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How do I access and enable more icons to be in the system tray?

So I'm messing around with Natty a little, and I noticed that all the apps that would normally use the system tray (or "notification area"?) aren't displaying there. Is that a bug, or is that the way ...
Jonathan's user avatar
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28 votes
3 answers
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Parental controls with different settings for different users

Does anyone know of a good way to set up some sort of parental controls so that one user account is subject to them, but not another? A couple of friends of mine use Ubuntu and have kids (7 to 10 ...
Hamish Downer's user avatar
20 votes
5 answers
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How can I limit or restrict access to an application?

My son received a new laptop this past christmas, primarily for usage at his new school... And now that he has his own laptop, he's stoked to have Steam installed. But the wife wants me to remove ...
Gregory Opera's user avatar
11 votes
2 answers
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Application that will lock screen after a set amount of time for Ubuntu

Is there an application for Ubuntu which will lock the computer after a defined amount of time(e.g. 30 minutes). I need it for kids to limit the time they watch cartoons. E.g. 30 minutes watching and ...
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1 vote
1 answer
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Automatically logout after 15 minutes of inactivity

I would like any user's GUI session to be logged out in 15 minutes of inactivity. stock Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 (gnome, systemd, etc). The optimal solution is native (shell script, built in file setting, ...
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3 votes
1 answer
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In Ubuntu Unity, can I display the output of a bash script in the systray area?

I have a bash script that locks the screen after a set amount of time (Application that will lock screen after a set amount of time for Ubuntu). I would like to display the time remaining in Ubuntu's ...
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0 votes
1 answer
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Can you set up parental controls? [duplicate]

I know this is a rlly dumb question (sorry) but is there a way to set up parental controls on my ubuntu 14.04 computer? Thanks in advance
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4 votes
1 answer
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How to see computer activity

I am very very new to Ubuntu. I wish to know how to see user logs in Ubuntu. I realized that our son has been using his computer on days he's not supposed to. Apparently, he configured the computer ...
Rose Love's user avatar
2 votes
1 answer
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Advice on setting up parental controls/times for my son

I'm new to using linux, but I'm really happy so far as I've managed to repurpose my old laptop from 2010 for my 9 year old so he can do his homeschooling. It had got painfully slow on windows and is ...
briony marshall's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
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How to blacklist apps for some users

I'm setting up a computer with Ubuntu 16.04 and I have two users. One called admin with administrator rights, and the other called kids without administrator rights. I want to have the admin user be ...
Abraham Murciano Benzadon's user avatar
1 vote
3 answers
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How to restrict total time usage for an account [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I set computer usage time limits? I've looked at a number of other threads but most of them talk about how to restrict the time of day an account can log in... What I'...
Thomas K's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
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Set another password automatically every day for a user session

I would like to configure my computer to have a session whose password would change automatically every day. The password needn't be very strong, and must be easy to reconstruct mentally (I will think ...
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0 votes
1 answer
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How do I restrict my kids' computing time (application based)?

I came from this similar question: How do I restrict my kids' computing time? But I want to define a weekly computing time (e.g. 3 hours) for a specific application and the days when it's allowed ...
UNeverNo's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
177 views

Lock the Computer over Night and on Weekends

Given my computer runs on Ubuntu, and I can install on it whatever I like: If I would want to prevent myself from using the computer in the night and on the weekend, what software solution comes ...
Jonathan Scholbach's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
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Is there any child safety software for Ubuntu? [duplicate]

I have a son, 13 years old, who needs his laptop for school for better writing, etc. But naturally he wants to play with it after working. Are there any programs or packages for safety on the ...
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