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apologies to those who've seen this earlier: ok, in gnome/metacity i can go to system, log off... and then choose hibernate. question is, how can i hibernate from the command line? the 'hibernate' command doesn't seem to be the thing. | i can do it with /etc/acpi/hibernate.sh, but there's gotta be a better way. my keyboard shortcut's busted. |
please help me with this: i installed fluxbox from source and i don't know how to add it to the gdm sessions. thanks | why from source? |
any recommendations for a good download manager? | i like 'nmap localhost', but there are many tools for that |
does anyone know how to start ubuntu lucid in failsafe mode? | if grub iseent showing a menu. you hold the shift (or was it esc) key and it should show it.. or edit the grub /etc/default/grub file to make it always show a menu |
anyone know where the skin directory is for metacity in ubuntu | or in ~/.themes/*/metacity-1 for user |
hey are some of the repos down for anyone else in here? | read the topic |
is there a driver for the ati radeon 320m? | probably flgrx |
when installing applications is space taken from / or from /home? (when installing like sudo apt-get install or synaptic) | 10gb for /, the rest for /home |
is there channel dedicated to 10.4? | ubuntu+1 |
which update option should i use? 'normal releases' or 'lts'? | who needs a dock? a launcher is much better... kupfer for example |
ok, got my system back to working the way i like it :d | visudo and edit the definitions there |
anyone know a mail client besides evolution that works with ms exchange server? | don't think there are any for linux |
what directories make up the linux os? | these -> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ |
how do you hide a folder? | start it's name with a . |
any cool color pickers for ubuntu ? | gcolor2, not so much cool, but simple |
hi all, just helping a buddy setup his new dyi barebones kit. there is a fan in the middle of the case....what kind of power does it plug into? standard plug like for cdrom drive or one of the cables coming from the front of the unit which i *think* is for led lights, extra fans etc. or does it plug into someplace on m... | if you're going to be gaming, 200gb for ubuntu would be good. if not, 60gb will be plenty |
how to show man page about bind(), connect(), listen() etc ? im learning socket programming | try manpages-dev |
everybody!! flash 64bit is now available and rocks hard!!! | it has been available, well the alpha version |
i miss the 'extract to folder' option of winzip when i right-click an archive in nautilus | there's a script for it, you might want to take a look at http://g-scripts.sourceforge.net |
helo, i have local reposition and i use dpkg-scanpackages to create pakage.list, the problem is files are updating frequenly, is there anyway to automaticaly delete .deb file which is older than the new file while dpkg-scanpackages? | apt-get autoclean |
i found a nvidia geforce 6200 with s-video tv out capabilities.for $59. does anyone know if that card will work with jaunty? | even my geforce4 go 32mb works lol |
when i add an nfs share to my fstab it doesn't mount automatically on boot .... but when i mount it manually it does mount .. what could be wrong ?! | auto should work, you may also like to put put option user so regular users can mount it as well |
hey. pseudo-transparency doesn't work in any app. nor konsole, nor crystal (kwin theme) wants to display pseudo-transparency. if i try to enable it and i click ok, when i check back, transparency is still not on... it's annoying. i want proper pseudo-transparency. anyone? | a) proper pseudo-transparency, eh? b) how are you trying to enable it? |
how can i disable my other sound cards so that ubuntu defaults to my usb sound card? | look in the sound preferences |
someone knows of a complete mp3 tool for making tagging/nfo/m3u/sfv for mp3 albums? to archive the collection.. | and amarok pretty much does everything. |
hi! i updated from ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 recently. this removed kde3.5 and installed kde4 on my system. since kde4 is far from being usable, i want to move back to 3.5 | unless you find a backport package or install it yourself |
hi! how do you remove and insert modules? | rmmod, insmod. |
hi guys, does anyone knows how to split a 5gb txt file into smaller sizes? like 2gb each? | man split |
hello, i scanned myself and found an open port, now how do i trail this back to the service ? | sudo netstat -tulpen |grep portnumber |
has anyone else noticed that though ubuntu 9.10 is the late, great ver., it has a lot of bugs that 9.04 didn't? or is it just me? | a new version is usually going to have bugs that the prior release didnt |
hi folks. need to know where mount point configuration for boot is stored. i have two drives, /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1 that are mounting as /media/storage1 and /media/storage2 respectively. i can umount and re-mount them in reverse (the way i want them), but upon reboot they're back to the way they were originally. | check /etc/fstab file |
guys, i have win 7/ubuntu installed dual boot. upon upgrade to lucid, grub2 will no longer boot my windows partition. any help? | what happened to your windows |
## can someone answer a question please? i have 9.10 installed and am trying to add a ppa to my system. the instructions state i am supposed to just type 'sudo apt-add-repository ppa:.........' but there is no option for add-repository for apt. any thoughts? | like i said, that is not the proper command. the command is add-apt-repository , note the order of the words there. |
can someone recommend a youtube downloader: one that allows you to que them up and download one at a time? | /boot/config |
how do i post/link to a screen shot so i can show you all my issue? | if you save the screenshot as a file in something like paint, you can upload it to websites like tinypic.com |
it should show at least two cpus (0 and 1) | sec_, `lsb_release -a` gets you ubuntu version |
quick question, anyone know how i make open office default the spell checker to english uk not english us? | tools - options - language settings? |
need some help with chmod. how do i make a read only file writable? | r=4,w=2,x=1 so if you want read, write and execute use the 7 (4+2+1), if you want only read use 4 (4+0+0) and that for you,group and others, so chmod 755 would be rwx,r-x,r-x |
what is ubuntu one? | that was for you. |
i keep having to hard boot the computer because it all just stops functioning, is there a place to see the logs so i can find out what is causing the crashes? | /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog are possible places to start looking |
heya i'm trying to force install wine 0.9.41 but synaptic package manager is denying me the force option. what would be the reason for this? (it allows me to install the latest and buggiest 0.9.43). | go to the wine site, in the dl section, toward the bottom of the page, there is a link to an archive, dl the deb. and commment out he wine repos in synaptic |
what lib can i install to be able to install x86 on amd64? lib32a or something? | ia32-libs |
hello. anyone running the 2.6.26 kernel from intrepid on hardy ? im just trying it now to see if it fixes a big machine lock up problem. | i run the interpid kernel on hardy. i fail to install ati hd3200 drivers - otherwise it seems to work :/ |
can i pass variables in an alias? i.e. alias acs='apt-cache search $1' where 'acs gnome' will work? | just do alias acs='sudo apt-cache search' |
how can i get ubuntu to write to ntfs disks? | msttcorefonts |
i get some horizontal lines when watching .vob video files. does anyone know if it's a codec problem or a linux ati driver problem? | you might try changing the output or display setting. like the xv or opengl option |
does anyone know how to install gnome 3 on ubuntu 11.04? | or just wait for 11.10 ... |
anybody know why audacious just wouldn't want to start up anymore?? ... i'm running hardy, fwiw. | try to rm ~/.config/audacious |
http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download says that i need a usb stick with 'at least 2gb of free space'. really? 1gb not gonna cut it? you need more space on a usb stick than the iso takes? | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/installation/fromusbstick |
does apt have a central registry of packages i have specifically specified to install, vs. just things that were installed as deps? ala gentoo's world file. | i try to avoid openoffice =p abiword is nice |
where is the gnome-screensavers info saved? so i can fudge with it i mean... like the screensavers that come with jaunty | /usr/share/applications/screensavers ? |
hi i want to customise my terminal's look and feel (ie: foreground, background colors and transparency). where do i configure these settings? | go to town |
what would be a program i could use to cut out samples from mp3s and make soundclips from them? | audacity |
does anyone know how to blacklist a wireless ap? i keep connecting to an unprotected network when mine goes down and id rather not... | if you want to remove the unprotected network from that list, right-click the networkmanager icon (the one near the clock that shows your wireless signal strength) and pick 'edit wireless networks' |
how can i shut down x completley? | press ctrl+alt+f1...login and do a sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop |
anyone know of a better gnome based video player than totem? | gmplayer |
where's the proper place to put a script so it's in the $path? where's the $path defined by default? it's not in ~/.bashrc | you can put local scripts in ~/bin |
youtube videos tend to lag behind the audio, and its gotten a bit annoying, how can this be fixed? google chromium | tried youtube with html5? www.youtube.com/html5 to turn feature on/off |
i'm having a problem with firefox. i was running wow via wine and changed the resolution in game and wow locked up. i hit control alt backspace to restart x and rebooted the pc. now i keep getting a segmentation fault when trying to run firefox, any ideas? | : fastest solution? donwload new firefox, run that , all settings will be there... |
does anyone know of a program i can use to create a video, i dont want to edit one | i have read about a powerful video editor program called jahshaka |
when i install a version of wine through winecvs.sh, nothing becomes executable, is there somethign i am doing wrong? | have you tried just installing the version of wine straight out of the ubuntu repositories? |
hey all, is there some kind an alternative for winamp for linux ? or is there an actual winamp for linux ? for streaming online radios and stuff | audacious, xmms, bmp |
is there any gui program that will show package dependencies in a tree view? | synaptic does that |
i am trying to remember the name of a very cool network monitoring program called ether monkey or some such... anyone got a clue? | etherape |
can someone help me fix my ubuntu install, think kdm got messed up somehow and i dont know how to either switch to gdm or to re-install kdm | have you checked to see what type of seesion you have selected? |
what's the difference between telepathy-gabble and telepathy-gabble-dbg ? | -dbg packages contain debug information, required if you plan to debug a crash |
i introduced an error into my /etc/sudoers file... how do i fix that ? | i assume you edited it as root. go back to whatever program you used to edit the file, and remove the error, then save the file. |
hello, if i install windows xp on my laptop which already got ubuntu. does it overwrite my grub? | yes it will do, but you can reinstall grub afterwards |
quick question, i have a csv file it is sorted by date but i want to reverse the order. what would be the easiest way to do that? | use 'sort' |
does anyone have the command to reconfigure xorg handy? | $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg |
hi, could someone helo me hot to set up my internet conection with ubuntu, since i'm using adsl over the eth, shortly... how to set up conection over the pppoe ? | 'sudo pppoeconf' at a terminal should do it. |
how is everyone doing today? | so what was the original question about denial of service attacks? |
guys, if i change my ssh port from 22 to something else, can i still run some kind of fake ssh on 22 just for security reasons? | honeyd |
can anyone tell me how to change the group of all the files in a directory at once | from a terminal: `chgrp -r groupname /dir/name` - prefix with 'sudo' if your account can't change the group. |
got a difficault question, anyone know a full featured linux version that can be installed and run from a fat 32 'dos' system ... | yes, go browse distrowatch.org |
first time irc'in here, am i supposed to wait my turn for my problem lol? | i believe that page covers it: you use synclient |
is it means file descriptor 63 ?! /dev/fd/63 | there's not much detail in your question. often file descriptor references the entries in /proc/<pid>/fd |
ubuntu how i love you... but you don't love me... my mouse constantly freezes... so while we have had good times in the past... nobody on irc or the forum knows why this is happening... | because it is not ubuntu, it is your hw |
it my second day using ubuntu hoary and i wonder if, when released, i can upgrade hoary to breezer without actually taking away the whole os and reinstall? | i believe you can do a dist-upgrade to move to breezy, but i would recommend a fresh install. |
what's the cp parameter to make a symlink? | ln -s |
hey... how can i found out what version of ubuntu? | lsb_release -a |
hello how do i rename a file to the current date? like file.18-12-2009-12:22.sql | mv oldfilename newfilename.$(date +format) |
how can you really protect your computer form someone going on to it with a live cd. i mean how can you stop that? | sleep next to it.. use a shotgun =).. or encrypt the harddrives and keep the shotgun to keep them from kidnapping you |
anyone know how to burn a dvd -r? i can burn the media in windows but in ubuntu, no matter the program, all i get is unable to write@lba=0h: input/output error | can you please try burning something else? the problem might be from the disk writer |
is there any way to see my cpu archicture (e.g. pentium, etc) thru ubuntu? i don't remember what i have :-) | cat /proc/cpuinfo |
how do i search for a file on my usb drives? | places>search |
how to change password on freenode? | /msg nickserv help set |
hello guys ive some questions that are not so technical i just cant really find answear of my questions can i pm one of u to ask u ? | it'd be useless, because an attacker, can change ip as easy as his mac address. yes, use ufw. |
what needs to be done to switch fro gnome to xfce? i'm downloading all of xfce's stuff now. | http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purexfce |
is there a java app that enables wifi for mobile phones? or am i stuck with connecting via bt to my ubuntu lappy? | bluetooth is a connectivity system, if there was a java app it would still use the bluetooth, you could maybe use usb to connect |
how to know memory use in ubuntu on terminal? | top |
hello all, i'm trying to run 'sudo apt-get install ndisgtk' but a message: please insert the disc labeled please insert the disc labeled please insert the disc labeled... so, what can i do to resolve it? | gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list and put a # in front of line which is for the cdrom installation disc. save and then try install again normally |
what would be the easiest way to get a basic ubuntu install, with no gui/bloat? i get tired of how slow it gets, so i'd rather add the wm and such myself. | in the minimal install you download everything and it takes forever...works though |
hi, can someone tell me where i can find the pidgin conf files? i think it had been something like .gaim in the past... | chroot |
hi, i'm new to linux but i'm also interested in running a linux server - file, http, hl2 and dc. should i get ubuntu desktop or server? (i also want to play high end comp games eg, hl2) | if you need to play games, you should use the desktop version to install |
how to scroll in terminal? | shift-pageup/down |
how can i print my 'ls ' output to a file with new line after every filename ? | ls -1 >> file |
hello all. i am an ubuntu-newbie (coming from mac). i have connected an old apple extended keyboard to the pc i have ubuntu on, but some special-keys, like the at-symbol aren't available with the key-combination that is shown in the keyboard-layout-window | look with pstree what is the parent-process of the zombie and kill that |
anyone free? please help me fix this 7 line bash code: http://pastebin.com/rs1sqtdk . i run './runmount.sh u' to unmount but it gives error | http://tldp.org/ldp/abs/html/ |
i just setup a dual boot system (win 7, ubuntu 11.10) but the grub points to the recovery partition instead. should i just edit the grub.cfg for that? | i am not sure what you should edit, but /boot/foo isn't it |
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