nutty about natty's user avatar
nutty about natty's user avatar
nutty about natty's user avatar
nutty about natty
  • Member for 12 years, 11 months
  • Last seen this week
197 votes
11 answers
218k views

How to exclude/ignore hidden files and directories in a wildcard-embedded "find" search?

28 votes
3 answers
8k views

Is the "Final Release" a "Development Release"?

19 votes
3 answers
3k views

Kinder / gentler / subtler equivalent alternative to killall (e.g. "endall")?

12 votes
3 answers
10k views

Which driver (and PPD version) is my printer using?

12 votes
2 answers
4k views

How can I *disable* Ctrl+Alt+Backspace?

11 votes
4 answers
12k views

Why does my internet speed roughly *double* when switching from Ubuntu to Win XP?

11 votes
1 answer
2k views

Fast, lightweight alternative to Compiz' Expo Plugin?

8 votes
1 answer
315 views

In a "Save as ... " dialog, what's the quickest way to keyboard-navigate to "Recently Used" in the "Places" side-pane of Nautilus?

8 votes
1 answer
8k views

How to open a *.pdf in an already existing instance of Okular (independent of in which workspace that instance resides)?

7 votes
2 answers
15k views

Lubuntu on Virtual Machine: (minimum) disk space requirements?

7 votes
5 answers
23k views

Need instructions on how to create wpa_supplicant.conf and add fast_reauth=0 to it

5 votes
2 answers
8k views

Is there a command for the "Workspace Switcher"?

5 votes
0 answers
299 views

How to prevent applications from separate workspaces all landing on a single workspace upon a (un)docking event or when connecting a beamer via VGA?

5 votes
3 answers
15k views

How to crop a multi-page (image/scanned) pdf file (which won't crop with pdfcrop)?

5 votes
2 answers
29k views

How to install Texmaker 4.0.1?

5 votes
2 answers
5k views

Possible to install (and run) Foxit PhantomPDF successfully on Ubuntu with Wine?

5 votes
3 answers
7k views

How to detect duplicates of photos (even if the duplicate is of lower resolution) and how to keep only the higher-res copy?

4 votes
3 answers
2k views

How to install the latest version of VirtualBox (via GUI)?

4 votes
3 answers
19k views

Are Linux Headers installed by default? How to check if they're installed?

3 votes
1 answer
504 views

Visual CPU Indicator for Trusty Tahr (with dual/multi-core support)?

3 votes
1 answer
8k views

How to solve "Extra junk at end of file" syntax error in "01autoremove-kernels" file? // invalid characters

3 votes
0 answers
908 views

Possible to "electronically disconnect" the fingerprint sensor on my laptop? // X41 Thinkpad

3 votes
2 answers
7k views

How to search for both within filename (find) and file (grep) using a single line of code?

3 votes
1 answer
578 views

How to prevent an "always on top" application from usurping focus every time the workspace is switched

3 votes
1 answer
853 views

Unity application menus and title bar issue with Wine applications

3 votes
6 answers
10k views

100 % CPU usage with "on demand" setting due to Xorg

3 votes
2 answers
1k views

How to fix USB-connection between Android 11 to Ubuntu 20.04 (to backup phone data - after not properly unmounting)?

3 votes
0 answers
2k views

Virtualbox: 2-Finger-Touchpad-Scrolling on Win10 Guest very choppy (Ubuntu 20.04 Host)

2 votes
1 answer
2k views

Do changes in Gnome "Tweaks" require reboot to come into effect?

2 votes
1 answer
484 views

Why does killall (sometimes?) needs to be applied twice?