Questions related to configuration of Ubuntu software.
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How do I modify the power options?
When I press the power button a dialog opens, but I want to shutdown the system without receiving "Do you really really want to shutdown?". How can I choose a direct shutdown action on a pressed power ...
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Configuration of iptables (verfication, actives services, allow FTP)
I’m experimenting with IPT's (iptables) in Xubuntu.
First experimentation wato allow all OUTPUT traffic and block all INPUT except already existing TCP connections can somebody verify if these are ...
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unable to alter locked memory limit
I've just installed Ardour2, and I've run into the same problem so many people have, which has to do with setting the locked memory limit to unlimited. Here is one of many questions asked about this.
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How to use PAM to restrict HTTP access for some users?
I've read that PAM can be used to restrict HTTP access for some users, but I can't figure out how to do it in Ubuntu 12.04.
The /etc/security/time.conf man page contains this example:
All users ...
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The “resolv.conf” file becomes empty after each restart [duplicate]
The "/etc/resolv.conf" file becomes empty after each restart and I lose the DNS data set in it. It only contains the following text each time:
# Generated by NetworkManager
What should I do?
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WINE users configuration
I'm rebuilding an Ubuntu system and this is a problem that I had on my original installation.
The issue is this: In my home account I installed apps into Wine and all is good. However, I have a ...
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Proxy configuration problems
When I recently installed Ubuntu (wubi), it unexpectedly just worked straight out the box without setting up the proxy I go through (University network). After rebooting, I couldn't connect to the ...
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nvidia GeForce 210 2 monitors switchable, not the same desktop
I want to have zwo separate Monitors, my computer-monitor to work and my HD-TV for watching movies. I work with the normal nvidia driver from the ubuntu repositories with Ubuntu 12.04. Now I only have ...
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How to keep launched programs confined to their desktop?
This may sound a little pointless, but being able to do this would make a world of difference to me. Call it OCD, and you're probably right, but, but...!
So; I was wondering if there is some obscure ...
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Where is “txt.cfg”?
I'm using Lubuntu 12.10 on a USB stick but it is not persistent.
Instructions on how to make it persistent are in this thread:
Why isn't persistence working on Lubuntu 12.04 Live-USB?
But I can ...
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Is .config called other things for different system languages?
I'm making an application that reads/writes to files in the ~/.config folder; however, I want to make sure it works under all systems. Is .config called other things for different system languages? Is ...
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Where is .bashrc?
I feel stupid asking, but I can't seem to find the answer to this anywhere. I'm trying to follow these instructions to edit my bash prompt,but there is no .bashrc in either my user directory ...
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How to configure Wine for Half-Life? [duplicate]
Hi, I've been trying to run Half-Life 1 on Ubuntu 12.10 with Wine. The game starts to the menu OK, but when the actual game starts nothing happens. I can't move, only my mouse works, and the game is ...
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when i update ubuntu 12.04 i got following Error..Please suggest Solution [duplicate]
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ui-toolkit/ppa/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch ...
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How can I disable Ctrl+Q for all applications (system wide)?
A lot of applications like Firefox, Chrome etc, get closed when I accidentally press Ctrl+Q instead of Ctrl+W because of the proximity of the Q and W keys on the keyboard. Is there a way this shortcut ...
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change home folder label (i.e. displayed text) in nautilus
Nautilus uses labels for some folders, for example it displays / as "File System" and each user's home folder as "Home". In the Polish version the latter is displayed as "Katalog domowy", which is ...
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How to configure bluetooth applet to start OFF or as the last state when logging in?
Every time I log in, bluetooth is ON and I cannot change this behavior from the bluetooth applet. Is this a bad design or is there a reason why it is like this?
How can I change it?
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After update UBUNTU 12.04 changes wired interface from eth0 to eth1, network configuration fails [closed]
I have been running UBUNTU 12.04 for a couple of months on this system with no problems. After a recent update, the bootup fails to define the wired network interface as eth0, so the default network ...
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How to calibrate the touchscreen of CF-19 toughbook with 12.10 calibration tool?
I have tried several options from various forums. Proper calibration should not be this difficult.
I have run the calibration tool and most sites say to include a section of the output in a ...
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Completely redifine clickpad actions. Three finger scrolling. Two finger dragging
Is there a way to completely remap actions of clickpad / touchpad?
I would like to be able to configure these things on my Samsung Series 9 900x3c clickpad (I would pick some of them that are ...
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Remap shortcut to a single key cannot be used
I want to remap my workspace switcher shortcut to a single key, specifically the Page Up/Page Down keys for going to the top/bottom workspace. But Ubuntu will not let me do this using System settings ...
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Prepend current git branch in terminal
How can I configure the terminal to display the current git branch?
I'd like to see the second line rather than the first:
andy@bob:~/my_projects/project_x$
(master)~/my_projects/project_x$
I ...
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How can I manually save and restore configuration for ISO bootings?
From time to time I boot from ISO files saved in my hard disk. It boots and executes much faster than the live-cd. I would like to save a minimum configuration so that I don't have to configure it ...
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How do the various gnome flavours use the config resources they do or do not share?
One of the things that has kept me away from gnome until now is the lack of a common, central place for configuration. This was bad in the old days, but after the advent of compiz, mutter and dconf, ...
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Delete confirmation missing when I hit the delete key
I'm sick of accidentally deleting files and directories as DEL button is badly located on my keyboard. I would really like it if ubuntu asked me to confirm before deleting anything. Is there a way to ...
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Necessary to add dns-nameservers and such in interfaces for IPv4 and IPv6?
Simple question, but haven't found an answer anywhere, so turning here:
When setting up /etc/network/interfaces do I have to set up the dns-nameservers line both for the inet and the inet6 parts of ...
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What is the best way to add some configuration to bashrc?
I'm currently trying to configure a server using Precise Pangolin and Vagrant (a software allowing me to provision a number of software when booting my VM).
My current question is a pure bash one.
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How can I move the Dash button from the Unity launcher to the top panel?
In Ubuntu 11.10 the Unity Dash button moved from top-left corner to the launcher. How can I restore the Dash button to the top-corner, as pictured below
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How to set default paragraph style to “normal” in email replies in Evolution?
When I answer an email in Evolution 3.2.3 (Ubuntu 12.04) the new text I write has the paragraph style "normal" and is wrapped, but the quoted text of the email I answer to has the paragraph style ...
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Returning Packages To Default
Is there a way to make my system go back to how it was when first installed ubuntu without doing the standard installation again? I want my packages, repositories, configuration files to go back to ...
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eGalaxTouch calibration does not work at 12.04
I am using a Samsung Touchscreen (LTI220MT02) at Ubuntu 12.04 with drivers from eGalaxTouch. Driver download from http://home.eeti.com.tw/web20/eg/Touch_Drives.html . As desktop manager I use lightdm.
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What is the virbr0 interface used for?
virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr a2:17:ea:e3:47:7e
inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX ...
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Bridge not working
After researching everything possible on KVM and bridged interfaces and trying everything in the Ubuntu Forums, I still can not get my guest to connect.
Guest IP:
192.168.10.150
Host IP:
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How to modify default printscreen behaviour?
The Prnt Scrn button currently takes a screenshot and saves it in ~/Pictures.
How can I modify the behaviour I want for the Prnt Scrn button?
Use case: I want to take a screenshot and go to GIMP and ...
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apps not using their installed icons depending on directory
On Precise, apps use their icons in menus if the "app.desktop" file is in
/usr/share/applications and the icon is in /usr/share/icons.
If the app.desktop file is in /usr/share/kde4/apps/ and the ...
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Export current monitor settings
Is there a way to 'export' the current display configuration? We just need to export the configuration to an Xorg.conf file so that we can import it to another computer (deployment).
The active ...
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Wine - spotify - audio configuration of wine
I'm trying to run Spotify on Ubuntu using Wine.
I have followed the instructions on the Spotify site and I was able to run Spotify using Wine. The only thing bothering me was that I can't configure ...
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Uninstalling programs/packages
I recently installed tools for android development (eclipse ADT ...) and I installed incorrectly and would like to restart from the beginning. I installed a few packages out of order and I am having ...
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What is the best multi-account Twitter client?
I used Gwibber in the past to follow two Twitter accounts I have. To distinguish between the two, it was possible to assign a different colour to each account.
Now I'm trying to use Gwibber again but ...
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How do I reset my Unity configuration?
I've been messing around with Unity and broke something, how do I "start over"?
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How can I restore my computer to factory default using the command line? [closed]
How can I use the command line to restore my computer to factory settings?
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What happened to the graphical PolicyKit settings?
Back in 8.04 or so, when PolicyKit was new, we had a GUI "browser" that enabled us to easily decide things like whether a user should be allowed to shutdown the system when other users were logged in ...
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reconfigure tasksel mail server
I set up my mail server incorrectly when I first installed it with tasksel. I tried uninstalling it through tasksel (removing the * next to mail-server) and then re-installing it. Unfortunately, it ...
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How can I have different X & sound configuration depending on which user logs in?
First off: I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and the NVIDIA X Server Settings GUI to configure.
I've recently gotten a new LED TV hooked up to my computer - the video card supports two displays. I would like ...
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Configure a network card on public IP and Wifi usb dongle on LAN
I have an Ubuntu Server running on 12.04.1 LTS with the GUI installed too. My server has an internal gigabit ethernet card which is configured to serve a web app on a Public IP. At this point I did ...
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How to install apps when APT says “Could not perform immediate configuration”?
My problem is, when I want to install apps like apt-get install <appsname>, I get an error:
root@bt:/# apt-get install bluefish
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
...
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disable alt-tab switcher grouping by script or command
In Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity, Alt-Tab lets you switch between groups of windows, and makes it very annoying to switch to a specific window from a group when it is not the last window used.
One way to ...
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How can I distribute mandatory settings (system and LibreOffice settings)?
I'm a Linux sysadmin and I maintain 100 Ubuntu desktops. We're about to upgrade to 12.04, but before we can do that we have to make Ubuntu PCI complaint. Meaning we have to lock some mandatory ...
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How to delete all the settings for Deja Dup
When I upgraded to 11.04 Deja Dup started behaving strangely, it would begin a new full backup everytime the computer was started because it was looking for a drive and folder which I had removed some ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 “No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!”
Every time I install Ubuntu 12.10, my computer can't find the boot partition and I always get this message:
SYSLINUX 3.85 2010-02-20 CBIOS Copyright (c) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al
No DEFAULT or ...
