Ubuntu :: 10.4 LTS - Leave The Computer Long Enough For The Screensaver To Come On
May 24, 2010
I've just upgraded to 10.4 LTS
First thing i notice is that if i leave the computer long enough for the screensaver to come on, when i want to start work again it requires the user password. It never used to do that and its a nuisance. There is no option to remember it that i can see either. How do i stop it asking for a password every time?
Secondly, i want some thing like the "my computer" facility. I tried setting up an icon using gsconfig - the icon is now on the desktop" - it says "browse all local & remote disks connected to this computer". When i click on it i get an icon saying file system. When i open that i get quite a lot of folders displayed. But what i'm trying to locate is the USB memory stick i have plugged in.. i can't find it..
I also tried setting it up as recommended on a site i found, by right clicking the top left icon on the desktop to get into edit menus. But i dont get that option, or the help option. i just get: about remove from panel move lock to panel.
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Apr 3, 2010
It's happened twice. I've come back to my computer after a couple of hours and the screen is black, but it responds to nothing, so I just power it off.
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Nov 15, 2010
I recently changed my computer so it would auto boot into Ubuntu, but if I hold down the shift key, I can bring up the GRUB menu so I can choose Windows in the rare times I use it[URL]Anyway, I noticed that when I did that, it actually took longer to boot. I timed it today and it took 45 seconds from the time I pressed the power button to get to the login screen! My friend uses Linux a lot and says even with Ubuntu (which he thinks is "too slow") it shouldn't take that long.
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May 19, 2010
There's an OSS screensaver on windows that I love called PixelCity (links:blog post, github). it's pretty cool. and it runs fine on my Ubuntu (Karmic 9.10) with wine.Is there a way I can tell the gnome-screensaver about it so I can use it as one of my screensavers? I'm still fairly new to Gnome and the whole "screensavers as themes" thing is still confusing me.I've found my themesdir and tried to create a .desktop file for it, but obviously I've gotten something wrong as it just doesn't show when I open the screensaver prefs dialog, no error, no message, it's just not there.
Installing the xscreensaver packages added the extra screensavers I was missing, and I'm a pixelcity away from perfection..Of course the perfect solution would be if someone ported the screensaver natively to linux, which shouldn't be too hard as the source is open, it already runs on openGL and tries to confine most windows stuff to a single file. But I don't know C++ or 3D code or win/linux internals so I wouldn't know where to start..
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Jan 9, 2010
just start Ubuntu 9.04 said: File system chek failed a long is beging saved /var/long/fsck/checkfs if that location is writable Please repair the file systmen manually A maintenance shell will now be started Ctr+ D terminate this shell and resume system boot. Give root password for maintenance or type Control +D to continue. I did Ctr+D , and after login said , that can not find /home. I starte with the live cd:
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Jun 15, 2010
Is it possible to have vpn automatically turn on for every wireless network except for when I connect to my home network?
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Jul 15, 2010
I've got a computer with numerous media files,(video and music). It's a dual boot Windows XP , Ubuntu 10.04 install.I use it as a media box for my large LCD TV. I was wondering if anyone else has deleted the Windows system files and program folders and left the media files. Edit grub deleting Windows XP and leaving the large number of media files alone. I don't want to spend the time to backup and transfer, as it would be to time consuming. I don't want to bork the system just to clean out XP.
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Jan 3, 2011
I found this:[URL]
I'd like to be able to re-attach as well. Anybody know if this is possible and, if yes, how?
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Oct 13, 2009
I am running Centos 5.3. I ran no updates, performed no installs, nor changed any configuration immediately prior to this issue. My problem is this: when I run the command startx (default runlevel 3), it is a long time (5-10 minutes) before Gnome startx, and once it does start applications will not run. Also, when I try to use sudo (from any environment, even ssh), it is a long time (5-10) before the command is executed.
I cannot say for sure, but it seems like this is an intermittent problem. Sometimes X takes a long time to start, but once it starts it will launch programs. Sometimes X takes a long time to launch, but once it starts it will only launch certain programs. Though presently X always takes a long time to start, and I cannot successfully launch any programs.
A while back a had a similar problem to this (x taking long time to start, sudo taking long time to execute) and it ended up being a DNS problem. Unfortunately, I cannot remember exactly what it was and I stupidly did not document it. Maybe this is also DNS related, I don't know.
I don't know what log files to look at for problems with X, Gnome, and sudo taking a long time to start.
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Jan 14, 2010
Finally got a dual boot on this laptop the way I liked it (LOVE my Win7, really like UBUNTU for certain things like getting booted and on the net fast...great). As I was editing and rebooting the GRUB settings UBUNTU got it's updates and installed (including one on GRUB that I hadn't seen before - WITH WARNINGS). Now I can't seem to get this last entry out of the boot menu: vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic. It has all this listed now (had dual entries for everything like mem test before):
vmlinuz-2.6.31-17-generic
vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic
Windows 7
I got rid of the extra entries like memtest and all using: sudo chmod -x /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ and such variations..still though I got one stuck in the boot selections. It won't remove the old linux vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic build entry from GRUB (and they both point to the same place). It has a -14 and -17 entry in it now. Like I said both load to the same mount point.
I mean I removed like five extra entries from GRUB using that command after the update (and had done it before about two months ago) but the linux vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic selection won't leave the GRUB selections now. I really thought I had it figured out to the bomb having my laptop dual booting before, just didn't like how UBUNTU used my disk space by default last time so I decided to rebuild the laptop.
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Aug 31, 2010
I am using Evolution 2.30.2 and recently set it up with my Hotmail account. However, when it fetched my messages, they were deleted from the online server. I read somewhere that there is a 'leave messages on server' checkbox in Edit>Preferences>Mail Accounts>Edit>Receiving Options but it is not there.
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Mar 3, 2011
I am running kde 4.5.1 and when I go to kmenu>leave, I see everything but an option to shut down ,
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Apr 5, 2011
I am looking for a mail app that will do this.I have a gmail account.I would like it to download the messages. but leave a copy on the server.i know some will delete the server messages.i would like to not bring down attachments, ever.i would like to only sync certain folders/labels from my gmail account.will evolution do this?i could not find options for any of these.
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Dec 4, 2010
I periodically have a problem with the Kicker "leave" shortcuts. The problem is that the confirmation dialogues for "logout", "reboot" and "shutdown" never appear, resulting in the action never initialising. The shortcuts for "switch user" and "lock" work fine - presumably because there is no confirmation dialogue.
Shutting down and rebooting manually from the command line work fine and I seem to be the only user that this affects (hinting at a config issue in ~/.kde?).
Kubuntu 10.04 is my first *ubuntu distro and I've never had a problem with this KDE feature in other distros.
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Jan 29, 2011
I have a Bluetooth connected to my desktop computer, it's on all the time, I use it to transfer files between PC and cell phone. I was searching Google about hacking Bluetooth and all I found was about hacking mobile devices. I don't care about my cell phone - it has nothing important, but I'm curious about my PC security. Can someone get access to my HDD via Bluetooth like it's possible via Wi-Fi?
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Jan 11, 2010
I user installed the latest updates as per the update manager. My EDVO card will now not initialize. No /dev/ttyUSBn devcies for it.
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May 9, 2010
This is the issue: when replying to someone, the cursor defaults to the beginning of the date line (on date this and this, that and that wrote:...), and I have to press enter twice, and then up-key twice, to bring it to a proper situation where I can start replying.
Today the issue is a bit better, since I am using GVIM for editing, so I can just press O (or make any other good mapping for my needs), but I am using GVIM only for English emails (since with Hebrew it is not really... hmm... useful, still), so the problem remains.
I know it is a very "little" issue - but come on, 9 years and no solution?!
In general, it would be nice to allow one to customize completely the "date line"; for example, to allow one to decide that his reply line will begin like this:
(two empty lines, after the cursor!)
=====
Am Sonntag, den 09.05.2010, 13:04 schrieb Asaf Chertkoff:
> ...
> ...
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May 22, 2010
how can I rename all files in a directory up to the first dot (there by leaving the file extension alone) to the same thing? Im trying to rename all my media files and associated files in a directory to (preferably) the name of the directory it self. if I have
Code:
A Clockwork Orange -
wzzyfg.cd1.avi
wzzyfg.cd2.avi
wzzyfg.nfo
ACO.fanart.jpg
orange.tbn
Id like to automatically mass rename them all to
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A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange.cd1.avi
A Clockwork Orange.cd2.avi
A Clockwork Orange.nfo
A Clockwork Orange.fanart.jpg
A Clockwork Orange.tbn
I have rename on my server which I used to remove underscores from file names, but I dont know how I would use it to rename everything up to the first period. Bonus points for renaming stuff to the name of the parent folder!
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Feb 25, 2011
I installed Squeeze on an eeepc 900.Everything seems to work well, except for one thing: iceweasel, when drawing certain windows, likes to crash the entire KDE session. This is 100% replicable simply by right-clicking on a bookmark put on the bookmarks menu toolbar, and trying to go to "properites" on that item. It only does this, however, on my wife's eeepc 900, it does not happen on my 900A (different gpu and cpu though...). the two systems have the same packages installed.
The most frustrating thing is that there is no error output whatsoever. I have looked through all the logs in /var/log, and I couldn't find anything. I have run iceweasel from the command line and redirected its output to a file, but the whole system hard-locked, and when I rebooted, there was no log file. I have started X using "startx" instead of using kdm, and I cannot see any output to the VT that kicked it off because the system hard-locks.
As far as I can see, it only happens in iceweasel. If I disable compositing, it becomes stable again -- but I don't want to have to do this, as it interferes with features she is accustomed to.Oh yes, I should also add that this netbook worked fine under eeebuntu and compiz -- never an issue.
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Mar 28, 2010
When I first started using Fedora 10 I had a bit of a play with the "Leave Message" button that appears when you lock the screen. After you type the message and click save, the next time the user logged in the messages would pop up.
Ever since Fedora 12, when I leave a test message, after I log in nothing pops up. This happens on two different computers so I don't think its an obscure hardware problem.
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Jul 22, 2011
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Jan 22, 2011
I want to give a try to Evolution mail client (I use v 2.30.3) and I've set up my account, but see no reference to how long messages are left on the server (like in Thunderbird you have the option to leave messages for a fixed period of time, after they are automatically deleted).Any clue on this? (Maybe it is a stupid post, but before doing this I searched a little and nothing)
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Mar 10, 2010
According to RFC 1939: "POP3 is not intended to provide extensive manipulation operations of mail on the server; normally, mail is downloaded and then deleted." However most of the mail clients have that option "Leave messages on server" after they have been downloaded. How is it done?
I tried sniffing mail traffic with Wireshark, but the only POP3 provider I have is Gmail and its POP3 access is SSL secured, so I was unable to gather any info from this... I tried downloading sources of Thunderbird and Evolution and checked what are they doing with "leaving messages", but it seems my C++ skills are not enough - I was unable to understand what is happening when "leaving"...
Suggest me some POP3 provider, that is providing unsecured POP3 access, so I could try again reverse engineering with Wireshark?
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Mar 1, 2010
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Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 640x480, 1394 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 2997 tbn, 5994 tbc
Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 159 kb/s
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I have these partitions:
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Aug 24, 2011
I'm using Opensuse on a small computer that needs to run a web site 24/7/365. It's an mp3 player, it's used for music, the player is an html5 player that runs in fullscreen mode of firefox.It's connected to a TV via HDMI. I've set all possible power options so it never sleed, idle, hibernate or close. Same thing for display, never dim or turn on screen saver. Although the TV is not ALWAYS on the PC's HDMI input, sometime switching to TV Tuner and other time to PC display.So if we switch the tv's input to tuner and the to PC, opensuse won't re-detect the display and the TV will say NO SIGNAL until I completely reboot the PC ... very annoying ... The other problem is that the TV is far from the server so I need to use VNC and re-open firefox, go to the player and re-set fullscreen mode. But worst, I can only use VNC once. If I want to reconnect via VNC, I need to login SSH, restart service and then I can connect ...1. How can we set VNC to ALWAYS accept connection and that from a fresh boot ?
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Jun 28, 2010
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1) While re-partitioning, i can leave 20 GB unallocated and later put ubuntu there
OR
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May 26, 2011
I am using Ubuntu 10.10 on an IBM ThinkPad t43. I have a 9 volt battery that I use only occasionally. Usually I use the AC connection and when I'm finished working I leave the laptop in "sleep" mode. (Not always, but often.) When using the AC is it okay to leave the battery in the computer or is it better to remove it? Some swear it shortens the battery's life to leave it installed when not in use. Others swear--with equal fervor--that the newer ion batteries know when they are fully charged and don't have to be removed. Which is true? It's inconvenient to keep taking the battery in and out, but if it's necessary to prolong it's life I guess it's worth it. Some clarity good because, as I said, you can find equally impassioned arguments for both sides of this issue.
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