I'm trying to migrate over to Ubuntu, and there is one really useful feature that I would like to replicate in Gnome. In Windows, I can hit the "Windows" key on my keyboard, which opens up the start menu.
Is there a way that I can replicate this behaviour in Gnome? Can I map the Windows key to opening the Applications menu?
is it possible (and how) to create keyboard shortcut/binding that would give window-focus back to Tilda terminal? Currently, it is necessary to LMB-click inside Tilda (or at least drag mouse-cursor over Tilda) to resume typing.
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View 9 Replies View RelatedEach time my machine reboots, it takes about 2 minutes for an attempt of the YP server to bind (then it fails).
Code:
jim@LinuxBox:~$ /etc/init.d/nis restart
start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 2469: Operation not permitted
* Starting NIS services
* binding to YP server...
* ....
--> repeats 10 times <--
* .... [fail] [ OK ]
jim@LinuxBox:~$
The previous is a YP server command while running. What happens at boot time is similar. I think I need NIS for my work. This looks like an old common problem (maybe on AMD64 - Ubuntu; which I have). The following link has a good description of NIS and this particular problem. It is a complex problem that I am spending some time working on. It looks like my problem may be that an NIS master has not been created. [URL]. I am trying to share files and run remote desktop with XP machines on a local network. The lack of NIS server may be contributing to my difficulties.
I.e. i have Opera open up at the moment and it says "Ubuntu Forums - Post New Thread - Opera". How can i change my programs so that i can change the name of the program that appears in the windows?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am a newbie to linux, my OS of choice is windows xp, my computers will not run windows 7 so as an alternative I am seriously thinking of changing to ubuntu after the windows support for xp finishes. with this in mind I have installed ubuntu 10.10 as a second OS on my pc. I like the speed, looks and ease of use of the OS. the only draw back is that I have a lot of windows applications that I run and sometimes beta test for a large british software company, I saw that a windows emulator was available (wine), downloaded, checked the documentation and the database, only to find the only software on the database was games. I have tried several applications (not games) only to get the error message "the file is not marked as executable". is there something I am missing or are they not supported by wine? and could all applications be supported in a future release?
View 6 Replies View Relatedat present i have a windows PC with 2 odbc connections 1 to Linux / mysql the other to novell server (micro focus cobol in read only mode) i use access on the windows PC to run query's on novell and write them to mysql on the Linux machine. this is very slow and causes problems because of access limitations. i cant connect the Linux box into the novell server as our IT Manager will not allow this but i can copy the data files to the windows PC first.
How can i connect to the windows PC to access the odbc link on there, and what program would i use for this, would mysql be able to do this? if this cant be done then i can use samba to view the files on the windows PC but then how do i set up an link into the data files (on the windows PC a micro focus cobol driver had to be installed) how would to connect mysql to this ?
I want to change to a Linux OS laptop because it is more stable and I now have a website and want to make my operating computer less prone to threats. But I was wondering how I can still use windows based apps on Linux? Also which is the best version of Linux to get? I have heard of ubuntu or something like that?
View 5 Replies View RelatedMy OS is Windows XP, is it possible to run applications for MS Windows on Linux?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've recently started using terminator. When using terminator, the delete key acts like backspace. in the ~/.config/terminator/config file I've tried:
Code:
delete_binding = ascii-del
and
[code]...
I have creates this brainstorm topic in regard with dual nature of MOD key and to allow the mod keys to behave as independent key also.
[URL]
i moved to 10.4 and would like to set a key-binding to the "window key" for "Hide all normal windows and set focus to the desktop". This option was possible in 9.04. No when i go to System > Preferences > Keyboard-Shortcuts and try to change the shortcut to the above function it does not accept the win-key as a shortcut.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI connect to my corporate LAN(dhcp) using a wired connection and also connect to a WLAN(dhcp) without various constraints applied by the wired connection. In short my wired connection blocks outbound ssh traffic to my server at home. My WLAN connection is pretty lax so ssh connections to my home webserver can be made using the wireless connection.Can I route ssh to that particular ip via my wireless connection?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've switched to Xubuntu and the procedure is obviously different How can I make my Windows key open the Applications Menu in Xubuntu?I found the keyboard shortcuts in the Settings menu but I see no option for adding a shortcut. It only shows the existing shortcuts.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have mounted hard drive, but there is no data that is supposed to be on my Windows 7 partition C:
How can i access my data? How can i scan drive C: with antivirus?
I need to know how to set my Windows key + Key global shortcut on e16 1.0.7 stable.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to stream windows applications to Linux via VNC?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI need to run application, wich originally wrote for linux, under windows. SMPCallBuilder - application name. There is actually windows version for this program, but unfortunatelly without abillity to run it from console, AND I DO need to run this program from console, because I white program wich should work automatically.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhat is the best way to run windows software on linux system? I have both Fedora 14 and CentOS 5.5 installed.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI just installed Ubuntu to dual boot with my Win 7 and I want to fix the user permissions so i can install STEAM so then I can game and install other windows applications. So i tried to install steam with wine installed and i get this error message..The file '/tmp/SteamInstall.msi' is not marked as executable. If this was downloaded or copied form an untrusted source, it may be dangerous to run. For more details, read about the executable bit.
Can some one please help me with installing Steam and other windows applications correctly?Also I already tried to fix it with terminal code that still didnt fix it.
I cannot access figure out how to access files stored on a windows share within an application. I can access files on a windows share from places>network but if I am trying to access files from say audacitcy or gtkpod by means of file>open when the application brings up the "places" dialog there is no network Icon to choose from.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI would like that the windows I am working on are reopened automatically at login, so I checked
System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications -> Options Tab -> Check Automatically remember running applications when logging out.
It works but, unfortunately, sometimes windows are reopened in different workspaces. I have six workspaces and I usually keep a lot of windows opened, so rearranging them takes long.
Is there a way to ensure that windows are reopened in the same workspace?
i have a code written in c..for which i was trying to create a gui using Gtk+.but now i want to use qt4 for the same purpose but native language of qt4 is C++. i have to do library binding for my C code to develop a gui using qt4.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have yet another minor source of confusion in GNOME3... Imagine this: you have opened several terminal windows which cover most of your desktop, and a Firefox browser window. In Firefox you have an image which contains some data that you must type to one of the terminal windows. Since the data is in an image (not as a text), you can't use cut & paste to transfer it from Firefox to terminal.
In GNOME2 (and Windows), you can interleave the Firefox window and the terminal window so that the terminal window is on top of the Firefox window. You can place the terminal window so that it does not cover that part of the Firefox window which contains the data that you must type to the terminal window.
But in GNOME3, if I activate the terminal window, all open terminal windows are shown on top the Firefox window. In order to see the Firefox window again, I have to minimize or move those terminal windows which cover the part which I want to see while typing into the one terminal window. I think this is clumsy. Is there any way to switch back to the GNOME2 behavior which allows interleaving windows from different applications?
I ve been writing perl scripts for testing.( i am into telecom testing) I require a gui based tool where in the scripts can be loaded and run with one click of mouse? GTK is one option i got. But anyone knows any tool which is more user friendly, require less tweaking around for the set-up and is somewhat readymade for running perl scripts? And which is open source and can be downloaded from internet?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI noticed that on Linux, applications are much, much smaller but they take forever to start sometimes (namely, OpenOffice). However, MS Office starts up super fast, but I see it is huge (it needs 2GB to install).
Is there a trade-off between size and start time? If so, is it possible to "enlarge" some of my programs so they would start faster? I have plenty of unused disk space, and a few larger programs wouldn't really hurt.
I have a server hosted with Hetzner in Germany and have had it there for over a year now without any glitches. Last week very abruptly they deactivated the server giving me a very vague reason of "I was using another IP that was not assigned to me". After several calls I had the server reactivated but am still puzzled by this and Hetzner Germany has been unable to provide me with any proof, logs, traces or anything for that matter to validate their claims.
My primary (physical) server has one IP allocated (static) and IPv6 is turned off. On top of this server I run 3 VMware servers, 1 Ubuntu, 1 Debian, 1 Windows and all 3 of these VM's have static IP's configured.
I've done traceroutes, netstats and looked through every single config file with a fine toothcomb without finding anything and the problem has not reoccured either.
What I would like to know is if there is some way that someone could craft an attack of some sort that could cause a server to do this, to latch onto another IP not assigned to its NIC?
Today I'm trying to configure Postfix+Dovecot to use Samba4's LDAP database for authorisation and mail delivery. As I can see from /var/log/mail.log, Dovecot tries to bind to LDAP right after reboot , but fails:
Code:
pdcadmin@PDC1:~$ cat /var/log/mail.log
Jun 9 13:06:46 PDC1 dovecot: auth(default): ldap_bind
Jun 9 13:06:46 PDC1 dovecot: auth(default): ldap_simple_bind
[code].....
Believing this to be a sign of succesfull bind, I couldn't understand the reason behind it. Why do I need to restart or reload dovecot service to make it work (though it fails on the next step with "dict_ldap_lookup: Search error 1: Operations error" and "451 4.3.0 ... Temporary lookup failure")?
Recently, I've run into a rather interesting but also quite annoying instance of graphical corruption: a large black rectangle covering all or part of the window various running applications. What makes it interesting is that this graphical corruption only seems to occur in applications that have at least 2 tabs open. I've confirmed that it happens in pidgin, nautilus, gnome-terminal, and gedit; the latter 3 are shown in the attached screenshot.
Clearly, it has something to do with my graphics driver. I'm currently using the open source radeon driver in ubuntu 10.04 with a Radeon 9800XT.