I recently correctly installed a cursor theme in ubuntu 10.04. When I move the pointer around in a window the theme appears but when I move the pointer around on the desktop i changes to the default theme.
I think it's something with compiz because when I shut it down the theme appears on the desktop...
So, when I play Java games, Sun Java will use default cursor set instead of custom cursor set that i have selected. So, where is the problem? I can see the difference if I start that java game to window, and move my mouse from not-window to window :/
Very annoying, because i would need that custom cursor for that game
How do you create custom cursors? I found an xcursor tutorial but no installation instructions - it just left me with the cursor files.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am running ubuntu 9.10 on a dell mini 10v. I am experienced in running themes and xsplashes, but for some reason i can not successfully install pointers. I drag and drop the pointer themes to the appearance window found from System>Prefrences>Appearances. When i click customize i see that the pointers i instatlled are there, however when i choose them it doesn't work properly, if i go over text or resize a window i see the new pointers but the main pointer always stays the default white.
View 1 Replies View RelatedSome time ago I installed KDE on my machine, though I use gnome as the default. (I rarely login on KDE) .Since then, when I login in my default gnome I get those futuristic KDE cursors, which I hate by the way. I've been trying to go back to my default cursors but I've had no success. I go to System -> Appearance -> Customize -> Pointer and then I select Default Pointer or even DMZ (white) I click on close twice and nothing happens. I've even removed the "oxygen-cursor-theme" using the package manager. How can I get my default mouse cursors back?
On the same note, before I get the login screen and after clicking on logout/restart I get a Kubuntu blue (splash?) screen, I'd prefer not to get this screen. how to get rid of this, too? (Getting rid of the cursors would be most important, but if I can get rid of this screen it'd be nice, too)
Whenever I want to change my cursor to something else, the "new" cursor only shows up when I'm doing certain things in certain apps. How do I make it so that my replacement, new cursor is OS-wide, instead of making little cameo appearances?
View 1 Replies View RelatedAfter upgrade to 10.10 certain cursors became broken. Please see attached picture to get an idea what it looks like, I've circled the cursor. I had to take a pic with a camera, if I do a print screen the resulting image shows normal cursor. I've tried turning off desktop effects and different drivers for the video card. The cursor is broken for the following apps:
rdesktop - always when connected to the remote host
chrome/firefox - image zoom in/out
open office draw - when I try to resize a line.
How to get more Photos , cursors , themes ,sounds for my Ubuntu??
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have just installed the new version 10.04 of xubuntu but I cannot enable xdmcp.
1) the gdm.conf (usualy in /etc/gdm/) is missing (where is now this file?);
2) the custom.conf apparently don't work;
3) the remote tab in login windows are missing
It there a way to enable automated mouse cursors in Fedora 12? About the only thing I miss from WinDoze is the animated hourglass cursor when I start an application by double-clicking its icon. With Fedora, I'll sometimes double-click an icon again, thinking that my first attempt didn't work, only to find that the program was loading and then I have two instances of the program.Yeah, it's a minor thing and, yeah, I can live without it, but it sure would be nice.
View 1 Replies View RelatedToday I decided to try to install 2.6.31.1 on Fedora 11, x86_64.I did it differently from what appears to be the RPM way, I instead just compiled it from the source.Anywho, ndiswrapper with NetworkManager doesn't work in the new kernel
View 12 Replies View RelatedI have swapped backspace key with ` (grave) key. So I added a layout in the /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us with the following lines:
key <TLDE> { [ BackSpace, BackSpace, BackSpace, BackSpace ] };
key <BKSP> { [ grave, asciitilde, dead_tilde, asciitilde ] };
Now the backspace and grave work well, but when I press shift + grave (previously backspace key), I get grave, not asciitilde.
This is strange because I tried the same thing (with the same us file) with Chakra linux and it worked without any problem.
I use .htaccess to deny all ip addresses except certain to an internal wiki on a subdomain.
Code:
If access is denied to the homepage users are shown the Fedora test page instead of my own custom 403 error page. When I go to a page - not home - I see a standard 403 error page.
Code:
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora) Server at wiki.domain.com Port 80. What am I missing here? Seems like my ErrorDocument is not being reached..
I wanted to create my own folder called /Softwares so that whenever i download a rpm i could place it there , run createrepo and then use yum install software_name.What am i doing wrong am i doing something wrong in the .repo file? The only way i could actually install sskype.rpm is to go in the directory where it was installed and type yum install sskype.But then whats the point of the repository.
View 1 Replies View RelatedJust spent three whole days barking up the wrong tree, solving Fedora 11 and Fedora 12 boot failures because the correct hypothesis was illogical: installation did not update/modify the initrd.
The first couple of times I installed Fedora 11 on the HighPoint Technologies RocketRaid 2640x4, the installation inserted my "custom" driver module (rr26xx) into the initrd, permanently, so that the system booted off the controller card for which the custom driver was inserted. (I yelled about this success in this thread: [url]
My most recent installs of BOTH F11 and F12 on the RocketRaid failed to properly set up the boot. It turns out that the "rr2640" module I "slipstreamed" into the installation process was *NOT* permanently added to the initrd by anaconda. (F12 gave me "no root device found boot has failed, sleeping forever", on boot; F11 hung also, without such error, I presume, during the init script execution). Because of limited resources and time, I only know for sure the module was missing from the F11 initrd, and am ASSUMING the same was the case with F12.
The only difference between the successful installs and the ones with failed boot is that the successful installs were made on a single-drive (JBOD) mode on the controller; whereas, the failed ones were placed on RAID 5. But, AFAIK, the created logical device for the card is "/dev/sda", in both cases, and the kernel can not distinguish between the two cases (or can it?). Thus, the inconsistency cost me a lot of time, and is still inexplicable to me.
Question: What is the best way to deal with custom drivers, today? There are custom spins, and many tools, like isomaster. Stupid question: Is there a way to modify the initrd inside an installer ISO -- be it for CD/DVD/USBboot drive -- beefing the init RAM disk with whatever modules you'd like, for the boot process (using, say, isomaster)?
And what makes anaconda understand that a module must be added to the initrd ? How can one force anaconda to do so?
How does moving to dracut as the initrd tool affect any/all of the above?
I wanted to add some custom emblems so I could label my folders more effectively and after a little bit of work, I figured out how to do it and I thought I should share that info with the group. The first thing to note is that the emblems are stored in the folder /usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/emblems. The first problem you are going to run into is that you don't have permission to add files to this folder. The way I got around this was by changing the owner of the folder to myself. I am using a computer for recording, so my user name is "band." Change that to your user name.
Code: sudo chown band "/usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/emblems" After you do that, you can paste your icons (I would use the .png format) into the folder. Next, you have to resize your icons so they are 32x32. You can do this by right clicking on the image then Open With > Gimp Image Editor. When Gimp starts up, go to Image > Scale Image. Change the width to 32. If your image is square, it will automaticly change the hight to 32. If it isn't then you can either force it to be 32 by unchecking the chain icon between the width and height, or you can resize the layer so it fits within 32x32. Then File > Save. If it is not a .png file, I would use Save As and save it as a .png by replacing the current format (.jpg, ect.) to .png. The Gimp will automaticly change the settings so it save it to the right format. I know for some of you these steps were obvious, but I thought I should help people out who aren't too familiar with the terminal or with the Gimp.
I want to create a custom ubuntu ISO (This ISO will contain all the packages with the latest updates released till date).
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have several DE, actually 5, and I want everyone to have custom start up. for example -wicd (daemon) and wicd-gtk to start up when I log in to 'awesome' ,'xfce4'and 'ratpoison'and the standart ones for gnome and kde.(btw, it's all happening in Arch linux, but I guess it's not a big deal)
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm purchasing a new laptop and considering the Dell XPS 14, customized.
Specifically, its customized to the sheet I've attached as PDF. The parts I'd assume are most important for Linux hardware compatibility, are:Processor: 2010 Intel CoreTM i5-430M 2.26GHz (2.53GHz Turbo Mode, 3M cache) Video Card: Intel HD Graphics. Wireless NIC: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200
Does anyone have any warnings about any of this hardware? I'd like to make sure I'm not going to run into any more issues (as I have personally, in the past) with drivers being crappy because the manufacturer refuses to open up to the Kernel Dev. community.
if you're looking at the PDF, then obviously ignore all the software garbage that Dell throws in (eg. MS Windows 7, Adobe, McAfee).
I am in the tasks section of the following tutorial [URL] I did the list package thing to see what packages there are. However now I cannot leave the list in order to run the purge command. How can I get back to the previous section so I can remove packages from the custom live cd. I want to make sure I am editing the live cd and not the current install. I am going to make two images. One cd that will still have a gui but I plan to build as a recovery tool. The other one is a dvd and will be for installing everything I want on any machine. I am doing the tutorial with Karmic. Also I have cursors, themes and icons I installed from gnome look. I then went to customize and created my own personal mix I like. I would like to make this a standalone theme and come as the default theme on the live cd and dvd. I have no clue what I am doing, however wish to learn to build my own custom live cd. Also I would like to know how to ad repositories to the live cd and how to add programs pre installed that are not usually included.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhat I am going to tell you has worked for the Alternative Ubuntu ISO but I would like to see if I can do this for the Server Ubuntu ISO. I need to pass along some ideas as no one else seems to have tried it this way on this forum (other have been using preseeds but I don't think this way).[URL]Copy files from the mounted ISO to my HDD: cp -rf /mnt/ubuntu/* /opt/ubuntu-server/Once the files were on my HDD, I started to edit files that would help using a special preseed I wanted to configureI changed directories to /opt/ubuntu-server/preseed/ and created a file called test.seedI edited the test.seed file with the example found here:[URL]Saved it and changed directories to /opt/ubuntu-server/isolinux/Started the edit the text.cfg (holds the labels for installing ubuntu)Here is what I appended to the end of the file:
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label test-install
menu label ^Install Test Ubuntu
[code]....
I wasn't using my laptop for at least a few hours, but when I looked at it, it had seemed to crash. I am hoping to figure out what caused this, and to prevent it from happening again. I believe it has something to do with drm or b43 as that is what I could decipher from the screen. I have checked some logs and found nothing irregular. I do not want this to happen again. I am running kernel 2.6.33.1 with no patches and a custom config tailored to my processor. The reason I am running 2.6.33.1 is because of support for my Wifi.
View 5 Replies View RelatedFor a long time I've used a custom xsession that loads Mythtv without any sort of desktop environment. Every time I upgrade I've just backed up and restored my xsessions entry. I did the same when switching to 10.4 only to find that the custom xsession entry causes gdm to login WITHOUT a password.When I select the custom xsession in GDM I get logged in immediately without a password or confirmation. The expected behavior is that I'd select the xsession and not get logged in until after entering my password. I've done some trial and error with this issue and it seems that it boils down to a single line in the custom xsession file.
View 4 Replies View RelatedJust installed latest ubuntu,
I want the "system monitor" to pop up on ctrl+alt+delete, I'm still damaged from long time on windows ^^
Anyways this is what i have done:
1. system > keyboard shortcuts
2. made another shortcut for "log out" (is ctrl-alt-delete default)
3. then "add" name=Ctrl-Alt-Delete and command=gnome-system-monitor
Now my new custom shortcut is disabled. How can i enable this?
I'm sure this is possible to do, but how do I create a Ubuntu install cd that uses my current config. Ideally I would like to be able to install exactly what I have on my system now, without user files. Wine, Ccsm, amarok, audacity, themes the whole nine yards. I tried using a program called Ubuntu Customization Kit, but it wouldnt let me mount the normal ubuntu install .iso file. This would avoid the hour and a half post-install config every time I screw Ubuntu up as well as stripping off many of the programs I don't need...
View 3 Replies View RelatedPreload notes the applications I open frequently and preloads them for faster app. startup.
But is there any way in which I can add my own files to preload
I would like to try and optimize my kernel a bit. Since I am doing this on a fresh install, I don't really care if the os gets bricked in the process, and I am sure I can bring it back if I can boot into a recovery console from the old kernel. So, I followed thispost. I patched it and copied and edited a config file from /boot/, saved it as .config, I tried it several times with both removing and not removing /debian and /debian.master directories from the source, yet I always get the same error when I run "make oldconfig".
Code:
$ make oldconfig
scripts/kconfig/conf -o arch/x86/Kconfig
*** Error during writing of the kernel configuration.
make[1]: *** [oldconfig] Error 1
[Code]...
I want to create a custom live cd of off peppermint os one. I want to add specific software, and delete some packages i don't really need. How can I do this Reconstructor is not what i want, because i am forced to use Ubuntu or Debian,
remastersys doesnt work for me since I see no option in using peppermint one as a live cd.
I want to create a LiveCD that you can boot and where instead of the normal Ubuntu installer (ubiquity) my own installer is starting.
I tried to do that with FAI, but I have many problems with it. Do you know a good way to do it? Is there an Interface for the Ubuntu installer/Source Code? Any other tools, ideas or thoughts?
the archive manager in ubuntu uses default settings for archiving files into .7zip
s. but much more compression can be achieved setting the cmpression level
higher from command line. Is there a way I can set that settings as default in Archive manager?