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| bio | website | askubuntu.com |
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| location | United Kingdom | |
| age | 36 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 7 months |
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Jun 9 |
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Tell `ls` to sort by regular ASCII codes, not “intelligently” @dAnjou LC_COLLATE=C ls sets the traditional POSIX sorting order, which is by ASCII in which uppercase comes before underscore. To have underscores sort before uppercase you'd have to get under the bonnet and create a custom locale definition under /usr/share/i18n/locales. |
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Jun 4 |
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Cannot write in Greek Or if, as seems to be the case here that no answer was the solution, add that solution as an answer. |
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Feb 21 |
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What is the building photographed in this stock wallpaper? No idea, but the original is on flickr if it helps. |
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Feb 18 |
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How do I replace the MeMenu username with my actual name? It doesn't necessarily save space. I use likewise-open on my work computer, and domain\username is longer than my full name. |
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Feb 17 |
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Will there be an Ubuntu Serif font in the future? If there were to be a serif variant, I imagine something along the lines of Museo in the Ubuntu font style might be a better compliment than a traditional serif font. |
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Feb 14 |
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How do I tell a start up program to start minimized? This works, but when I restore the minimised window it draws incorrectly - the background of the TeamViewer window becomes a copy of whatever is underneath it and some text is not visible, e.g. i.imgur.com/0p6yR.png (I've obscured text in the three text boxes). Other wine apps don't do this (Notepad++, Picasa). |
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Feb 11 |
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How to run preinstalled Windows 7 through Ubuntu logged in system? I wouldn't recommend that for Windows 7. Windows Activation is much stricter than it was for Windows XP. An OEM (vendor installed) version of Windows 7 will almost certainly refuse to run as a VM as it's different "hardware", and it would probably involve a call to Microsoft to get it working again when booting normally. |
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Feb 11 |
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Problems typing special characters? Ah yes, USA International does. |
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Feb 9 |
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How to emulate winkey+arrow Windows 7's maximise shortcut keys? Nice! Not seen that before. I prefer the default numpad shortcuts though. |
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Dec 16 |
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Where in the filesystem should I store shared data? Thanks, a useful overview, and like the other answer it really serves to document that there isn't a definitive answer, which is helpful in itself. |
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Dec 16 |
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Where in the filesystem should I store shared data? A good explanation, thanks, although it seems the answer to the question is "there isn't really a standard that's actually followed". Perhaps there ought to be, perhaps it really doesn't matter. |
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Dec 16 |
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Is it possible to setup a shortcut for enable/disable wifi? Yep, updated answer. There's an undocumented --timeout="n" option for zenity. |
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Dec 9 |
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Facebook and flash - why doesn't facebook recognise that I have flash installed? @Oli Thanks, corrected. Adobe's own link on get.adobe.com/flashplayer when you visit from a 64bit machine goes to the wrong page! |
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Dec 8 |
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Is there a command-line tool which returns the colour of the pixel based on screen co-ordinates? You could use xdotool to get the pointer coordinates and use them with htorque's python script. xdotool getmouselocation | sed -e 's/x://' -e 's/y://' -e 's/ screen:.*$//' will grab the coords and clean them down to space separated x y values to feed to that script. |
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Dec 8 |
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Type 1 fonts render poorly on-screen I've added an answer. It may be worth you adding detail of your ~/.fonts.conf changes for the benefit of anyone reading this question later, as it's not as easy to work out as the GUI rendering settings. |
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Dec 7 |
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Type 1 fonts render poorly on-screen I assume you've experimented with the rendering settings on the font tab of System>Preferences>Appearance? |
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Dec 7 |
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Can I allow a Virtualbox VM to use a USB wireless network adaptor directly? While it no longer seems to be a problem grabbing the USB while Network Manager is using this, I'll mark this as the accepted answer as it's definitely the way to go if further action were necessary. |
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Dec 7 |
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Desktop Feed Reader which can sync with Google Reader It does integrate with the messaging menu. Perhaps you need to log off? imgur.com/XUN6z.png imgur.com/Osufa.png There is an option on the GUI tab of Liferea's preferences to start minimised to the messaging menu - there doesn't seem to be an option to not be there or not. |
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Dec 7 |
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Desktop Feed Reader which can sync with Google Reader Select New Source from the Subscriptions menu, and select Google Reader. |
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Dec 7 |
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Where in the filesystem should I store shared data? @htorque I'm leaning towards thinking somewhere under /var is most appropriate for a file share, as you suggested in your (now deleted) answer. |
