Ubuntu :: Oddity With AWN And Grouping Common Windows
Jun 1, 2010
I am running a fresh install of Lucid 64bit with Desktop effects enabled and the latest driver from Nvidia 195.36.24 (but had the problem also with the ubuntu repo driver. The issue can be reproduced as follows. Set AWN to group common windows (I believe this is the default) Open several gedit windows (or any other app) Then open firefox and maximize the window (or simply move the window so it's directly above your gedit dock icon.) In the AWN dock, select the gedit icon and try and select an open gedit window. When you click the gedit icon in the AWN dock, you'll see a popup with all of your gedit windows. If you move the mouse to attempt and select one of the gedit's, the menu disappears and you can't select anything.
as i am planning to buy a new computer at the end of this month i am willing to give fedora 15 a try. right now im trying out gnome, xfce and the kde release on my laptop.i really like the feature of kde to set window behaviour for whole applications but i couldnt find one setting that i hoped i would.on mac os x, different windows of, lets say, the browser are all spawned behind one another but a little shifted to the bottom right. does kde have this feature, too?
I have installed php 5.3.6-4 on centOS 5.6. When i try to install some modules of php then it gives an error
php53-common-5.3.3-1.el5_6.1.i386 from updates has depsolving problems --> php53-common conflicts with php-common Error: php53-common conflicts with php-common
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I have reinstall it twice but each time i get same error.
It is hard to explain this using words. Suppose you have multiple OpenOffice documents open. Instead of spreading the OpenOffice documents out on the taskbar, I want to combine it into one. I want to select, which window I want within the OpenOffice documents group vertically.
I've got ubuntu 9.10 in my machine and install avast on it, althought the av dont recognize the windows and the commom partitions. I know that windows is dev/sda1 and the commom is dev/sda5 and in avast, only appears the folder dev, dont appear the subfolders.
I have a standalone system which dual-boots Linux and Windows.The trouble is that the Linux filesystem is separate and the Windows filesystem is separate. there a way to have a folder in which I can store files which I can access whenI'm in Linux as well as in Windows?
I'm having an issue with my AWN dock where I have enabled it to'group similarapplications', i.e multiple windows of the the same applicationIn 9.10, AWN distinguished between different WINE applications and used their native icons.In 10.04 AWN doesn't distinguish, see the pic belowScreenshot-2.jpgs you can see AWN groups my WINE applications under one icon, the spotify icon and you can see the MS Word logo to the right. This is very irritating since I would like to have separate WINE shortcuts on my taskbar! I'm sure this will affect some other users too.Anyone know how to sort this out?N.B I can't use cairodock as I have issues with freezing and icons not appearing, and i feel docky isn't up to speed with the same functionality as the others for the time being.
The GUI design of Ubuntu 11.04 really drives me nuts. It was completely silly and nonsense, especially the auto-hide feature. For instance, whenever I open Gvim, the toolbar is automatically hidden, I'm like wth, I need "this bar". Another annoying this is I can't keep track of which tab that I'm currently working on, they grouped all together on the left hand side, and the size of these icons are ridiculously huge. How could I change it back to the bottom and keep each tab separate from each other?
I have dual monitors (both 1600x1200) and X is set to span them. I prefer to set my Eclipse window to 3200x1100. However, when I use VNC to connect to my desktop, I'd have to pan around a lot, so I use wmctrl via a script to resize Eclipse (and Chrome, etc.) to better fit my smaller VNC viewport.
When I return to my dual-monitor desktop, I want to resize/move my windows again. But wmctrl does not work correctly. If I do
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(from a script), then instead of putting the window at 0,0 and width 3200, the window appears on the second monitor (i.e. at 1600,0) with width 1600. So I must manually resize it which is more difficult.
Am I using wmctrl correctly? Is it not wmctrl's problem but my window manager? I'm using compiz in Ubuntu 10.10.
I want to get Ubuntu blazing fast and I started out by changing the swappiness to just 10 and got a huge performance spike. I was very happy with that. Then I used rcconf and GNOME's startup applications GUI and edited out quite a bit but still have a somewhat slow boot. Well, the next thing I thought I should do is edit the inittab and rid my self of some surely unneeded services. Well, according to this website, Ubuntu doesn't use this inittab, but etc/event.d doesn't exist either! Well I looked in /etc for something related to init, and I believe I have found where these services are called upon. /etc/init.d and /etc/init.
Now the files contain many scripts for different services so I was wondering how to edit these to turn them off to optimize my boot! Do I comment out the unneeded ones? My next question is what strategy should I use as I edit these? I think I can get rid of "ssh" and "cups" and "samba" since I don't use these. Can someone point me to a nice list of services and their functions? I just want to optimize Ubuntu as much as possible to not only have a fast computer for my self and family to use, but to impress Windows users with the speed that can be obtained from Linux!
I am using Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala with Firefox 3.5.8 and the Synaptic touch pad driver for laptops. The problem occurs no matter if I choose to reinstall Firefox or the driver, a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10, or a combination of them. As I browse through Firefox, on no certain, but continually occurring occasion my mouse cursor distorts as I hover over links.
The distortion look as if the cursor is rapidly alternating between its normal state and the link hovering state. The thing is, this happens so rapidly it can become distracting and even downright maddening, as it sometimes doesn't click the link. The best term for the oddity is: it freaks out; it goes crazy. This has happened on various themes and preference settings, so it apparently has nothing to do with that. It does not happen anywhere else apart from Firefox, as far as I know. I think this is a generic Ubuntu-Firefox bug, but I have not been able to retrieve a solution.
I typically have pidgin and amsn, as well as firefox and thunderbird running.Once in a while, the left mouse button ceases to function as the left button, and the right button becomes the left button, or almost.. I wonder if this is a bug, or am I hitting the left-handed-mouse function while typing accidentally??
I'm running OpenSuSE 11.3 (64 bit) with the latest kernel update as of yesterday. I've recently moved from NFSv3 to NFSv4 on 4 servers. Between the 4 servers there are 9 exported directories. All of them work except 1 on 1 of the 4 servers.
/etc/exports # NFSv4 fsid=0 for the top level directory /export *(rw,fsid=0,async,no_subtree_check,insecure) # End
# NFSv3 /export/apps/oracle *(rw,async,fsid=7,no_subtree_check,insecure) /export/ftpserver *(rw,async,fsid=6,no_subtree_check,insecure) # End
I had to keep the NFSv3 entry as I need that as the mount doesn't work with v4. /export directory listing /export: total 5 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 104 2002-08-08 16:47 . drwxr-xr-x 33 root root 944 2011-01-25 17:28 .. drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 232 2010-01-26 10:01 apps drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 2010-12-13 12:31 ftpserver
Now on any of the 4 servers if I do: # mount -t nfs4 machinename:/apps/oracle /mnt mount.nfs4: mounting lister:/apps/oracle failed, reason given by server: No such file or directory
But the other sub-dir of /export is fine: # mount -t nfs4 machinename:/apps/ftpserver /mnt
If I mount the pseudo root: # mount -t nfs4 machinename:/ /mnt # ls -l /mnt total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2002-08-08 15:20 apps drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 2010-12-13 12:31 ftpserver
But the apps sub-dir is empty # ls -l /mnt/apps total 0
Well that explains why the NFSv4 mount of /apps/oracle fails because for some reason it can't "see" any files below that, but as I say the ftpserver sub-dir & mount are fine.
We have Nagios running on a server, and are installing NRPE as a daemon on web servers we need to monitor. I'm two servers in and have hit a small snag. The two servers we're currently trying to monitor are, to the best of our knowledge, very similar (Centos 5.4, Apache, MySQL, PHP etc etc), and the installations of NRPE on them should be the same. One is being monitored just fine, however we can't check on the other one without including the -n switch (to disable SSL) in the check_nrpe call. If we don't, however, the error we get is, "CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 10 seconds.". In /var/log/messages on the machine that fails we see:
May 24 17:23:49 ourserver xinetd[23583]: START: nrpe pid=27932 from=123.123.123.123 May 24 17:23:59 ourserver nrpe[27932]: Could not read request from client, bailing out... May 24 17:23:59 ourserver xinetd[23583]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=27932 duration=10(sec) The only kind of related thing I can think of that's different between the two machines is that one (the one that works) has actually had an SSL certificate installed on it, for the site it hosts.
I have an X11 GTK program, let's name it "foo".I would like to start it from command line, either from a text console, or from an ssh log-in. I want to run foo with Administrator privileges and in higher priority, and I need redirect standard output and standard error. Standard errors must go to syslog, except "libglade Warning" messages and empty line messages. Standard output is redirected to a file.I wrote a script, called "foo-start". The "foo" program must run continously, so the "foo-start" script should not wait for "foo"'s termination.The scrip actually looks likelike this:
upgraded from Karmic to Lucid Friday. All seems OK, except I now have a "Uzb" icon in my taskbar. When I click it, it's the keyboard layout settings, which are now set to "Uzbekistan" by default.When I remove Uzb, to leave just GB, the icon disappears
I made a shortcut with chromium browser to listen.grooveshark.com. This is great as it's almost like the grooveshark VIP desktop application like this. However AWN dock groups it with other chromium windows like this:Kuvakaappaus.jpg
Is it possible to force AWN to group this specific chromium window under the Grooveshark launcher that I have in the dock? Turning off grouping does not solve this either, as it just shows grooveshark as another chromium window.
This guide isn't going to be updated anymore, as there is gNatty, and I've switched to Lubuntu. The reason? GDM kept crashing and issues kept coming up that reduced the overall functionality of my own computer. The PPA seems like it changes slightly to where things may break, if something does break, try to run: sudo apt-get install gnome-shell gnome-session again, as it looks like a lot of the time gnome-shell and gnome-session aren't being installed. FIX for issue opening certain applications (like games) Do the following in terminal:
Code: echo "PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games"" | tee -a ~/.profile Logout and log back in and that should fix the issue. NOTE: You have to do this for each user that logs into the system if they can't access games or that. FIX for .ICEauthority issue! There's another method besides this one, and it involves just installing the following:
I am trying setup nfs mount points on my system. when i try to restart nfs-common servic, I get following error. client :~ sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-common restart bash: /etc/init.d/nfs-common: No such file or directory
apt-get install nfs-common gives this message : apt-get install nfs-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...
nfs-common is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.what am i doing wrong? I'm running Linux client 2.6.31-19-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 28 02:39:34 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux (karmic)
In WinXP they have program_files folder that houses the most installed software on their PC's. Where does Ubuntu house most of it's installed programs?
I was looking for a converter to use on common avi files and maybe some others and came across this thread. I followed it all the way to where it asks me to install ConvertIt by adding the repos and then running Synaptic. I found convertit and marked for install and clicked apply and got this error:
Code: convertit: Depends: gambas2-runtime (<2.1) but 2.13.1-1ubuntu1 is to be installed Depends: gambas2-gb-qt (<2.1) but 2.13.1-1ubuntu1 is to be installed
So i check synaptic for that and i had them installed already from the guide. So i marked them all for reinstall since i installed them in the terminal the first time. Reinstalled and i still get the same error.
Any idea whats wrong? Or is there a better movie converter thats easier? I just want to re encode the files so the will play on my 360.
I've only ever installed two programs that came in .tar.gz's with their own install.sh scripts. Each one recommended to be saved in /opt.What is opt? Should all .tar.gz programs with their script installer be handled in the opt directory?
I ran this line: aptitude purge x11-common and all common files, all the tools I need are gone from my desktop. I have an amd64 with ubuntu +gnome on it.
Is there a way to reverse this --other than installing 1gb of packages one by one?
i have been trying to figure out how to get my CAC working on my laptop so i can log into service portal sites and do things while i am TDY that require CAC logins. I have followed this tutorial [URL], and i got as far as getting the module installed into firefox, but it wouldnt aknowledge my card being inserted and wouldnt prompt me to select a certificate or anything. Then i tried OpenSC, but for one it wouldnt acknowldege my card being inserted and the module wouldnt load in firefox.
I mainly want to use this for logging into AirForce Portal, DTS, and Webmail while im TDY so i dont have to find a GOV computer to do that stuff on. I would ultimately like to get it setup to where i can use my CAC to login to my laptop just like a Government computer, but if i cant do that right now i wont cry over it. Im using a SCM SCR3340, i havent seen it on any supported hardware list yet, but so far coolkey and opensc have both detected my reader, just opensc didnt detect my card being inserted.
talking about dependencies issues, with the solution to first install texlive-base. I have now tried to remove all tex packages completely and reinstall them, starting with texlive-base, but I keep getting the same error. code...
When "installing" a program that basically just unpacks into a directory of your making. Is there a "common" place to create the directory? I usually end up making it my home folder, but that gets crowded.
