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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 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 to disable floppy drive?
I have a old Athlon X2 based system with an attached floppy drive. I had some old floppies which are now safely backed up on CD's.
Is there a way to simply disable the floppy drive, so that it wont ...
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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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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 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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Is it possible to disable a CPU (not a core)?
Is it possible to disable a CPU, not a core? I want to do a test to verify if the performance could make a big difference or not.
I'm using Ubuntu 10.10.
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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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How can i disable the update prompt?
How to disable the auto update dialog box shows every time while i am working? I have applied the following command yesterday but today still that is showing up. Is there any other way to permanently ...
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How to turn off calling help on F1?
I am playing ADOM right now and under F1 button there is very aggressive tactic, which is extremaly useful when you are fighting on distance. Right now I can't use it, because help dialog pops up. How ...
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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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Is it possible to disable empathy from autostarting on login?
How to disable Empathy auto startup? I turned it off in properties, but every time i restart Notebook it starts automatically. Maybe there is a deamon thats starts it
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How do I remove the Guest Session option from the shutdown menu?
On the Indicator Shutdown menu in Ubuntu 10.04, there is a "Guest Session" option. How do I remove this?
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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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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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How to block Internet for guest account?
How can I block or disable my Ethernet Internet connection, for the guest account only?
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How enable/disable WiFi adapters individually under 10.04
I have a laptop with an internal wifi G adapter, and I have an external USB wifi adapter that is compatible with N. the internal wifi can be disabled using a little switch on the side of the laptop. ...
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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 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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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 Ubuntu Software Centre for user?
As administrator I want to be sure user can not download inappropriate applications.
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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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Disable all user accounts?
I'm not sure all accounts are disabled on my computer, including samba-guest, and I need to disable all accounts except the one I'm using. How can I disable them all?
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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 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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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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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 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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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 set bluetooth to remain disabled after suspend? [closed]
Bluetooth is enabled by default, and I don't want that since I rarely use it and it consumes battery.
I know you can enter
rfkill block bluetooth
in /etc/rc.local, which works upon reboot. But ...
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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 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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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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Which of these services can I safely disable?
Before install stuff on my server I wanted to trim down unnecessary services. etc.
Here's the top:
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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 ...
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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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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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Need to disable Show Password in wireless
I work for a school and we are setting up some ubuntu laptops for student use. The wireless password needs to be secure so students can't connect their personal devices onto the network. The problem ...
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How to hide text on titlebar?
I want to change the height of title-bar, but until now (as I know) there's only one way to do that : change the font-size of WINDOWS TITLE FONT (in Appearance preferences). So far so good except the ...
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How do i make changes with x input permanent?
i need to disable my laptop keyboard and use only my usb keyboard, to do this i uses the xinput set-prop command, and since my keyboard id is 16, my command is xinput set-prop 16 "Device Enabled" 0
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How to disable slider on game pad?
I have a gamepad that works fine in Ubuntu (from a technical point-of-view), but the slider on the gamepad is malfunctioning. I would like to simply disable the slider globally so that all ...
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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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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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How can I restrict changing of the keyboard layout to root users only? [closed]
Is there any way by which I can disable "changing the keyboard layout" so that only a user with root privileges can change the layout.
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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 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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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 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!
