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How can I have different X & sound configuration depending on which user logs in?
First off: I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and the NVIDIA X Server Settings GUI to configure.
I've recently gotten a new LED TV hooked up to my computer - the video card supports two displays. I would like ...
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How to reset configuration for Compiz for another user?
After modify something in cssm the display manager in MyPersonalAccount doesn't work.
So I login in my root account and it is fine but I want to reset the Compiz configuration of MyPersonalAccount to ...
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How can I distribute mandatory settings (system and LibreOffice settings)?
I'm a Linux sysadmin and I maintain 100 Ubuntu desktops. We're about to upgrade to 12.04, but before we can do that we have to make Ubuntu PCI complaint. Meaning we have to lock some mandatory ...
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New user configuration
I want to make my Dropbox directory secure from unwitting changes. So I made for my directory and files inside the following actions:
chown -R dropbox:dropbox Dropbox
The idea is that I work under ...
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What is the equivalent user for nobody:nobody from CentOS?
I am converting from centOS and am used to having a nobody:nobody user:group for running services. Does Ubuntu have a similar best practice user:group combination for running a service?
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Is it possible to run the GNOME user manager from XFCE4?
If I run 'gnome-control-center' and click on the 'User Accounts' icon, the gnome-control-center crashes.
I built it from source to see what's going on, and it turns out it's doing a
if ...
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How do I make the public folder not appear in the home folder of new accounts?
When I create a new user, how do I tell Ubuntu not to create a Public sub-folder?
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Clone user profile
Is there any reasonable way to copy user profile with all settings (Firefox, Thunderbird, Netbeans, git, fonts etc.) to have it as a base for another profile, so I didn't have to set up everything ...
