I have VNC set up on my desktop. I would like to set it up so that I can sit on my desktop and do things while someone else connects on VNC on one of the other workspaces and do things. Is this possible? I know it sounds weird.
View 1 RepliesI am currently running XP Pro and am sick of it.
Here's my questions...
1) Can I install Ubuntu over XP or do I have to install it in a seperate partition?
2) If I just pop the disk in, will it do the majority of the work for me (and I won't have to bother you with more questions)?
3) Can I expect any conflicts with running other programs/software and hardware like printers or would I have to run them under XP?
I have an external HD and am running 1.5 gigs of RAM on a Dell Dim E520.
I'm about to do a fresh install on a new computer, and I plan to dual boot with Arch Linux and Ubuntu. I've been doing some reading on Arch Linux, and apparently one of the little tweaks that many Arch users use to increase performance is to put /var/ on it's own partition using a file system that is good for quickly writing many small files, namely, ReiserFS. I was wondering if this would do any good for Ubuntu. Is Ubuntu's usage of /var similar to Arch's, and if so would using a similar partition setup provide any performance increase?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI was wanting to run a nightly build of firefox. So i downloaded the tar file extracted and ran the firefox script. It went straight to my normal browser. Do you know how to make it go to the 3.7 Nightly without affecting the normal stable Build.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've got two monitors setup and it seems the only way to get separate gamma and brightness settings working on separate screens is through separate X sessions.
The problem though is after setting up and configuring Compiz the second monitor only displays the wallpaper and lets me move my mouse onto it i don't get any gnome panels nor do i get a menu if i right click on the desktop which suggests that gnome doesn't load on the other monitor at all or is out of bounds of the resolution.
It seemed to go like this during the configuring of Compiz as the right monitor windows and such seemed to crash then since then its just been the symptoms I described.
I'm including my Xorg.conf incase its of any use.
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# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildd@yellow) Fri Apr 9 11:51:21 UTC 2010
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
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I'm having some small lagging problems with my upgrade to 10.10. I haven't done a clean install since 9.04 so I'm thinking of doing one... and I have a few questions.Would making a separate partition at installation be worth it? If so how much run should I set for / ? 10gb? more? less?Also should I create a swap partition? I never use hibernate. Actually whats a good reason anyone would use hibernate on a desktop? on a laptop I could see a few instances but anyway it's shutdown or suspend for me[URL]
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy wireless and direct connect Ethernet seem to stop working after a two minute up time. I am using ubuntu 10.10 and did not have this problem before. Anyone else reporting similar issues? I wont get a disconnect message right away. It will show connected up top but after a while all web pages will simply stop loading. all downloads will stop downloading and then after a minute or so it will time out and say wireless disconnected. then reconnect sucessfully and still will not be able to load any web pages. the problem is not with the network as I have tried it on 3 seperate networks using different media.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a motherboard with the following chipset Intel 945GM + Intel ICH7R Chipset
This board: http://emea.kontron.com/products/boa...6lcdmmitx.html
I have two 320GB HDDs setup in hardware raid as shown below. But in gparted they are showing as two seperate drives. Why is this?
Raid setup:
GParted
fdisk -l
What am i doing wrong here?
What i want to do is ssh to another machine and have gui interface as if i was using the other machine. anywhere from a single program like just nautilus run from the server on my machine to a desktop like i was sitting at it helps. Also being able to display something on the server would be nice.
View 4 Replies View RelatedSince copying the .Xauthority or using xephyr/xnest open the applications in the same display, i was wondering. how can one run a separate display on tty8 for only the chroot? is it possible?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a client who asked me to setup two seperate installations of Ubuntu on his system for him; the intention being that he would have a fall back strategy in the event he screwed something up with the primary install. We have two seperate partitions set aside for each respective distro's / (root) and a large partition that both OS's mount as /home.
Thinking about this just now I have a feeling that what I should have done was added one more tiny partition to house /boot for both OS's. Would that have been the best thing to do? What is happening right now is both / partitions have a /boot folder and the MBR is mounting the secondary /boot folder (from Ubuntu #2) to run GRUB at the startup. The menu list of this /boot folder is giving priority to the instance of Ubuntu we had intended to function as the backup because the size of it's partition is much smaller. Well anyway, I'm going to guess the best way to fix this is to have a /boot partition that both OSs can share, but I don't know how to change the current configuration for both systems to do that.
I have installed KDE from the Ubuntu Software Center. Now I have the following... well, I wont call them problems, rather just annoyances.
1. The mouse pointer is KDE's pointer (I presume) in both interfaces.
2. I have mixed applications in the menus of both GNOME and KDE... GNOME has KDE's stuff and KDE has GNOME's stuff.
3. The Ubuntu screen at shutdown turned to Kubuntu regardless of being in GNOME.
The first and last one is not much of a problem for me, but is there a way of restoring each interface's default menu items? Since I know what I manually installed, I can just enable them again in Main Menu of Administration in GNOME and in KDE wherever that setting will be. If not, can someone maybe just give me a menu list in text or pics (ok, I know this might be asking a lot) so I can at least only have GNOME stuff in GNOME and KDE in KDE.
There are two networks in house I rent with other roommates. One wired, the other wireless (two separate routers), long story of why it worked out that way. For some reason, I am getting the same ip on eth0 and wlan0 even though both connections come from two separate routers, see below:
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I have Vista installed a 500 gb and recently added a 320 gb hard drive. How do I install ubuntu on to the 320 gb HDD and be able to dual boot the 2 operating systems? Also how do I keep myself from getting the symbol 'grub_puts' not found error when updating to 10.4?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have been trying to upgrade my server to Ubuntu 10.04 since it has come out, but I hit a roadblock with my hardware RAID I have two JBODs that work perfectly in Ubuntu 9.10 x64 - but show as seperate, unformatted partitions (one per hdd) in Ubuntu 10.04 x64. Here's the relevant portion of my fstab:
UUID="1fac4a2c-6a2e-4278-bab4-c7179c8720ee" /media/Motherload ext4 exec,auto,async,rw 0 2 #4TB-ext4-/dev/mapper/pdc_cabedbfaef1
UUID="31f1f023-e6a0-4b5e-b9d9-0a46011e7fa0" /media/Fry ext4 exec,auto,async,rw 0 2 #3TB-
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I currently have my computer connected to my main monitor, as well as my TV. I am using the Nvidia Driver and they are running as separate X screens. I have currently run into the problem that if my wife is watching videos on the TV while I am surfing the web or something on the other monitor, we really need 2 seperate cursors.Is there some way to have each X screen own a seperate cursor controlled exclusively by its own mouse? Or is there some other solution to this that anyone can think of?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install ubuntu 10.10 and windows 7 on my hard drive. I want to install both the OS on seperate drives. can anyone tell how to do it? I know that there are screenshots on ubunutu site itself but i am new to ubuntu and I am unable to follow instructions.
I first installed ubuntu 10.10 in dec 2010 using my ubuntu dvd. Now I am reinstalling it again but the setup screens have changed? hows that possible? i mean its the same disk. does anyone know why? or am i drunk.
I recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop. I've got access to both the Netbook Edition and the Desktop Edition, so I tried booting into the Desktop Edition since I prefer to use this.
Within it, I cannot use Alt-Tab to move between multiple windows. I don't have access to moving between workspaces; rather weirdly, I can move a window to a different workspace by right clicking on the application and selecting to move it to a different workspace but I cannot use Ctrl-Alt-Right or Left to move between workspaces, nor can I use Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Left or Right to move a window from one workspace to another.
I have checked the Keyboard Shortcuts under the System->Preferences side. Alt-Tab, Ctrl-Alt-Right/Left and Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Right/Left are all set as the commands for Moving between Windows using the popup window, moving to the right/left workspace and moving a window to the right/left workspace respectively.
I've seen a lot of people saying that they have problems when they've got compiz installed and alt-tab causes problems with this, but I don't have compiz installed.
Since I used sudo apt-get upgrade -d from my old 10.04 Netbook Edition, am I missing packages to correctly run the Desktop Edition?
Note: Within the Netbook Edition, I can use multiple workspaces and Alt-Tab does work, but the UI is very slow and causes the system to lag whenever I open an application.
I have been told it is possible to alt tab programs on different workspaces. The people that have done this on kde 3. How do you enable this on kde 4? I would really like to use this feature.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have been trying out the 2D version of Unity in Maverick and I cannot find any workspaces button. How can I use workspaces in Unity?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI just installed 10.04 couple hours ago and i installled compiz and i had my desktop in a 3d cube and i could rotate it and stuff i had it all workingthen...i think i mashed some buttons idk what i did but now i can't switch workspaces at all. Ctrl-alt- and left click doesnt work ctrl-alt- arrow keys dont work i cant swtich workspaces. the only way i can is to use the work space switcher on the panel...compiz says i have the cube enabled and i have 4 workspaces and all that i just can't rotate the desktop. the keyboard shortcuts are still there i just dont know why i they aren't working
View 1 Replies View Relatedif i can change the workspace switcher in ubuntu 11.04 to have only i horizontal row..without a second tier so that i can change my workspaces just my scroll action using compizconfig settings manager.
View 6 Replies View RelatedTitle says it all, I saw a screenshot of this guy with 9 workspaces and I can't seem to find the option anywhere.
I would really like to have 6 workspaces.
Here is the screeny.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...6&postcount=83
I recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop. I've got access to both the Netbook Edition and the Desktop Edition, so I tried booting into the Desktop Edition since I prefer to use this. Within it, I cannot use Alt-Tab to move between multiple windows. I don't have access to moving between workspaces; rather weirdly, I can move a window to a different workspace by right clicking on the application and selecting to move it to a different workspace but I cannot use Ctrl-Alt-Right or Left to move between workspaces, nor can I use Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Left or Right to move a window from one workspace to another.
I have checked the Keyboard Shortcuts under the System->Preferences side. Alt-Tab, Ctrl-Alt-Right/Left and Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Right/Left are all set as the commands for Moving between Windows using the popup window, moving to the right/left workspace and moving a window to the right/left workspace respectively.I've seen a lot of people saying that they have problems when they've got compiz installed and alt-tab causes problems with this, but I don't have compiz installed. Since I used sudo apt-get upgrade -d from my old 10.04 Netbook Edition, am I missing packages to correctly run the Desktop Edition?
Note: Within the Netbook Edition, I can use multiple workspaces and Alt-Tab does work, but the UI is very slow and causes the system to lag whenever I open an application.
I am running ubuntu 9.04, and need to change the number of workspaces to 1 from the command line. I am using this command in a script:gconftool --set -t int /apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces 1I can confirm in gconf-editor that the value is changed, but I can still scroll over to the second workspace with the mouse wheel
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have moved /home to it's own partition and all is good. Testing is on sda1 and /home on sda2. However a bit later I wondered what would happen if I had to reinstall testing, would I then have /home on both partitions?
View 4 Replies View RelatedWell i have Debian on, and have been using Wine to use some windows applications, unfortunately the 2 main games i wanted to use don't work on it, and a variety of other applications don't work either. XP is a bit intensive for my laptop, so even though i own it, i can't install it. I wanted to install Windows 98 to my laptop, but there are some issues, and i have no idea how to get around them.
1. My laptop has no CD/DVD drive (has one but doesn't seem to read any disk), it has no floppy drives, and the BIOS does not support booting from USB.
2. When trying to create a seperate partition on my HDD with linux on to try and make room for Windows, it stops me saying the drive is busy.
Specs:
2.8GHZ Pentium 4
ATI Radeon Mobility 7000 IGP 32MB Shared memory
256MB of RAM (217MB due to shared memory)
40GB HDD
2GB USB Storage Device which currently has Windows 98 SE setup files on it.
Has an internet connection via ethernet cable to my brothers laptop. Also have GRUB installed, asks me which OS to boot. Debian Squeeze.
Ideally i wanted to wipe debian off, as its putting my laptop under a bit of strain and can't run what i want it too, or if thats not possible, just split the HDD in 2 and have Windows 98 as my main OS.
I have a USB Stick, that have 2 separate disks.Here is the upper right DropDown Box of GParted.
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/dev/sda (149.05 GiB)
/dev/sdb (149.05 GiB)
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I'm a n00b at dual booting and I plan on installing Ubuntu 10.04 on a separate hard drive than my Windows 7 64 bit one in a dual boot situation. I have read that you can do this by unplugging the Windows hard drive, install Ubuntu on the other one, and than plug the Windows hard drive back in and everything will be fine and dandy. Is this correct? If it is, will I have to manually set the Primary and Secondary drive (in the BIOS I think?), or will it automatically do that.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've been googling this problem a lot these last couple of days, with no luck.The thing is, I need to record audio from an old Tascam four track cassette recorder. I have three tracks on the tape and I want to record them to three seperate tracks on the computer. I don't have and cannot afford a decent multi-track soundcard (one of the reasons I'm using the cassette recorder, another being really cool drum sound). This means I cannot record the tracks seperately and sync them afterwards, because the speed of each playback isn't 100% reliable.
I have a USB guitar link from Behringer, which I could use and has one mono plug. Pulse Audio picks that up as a seperate input and with Jokosher I can assign line-in left and right to two seperate tracks and the USB link to a third one. The problem is however that Jokosher constantly freezes up and I've never been able to make it work properly. So my question is: is there any other way/software I could use to record from two seperate audio sources?