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Gamepad keyboard shortcut
Assuming I know the "name" of the key of my gamepad, HOW:
How can I open Emulation Station by pressing that key in my gamepad, normally I type emulationstation in terminal and works of corse...
But ...
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Can't change open-files-limit for mysql on Ubuntu 14.04
I have a LEMP stack on Ubuntu 14.04 with MariaDB. Mysql is a huge bottleneck for my server. I have tried everything of which I am aware to raise the open files limit for mysql. I have added open-...
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Unable to shutdown, restart or logout
I am unable to shutdown, restart or logout from my ubuntu 14.04 machine.
The screen goes blank, but the system hangs, then the fan begins to run fast.
I have to turnoff the laptop by pressing and ...
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Files from windows
I recently installed ubuntu and when I opened the pictures, videos, download, etc. files they didn't have any of the files I had from when I used windows, why is that?
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If I don't log in right away on my 14.04 LTS system, the login hangs
My newly dual booting system is working great with this one annoyance scenario:
I boot the system, but don't touch anything.
The screen eventually goes dark.
I touch a key and get the login screen.
I ...
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Can't get OpenGL to work, Games crash on launch, AMD Radeon 6670, Issues with driver?
So, I got Ubuntu yesterday, and enthusiastically started to install all my linux supported steam games. Only about two of them worked, and the rest crashed instantly back to steam without error ...
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Any file browser well integrated into Ubuntu 14.04LTS desktop able to open desktop folders in tabs instead a new window?
Double clicking on folders in the desktop interface of Ubuntu will open them in Nautilus. This is a briefing of my research so far:
I have installed PcManFM. I like it because it very quick. However, ...
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RDP like tool on Ubuntu
Just migrated from Windows to Linux. Now I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 x64.
My work requires to manage multiple servers with Windows on board, so I create many RDP connections.
Often I need to connect to PC ...
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Having trouble booting into Ubuntu on macbook air (mid-2012)
so I am extremely new to all this, so please excuse my ignorance:)
I have a macbook air (mid 2012) and I'm trying to dual boot Ubuntu 14.04 via usb and I'm having trouble with it all.
I've installed ...
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How can I use equivs-build to build packages that can be installed on older versions of Ubuntu?
I have several versions of Ubuntu installed, including 14.04 and 10.04. When I build packages using equivs-build on 14.04, it generates .debs that contain .xz-compressed data. The version of dpkg on ...
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Fixing different cursor sizes in unity
I'm running ubuntu 14.10 on a macbook pro with retina display (2560x1600)
I have set "Scale for menu and titlebars" in Sytem Settings --> Display to 1.75 which scales up fine.
The cursor however ...
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Aw, snap from google chrome - no fix in sight [duplicate]
I get the "Aw, snap" error in Google Chrome as soon as it starts up on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
These are the things I've tried to resolved it.
Completely remove chrome and reinstall from package manager
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Sort of regmon/procmon for wine
Is there some registry tracking software for wine? There is a Sysinternals app Process Monitor (descendant of RegMon) that doesn't start under wine. So, I'd like to find some alternative of this ...
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ubuntun 14.04 not Detect Bluetooth Dongle
my ubuntu not detect bluetooth ..
this is lsusb out :
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001:...
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HDMI Audio output not working on Ubuntu 14.04
When I plug in the HDMI,the video works fine, but the sound does not. I've poked around and I think that the HDMI audio may not be being detected.
When I ran aplay -l:
**** List of PLAYBACK ...
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How to recover /boot overwritten by identical /boot? [closed]
I spent 6 hours on this and I've given up. I am not finding a method to recovering a /boot partition that was overwritten by an identical /boot partition. This isn't your regular average grub ...
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Cannot load grub4dos through kexec
I execute
sudo kexec -l /sbin/grub.exe
sudo kexec -e
and get black screen with some phrases. The font is squeezed vertically and I see also one copy of the same phrases on the right. There are ...
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Sopcast on Ubunutu no sound and vlc problem
I installed sopcast on ubunutu. All works well, except two problems.
The first is that after starting a sopcast stream, all works well until after a time the sound is gone.
The second is that is I'...
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Ubuntu 14.10 desktop missing bars
When I start my laptop, I'm going to the BIOS settings and booting the laptop with Ubuntu 14.10, while the process, a message shows on a black screen, "…cant read pipe…" There's not enough time to ...
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Why adding a PPA doesn't ask (y/n)?
On ubuntu and few other distros I've tried, when the user is prompted with a yes or no question, 99% of the time it prompts the user to input y or n depending on the choice. But the only exception to ...
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Speakers and headphones play no sound on Toshiba Satellite
I just bought a second hand Toshiba Satellite S50-D and installed Ubuntu 14.04. Everything seems to be in working order, except my sound does not work. The speakers seem to be recognised in the sound ...
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lxsession-default-apps fails to update [duplicate]
Each time I run sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get upgrade, the program lxsession-default-apps is available for update but I always get an error that it can't update.
How do I fix this?
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Accessing Ubuntu Files from a Wubi Installation within Windows
Right now I'm dual booting between windows and ubuntu (using Wubi). How can I grab some files from my Ubuntu root drive within windows?
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Play tracks from a FLAC file
Is there any music player to show tracks of an album when a single FLAC file is played?
cuetools can split the album file into song files, but I do not want to change the FLAC single file. I just ...
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Chrome standalone for linux (no root) [duplicate]
Since i don't have root user password, is there anyway to install google chrome with it's dependencies ? (64 Bit)
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How to create a group and sets the permissions for different users?
I would like to create group for some user
addgroup name
After that I would like to add some user to group
sudo adduser username groupname
And set the permissions for each group. There will be ...
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I am getting the same error everytime I try to boot Ubuntu on VirtualBox
Every time I try to run Ubuntu, this error comes up.
"Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Linux.
The virtual machine 'Linux' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (...
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Firefox crashes after nvidia and cuda update on 14.04 [closed]
I recently added CUDA to my laptop to be able to develop some parallel code I want. All went smooth and I managed to run the CUDA tests/samples with no problem. My computer seems to work fine apart ...
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"../lib/libfreenect.so.0.5.0: undefined reference to `libusb_get_parent'" when building libusb
I am trying to install OpenKinect on Ubuntu. I get this error when I run
tesla@ubuntu:~/libusb/libfreenect/build$ sudo make install
[sudo] password for tesla:
[ 51%] Built target freenectstatic
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Language Deutsch (Schweiz) as Sprache
The language installed is Deutsch (Deutschland) and the regional language is Deutsch (Schweiz).
I want to have as language Deutsch (Schweiz), but I do not succeed to get it. When I choose as language ...
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ttyUSB not recognized in ubuntu server
I have a very basic question here I believe. When installed ubuntu (Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS) and I type the command dmesg | grep tty, it gives me the following output:
renato@ubuntu:~$ dmesg | grep tty
[ ...
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PCManFM custom directory icons
I'd like PCManFM to show custom icons for my work folders;
for example to show the AndroidDev folder in this picture (italian locale here):
like this (Gimp used):
I saw the other folder icons are ...
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Running lmgrd on ubuntu 14.04 LTS [closed]
I have installed Xilinx 14.7 in ubuntu 14.04 LTS machine(i386 - 64bit). But I am unable to run lmgrd (for starting the license server).
When I googled this problem, I found that lsb-core package ...
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Is there anywhere where I can get Ubuntu installed for me? [closed]
I have tried for days to install Ubuntu on my lenovo ideapad z510 and I feel like giving up. I really feel like I will like Ubuntu, but for some reason I always have some king of problem.
I really ...
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Can I upgrade my ubuntu version and change to be primary OS after originally installing with Wibu?
I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 using Wubi 12.04 and I now wish to upgrade to a full installation of Ubuntu 14.04, Before attempting to upgrade through the update center I did some research on ...
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Is Ubuntu 14.04 slower on low-end graphics cards than 12.04 LTS?
I started upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04 (from 12.04) when it said that if I installed it, it might make me have a "slow environment" because of my graphics card. I cancelled the upgrade because of my ...
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Keyboard layout - certain keys work with AltGr, other doesn't
I run Ubuntu 12.04 in VirtualBox 4.3.14 on Windows 7 with a Swedish keyboard layout. In Windows everything works fine but in Ubuntu some keys/characters (the most important for a programmer) doesn't ...
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Remove Spotify icon from panel? [duplicate]
I installed Spotify (folowing the instuctions here: http://howtoubuntu.org/how-to-install-spotify-in-ubuntu)
For some reason it adds an ugly low res icon/item to the menu bar that does not fit the ...
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Touch Screen Clicks Repeatedly on Press - Can't Drag
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS recognizes my touchscreen correctly. Tapping the screen sends the correct ABS coords and BTN_TOUCH.
The problem is that BTN_TOUCH is set to a 1, then immediately set to a 0 even ...
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How to disable TRIM on SSDs in Ubuntu
I have enabled TRIM by adding discard option in /etc/fstab but even after removing it the effect is not going. How to disable it?
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Battery indicator missing if I insert battery while the laptop is turned off or in sleep
Battery indicator is missing if I insert battery while the laptop is turned off. I'm using official ubuntu 14.04 with unity desktop. In system settings, the option "When the battery is present" is ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 doesn't detect BT devices
I have a Lenovo B5400 with Windows 8 and Ubuntu 14.04 in dual boot.
My bluetooth works well under Win but with Ubuntu it is not able to detect any device. hcitool scan does a scan but doesn't detect ...
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How to keep specific old kernel on my next kernel upgrade?
I just updated my Ubuntu 14.04 and got a new kernel. This new kernel is not working properly for me so I booted the previous version. Let's call this good old working version "3.13.0-24.47".
Now, I ...
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Installing the latest Docker version on Ubuntu 14.04
When I follow the official instructions for Ubuntu 14.04, I end up with docker 0.9.1. When I do it for Ubuntu 12.04 it correctly installs the latest version: 0.11.
How can I install 0.11 on Ubuntu 14....
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Google Chrome 35 - Protected Flash Content
Since I upgraded to Google Chrome 35 it can no longer play protected flash content. According to OMG! Ubuntu! the support for NPAPI was dropped so that the adobe flash plugin can't be loaded anymore.
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Ubuntu 14.04 randomly freezes on Dell Precision M4500
I know this has been asked several times, but many of them are tagged as duplicates and sent back to what should I do if the computer freezes. I don't want the computer to freeze and only want those ...
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Sound problem after installing Lubuntu Desktop in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
After installing lubuntu-desktop in Ubuntu 14.04 I can't record sound. Playback is OK.
I also install ubuntu-restricted-extras and xfce4-mixer
After installing pulseAudio volume control skype ...
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How can I bind a keybord shortcut on my Thoinkpad X220 Tablet?
I have a fresh install of Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 on my Lenovo Thinkpad X220T (or X220 Tablet).
I have set up two scripts to enhance the screen rotation, and I would like to bind them to a keyboard ...
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is there a lower-graphics setting?
Beginning Ubuntu user here. I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 32-bit on an old Dell computer to replace Windows XP. I like the interface, but I notice that it responds very slowly. I suspect this is ...
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dual boot ubuntu 14.04 and windows 8 not working [duplicate]
so i installed ubuntu 14.04 on a windows 8 pre-installed hp laptop.
the problem is when i boot the computer it takes me straight to windows and NO grub is shown.
i tried following this: https://...
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