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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Disappearing background
My problem is that when i suspend my notebook by closing the lid, or when it does it automatically after a certain period of time, when i resume my session the image background of my desktop always ...
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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 ...
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How to disable mouseover popup icons on launcher?
If an application is open and its icon is contained in the launcher panel, moving the mouse over the launcher icon will cause a very annoying popup icon to appear, showing a small image of the open ...
