I am just entering the Linux world. All these years I wanted to test Linux but did not have the resources to make a new computer. Then I found Puppy Linux by chance. Nearly all the work I do with Windows 7/XP can be done with Puppy Linux. I am running it from a CD. I developed a smartfont for an Indic language called Sinhala, which uses ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1, SBCS) character set.It makes typing Sinhala, one of the more complex of Indic scripts, easy.
Essentially, this is a transliteration of the 'complex' script into Latin character set and then showing it back in the native script by way of the smartfont. See it here: [URL] Of course, you have no clue what it says. If you copy the text and look, you'll understand what is going on. You can type it with the dead-key keyboard. Only problem is that in certain situations, the font makes conjoint letters where you don't want them. You can prevent it by inserting the ZWNJ, Zero-width non-joiner (u200C), but the keyboard does not have it. Is there a way to edit the keyboard layout and make a modified key layout?
In windows when I install gvim/vim, it automatically installs a context menu in explorer that lets me edit a file in gvim by simply right clicking and pressing v. For someone who edits a lot of files and is really used to vim, it is super-convenient. I want to do the same thing in nautilus. So I installed nautilus-actions and added to the context menu of editing with gvim. That wasn't hard. The hard part is getting that keyboard key to bind to that context menu item. Currently when I right click and press v, it sends the item to trash. I want it such that when I right click a file and press v, it edits the file in gvim. How can I do that? I want a good solution, and am willing to switch file managers/window managers if need be. This particular shortcut key is very important to my user experience.
I have an old laptop that I installed EasyPeasy Lucid on. I have never used Grub2 as my other Ubuntu installs still use Grub Legacy. I have studied all the tutorials which instruct that the grub.cfg file should not be edited directly.This old laptop has one of the dreaded Intel graphics chips for which the kernel automatically loads the i915 module. Of course (like a multitude of others with Intel graphics and Lucid) I booted into a black screen but knew the workaround was to enable mode setting through grubI used the
Code: i915.modeset=1 and added it to /etc/default/grub line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX, just after "quite splash", just
I'm a used Ubuntu user on a pc, and I like the french keyboard layout because it allows me to type accentued characters easily.I found a win-fr keyboard layout but it's much like windows and not so good.I found xmodmap.fr keyboard layout and I'd like to know if it was possible use it with my Mac SL 10.6.5, maybe I could do xmodmap xmodmap.fr or a way to convert to mac layout file.
think of this directory as the current structure..
Quote: |-- test | `-- test1 `-- test.tar
test.tar is a compressed tar of /test/ (cvfz), now... I need to add another file called test2 to test.tar, WITHIN the test directory in the tar. Is this possible?
I have a list of millions of filename in form of say "drau3DDFEA5E01205841DC1B277A". I need it convert it intousr/local/data/d/dr/dra/drau/drau3DDFEA5E01205841DC1B277AI believe that can be achieved by awk or sed.
I have a AsteriskNow Linux box and i wanted to add another network card, i have done this and it has loaded the drivers... I have found out that second cards need to be enabled... if i type ifcfg eth1 it shows me the card.... and I need to edit that device with BOOTON selected to ON to enable it.
I have two questions:
A) what is the comand to edit the ifcfg eth-1 card, Apparently i use a text editor but how ? i know what to do once in but can't get in...
B) is there a list of very common linux commands i cuold use to start me off on my linux journey ?
I am doing a Linux installation. I installed the system fine and am trying to change the vi /etc/hosts file. I have edited the file but am not sure how to save it. I have --INSERT-- showing at the bottom.
Here's what is going on; I'll open any file in vim to edit, and then when I'm finished and I enter ":wq", instead of saving the file I was editing, vim creates another by the same name with a tilde.
I have samsung laptop and there is a nasty program called samsung recovery solution that changes the active partition to Windows each time you enter it. The trouble is: I have 2 OSes, Opensuse and Windows 7, and Grub that is installed in my Extended partition, so each time I enter this recovery program active flag is changed and Windows is loaded instead of grub. I have noticed some boot files in that program's folder, so the question is how can I edit them in most convenient manner? I have kde 4.5.3 is there some sort of included program that would help?
Kernel 2.6.21.5, slackware 12.0 Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4 Seamonkey 1.1.2
Under any of Firefox or Seamonkey web browsers, if I type the URL about:plugins, a list of the installed (I assume they mean "installed in my machine") plugins appears. How do you do if you want to edit that list. Say, to disable a mime type or just delete it from the list?
I have a removable SATA Mobilerack which i use to play with.It has redhat linux loaded on a 500GB disk and i made a new partition using fdisk and then made an ext3 filesystem with mkfs. I then tried to edit fstab to add the new partition but have obviously stuffed it up. When I tried to reboot I get the error fsck ext3: UNABLE TO RESOLVE `LABEL=/mnt'.
i'm trying to add a watermark and a credits image to all of my old videos. i downloaded them off videos so they are all flv (h.264?). is there some software that will allow me do simple edits in batches? i know a little bit of python and tried looking at some of the library but they all seem like overkill (and way above my head). so is there a solution besides getting some software and going through all my videos and doing it manually?
they are all mostly the same length, but it would be nice to specify a relative position for my credits. e.g. show a static image for 10 seconds when the video is at 95%
Let's say I have file A, and using 'ln -s A B', I have B. When I open, edit and save B, now B is not symlink anymore. It's just a new copy of A. Is this expected behavior? I use Mac OS X, and I wonder it's common in UNIX. In this case, is there any way to keep B as a (soft link) to A? Or, make B as the hard link would be the only way to solve this issue? What's the advantage of using soft link than hard link? The editor that I use is 'TextMate' on Mac.
I use cygwin on Windows7 to open a ssh session to my linux box. When I edit a file with vim, I don't have color, only kind of gray bold. I have colors when I do a ls into my ssh session. I have also colors when I edit files from a ssh session from my linux box to my linux box. I modified the shortcut on Window7 to run cygwin in 256 colors, no effect. Do I need to set an environment variable on my cygwin session ? On Cygwin and On Fedora when "sshed" from Gygwin : TERM=cygwin
I want to edit text files on Linux server from Windows, using text editor like Notepad++ or UltraEdit.I've managed to do so using WinSCP. It can edit files remotely and offers me to choose local application to open those files.That is exactly what I need, but when I hit ctrl-s (not every time, in about 50% cases), it waits for around 10 seconds, alerts that connection has failed, and offers me to "abort". When I click abort, it instantly reconnect and save file.
Is there any program that can change in custom catalogue every music file author to the name choosen before start? I need it 'cause I have lot of author name variants in my folder.
But any changes I make cannot be saved unless I'm in root. I might be doing this wrong, but I cannot log into root or figure out how to open this file as the root user. I'm still somewhat new to Linux, so could someone please give me an idiot-friendly step-by-step of what to do to open, edit, and save this file as a root user?
During my several experiment on linux I accidentally put the default runlevel to the value 6..thus before starting its going to restart ..currently running mint 9. there is only one way that somehow i can edit that file from grub command line.
I created a password file for use with ncsa_auth in squid. Firstly, is there a way to view the passwords in the file or are they all encrypted? Secondly, is there a way to get squid to reauthenticate the user after 24 hours?
When i first heard that the the effects for the movie Avatar was made with Linux i was shocked. i didn't even know that linux can do that.Anyway, i am wondering which is the best video editing software for linux? (free/paid) What did they use to make avatar..? Can a serious video editing be really done on a linux machine?
I just installed ubuntu today, and it asked me to install over 200 security updates. When I finished that, it asked me to restart the computer so that the updates will take effect. After Dell (it's a Dell computer) booted, I got a message reading:
"Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else, TAB lists possible device or file completions."
I want to install pgplot on ubuntu 9.10 but I have some errors after editing makefile in line 880
replaced "pndriv.o : ./png.h ./pngconf.h ./zlib.h ./zconf.h" by "pndriv.o : /usr/local/include/png.h /usr/local/include/pngconf.h /usr/local/include/zlib.h /usr/local/include/zconf.h" and running code "make" I get this error : No rule to make target `/usr/local/include/png.h', needed by `pndriv.o'. Stop. also I tried to uncomment this line got another error : make: *** [pndriv.o] Error 1 and also replace "pndriv.o : ./png.h ./pngconf.h ./zlib.h ./zconf.h" by "pndrive.o : " what should I do ?