I want to deploy xubuntu on several computers for a long term use. I (not surprisingly) didn't like unity, and want to use a lightweight desktop with more or less classical design. Unity, Gnome 3 and KDE are not a solution, so the best thing that works for me is xfce on top of xubuntu. But... I heard some rumors on the net that this project is dying. So I want to know what is the status of this project?
Is it a live and kicking project with a growing community, or a remnant of the past with a small group of amateurs that keep it alive as a hobby. I need to rely on a solid project with a strong support that can't fade away in seconds. Same question about the 'ubuntu' part of 'xubuntu'. I'm sure there are people around here that follow those projects closely and can describe the situation.
Recently I tried installing Ubuntu via CD, I burned the Image like the website said, It booted then it gave a black screen saying init was not found or something in that nature. I tried a few more times with no luck. I am making another CD to see if it works, hopefully it will,. Its a relatively old HDD. It has Win 98 on it. 9.18 GB space.Quantum Fireball lct 10 3.5" series.
Does anybody know of a program and/or an Operating System in which serves the purpose of managing OSs in a nature of simplicity? Sure would save so much time i spend reinstalling linux every time its brakes.
I have just upgraded to Lucid on Ubuntu. I am a long time Pidgin user. I tried using Empathy with Gwibber, but I can't get Gwibber to update my IM status(es) in Empathy, so I want to go back to using Pidgin. (Additionally, I can't get Skype to work with Empathy.)I installed pidgin-microblog and pidgin-mbpurple, and they allow me to view my Twitter feed in Pidgin and update my Twitter status in Pidgin. However, in Karmic, I was also able to specify certain "status availabilities" (one named "Twitter-Available" and one named "Twitter-Away", for instance) to have the IM status message for these statuses become populated with my Twitter feed. This capability seems missing in pidgin-mbpurple in Lucid (and it seems to be the only thing missing from Karmic).
Is there a way to have pidgin-mbpurple update certain "status availabilities" in Lucid (and I'm just missing something) or is this no longer possible?Equivalently, is it possible to have Gwibber update my status message in Empathy? (I just want to be able to update my status once on one of my three computers - and have it propagate to all my other accounts (IM and social networking) and computers).
Like for instance, if I have Ubuntu Lucid Lynx installed with XFCE, and it has an applications made for XFCE. will the applications also work on say some other distro like, Wolvix, that is an XFCE-based distro~????
What I am trying to say is: Do applications that are made for XFCE, work on ANY distro that has XFCE installed?
I installed 9.04 then upgraded all the way to 10.04 and I am sticking with this version now.I just tried updating the Legacy Grub to Grub 2. My version of Grub right now is 1.98.Somthing went wrong when I doing the "upgrade-from-grub-legacy" command and I got error 15 or something to that nature. I fixed that by booting in to my live 9.04 cd and long story short, I mounted the drive to replace the grub and all worked well. I am able to boot right back up now *wipes sweat off for-head*.... HUGE accomplishment for me and I feel like a real linux geek now hahaha.I again ran...
Code: ~$sudo upgrade-from-grub-legacy And I am prompted with this...
After a fresh installation of Ubuntu 10.10 I uninstalled empathy (im using skype). The empathy menu in the evolution indicator was gone after that.I also uninstalled gwibber. But the gwibber status indicator remains within the about-me panel... Uninstalling the gwibber package also removes the me-menu which I want to keep actually. Especially the shutdown/restart... part of it. See attachment.I know there is a shutdown panel-app...but its butt-ugly and it doesnt allow to logon/off.
In another thread I read that the gwibber status shouldnt be there if no account for it is configured... which it is not... I do use ubuntu-one though which is in the same menu... I saw that this issue was addressed at some bug report before, but not fixed yet...
Does anybody know a good workaround to get rid of the gwibber status in the panel while keeping the about me and the shutdown button?
Can I change the Caps Lock key to Control and still keep the on/off nature of Caps Lock? I've checked into using xmodmap and seem to have hit a dead end. Many people want to swap them, but they also want to swap the way they work. I'd rather keep my new Control key as an on/off switch for Control.
Yesterday I spent a good couple of hours putting together a video. When I shut down, Lives flushed my entire project because it uses a tmp working directory and places it as default in tmp.Today, I changed the working directory to Video, thinking this would be safe. Instead, the programme quit half-way through editing and I have now lost another good couple of hours.is there any way of saving my project?I can still see the .lay file but there doesn't seem to be any way of opening it.
I want to resume a fantastic old laptop from 1993, the "IBM THINKPAD X86 Model" with 130,544KB of RAM. I love to think a new life for that unused hardware. I have a working usb port (not functional as BOOT) and a working cdrom/dvd device ( not functional as BOOT too) but the NIC is dead and don't have the Floppydisc device. I have a windows2000 professional on it, with a working connection ADSL via modem USB.
- At first for resolve the BOOT problem i download wubi.exe: wubi dont find the internet connection (probably because it's via USB), and it cant download the ISO - I try the WUBI installation on offline mode, with the relative ISO ( the "Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS (Lucid Lynx)" ):
the installation work but it's stop at the "verify of the system" and the system doesn't work, probably because that Distro of Ubuntu it's a Desktop version, and that need 256MB of RAM and the Thinkpad have less memory. I need to install xubuntu on this machine but on the wubi offline installation don not exist that ISO. I don't want to surrender, this machine MUST have a new life!
P.S: when i'll install the system, i want to open the laptop and restore and redesign the plastic and much more! and i'll want to insert all the project here...
I am trying to get a git repo up and running for a project. I currently am running git-daemon through xinetd, and can pull from the repo but not push back to it.
/etc/xinetd.d/git-daemon currently looks like this: Code: service git { socket_type = stream wait = no user = gitman group = gitman server = /usr/bin/git-daemon server_args = --inetd --reuseaddr --base-path=/home/gitman/root --export-all --enable=receive-pack --verbose --syslog /home/gitman/root log_on_failure += USERID }
And /var/log/messages looks like this: Code: Jun 15 15:25:14 dev1 xinetd[27922]: xinetd Version 2.3.14 started with libwrap loadavg labeled-networking options compiled in. Jun 15 15:25:14 dev1 xinetd[27922]: Started working: 1 available service Jun 15 15:25:43 dev1 xinetd[27922]: START: git pid=27927 from=209.XXX.XXX.106 Jun 15 15:25:43 dev1 git-daemon[27927]: Extended attributes (22 bytes) exist <host=dev1.aea.us.com> Jun 15 15:25:43 dev1 git-daemon[27927]: Request receive-pack for '/EPA.git'
For some reason, the push request goes through, then stops and hangs. I went to lunch for an hour, and still nothing.
I have nearly completed a project.My team developed using C,shell scripts and qt.I would like to know how to package it as a .deb file??Also during installation,i want it to check for the existence of few packages in the system.If they are not there,i want it to download them using apt.
I have a small java project that handle connections. In order to run it from the terminal I have to cd into the folder that contains the source and run the following command: java -cp classes com.packagename.mainclass Where classes is the folder that contains the classes. I want ubuntu to run this application on startup, is there a Java command I can use? Or am I just better off creating a shell script?
I just started taking AP Computer Science A at my high school and we are learning to program in Java. At school we use Windows XP laptops with Jcreator but at home I just have my desktop with Ubuntu 10.04. I installed NetBeans 6.8 with no issues but can't figure out how to import and be able to work on my Jcreator projects from school. Not sure if this is the right section but I really need to get something working for school.
I just finished my first bash script for moving around mp3s based on their ID3 tags. So I'm fairly new to this kind of stuff!Now I need a small program for Stop Motion. I need it to be light, To preview the camera frame, and some number of previous shot frames, via "onion skining" and surprise surprise, to control my camera.The thing is that I'm thinking of writing it in Python2.6 because I believe that it will be much more efficient and fun.
My question is:
a) Is this project small enough for me to tackle (considering I'm a freelance and currently theres no job to be found)
b) Would you propose an alternative language and why?
c) What about a nice link for learning a bit of Python!
Does anyone have a recommendation for project management software? We don't need anything too fancy - just boiler plate tasks, time lines, Gantt and Pert charts, etc. We would like to put the area on the web with Apache using SSL/TLS and password authentication or client authentication (and an alternate port).
I would like to secure my site and I want to implement CAS for SSO, SELinux for the permission into my server and CODA, the last one I have read is not compatible with it, but I don't know if somebody have tried something. The most important request from HQ is use SELinux, they're conviced is the best one for the user permissions. I tried to look for some info in internet but there almost nothing.
I have added a couple of clips (1080p50 XVid) to a project, and each of them play fine in the Clip Monitor. I want to add these clips to the timeline and add the Dissolve transition between them.
I have achieved the above and when I click on the Play button on the Project Monitor, I can see the project playing including the transition. All fine so far.
After this first play of my new project, I have tried to move the playback position bar and once I do so, the project monitor goes black. From this point on, I cannot see my project playing whether I start playback from the beginning or from an arbitrary mid-point. I may see a flicker of an image, and the transition effect may appear but that is it until I quit Kdenlive and start again.
I'm stumped as to what could cause this. I did wonder if it was because I was using onboard graphics, but I have upgraded that element of the computer today with no change in the result.
I know the machine doesn't have the highest specification in the world, and perhaps more RAM is needed for this job. I don't believe this to be the causing factor in this problem though considering playback is initially achieved.
Following a search of the internet, I've attempted two possible ways of resolving this: disabling Compiz, starting Kdenlive from the terminal using 'env XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 kdenlive' and running the Config Wizard. Neither has given the resolution.
I have a folder in my Home folder and called "Projects". I want to change the icon of the folder Project so the icon changed in everywhere. In "Places", Open Dialogs, Save Dialogs and Normal View in Nautilus.
What I have done: Change the icon using Right-Click -> Properties -> Basic Tab -> Clicked the current icon and changed it.
But this changed it only in Nautilus. If I added this folder to "Places" it will appear with the Default icon. The same thing if I browsed to it using Open Dialogs or Save Dialogs.
I was trying to install java on 10.04 in firefox. Now whenever I try to get new software, there is none to be found. I am getting the error message "E: Malformed line 54 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse) E: the list source cannot be read". To top it all off, I still cannot get java to function. I am pretty new to this.
I'm trying to make a program for Windows Me and linux that will mimic/imitate Windows Security Center. Maybe put it in the cloud? WIndows Me is good, it doesn't matter that Windows Me is discontinued, and I'm not trolling. But my main focus is linux.
I tried to update my eclipse to the Helios version through a PPA, but I wanted to use it for programming in C / C++, in order to integrate it with the NS-3. After updating CDT installed the plugin but could not create project in C / C + + because they did not appear in the File -> New -> Project. I decided to return to the previous version to see the eclipse in the repositories by default.I did:
I needed to create a virtual host for a php project I'm working on. Rather than using command line and text editors, I installed webmin to accomplish this and hopefully perform other server configuration in the future. When I created the virtual host and tried applying the changes Apache wouldn't re-start, and still doesn't restart after complete re-boot. It's getting hung up at the end of apache2.conf, which is trying to include /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.
When I look at 000-default from a File Browser, it's a linked file to etc/apache2/sites-available/default I can open both the linked file and actual file in a text editor, and it looks fine. When I view the directory, /etc/apache2/sites-available from shell, the default file isn't visible. It seems this "invisibility" is probably related to the error, which is preventing start-up. Can anyone explain why the file would be visible from the Ubuntu File Browser GUI but not from the terminal, and how I can fix so apache can recognize this on start-up?
Our application is based on the C++ devlopment which requires so many of packages dependent on the Ubuntu OS, Graphics libraries, Development packages and other dependent libraries. So we need to configure all those every time in a new PC when we add. Is there any other way to do this job very easily and the any method to create our application executable to run in all PCs with the dependencies packages installed.
I have been searching for information about the ways Debian allows for anyone wishing to give a helping hand to the project. I found that joining maintainer groups, helping in writing documentation, bug reporting and financial help are all accepted, but what I intend, was never mentioned.
Is it possible to help Debian by submitting original source code? Yes, it is true that I contacted GNU about this, but the decision is still mine, and GNU is not binding me to give my source to them.
The source code I am talking about, took more than a year to complete and debug, and has been working without problems for more than ten years. Furthermore, it has no dependences as it does NOT delegate part of its functionality to other existing projects.
Although, I am still in my early forties, and as far as I know, I don't have any life threatening illness, we are all mortal, and I don't want my work, that took many months of hard work and concentration, to be erased to make room for the only operating system my heirs know.
Does Project M work on Fedora, and if so, what desktop. I suspect it might work on Gnome but not LXDE. I have an Intel graphics card so that should be OK.
