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Where is the delete account button in Thunderbird on Ubuntu 12.04

I was unable to find the "Delete account" button in Thunderbird on Ubuntu 12.04. Saw posts saying that I can find it at the bottom left side, but could not find it. Please help me find that button.
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ATI Driver installer screen missing nearly all text, how do I resolve this?

I am using 64-Bit Ubuntu 12.10 On a Dell 7520, intel core i5 3210, ati 7730m, 4gb DDR3 I downloaded ATI catalyst software driver for linux (amd-driver-installer-catalyst-12.10-x86.x86_64.run), but ...
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sudo shutdown vs pressing power button quick

I have a headless Ubuntu server running 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04 server edition, and I connect to the server via SSH from my Windows laptop. Sometimes when I would like to turn off the server and my ...
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Cyborg M.M.O.7 Mouse Extra Buttons - No 11-mouse.conf

I have a Cyborg M.M.O.7 mouse with quite a few extra buttons, and I'd like to be able to bind them to things. I've found a post here that seems to detail the process, but when I attempted to carry out ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 on Asus x52n touchpad and mouse left click issues

I have a Asus X52N laptop with Ubuntu 12.10 installed. Recently the touchpad left button stopped working. I can right click things but not left click. If I try double touching the touchpad this ...
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Are there any ways to make a key on the keyboard act as 2 keys?

I have the "RightClick" (menu) button on my keyboard, which is completely useless. I want to remap the keyboard such that whenever I press this button, it simulates an "UP ARROW" then after 0.1 ...
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Where is the leave message button in the lock screen?

I have recently installed Ubuntu 11.10, and i noticed there is no "Leave Message" button while my screen is locked. Is it removed, or it's just a bug? Is there any way to bring it back?
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How to configure extra buttons in Logitech Mouse

Can anyone tell me how to configure all the buttons on a Logitech MX 620 mouse (http://www.logitech.com/en-us/support/mice/2987) under Ubuntu 12.04? Specifically, I like to make one of them just the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 icons space changes

I have customized Ubuntu by installing gnome-classic. Everything is correct almost one little thing. It is difficult to write, but simple to show: The desktop after start looks like that: And I ...
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binding back/forward to mouse buttons

I have a basic logitech mouse with 5 buttons: left, right, wheel left, wheel, wheel right. I used to use wheel left and right for going back and forward in my browser or navigator. Now this doesn't ...
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Binding an action to a combination of mouse buttons

I know that X-system limits binding an action to a combination of mouse buttons (e.g. right click + mouse wheel up/down which I used to bind to sound volume up/down in windows but I cannot do the same ...
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How to get mouse buttons to work

I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 x64 on my HP windows 7 computer. After installation and login it brings me to the desk top. All I'm able to do is move my mouse pointer around. Clicking the left or ...
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left mouse button doesn't work ubuntu 12.10 KDE

I'm completely new to linux and i wasn't able to find answers to this question or maybe i was but i was unable to fix it. So here's the problem, when i connect external mouse the left button doesn't ...
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How to add Shutdown button to LXPanel and make it work?

I cannot seem to be able to add a shutdown button to my LXPanel. In /usr/share/applications there is a Shutdown (lubuntu-logout.desktop) containing the line Exec=lubuntu-logout but it would not run. ...
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Mapping Microsoft Mobile Mouse 4000 Back / Thumb Button

I can't seem to find how to map the thumb ( back ) button on my Microsoft Mobile Mouse 4000. Everything else I need on it works, but when I run xev it doesn't register the thumb button. For reference, ...
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VLC enable mouse button 6 and 7

Is there any way to enable those buttons in order to use them as step backward and forward? I can do it in SMPlayer but i can't find any way to achieve that on VLC.
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Why is the middle button mapped to pasting?

I'm in love with Ubuntu, but I really HATE this feature. I am a programmer and it happened a number of times that I introduced a bug because I inadvertently pasted some code which didn't belong there. ...
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Media buttons on keyboard with spotify

I've added spotify preview as my defualt music program, by doing this. As doug suggested, simply add this line to your >~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list file in two places, like so: ...
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How to select or deselect radio button in python / glade

As in topic, how can I select or deselect radio buttons in python. The application is made by quickly. any help pleas ?
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Cairo Dock messed up File, Edit, View, etc. buttons

So first I disabled the global menu buttons (File, Edit, View, etc.) using step 20 from this link. specifically, the command: sudo apt-get autoremove appmenu-gtk appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-qt Everything ...
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Buttons in nautilus to toggle sidebar and view

Is there a way to add buttons to Nautilus? I really would like to have a small button on the sidebar allowing to quickly switch between tree view and places view. Also I would love to have buttons to ...
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Configure buttons on Logitech M705 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I assign actions to all my mouse buttons? I would like change the extra button functionality. I want change the Back/Forward button to Sound up/Sound down. It ...
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Reassign the Right button functionality of touchpad

My notebook has a touchpad with two buttons. The touchpad works pretty well and I use it for vertical/horizontal scroll, two fingers scrolling etc. The Left button acts like the left button of a ...
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How do I prevent KDE from messing up my Qt dialog button order?

I use mostly GTK+ applications (eg. Geeqie, Audacious, etc.) on Lubuntu. However, I decided to give KDE 4 a try by installing kubuntu-desktop and then removing the apps I didn't want. Big mistake. ...
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Can I set the default behaviour of power button to suspend the machine on 12.04? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I modify the power options? Whenever you press the power button on Ubuntu 12.04 a shutdown dialog appears, but I would like it to simply suspend the machine ...
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Mouse button failure on login

This is a new issue as of a week or so ago. Running 12.04 64bit (Kernel 3.2.0-29-generic; Gnome 3.4.2) Unity system with a Logitech wireless Laser mouse and EX110 wireless KB. Upon initial ...
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How to configure Logitech VX Revolution's extra buttons (zoom slider, ect.)?

Is there any way to make work my Logitech VX Revolution's extra buttons under Ubuntu 11.10? Under Ubuntu 9.10 I've found a graphical interface program that was suitable to configure the extra buttons, ...
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Mouse button to raise+move a window

I used to be able to use Super+Mouse1 both to move a window and to raise the window on click. When I upgraded to 12.04 gnome-panel, it lost this functionality and I was forced to map F1 to raise a ...
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Window buttons have suddenly changed to the right side

I'm using updated Ubuntu 12.04 64b with unity, and im having some problems with the window managing buttons and themes. Everything was fine until this week when i rebooted the system and when it ...
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GTK2.0 Theme problem with button foreground

I have noticed that i can only change the foreground color of a gtk2.0 theme button with the "default" style. I did it like: style "default" { fg[NORMAL] = "#000000" fg[PRELIGHT] ...
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Left mouse button stops working Ubuntu 12.04

Left mouse button stops working after some time in Ubuntu, I tried different mice, also in Unity 2d and 3d and gnome shell, but same result. Right button and scroll wheel still works. The strange ...
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'Try Ubuntu' or 'Install Ubuntu' button is not working on Live-CD

I inserted the Live CD into my PC. Loaded up fine until it got to the "Try Ubuntu"/"Install Ubuntu" screen. I was able to move my mouse cursor around the screen, but no matter how long I wait I cannot ...
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How to add button to Nautilus toolbar in Ubuntu 12.04?

How do I add bottons to Nautilus toolbar, such as delete, new folder, cut, paste, etc. In Ubuntu 11.04 I did that by editing the file "/usr/share/nautilus/ui/nautilus-navigation-window-ui.xml", but ...
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Load button in aptoncd wont work

I am using aptoncd for backup the cache but in ubuntu 11.10 the load button wont work so i opened from terminal when i pressing load button terminal shows timeout error how to solve this
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Mouse wheel scrolls down, but not up?

I've set up a new machine with Ubuntu 12.04 (x64) and have notice that the mouse wheel scrolls down fine, but when I scroll up, it pages down! I've run xev and have verified that scroll up is ...
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ubuntu button missing on desktop

I installed ubuntu 12.04 from scratch and I'm missing the ubuntu button , so I can not go into system -> users and groups for instance. What could be the problem. I installed it on 2 netbooks , and ...
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Make LibreOffice A single button that when clicked offers choices and what type of document to open

I know that I've done this on a previous install of Ubuntu, but for the life of me, I can't find it. Basically I want the options like when you right click LibreOffice Writer and the New Document ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Lenovo X61T, how to assign display buttons as shortcuts? Bug?

I got some problems to get display buttons to work. I'm trying to assign functions (settings->keyboard->shortcuts) to the display buttons on my Lenovo X61 Tablet Notebook. The buttons are: - Change ...
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where is the power button setting on 12.04? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Hibernate missing from power menu and when I press laptop power button I upgraded my system to 12.04 and i'm quite pleased so far. When i hit the power button on my ...
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Cannot adjust brightness on on an LG laptop with an Nvidia card

I'm currently using a LG laptop with Nvidia Cuda GeForce GT 335M. I have difficulty adjusting the screen brightness using FN+Arrow Up/Arrow Down. The brightness indicator will appear and the bar will ...
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Button padding only working on default theme

Button padding is working only on default theme! On other themes when the active window is small there is no padding! YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aY8GyyjuM8
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Buttons on my bluetooth headset aren't working

I have noticed, that although my "Bluetooth Headset" works perfectly fine, buttons on it, like Previous, Next, Play etc do not. Why is that?
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Shutdown menu option disappeared

Using GNOME Classic. Yesterday was normal!!! Have the shutdown button after the Log Out... Please see the picture. I appreciate the help
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Show icons in menues and buttons

How do I enable icons in the menues (File-Edit-...) and also right-click-menues (Refresh-Copy-Paste-...) and on the buttons (OK-Cancel-Yes-No-...) in Ubuntu 11.10? I would like it to work the way it ...
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Did they forget about the 'Restart' button, or was it just not important?

Seriously, from the top-right corner button, I have Logout, Suspend, Hibernate & Shutdown but shockingly no Restart. What happened to the Restart button?
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Blue “gap” behind the Unity launcher button? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What is the blue triangle on the home button for? I regularly have a gap in the upper-left corner of the button for the Unity launcher. It is almost like a beveling of ...
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Unity Launcher buttons size 11.10 on Samsung netbooks [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I configure Unity? I've followed all the instructions in the previous questions and the size (obtrusively enormous btw) of the icons doesn't change. What else ...
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OK, Close button not visible by default

I have installed Ubuntu 11.10 on HP Mini and most of the times the OK, Cancel buttons at the bottom are not visible. I have to maximize the windows to make them visible. How to change this?
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How does the backup-button works and how can I use this under Ubuntu?

Many external hard drives have a backup-button with a OTB function for backing up stuff. An example is the "Sharkoon Quickstore Portable". So how does this button works? Is there a vendor neutral ...