from this multirow taskbar, extensible quicklaunch, clock day date are only important. And i want to doubleclick upper left corner of a window as alternative close. A better variant is to use the third wheel button on a mouse - to close any window just by pressing wheel inside a window (similar to Firefox close a tab, or in qip close a tab..)
View 3 RepliesI'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and I have a 1TB NTFS (internal) hard drive where I put all my files. The drive shows up in the "Places" menu, and if I select & open it, the drive and all the scripts & text files in it work. But, if I go to run the scripts without opening the dive in the places menu first, it just gives an error.
1. What is being done when I select the drive in the places menu?
2. Can this be set up automatically, so I don't have to open the drive every time after I start up?
1. What file do i have to edit in order to include /usr/local/bin in the class path (ie. I put an executable in /usr/local/bin and when I try to execute it, it says the command cannot be found, etc.) EDIT: Solved, just didn't set PATH correctly. EDIT: New problem. When I try to execute a program in /usr/local/bin, it says "fopen: john.ini: File not found" Yet when i cd to /usr/local/bin, it doesn't say that. What would cause this?
2. Once I get my system setup the way i like it, how would i go about making it into a bootable CD/DVD?
3. How would I pass arguments from a shell script to a program?
I am doing a usability test on OpenSUSE 11.2 for a novice user. I am trying to establish if usability has an effect on why some students do not use GNU/Linux for general desktop computing. How easy and how many steps does a novice need to do the following tasks?
Note: Novice is someone who has no experience in working with OpenSUSE?
Task1: This task involves making two slides of a course presentation using OpenOffice Impress.Org
Task2: Involves changing the screen resolution and desktop background.
Task3: This task involves organizing files in folders
Task4: Involves copying music from an audio CD in to mp3 format using K3B
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If I want to work on two or more non-maximised windows, how do I simply access their menus without having to select a window into focus and then go to the top main menu? I'm fairly impressed with Unity, but that really struck me as a major usability blunder. I can accept that the window has to brought into focus, because that's what you'd do anyway, but then having to move the mouse to the top of the screen to get at the menu options seems really off.
Is there a way of doing this that's as elegant as was the case previously?
I was running 10.10, and it was fine - except for some reason the mouse just stops working - nothing is clickable at all. Apparently this might be the official NVidia drivers, but I've not found a solution to that yet, but I do know that plenty of other people experience this. So today, I thought I'd check for updates to see if something would fix it.
1. I open the update manager, and see 11.04 is available, and several security fixes. I opt for the security fixes first, but they fail, saying 'check your internet connection'. My internet connection is perfectly fine, so this is a pretty bad error message to be showing people.
2. I then try the upgrade to 11.04 button instead, and it gets a small way in before saying it was 'unable to get exclusive lock' due to me having an update manager open - what, such as the one I used to launch this upgrade? Another bad error message.
3. I close everything, try again. Now it complains that not all upgrades can be installed due to a "previous upgrade that didn't complete". As a programmer I have to wonder why, if they're sensible enough to know how to use an exclusive lock to ensure a safe upgrade transaction, why they aren't sensible enough to treat the upgrade as a transaction which they could have rolled back when they failed to acquire that lock? Luckily this doesn't seem to be a serious problem but again it's a bad error message to display and one that is completely unnecessary.
4. I start upgrading. Eventually 'Defconf' pops up and asks me what I want to do about 'modified configuration file grub'? THIS IS NOT A SUITABLE QUESTION TO ASK A TYPICAL USER! My options are "Show differences, show side by side, show a 3 way comparison, do a 3 way merge (experimental), start a new shell to examine the situation, install the package maintainer's version, or keep the local version currently installed." Oh, while I'm doing this, the input periodically hangs every 10 seconds so I can't type. And I do have to type, because my mouse isn't working. Luckily, unlike 99% of computer users, I'm a programmer so I am not scared of comparing files, but I'm pretty horrified to see it pop up what looks like a text-based unified diff - how on earth is a normal human meant to act on that? And it did all this because it claimed I had changed something locally, but it became quite apparent on looking at the diff that I had done no such thing, and that some system program had done whatever it had done. So I was being asked about changes to a core piece of system functionality for no good reason.
5. I let it upgrade the file and it seemed to work when I rebooted. Now imagine my dismay when I notice that my desktop has been changed into a Mac. All my menus have disappeared and I have no idea how to get them back. I can still edit and reorder my menus in the System Settings but I'll be damned if I can work out how to get them on the screen again. Plus all my apps are uncomfortable to use now because the menus no longer appear unless I press the Alt key first. I'm not going to claim that the Mac approach is worse than what we had before but this is a MASSIVE usability change to spring on someone without any real warning or any guidance to simple things like "where did my menus and everything on them go?" I am aware most of this won't be news to most of you, but I'm sure that if you look at it from a pure usability perspective you can appreciate how awful an experience this would be for most people who now have to re-learn their system.
I recently decided to install ubuntu on an old PC to increase its speed and usability. Prior to this I had windows XP running on it. I installed the newest version of ubuntu, which makes the whole thing running unbearable slow. Under windows xp it was running ok, my question therefore is: which version would you guys recommend that needs less ressources, but still has comparable functionality to the new version?
View 9 Replies View Relatedhow one can use the nepomuk/strigi file indexing service. I started up dolphin, and typed the search string in the upper right corner, and clicked Search. The search result is a long list of files. The one I need is a PDF file. When I select this file, on the right hand side there is the following info: 'Is part of: 15.2 GiB Removable Media' which is clearly wrong, since this file resides in my home directory, which is on a 200 GiB partition. If I double-click this file to open in okular, I get an error message:
Code: Could not open nepomuksearch:/nepomuk_3A_2Fres_...... Reason: Please insert the removable medium "15.2 GiB Removable Media" to access this file I guess this is some old result from nepomuk's cache (in the meantime I have had to repartition my hard disk, and restore my home directory from a backup copy on an external hard drive - but this has been many months ago, so I would expect that nepomuk have had the time to recognize this)
I am getting an error as below.
How do I resolve the error: make[2]: *** No rule to make target `', needed by `mpg123'.
How can I resolve this error.
I need to modify fs/open.c and fs/read_write.c to make my modifications. I cannot find any options in 'make menuconfig' to make these files modules rather than compiled elements. I'm thinking these cannot be modules because the file system won't work without open.c and read_write.c. Is this correct - I cannot compile fs/open.c and fs/read_write.c as modules, only as compiled elements? Or, is there some way for a module to overwrite these routines when the module is installed and re-enable the routines when the module is removed?
View 3 Replies View Relateddifference between make and make bzImage commands as both are used to build source code.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI want to make a file called file roller for Ubuntu 9.10. The folder has a file called install.sh and some others that are make.
I figure first I need to make a file and then run install.sh to install. But I don't know how to do this.
I notice that when you try to Make link to any file or folder form context menu, It just copy the same file size? even when i tried to copy the link to external storage disk..
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to gave much details as possible. working directory (~/a1/shell) in the shell directory i have Makefile. also in the shell directory i have subdirectory's (obj, src, include)
My current Makefile
Quote:
#What needs to be built to make all files and dependencies
clean:
# End of Makefile
I wanted it so: all .o files are created in the obj subdirectory, and my application, sshell, is created in the shell directory.
I am getting this error when i run the make run: No rule to make target 'shell.h', needed by 'shutil.o'. stop
I build and use a custom kernel, and use the nvidia driver. This is on debian stretch.
By default, I build the image and headers packages with this line:
CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=8 nice -n19 ionice -c3 fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-something --revision=1 kernel_image kernel_headers
These kernel sources are usually the sources from debian, with a couple of more patches that I add. It appears that for nvidia-driver package versions higher than 352.79-1, the kernel headers/sources need to be prepared with 'make prepare' and 'make prepare scripts'. It's that simple. I concluded this after the nvidia dkms build failed on my custom kernel, but then succeeded after I pointed it to the full sources, but only after running 'make prepare' and 'make prepare scripts' on them. The problem is that this make-kpkg scheme doesn't appear to do this, or if it does, it doesn't properly include in the headers everything that it should.
I am following the instructions on Section 8.1.* Device Driver ConceptsHere I was able to proceed till section 8.1.4.After making the hello.c file,the make file and patching the Kconfig as mentioned,I tried to run the $ make ARCH=ARM CROSS_COMPILE=xscale_be- gconfig This gave error as:make: *** No rule to make target `gconfig'. Stop.I am not sure if my kernel is correctly compliled,but I was able to complie and build the kernel for arm before by cloning the kernel and building from the following link without any error. https://omapzoom.org/gf/project/omap...ux+OMAP+Kernel
View 2 Replies View RelatedOn Linux (CentOS, in case that matters), I'm having a problem with git commands. git can take advantage of keys loaded into the ssh-agent cache, but if the keys aren't loaded, it doesn't seem to take any steps to load them (such as calling ssh-add). I have ~/.ssh/config set up like so:
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My system already has ssh-agent set up. I believe it's using an implementation supplied by Gnome [URL] I can manually add my github key with the "ssh-add" command. When I do, I can see that the key is loaded using "git add -l" and the git commands that connect remotely (eg "git remote update") work without prompting for a passphrase. What I still want git commands to do is: By default, if ssh-agent is running and the necessary key is not already loaded, use ssh-add to load the key into ssh-agent. ssh-add appears to need help (via a parameter) if the key file is not one of the default filenames (eg 'id_rsa', 'id_dsa', or 'identity'). This seems backward. I have a mapping from hostname to IdentityFile specified in ~/.ssh/config as shown above. Shouldn't ssh-add be able to use that
i am having redhat 5 version i wanted to know how to make the secure ftp through this
View 2 Replies View RelatedI just installed Gnome Shell in Ubuntu 11.04 through UGR Linux and everything works fine! The only problem is that I cannot run make and make install. I get the following errors:
Code:
alexandros@Autobot:~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell-extensions$ make && make install
Making all in extensions
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/alexandros/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell-extensions/extensions'[code]........
I ran across this the other day and was instantly amazed.He says he uses a custom Vim colorscheme (easy) and dwm with tmux. I've downloaded tmux and I'm having some issues with it (my CTRL-b hotkey wont work), but I'm confused at how to start designing something similar to what he has done.My idea is to get my terminal to look like this, then remove KDE from my laptop so that all my computer is is this awesome thing.
How should I go about starting modeling something like this? In the picture, what does tmux handle and what does dwm handle? Speaking from someone who has never used any of them.
I need VLC to start in fullscreen mode (easily done) but not allow the users to open new files or anything. Seeing as this is for a Kiosk I need to lockdown the system behind the application. After the video is done, VLC should simply quit and exit. A user could be able to prematurely kill VLC (Alt+F4) which is also fine. Would I need a script calling VLC to add extra features instead of calling it right from my application?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a server that delivers media via HTTP (or FTP). If I click on a link, it downloads to /tmp and then plays in vlc, but what I want is for it to run vlc and give it the URL so that it will play it as a stream. I am generating the HTML and I'm using thttpd for the server. If I do it manually (Copy Link Location, paste into vlc) it works fine, but I'd like click-and-play. I've Googled for hours and can't even see the topic addressed. This is possible, right? (Lucid-64, XFCE, Firefox 4.0b11, thttpd, vlc 1.0.6)
View 14 Replies View RelatedDoes someone know of a tool that can be used to that will produce this result:When navigating to specific URL M-F 8 am to 5 pm any computer will receive an error message or be re-routed to a static site that something such as, "This site is only available during these hours."When navigating to that same URL during the other hours it will work as intended.The function needs to work with no intervention needed to the browsing computer or network.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have installed Linux on separate drive.
And XP on another drive.
By mistake I deleted the Linux Drive from Disk Management.
Now the message is like this
Please Insert Bootable CD(some thing like this)
Press any key to restart.
I think that the logical conclusion of the greater self-reliance of Linux users is wanting to make one's own distro entirely. Using that Linux From Scratch distro, probably--at least if you're not a programmer. (I am guessing that if one knows the right programming languages, one doesn't even need LFS.) In an ideal world where we had the time and will for this, most or all of us would make our own distros. I'm interested, but it's much more work than I'm willing to do. Am I right?
View 14 Replies View Relatedtrying to install webSphere on it, when i open the installation file in VI it doesn't allow me to make any changes, i have given all the permissions and even logged in as root....
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47122 May 16 2006 responsefile.nd.txt
downloaded Amarok and Juk.. and i'm kinda new to linux. I think i'm missing some magical components that will let mp3's play. it's very quiet right now and it's kind of unnerving.. my stereo's gone and i really don't have much music in formats that my computer will play. I ran a search and i guess my question was so basic no one else had trouble with it :/
View 5 Replies View RelatedHow make usb support?Because, when i switch usb-disc I can't understand where I can see files on it? Because the folder wasn't appeared after switching. And in /media/ all usb-folders are free.
View 2 Replies View Relatedi am new in using Linux and i installed a tacacs server using centos 5 distribution, but now my boss asked me to make a periodic backup of the log file of this tacacs+ server the easiest way that i found is to use this command : cp /var/log/tacacs.log /home/tacacs1/backup/taclog`date +%y%m%d` to copy the file in another file and then create a script to run it automatically and put it in a cron to run it every week
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