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Spacebar no longer works, need to reassign space to some other key
The spacebar on my Toshiba Satellite laptop no longer works. I have confirmed this with all applications, Windows Vista OS, and the bootup menus - it is a hardware mechanical issue.
In Windows, I ...
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Best way for repair files names?
I'm trying to backup directory, but some file names are "corrupteds":
rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat "/media/[...]/Ford transit/Porte v#351lo Ford Transit.odg": Invalid or incomplete multibyte ...
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Appearance of applications: how to get wide character fonts on KDE?
I have to help a person, using KDE 4.9.3, and I'm not an expert on KDE.
He has not a good sight, so I grew up the character fonts on the system (from the KDE configuration tool), so he is satisfied ...
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pound sign and shift-tilde in aterm
I'm having an issue with aterm whereby typeing the pound sign (shift+3) gives me 'ţ', and shift-tilde gives 'Ŭ'. These keys are the only two which don't work properly. Interestingly they work ...
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After system crash all characters are substituted by rectangles
After a system crash and therefore a reboot all characters got substituted by white rectangles (only these rectangles are displayed by 12.04 LTS - even in the terminal).
The characters in e.g. Google ...
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How to write “o” with upper-line in Ubuntu?
How do you write a character "o" with upper-line in Ubuntu? Is it possible?
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Special characters in password
I am looking for a list of the valid characters which can be used in a user account password on Ubuntu. man passwd just tells me:
As a general guideline, passwords should consist of 6 to 8 ...
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Why CharMap in Ubuntu for lydian not showing up the correct character set
Why CharMap in Ubuntu 11.04 for lydian not showing up the correct character set. I checked couple of different character sets(Javanese), its showing up the same boxed hexdecimal values.
