and 3D Studio in Windows.
With which apps can I count on.
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Is There Fast User X-Session Switching with Command Line?
I want to make a desktop shortcut that calls a script that emits an event that triggers an upstart script that logs me out, then kills x, and immediately logs me in to another account without ever ...
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How can I add xkill in the Unity launcher?
I would like to add the command xkill to the Unity launcher so I can just click on it to kill a program. How can I do that?
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encfs homedir: ssh access dismount after a while
I've setup an encrypted homedir according to this EncryptedHomeDirectoryHowto.
To gain ssh access I've added auth required pam_encfs.so to /etc/pam.d/sshd
$ cat /etc/pam.d/sshd | egrep -v ^#
auth ...
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Is Ubuntu Sniff Proof Out of the Box?
I just found out about xinput and how it proves any gui's running on the same x-session can sniff each other.
Is there a support team for each app included in the Ubuntu repo's that checks for sniff ...
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How to downgrade Ubuntu?
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and, well, it was fun to test but right now I just want to downgrade to 11.10 again. Is there a way to do this?
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Changing the start menu icon in Xubuntu
I'm trying to change the appearance of my desktop and I was wondering if there was a way to change the icon for the start menu,in Xubuntu, from a mouse to something else?
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Dual boot with Windows 7 issue: Windows occasionally restarts at startup
The installation went smooth and everything works fine with Ubuntu. The issue is as follows:
When I boot into Windows 7, it shows the Windows logo and start loading and suddenly restarts. Luckily, ...
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Can I have shortcuts for applications in the upper panel?
I want to have a quick launch button for the command xkill (Skype sometimes starts using all my ram and I have to kill it.) in my upper panel.
Is this possible in 11.10 with Unity? I
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VLC 2.0.1 and Ubuntu 11.10 = no sound
Every sound is working on my 11.10 64bit machine except of VLC. I upgraded via the n-muench PPA from 1.1 to 2.0 and since that moment there is no sound anymore.
The only sound bits I get are strange ...
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Slow, Unreliable Wireless on HP Laptop
I have an HP HDX-16 laptop and I'm running ubuntu 10.04 on it. Recently my internet has become very unreliable where after a couple minutes of connecting to wifi, my internet access will slow to a ...
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What is the use of the workspaces?
I was wondering what use are the workspaces at all, if any. I notice that when I switch to another workspace, all the apps still show in the unity bar and all the icons are still present in the ...
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gnome application doesn't use the system input method
I set my system input method to gcin with im-switcher.
But when I use some Gnome-based application, such as Gedit and Gnome terminal, my default input method is still Simple(i.e. I can type only ...
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Unable to log into FTP Server
I just set up a ftp server on my ubuntu 11.10 server. I was able to authenticate with basic users before i joined the server to my domain. Now, i'm using PAM authentication and i can't log on with ...
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How can I resolve a 'Windows Backend: Object has no attribute iso_path' error while installing with Wubi?
I'm trying to install Ubuntu using Wubi in Windows XP Professional SP3 32bit. After running wubi I receive an installation error.
"Windows backend" object has no attribute 'iso_path' ....For more ...
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Error: firmware file b43/ucode13.fw not found
when i try to load in recovery mode, thats the error message that is displayed, loading stops at this point.
what seems to be the problem?
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Installing Ubuntu Natty on HP G7-1310US Problems :(
I just purchased HP G7-1310US and tried to install Natty but ran into two problems.
1) I boot from liveCD and Ubuntu runs fine no video problem what so ever ( I had to close the lid and open and then ...
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My wireless has suddenly became disabled by hardware switch, BIOS, rfkill, fn+f8 do nothing
I have a toshiba l655d-s5145. There is no physical toggle for the wireless, although the f8 key is supposed to do the trick. It doesn't. The wireless has been working since October, and suddenly, ...
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JDK Home directory
I installed sun-java6-jdk.
I need to find it's home directory, because now I have the problem: JAVA_HOME must point to a JDK installation, not JRE.
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Map Ubuntu drive to Windows machine
So there is plenty of answers to the opposite question but I need to be able to access and modify my files on my Ubuntu machine from my Windows 7 machine.
What have I tried already?
It looks like I ...
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Horizontal disturbance while playing videos in Ubuntu 11.10
I'm a total noob guys, so please bear with me. I will try to make it as succinct as possible. Whenever I try to play some of my videos(not happening with all), regardless of the video format, there is ...
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Menu in the top bar won't stay opened when clicked
The menu in the top bar (i believe it's called global menu or application menu, not sure) opens when I press mouse button on it, but immediately closes when I release it. This makes it hard to use, ...
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Unable to scan with Samsung multi function printer SCX-4521 in UBUNTU 11.10
I have samsung multifunction printer SCX-4521
Samsung provided drivers only for windows but not linux,not available even in their website for this model.I am fortunate that UBUNTU 11.10 automatically ...
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How to Control Loudness of Bluetooth Speakers via Hardware Buttons?
I play my sound to a bluetooth ouput device.
Alas, hitting my hardware sound buttons does not increase and decrease loudness, and neither does muting work. Those three buttons work fine for my ...
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Getting digiKam tags into IPTC fields
For the most part, I have my images named like this:
picture#tag1#tag2.jpg
It works pretty nicely, I can just filter by file name and get the tags out of it. They are easy to use and so on.
But ...
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My Ubuntu Freezes when I start it
well when I start my ubuntu it looks like it works fine but I can't click any feature in the screen. I already tried it with two mouses and the arrow moves but I can't click anything in the screen. ...
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boot fails - PulseAudio
I'm using Ubuntu for the first time and I'm new in the LINUX world ..
After successfully installing 11.10 as second system besides XP this morning Ubuntu now gets stuck when booting. Right after the ...
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Kile crashes upon closing project - Ubuntu 11.10
Kile allows me to work, but it keeps crashing every time I close a project. It also crashes when I close Kile directly.
Since I need to kill the program in order to exit, I can save the individual ...
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How to remove a locale (i.e. to drop it from `$LANGUAGE` variable)?
For some reason I have an extra unneeded language installed on my system (more precisely, $LANGUAGE variable is ru:en_CA:en where supposed to be ru:en, and also apt tries to load addresses like ...
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locate output directory dependant…?
when in home directory and type locate *.cpp I get hundreds of results.
using the same command in (for example) ~/../forfun/netstream/ gets me a dozen results.
how's that possible?
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Rebind “Initiate Window Move” to mouse button 10
I am trying to use button 10 on my mouse to drag windows around. I have installed CCSM and changed the initiate button in the plugin "Move Window" to "Button10" (with no modifier, though adding ...
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Want to write a simple SVN update bash script
I want to write a simple bash script that will update an SVN working copy in a given directory. The repository is accessed with the svn+ssh protocol. The basic process this needs to follow is:
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Error when opening terminal
I have this error when opening any terminal windows:
bash: /dev/cgroup/cpu/user/32215/tasks: File o directory non esistente
bash: /dev/cgroup/cpu/user/32215/notify_on_release: File o directory non ...
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How do i install postgresql-8.3?
I get
> sudo apt-get install postgresql-8.3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package postgresql-8.3 is not available, but is referred ...
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Embed terminal on desktop positioning
this is my script to embed terminal in my desktop, but how do I make it appear in the corner next to the unity launcher?
#!/bin/bash
sleep 20 && gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=trans777 ...
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How to move Ubuntu installation from one hdd to another?
I currently have Ubuntu 10.04 server running on portable hdd. Want to move it to internal sata hdd. I've got 3 partitions /, /home and swap. On new hdd I plan to have different partition sizes. What's ...
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How to remove console-tools completely?
After removing console-tools using
apt-get --purge remove console-tools
I am getting the following error during boot
init: Failed to spawn console-setup main process: unable to execute: No such ...
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How to create & pin Unity shortcut to a specific command / shellscript
This is not a duplicate as I've spent a good while trying to find a solution from Ask Ubuntu and Googling, to no avail. It is a specific problem after successfully pinning the shortcut to Unity.
The ...
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Why do my speakers play audio when my headset is plugged in?
I just got a new PC and I am a bit confused. I have a gaming headset and when I plug it into my PC, I can hear just fine. However, I realized that my sound was also coming through the speakers as ...
