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How to remove a repository?
Please let me know how to remove certain repositories in Ubuntu 11.04. I am getting the following errors while updating.
sudo apt-get update
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net natty/main Sources ...
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How to disable automatic login?
I was playing around with "User accounts" and somehow set automatic login. Now, when I start my PC, it just has one button named as "login". Clicking that button, directly logs me in to my PC.
There ...
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How to disable automount in nautilus's preferences
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 (64 bits) and I do not want to mount automatically USB thumb drives in my system. I tried the command dconf-editor and gconf-editor but there isn't the icon to disable it in ...
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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 password prompts?
Anything I want to download or to perform the easiest tasks, I am prompted for my password.
All though this is an excellent security feature, it is a real inconvenience.
I tried sudo visudo
and ...
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disable the cdrom in Ubuntu 11.10 OS
Can anyone help me how to disable the cdrom in Ubuntu 11.10 OS level.
I tried searching google but I could not find any solution.
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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 do I disable multimedia buttons on my laptop? The system sees them as a trackpad resulting in erratic behavior.
I have this Sony Vaio, VGN-CS16T, running 12.04. It is a chinese computer that has not been sold outside of south east asian markets. I don't read chinese, so I can't find a lot of support for it.
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How to disable viewing Window's hidden files in Ubuntu?
I used Ubuntu 10.10 with Wubi. It has been such a confusing matter that my hidden files on Window now can easily be seen on Ubuntu. It's not good at all.
How can I disable this function of Ubuntu?
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How to Disable Touchpad tap in Toshiba Tecra R850 in Oneiric - it is recognized as a PS/2 mouse
I know there's a lot of similar questions, but nothing I have tried here works yet - perhaps I was doing it wrong.
New Laptop - Toshiba Tecra R850 with an install of Oneiric 64 bit.
Mostly things ...
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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 do I disable pasting when clicking the middle mouse button/wheel?
I use the mouse wheel a lot to scroll up and down in my documents and files. Having moved from Windows, I didn't realise that the middle mouse button/wheel, when clicked, pastes highlighted text where ...
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How to disable lightdm?
I want to disable lightdm from autostart.
Currenty, I run service lightdm disable from terminal, then run startx.
update-rc.d doesnt help
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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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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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Disable wlan0 -device permanently
I executed unsuccessfully the following line in /etc/rc.local with permissions 755:
sudo ifdown 00:1f:9c:c3:b3:77
where the last word is presenting the address of my wlan0 device.
Having the ...
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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 disable a touchpad on an Acer Travelmate 6492?
I think it's broken because it starts working in the same way when i install their drivers in windows. It's an acer travelmate 6492.
I want to disable it because i think that is broken, however i'm ...
