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Multitouch Gestures in 12.10: disabling four-finger-swipe + re-configuring generally
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multitouch describes a set of default "Supported Gestures" that come with Ubuntu 12.10 -- and they work as described on my MacBook Pro 13" Retina.
But I can't figure out how ...
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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 ...
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No default or UI configuration directive found [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Boot failure : No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!
I've basically got the same problem as everyone else getting this error but renaming the folders and files ...
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Why is PermitRootLogin in sshd_config set to yes by default?
As Ubuntu has no real root account, why is /etc/ssh/sshd_config allowing remote root login anyway? Isn't that inconsistent?
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How to set VLC as default video player?
Can't seem to set VLC as the default video player. I have gone to System Settings -> System Info -> Default Applications, and changed "Video" to VLC media player.
However, all movies still open with ...
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How to pre-configure (configure defaults for new users) KDE?
I'm trying to figure out how to configure KDE for new users. That is: setting up KDE and make these settings default for every user upon her first login. I know that there's /etc/skel but it's not ...
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Where can I set the default terminal emulator?
GNOME Terminal shows up in several places:
launchers which start terminal commands
the Launch Terminal keyboard shortcut
the menu items added by nautilus-open-terminal
Does each of these ...
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Set default config files directory
Can i set default config dir in home folder?
I dislike:
/home/user/Documents
/home/user/Music
/home/user/.progconf1
/home/user/.progconf2
I want:
/home/user/Documents
/home/user/Music
...
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How do I set which PostgreSQL version is to be used by default?
I have 2 different versions of PostgreSQL installed on my system (Ubuntu Lucid):
/var/lib/postgresql/8.4
/var/lib/postgresql/9.0
By default, when I run a PostgreSQL command such as createdb or ...
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How do you globally set the default browser using KDE4?
I'm using awesome-wm on Kubuntu 10.10. I like some of the KDE tools... like choqok. Thing is, that within awesome wm it seems to be impossible to set a default browser, because KDE4 settings overwrite ...
