i disabled the gdm from RC start-up scripts so now my ubuntu will boot only in text-mode (terminal) ,but what i need to know is how can i run a single application for ex. Firefox in gui mode ,by keeping gdm disabled ,i tried using startx but it did not solved my issue .
View 8 RepliesI have a Lucid Ubuntu installed on my home PC with two user accounts, AmHero and simple. I would like to have all internet access disabled when my kids login with the 'simple' userid. And yes, internet should work when I login using AmHero. I tried this:
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..but this does not work and gives some errors on the terminal.
I can paste the errors, though I am not sure this will even work as I found this in an old post.
I'm trying to disable multiple logins for a single user on Ubuntu 10.10 but I haven't been able to find a way to do this on this version
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View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen Desktop Effects are enabled in KDE the window for Tecplot 'bleeds' through, as if ~40% transparent in various regions. Disabling desktop effects fixes this, however, I would like to keep them. Is there a way to disable desktop effects on a single window/application?
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vobcopy -l -t movie
This DOES create a single file. However, when it is played, the seek is limited to the length of the first VOB file. For instance, one of my movies starts with an 8 second VOB followed by 4 other larger files. When playing, I can only seek within that 8 seconds.
dvdcopy and cat/mpgcat/vobcat
Same issues. Using cat gives seeking issues - limited to the first VOB's length. mpgcat complains that the audio tracks of each VOBs on the disc are of different bitrates, and I have to force the rip. The completed file once again has seek issues.
I'd LIKE to do this from the command line. Also, I am actually ripping ISOs. I originally ripped my DVDs to my drive as complete images, but now I just want the main feature. So, if you have any better ideas with dealing with the raw files, that would be better.
Is there a way that I can have a user on my Ubuntu 11 box that when logged in it automatically opens X program and nothing else, no window manager nothing, single program for that user only?Here is the scenario, I have 3 users, one is called Skype. I want when someone logs into the skype user no window manager at all be available to that user from the GDM and for xwin to automatically start skype up.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI delete a particular file often. first I have to cd then I have to rm.Is there a way to do this on a single line?
example
cd ./ssh rm known_hosts
that doesn't but is there a way to do it?
I've seen a lot of documents which use a really beautiful font. This is an example:[url] I mean the font which is used for "Problems", 'The area of a regular...'. Well, I found out that it's somehow called TeX font and I tried to download it. Unfortunately, this is font is separated in many, many files (Italic, Bold, Standard, Italic Bold, Math symbols, other symbols ...). It's horrible, because I would just like to use that font in OpenOffice. I wouldn't like to still change the style by choosing another font. Is there a place where I can download the combined TTF file? So I would just have the bold, italic, math symbols and other symbols in one font without having to choose the different one to just change a style or to enter a copyright sign?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have configured squid in a single PC to save bandwidth and to block some sites.It works fine,but the only drawback is if the user disables the proxy settings in the browser they can able to browse all sites..Is there anyway to force all my browsers to go through proxy??
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have an Ubuntu install on an 8Gb SDHC Card, customized for my Toshiba NB205. It took quite a bit to get sound and BT working, but now it's fine. Just out of curiousity, I used this same SDHC Card to boot my Dell D610 -- it booted, and sound and WiFi worked fine. I was surprised. There was a single error message after the desktop appeared, but I didn't record it.
I am now wondering: is it practical to use a single USB installation with multiple devices? I can imagine a number of complications, but was surprised that my attempt worked on two very different hardware platforms. There was discussion, when pendrives first appeared, of being able to use one to boot any PC to your own USB-based OS, bypassing any other OS installed on the PC.
How do I go about encrypting a file in Ubuntu 10.04?
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I need it for my backup flash disk. I use it for windows and Ubuntu pc's and use rsync to sync it, but I think the Modification times are getting mixed up as my flash drive is formatted in fat32. So I would like to format a single directory into ext4.
I have a folder containing 5000+ zip files and I need to add a single file to each zip. How to do it quick way?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHow do I get into Single User Mode in 10.04?
The grub menu seems to be gone in 10.04, and the computer boots in 2 seconds. It's great that it boots fast, but there has to be some way to specify boot options?
/etc/default/grub says the timeout is 10, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
I have a quick question that I haven't been able to find an answer for so far. Is it possible to 'hide' a user from the user list in gdm? Note that I don't want to remove it entirely, I just want a user that you can only get into by clicking 'other', entering your name and password.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have several image files accumulated as a result of taking screenshots. I want to merge all of them into a single pdf file. How can I do that? I save webpages in .mht format using UnMHT addon in firefox. Is there any way to merge several mht files into a single pdf?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm running mythbuntu on 10.04 with an AMD athlon and nvidia geforce4 (nvidia-96) graphics. Shortly into the boot procedure, the system appears to switch into single user mode, killing all the processes I want running and dropping me into the recovery menu.
On 20 Nov I was having problems booting the system, which I traced to a probably loose sata cable to the (single) hard drive. While working on this I performed a normal system update, and then started having the problem described above. the update included
menu 2.1.43ubuntu1
libc-bin 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.5
plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu2.1
grub-pc 1.98-1ubuntu8
xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.6-2ubuntu7.4
initramfs-tools 0.92bubuntu78
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I want to have a single picture as screensaver.
The Gnome-screensaver seems to be in sufficient so I installed xscreensaver, but cant figure how to set a single picture as screensaver there.
I have recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 Server onto a old PC. Everything seems to be working fine except that i can't tab the next command.Like when you are typingcd hom (Then you press tab and the 'e' appears.)When i double click tab I get a list of all the possible directories but I wont seem to work when I press it one time just to complete my command.Anyone got a clue how to fix this?(I am new to this community but I got to say i Love it. We use Ubuntu at our university and it rocks!)
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy primary Ubuntu server has SSH exposed to the internet so I can remotely access it. I have configured OpenSSH to use only RSA key authentication. Each computer I use has a separate RSA key unique to it. I also have a unique RSA key on a USB thumb-drive I carry with me. The purpose of the USB key is for emergencies if I have to access the server from some remote system. The problem is that I may not trust the remote machine (university/public library computer for example).
What I would like to do is have a set of one-time use RSA keys that, after I log in to SSH with them, are removed from the authorized_keys file. This would hopefully keep my system safe even if the remote machine I was using was compromised and had copied my private key and key-logged the password I used to decrypt it. I would like to have these keys be separate from the keys I have for my trusted computers.
I currently have a dual boot of Windows Vista and Ubuntu 9.10. I only had Vista purely for playing games, and using certain applications, but recently I decided that I could just configure Wine to work on my system. I was wondering if it was possible to extend the Ubuntu partition as it is over the whole drive, so that I don't lose all my stuff from Ubuntu. Or should I just keep it dual boot, for those few programs that Wine doesn't have quite down? I know this might not have much to do with anything, but I have an NVidia GFX card.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to cherry pick packages from a PPA? The problem I'm having is that I'm getting thunderbird 3 from the ubuntu-mozilla-daily PPA, but by adding that to my sources, it is also upgrading firefox. Is there a way to get thunderbird 3 only and stop it upgrading firefox?
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an audiobook in 64 small mp3 files and I need them combined into a single file of any format in the proper order or order that I add them in. What program can I use?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am using a Sharp Netwalker with the Netbook Remix Gnome desktop. Double-clicking to start applications using the touch screen is cumbersome, so I wanted to try setting Gnome for single-click operation. I can't find any obvious way to do that.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to reinstall Mac OS X on a single boot Linux powerbook, but have no idea what to do because to my understanding ubuntu wont read a .DMG file, does this means that I have to burn it? Or maybe convert into an .ISO and then burn? Or can it be done from within the machine from an .ISO?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI set up SSH on a server running Ubuntu using rsa key authentication. I want to allow a friend of mine to log into the server with restricted access, so I created a user account named "guest" with its own home directory and ensured that it has no root access. I created a new pair of keys and added the public key to my authorized_keys, but when I was testing SSH I noticed that not only could I not log in as guest, I could use the key to log in as my own account and gain root access via sudo. How can I restrict specific private keys to only be able to log in as certain users?
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