I installed xubuntu8.04 on my laptop(no other system),but when i started the system,there came out a grub and showed "press ESC to enter the menu"
I think this is a waste of time since i have only xubuntu on my lap, why do not just get in directly? why need a grub?i do not need so can i do something to shorten the start time? ( i know the menu is revovery option) by the way i can not mount my usb hard disk, the error shows:
Notifications that popup in Ubuntu (e.g., for downloading items in firefox or Network configuration stuff) display a rectangular black box in the upper right corner of my Desktop. It often covers up items I need to access like logout items or links to my Account etc in a webpage I'm in. I often find myself having to wait for the Ubuntu dialog box to disappear before I can access whatever it is covering up.Is there a way to make these dialog boxes appear in the LOWER right corner instead? Also is there a way to shorten the amount of time that these notifications display before disappearing?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI did a clean install of Ubuntu 11.04 64bit and the start up time is abnormally slow. If I start up the computer and don't press anything, the start up time is 30 minutes but it usually doesn't start up at all. It just boots into a purple screen, no splash, then it sits there and the computer doesn't have any loading lights flashing.
I had a similar problem with 10.10, but I assumed it would go away when I did a clean install of 11.04.
I can't get a read out of what's going wrong because when I press Esc it doesn't display anything, though weirdly it can sometimes get the start up process moving. I have also found that pressing enter really fast can sometimes help and something that seems completely oxymoronic, if I press the power button while it's starting up that can make it work, but nothing works every time.
I'm trying to find how to schedule a process to start at a specific time (not on start up). How would I schedule a process/application to start at a specific time (if it matters, it will be a background process). For instance, have process abc start every weekday at 5am. I've done this for windows many times though have only been using linux regularly for a few months and haven't figured out the best way of doing this.
So far the best solution I have is to create a program that will start on boot and have it check the time and sleep until the required time and then start the required process(es) at the required time(s). But this seems more of a hack since I'd expect there to be a proper way of doing this.
my computer have windows 7 and also a ubuntu in it (i started with version 10.04). i've just updated my ubuntu and i found that the list in the grub menu got longer by 2.and i feel its a long list....
so how do i shorten the list... i'll be ok if i just have the latest Linux and its recovery mode. than memtest86 and the other and last Windows 7... i dont need the old ubuntu in the list.... its redundant.... i have startup-manager installed but does not do what i wanted...
When working on a rails app I like to open all of my files through the command line like so
CD my_app
gedit app/views/user/show.HTML.erb
Is there a way that I could shorten this so that I could just write something like
gedit user_views/show.HTML.erb
I would like the console to stay in the main directory, I just don't like having to type out app/controller/user_controler.rb every time I want to open the user controller. I know that I could just open the file with my mouse, but I feel like moving from keyboard to mouse breaks my focus a little bit. When I can just tap away at the keyboard it seems like I have a more smooth workflow.
so this is my favourite audio format (please kindly refrain from dissuading me to use it , it is not my question) and it worked fine up to karmic but i spent time today it seems okbut then when i run
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shorten -h
or
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If i am using a terminal window (shell) and I am on a deep point of a folder tree it becomes difficult to read what i write, as well as the entire content of the window.Is there a way to shorten the name of the current path in a shell / terminal?I know that aliases can be used for commands, does it exist anything similar for paths?
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View 6 Replies View RelatedPretty much what the title says. Everytime I reboot Ubuntu,the clock is behind by two hours and needs to be manually set.
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View 9 Replies View RelatedI don't know if it is just me but it seems like Ubuntu takes a long time to start up programs. For example, it takes me 10 seconds to start up "Ubuntu software center". My computer is a relatively fast one. It has 4 gb of ram and an intel core duo processor. I didn't install that many programs. Does anyone know what might be the source of the problem and how to fix it?
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fatrat
d4x
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but can not find app like idm in linux.
When I start the computer I receive the message that the drive that contains the /home partition has an error. If I press "F" the screen says that the drive is no ready, that I can wait, cancel or manually recovery. If I wait, in about 1 minute, the system starts normally. If I press "M" to repair manually, then I press fsck to repair the disk and apparently repairs the disk. But everytime I start (power on) the computer, Ubuntu always checks the disk and gives a dialog where I can: press F to attempt to fix the errors, I to ignore, S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery
View 1 Replies View RelatedI installed and configured privoxy - everything worked nicely when I run it manually by
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/etc/init.d/privoxy start
After restarting the computer privoxy wasn't start automatically. I checked the links in /etc/rcX.d - are o.k. I installed sysv-rc-conf - shows that for runlevel 2 - 5 privoxy is running. I changed /etc/rc2.d/S20privoxy to /etc/rc2.d/S99privoxy - to start that process at the end. I installed Boot-Up Manager. Privoxy is marked for start automatically. I added in /etc/rc.local line: /etc/init.d/privoxy start
Privoxy still doesn't turn on at boot time and every time I must start it manually. Could you tell me how could I repair this ?
I have a system I use as a file server running Ubuntu 10.04. I don't have a screen hooked up to this system. When this system reboots, if there is no screen, X wont start on it. This then prevents me from using VNC to get to the desktop.If a monitor is plugged in at the time it boots, then everything works, and I can then remove the monitor. But moving this monitor between computers and crawling under desks is not enjoyable.How can I fix this so X starts on boot even when no monitor is plugged in?The error I get in /var/log/Xorg.log* looks like this:
grep -EnC2 "EE|WW|fatal|error" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
...
331- (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01@00:00:0
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What's the best way to register a daemon to start up at boot time in lucid? I have tried registering the following script using "sudo update-rc.d"
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This is supposed to get the daemon for opentftp started, but it does nothing, although I can see the results of the "echo 'Server opentftpd started' " in the boot log in /var/log .Any thoughts or general help on what the best way to accomplish such a task is?
I am using qBitTorrent. But whenever i am trying to download, it is having few issues.
1. It takes a lot of time to start the download. Last night it did not even start to download even after 15 mins. But when i put the same torrent in utorrent in Win7 partition it started to download immediately.. can somebody point out what is going wrong?
2. do i need to keep the qBittorrent open all the time till it finishes.. Otherwise it is not downloading... But in my Win7, when i close it, it automatically docks itself to the task bar.. (hav been using Win for a long time.. thats why i am comparing it to Win.. )
Firefox "preferences" has an option which say, "keep my history for at least --- days".This does not make sense. If I enter 10 days, it will keep my history for 10 days or 1000 days. If I ener 100 days, it will keep my history for 100 days or 1000 days.ame thing!!Shouldn't it say, "keep my history for no longer than --- days"?I just set mine to 14 days and I still have a month of history.
View 1 Replies View Relatedwant to use bootchart to see how much time its taking for things to load up and the desktop to settle. I am having a little trouble figuring out how to make sure that bootchard loads up each time (non-interactively) so I can easily put up the results and see what could be done better. The man page of bootchartd says :-"bootchartd is commonly used to profile the boot process for the purpose of speeding it up. In this case, it is started by the kernel as the init process. This is configured by adding the init=/sbin/bootchartd option to the kernel command line -- either interactively or by editing the bootloader's configuration file. Please refer to the documentation of your bootloader for details (e.g. lilo, grub or yaboot)."
View 2 Replies View RelatedI do this every time.
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ifup dsl0
How can i set this to start at boot time?
i have compiled/installed Apache from source code ...however i don�t now how to start it at system start up as a daemon to run at level 3the server is usually started by the apachectl scriptwhich understand start stop restarti don't want to use suse distribution of Apachecan i just copy apachectl to /etc/init.d and make a link to it at /etc/init.d/rc3.d
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI tried setting up Nagios 3.2.2 on Ubuntu 8.04 using this guide [URL]Every thing went well until trying 'make install-webconf', I then got the following error.
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 sample-config/httpd.conf
> > /etc/httpd/conf.d/nagios.conf
> > /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file
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I am using Debian4 and I have apache under /home/apache/bin/apachectl How to start the apachectl service for every time system restart, Itmust be start automatically. Please tell me how todo or how to write the script, how to configure forrun level 2,3 and 5
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm having trouble with Vim in any terminal emulator I use. I have a link (vi) to vim. Occasionally it will take very long to load, whether I use 'vi' or 'vi file'. Before, if I could I would restart X, and then it would load instantly again, but I waited this time and it did load, after a minute or so. Is this a problem with X or vim?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have written simple application in CPP which listens on port 8080. But when I start the application and check the port it is listening on (using netstat -nap), I can see that the application is listening on port which is > 30000.
This port number keeps on changing if I re-run the application.
if I have to do any kind of a seeting so that application starts listening on 8080 port.
I am using CentOS 5.5 (I tried same on CentOs 5.2)
I have a Linux box, running rsync, only problem is, I have to turn it off at night. What I want to do is turn it on and when it turns on, rsync will already be running in daemon mode rather then having to run rsync daemon. Does anyone know the solution? I'm sure its simple, I just cannot figure it out
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