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Disabling graphic card in Ubuntu Server 13.04 [duplicate]
i installed Ubuntu server on my old notebook Levono R61 and it is kind of noisy so i was thinking and i figured out that if i managed to somehow underclock graphic card or even better turned it off ...
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How to disable LVDS-1?
im not using X, no gui, only terminal in ubuntu server. How would I go about disabling this LCD at boot so that the connected VGA monitor is the only one?
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AMD Hybrid graphics, hide intel gpu? 13.04
Clearly no one seems to be able to find an easy way to fix this. Im pretty sure the issue is the Intel driver conflicting with the Catalyst driver, this was fixed for a while in 12.10 by someone ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS via Parallels; Can't disable automatic login
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS via parallels desktop on Mac OS X Mountain Lion. I have all available updates. When I go into users, it doesn't matter if I set my user account in system settings to ...
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Disable touchpad click on Elantech touchpad
I've got a "Perixx Periboard 507" USB keyboard with integrated trackpad, and although it works nicely I'd like to disable the "tap to click" feature. I've tried unchecking the box in the Touchpad ...
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Turn off my touchpad Ubuntu 12.10
I am not a fan of the trackpad/touchpad and I want to turn it off while using Ubuntu and I can't figure out how. I have a Dell Inspiron N5110 running Windows 8 with a dual boot option of Ubuntu 12.10. ...
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Cannot restart GUI in Ubuntu 12.10
After removing guest account using these instructions. I cannot restart GUI, after restarting the computer. Instead it says that I need to configure the GUI settings myself. Then when I click:
Run ...
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How to disable dedicated GPU in Ubuntu 12.10?
I want to completely disable my Nvidia GT610m card, and let Ubuntu rely only on the HD4000.
How can I achieve that?
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When disabling bluetooth in Ubuntu dual boot then it does not show in Windows 8
I've installed Ubuntu a while ago using WUBI over Windows 8. Whenever I disable bluetooth in Ubuntu and then restart or start normally my laptop in Windows, then I cannot find the bluetooth icon at ...
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Disable Multiple instance of KMess on Ubuntu 12.10
I am using KMess . I installed this and also set its icon on bottom ( like Quick launch in windows ). But whenever I clik on this , it launch a new instance of KMess while it is running already and ...
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How do I disable resolutions above a certain level on Ubuntu?
I use a small TV as my computer monitor and my AMD Radeon HD 4200 video card is capable of outputting resolutions to a TV with as high a resolution as 1920x1080. Unfortunately Ubuntu thinks this is ...
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How do I disable usb storage?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and I want to block usb storage on it. What is the correct way to do this?
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Disabling All Keyboard Shortcuts Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Hey I want to lock down Ubuntu so that it only has access to chrome and the ability to logout. Is there a way to get rid of all keyboard shortcuts?
Thanks for your help!
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How to turn off outgoing skype ringing sound?
I hate the sound skype plays when you try to call someone. It literally drives me crazy. Is there a way to turn off the sound? I'm using Xubuntu 12.10!
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How to disable 3 finger drag on macbook air trackpad. I'm a novice with command line
So I read the other answer for this question but I really was hoping to get a more basic explanation that would make sense to an ubuntu novice.
I am running 12.10 on a 2011 macbook air and love it ...
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Disable File transferring through skype in ubuntu?
i want to disable file transferring option in skype in ubuntu 11.10 machine.
the files can be leaked and i was orderd to maintain security and disable file transfer through skype.
if it is possible ...
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Laptop touchpad enable/disable problems
Whenever I use my external mouse with my laptop, I physically disable the touchpad by pressing a button. Ubuntu detects this switch correctly, and will display an overlay that shows the current state ...
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Reduce the delay of touchpad disable while typing
I set the setting to disable touchpad while typing. Is there a way to reduce the default delay to start using it again after stopping typing?
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Mouse Disabled in a few second if do not do anything
My mouse in this Ubuntu on Compaq 510 disabled automaticly when there's no motion or press. and press the mouse to turn it on or swipe touchpad. What's wrong with this config?
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How can I disable my touchscreen? (Dell Inspiron One 23)
Although I don't use the touchscreen in Ubuntu, because it is a capacitive display I sometimes accidentally touch the display area which causes any text in dialogue windows to automatically highlight ...
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How to inhibit suspend temporarily?
I have searched around a bit for this and can't seem to find anything helpful.
I have my PC running Ubuntu 12.10 set up to suspend after 30 minutes of inactivity. I don't want to change that, it ...
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Stop ubuntu from reading a drive automatically
I'm running my laptop using Ubuntu 12.04 on a USB HDD as the laptop's HDD has failed. Whenever I boot or do a grub update etc, it takes forever because it scans for the failed drive about 20 times and ...
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How to disable USB ports by using SuperUser account
I found lot of documents to disable the USB ports but all systems in lab are having administrator user,if I disable usb ports using administrator account,someone can easily enable by giving sudo ...
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How to make cpu0 offline?
I want to make cpu0 offline. I have dual core laptop. I can make cpu1 offline ( using offline file ) but can't make cpu0 offline. How to do this ?
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How disable one core from dual core machine
I have a Toshiba Satellite L300 Dual-Core laptop. Due to some problem i need to disable one core. How to do this in Ubuntu ( I have Ubuntu 12.10 ) ?
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Unable to connect to the MTS Mblaze usb
PCEH25EN:~$ sudo apt-get install wvdial
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is ...
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How can I disable avahi-daemon?
How can I disable avahi-daemon and can you explain to me how it runs if it appears as a service but it itsn't in rcN.d?
You can stop reading here. In fact, please do unless you want to TEACH a noob ...
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Wireless disabled by hardware switch(another)
One day when I was trying to connect with wireless I found it didn't work.It said:
wireless is disabled by hardware switch
I'd found some questions similar to mine, so I tried some suggestion as ...
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How to remove information pop-up in Lubuntu 12.10? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I enable or disable Apport?
I would like to stop this program from bothering me: I am in a beta version of quantal and am prompted to report problems all the ...
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Wifi not working ubuntu 11.10
i am not able to get my wifi working consistently in ubuntu. At times when wifi is switched on in windows and I switch to ubuntu, wifi networks are recognized. But if i try and turn on wifi in ubuntu, ...
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How do I disable the on/off button on my notebook?
I need to disable the power button of my laptop. It happens that sometimes I press it by mistake and my work goes.
It'd be optimal for me to make this button inoffensive, e.g. nothing happens ...
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how to disable metacity button tooltips?
back in the days of gnome 2, metacity used to display tooltips if the user hovered over the window buttons long enough, like 'close window', 'maximise window' etc. these were both pointless and ...
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How to do nothing when close laptop and reopen?
I use ubuntu 12.04 64 bit.
Whenever I close my laptop it will disconnect my wireless connection.
Why is this happening?
I want my laptop do nothing when closing and reopening.
Or just only close ...
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12.04 disabling wireless via dbus does not work
I am using a proprietary rt3652sta driver for my wireless card. It appears as a ra0 device on the 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04.
According to the online documentation the following used to work definitely up ...
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How to disable low disk space notification? (Gnome 3, Ubuntu 12.04)
I've got an SSD drive for root and /home, and a larger HDD for storage. The storage disk is almost full, and there's a low disk space warning on startup. The warning doesn't have any "don't show ...
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How to disable autologin in Lubuntu?
I like to switch sometimes between Lubuntu and Ubuntu 2D on my laptop. But I especially like to choose which one I will use in the session I am about to start. But the only way of choosing is start ...
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How to disable Qt accessibility in 12.04?
Observed behavior
When opening a KDE session, a blue round icon with a human silhouette appears in tray. It offers "enable screensaver" "speak text" "speak keyboard".
It seems related to processes ...
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How to disable touchpad while using trackpoint on a Thinkpad?
Thinkpads (e.g. X230 that I'm using) have both a trackpoint and a touchpad. The touchpad is disabled when typing.
However, when I'm using the trackpoint, I often touch the touchpad as well, and ...
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How to disable Ubuntu Software Centre for user?
As administrator I want to be sure user can not download inappropriate applications.
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Disable GRUB 2 and Plymouth
I have a dual-boot system with Linux 12.04 and Windows 7.
I use Windows Boot Manager, which I configured with EasyBCD through Windows.
Now, when I start up Ubuntu, GRUB appears, making me choose ...
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What happens if I disable the PPA of a specific package?
Say I went ahead and disabled the PPA I added to install the latest version of GIMP (2.8) on Precise. Would that lock the installed version until an updated package is available from the USC or would ...
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How to disable everytime checking of universe repo?
As you know, every time you update your repositories in Ubuntu 12.04, the universe repository downloads all of it's contents in your computer, whether they have been changed from the last time you ...
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How can I prevent ubuntu from mounting particular partitions/deivices?
I would like to stop Ubuntu from mounting my other (Windows') partitions automatically (since I do not need it really often - and especially I would like not to automount "System reserved" partition ...
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Dual-Ubuntu: how do I disable one OS from using the swap partition?
I have both Ubuntu and Lubuntu installed on the same machine, on different partitions. They are both used for different things, and I like to hibernate my main Ubuntu installation to my single swap ...
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Start-up Application
I often get an error window after I booted my computer to the desktop. This is starting to annoy me. Is there a way to prevent, or disable or close it during boot up? Your help and time here is ...
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How do I disable all lid close processes? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I tell Ubuntu to do nothing when I close my laptop lid?
I want to be able to close my laptop without Ubuntu registering it. I've been looking everywhere and I've ...
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How to permanently disable touchpad in 12.04? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to disable Touchpad?
I'm looking for a way to permanently disable the touchpad in Ubuntu 12.04 (my computer is a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge on which it isn't possible to ...
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Disabling One-Finger Tap-to-Click But Keep Two-Finger tap Ubuntu 12.04
The option to disable the touchpad while typing does not work on my Samsung RC512 with an Elantech touchpad and I enjoy two-finger scroll and middle-click emulation with two fingers too much to ...
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How do I disable ACPI when booting?
When I tried to install Ubuntu from the live CD start menu, the screen became black with just a blinking cursor. I rebooted the PC and I chose the option acpi=off. Then the installer started and ...
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How to disable all terminal verbose on a burg ubuntu boot
I have burg installed on my computer and whenever I boot, I always see GRUB loading and then resume: libgcrypt version: 1.5.0
How could I disable this? It takes approximately seven seconds to have ...
