Code named "Maverick Meerkat". Released on October 10, 2010. Superseded by 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" on April 28, 2011. Support for 10.10 ended on April 10, 2012.
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What is the difference between “Unmount”, “Eject”, “Safely Remove Drive” and the eject icon?
When I right-click the desktop icon for my USB drive or SD card I have the choice to "Eject" or "Safely Remove Drive":
In the Tree side pane in Nautilus, I can either "Unmount" or "Eject":
The ...
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How do I increase the resize margin on windows?
It takes me about 5 tries to resize a window on my computer.
Is there a way to increase the resize margin on the edge of windows?
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Does Ubuntu support USB 3.0?
I have a Western Digital My Book 3.0 - 1 TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive, and I wanted to know if it would work on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.
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Where can I find Vim 7.3?
Vim 7.3 is out, but not available in the sources. Where can I get an installation package for the 7.3 version? I don't want to install it manually.
Thanks for your answers.
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How to install LibreOffice? (replacing OpenOffice.org)
On 10.10 how do I get rid of Openoffice.org, and install LibreOffice without borking my system?
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Choose gcc and g++ version
So I have installed gcc-4.4 and gcc-4.3 (same for g++). Now as far as I remember there is a tool in Ubuntu which sets the symlinks for you if you just tell it which version you want. However it does ...
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Browsing the internet from the command line
How can I browse the internet from the command line in Maverick?
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Why does pasting sometimes not work in gnome-terminal?
Ctrl + Shift + C and Ctrl + Shift + V are supposed to replace the normal Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V in gnome-terminal.
Sometimes they work, but usually they have no effect. What are some potential ...
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How can I sync with an iPod Nano 6G?
I'm having no luck at all with this iPod Nano.
I've tried the following software:
Banshee - The iPod shows up and files seem to be copied, but they don't show up on the iPod.
Rhythmbox - Same as ...
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An application asks to unlock the keyring on startup, but it doesn't say which one
A couple of weeks ago a popup has appeared whenever I startup telling me that an application wants to access the keyring but it doesn't say which one. I'm used to seeing the application name on the ...
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How can I enable Ctrl+Alt+Backspace?
Ctrl+Alt+← can usually be set to restart X, however I can't find the option to allow this (it is disabled by default).
I have looked in System->Preferences->Keyboard and ...
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How do I replace the MeMenu username with my actual name?
Whilst I like the MeMenu, one thing has always bothered me about it; rather then use my actual name, it uses my username.
So, is there anyway to change this?
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How to copy the current path from Nautilus?
In 10.10, when opening a directory in Nautilus, I was wondering how to copy the current path?
My address bar, pictured here, is not copyable:
Thanks and regards!
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How to temporarily disable Pulseaudio?
Just wondering is there a way to temporarily disable pulseaudio as I am trying to run a specific Wine game (Left 4 Dead 2) and it makes the game crash occasionally.
If I kill the process it ...
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How do I show the date in the clock indicator?
There is no GUI way to show the date or the day (or adjust the time format) in Unity's indicator-datetime application in Natty.
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Boot screen in low graphics/text mode
My ubuntu boot screen shows up in a strange low resolution, almost text mode, instead the usual and sleek white "ubuntu" over dark background. It's not a big issue because when GDM loads everything ...
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What is the building photographed in this stock wallpaper?
I'm sure I've seen a picture of the full building somewhere. The image is a blue-tinted display of the building's facade - facing into a blue sky. It's a part of the stock wallpapers in Ubuntu 10.10 ...
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How do you configure desktop for a static IP address?
By default Ubuntu uses DHCP and Gnome NetworkManger to configure interfaces. This is not optimal in many cases.
What is the best method to configure a desktop machine for a static IP address that ...
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How can I disable the purple splash screen at boot?
How can I disable the purple "Ubuntu" splash screen that displays at boot before the login screen has loaded? I'd prefer to just see plain text scroll by.
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Alt+tab out of fullscreen game
Right now I'm running Trine, which is a game using OpenGL running in fullscreen, in Ubuntu 10.10.
What I would like to be able to do is Alt+Tab out of the game to be able to browse the web, check ...
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How to auto mount my external hard drive?
On login, ubuntu 10.10 would not mount external hard drives automatically, While ubuntu 10.04 mount them on login.
I've tried Storage Device Manager but it give error when external hard is not ...
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How do I recover my data from an encrypted home directory?
I have a big problem. When I made a upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04 I lost all my data in home directory. I have only data from my home encrypted directory. What can I do?
Thanks Martin
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How do I disable the boot splash screen? [duplicate]
I'd like to be able to disable the Ubuntu splash screen that I see on boot with the indicator meter of progress, and replace that with a text-only readout of the boot up process (such as you can get ...
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Laptop battery life drastically decreased compared to Windows 7 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why does my computer get less battery life with Ubuntu compared to Windows?
I am running Ubuntu 10.10 on my Dell Studio XPS 1640 and have about one hour of battery life ...
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How can I make the draggable window border thicker, without changing the appearance?
When you want to resize a window in gnome (as well as in other systems) you can click-and-hold at the window's border and than drag it. The problem is (and do correct me if I'm wrong here) that the ...
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Is there a way to autodetect when a display is disconnected?
I am running 10.10 on a Dell Latitude with the latest Nvidia drivers. Basically what I want is when I disconnect my external display that everything goes back to the main one without having to change ...
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Use existing Ubuntu partition as an installation image?
I installed ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop and configured a lot, installed and setup lot of things on it to suit my needs. Now I want to move this setup to anothe machine and want to avoid all the setup ...
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How to debug suspend?
I've been using Ubuntu for about five years now, and I still can't make it suspend when I want to. It's quite irritating that I can program up a storm, hack the machine in numerous other ways, and ...
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Disk Utility: What's the difference between “Unmount” and “Safe Removal”?
System > Administration > Disk Utility
What's the difference between "Unmount Volume" and "Safe Removal"? Say you insert a flash drive and open the Disk Utility UI, if you click on "Safe Removal" you ...
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Font corruption: lines through characters
I have an odd problem where a one-pixel high white line is displayed through certain letters of text. Almost always only a single character type is affected at once, and only in one font size (though ...
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Is there a simple way to add exFAT support?
Is there a simple way to add exFAT support to Ubuntu without kernel patching?
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Is it possible to use a 2.6.38 kernel with 10.10?
I have simple question. Is it possible to use new 2.6.38 kernel with Ubuntu 10.10? Does there exists some PPA or you need to compile?
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How do I get multiple workspaces in Unity? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I reduce or increase the number of workspaces in Unity?
This video from a Unity developer shows him clicking on the workspace button in the launcher to use ...
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How can I change my own user ID?
There is only one user on my system. How can I change its user ID from the default of 1000?
If there are additional steps that would be required in order to avoid breaking the login process on a ...
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No Alt+F2 in Ubuntu Netbook 10.10?
I am stumped. I upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 Beta 3 and for some reason I can't get Alt-F2 to do anything. Is this a known bug or am I just not doing the right thing?
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How do I mount .cue file?
I have a cd image that is not a .iso but a .cue. I cannot mount it. I use ubuntu 10.10 64 bits, and I've tried a lot of programs. furiosmout just says it is not a image file, and it just didn't work. ...
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Getting flash 10.2 GPU acceleration working
I'm using 32 bit ubuntu 10.10 and the latest version of the NVidia drivers for an ION GPU and have downloaded the new 10.2 flash beta.
I can confirm that in firefox I am using the beta of flash but ...
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List the hardware info and status in my computer
I was wondering how to list all the
hardware info in my computer?
Both terminal and GUI solutions
please.
Is there a single utility to monitor
most hardware's working status? Just like some ...
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Upgrade while keeping home partition
My home directory is on a separate partition. I am on 10.10 from 10.04 via upgrade. How can I perform a clean install of 10.10 while keeping this partition? Will it perform as well as a clean install? ...
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How to install Mono on a server?
I'd like to be able to build and run C# programs on my Ubuntu 10.10 server. How do I install Mono? "sudo apt-get install mono" doesn't work, says "Package mono is not available, but is referred to by ...
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Is Btrfs in 10.10 considered stable?
I'm upgrading my laptop to Maverick (10.10) and I noticed btrfs is an option for the filesystem. I read a while ago that the Ubuntu team weren't sure if it was going to be stable for Maverick. Does ...
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Can I make the global application menu show the full application title?
I've been using Ubuntu Netbook Edition as my main OS for a while now. I really like it, but I have one complaint. Whenever an application as a long title, it gets cut off. For example the terminal ...
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How to disable touchpad on Dell Latitude E-Series (E5510, E6510)?
I want to disable the touchpad. I want to keep the trackstick.
Is it possible?
The Alps touchpad is recognized by the kernel as a PS/2 Generic Mouse.
Not all its features are supported by the kernel ...
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How can I restart pulseaudio without logout?
Sometimes pulseaudio service stops and it doesn't restarts itself when I open an audio file with banshee or totem.
How I can make it start again without logout?
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Encrypt home drive after installation
I declined to encrypt to my home drive whilst installing ubuntu.
Is it possible to encrypt it after installation?
if so, how?
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What packages do I install for ffmpeg and libmp3lame?
On my desktop Ubuntu 10.4 I use ffmpeg to convert videos to a format my dvd-player understands. On my laptop running 10.10 I can't get the same command to work, what package(s) are missing?
ffmpeg -i ...
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Empathy cannot connect to MSN account
I've just installed Maverick, and while it seems to work so far, Empathy is unable to connect to my MSN account. I've verified that Pidgin can connect.
I've tried looking at the Empathy debug log, ...
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How can I change the default program for viewing pictures and photos?
or any other program while i'm at it, ubuntu built-in utilities are nice but there are better.
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Why won't USB 3.0 external hard drive run at USB 3.0 speeds?
I recently purchased a PCI Express x1 USB 3.0 controller card (containing the NEC USB 3.0 controller) with the intent of using a USB 3.0 external hard drive with my Linux box. I installed the card in ...
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gnome-settings-daemon doesn't apply themes, unless I kill it and start it manually [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Ubuntu 10.10 forgets desktop theme.
UPDATE: It looks like i'm experiencing this bug where Ubuntu can't do themes on fast computers (e.g. SSD drive and/or i7 CPU).
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