I have issues with with my USB remote (ATI/NVidia/X10). irw shows correct codes while pressing buttons, but irexec doesn't execute commands from ~/.lircrc file.
I have defined simple .lircrc with following code:
Code:
begin
prog = irexec
button = World
config = echo "Hello world!!!"
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I have setup lirc on my htpc and it works perfectly, but I am trying to use irexec to execute commands from my remote controller, and this does not work.
Basically, I loosely based my setup on this thread at the XBMC forums (starting at step 3 because lirc is configured and runs the Slackware way !): [URL]
The thread on XBMC's forum uses irexec and irxevent to execute commands. I am not 100% sure why irxevent is used but I am interested to know why and what it really does...
In the meantime my .lircrc file looks like:
Code:
# Start XBMC
begin
remote = harmony2
prog = irexec
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but irxevent wouldnt start normally. My understanding is that irxevent uses the display of the parent owner (in my case root since it is called from rc.local) so I tried to start it as normal user and it worked.
So on top of my problem executing commands with irexec, I would like to know how to execute a process as a different user so I can have irxevent started as a normal user by the system at boot time?
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1) When i login to my DE (LXDE) i want to have several applications start automaticly.. Status: Done.
2) Now, i want them to be started on other displays/desktop, the virtual desktop ones, those you access with ctrl+alt+arrowkey. Status: requesting
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I 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.
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dolphin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libkdeinit4_dolphin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN6Phonon11VideoPlayer5eventEP6QEvent
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DHCPD.CONF
ddns-update-style interim;
ignore client-updates;
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I've tried:
startx
sudo apt-get install xorg
apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
sudo nano/etc/apt/sources.list
When I click on the Ekiga menu-item it seems like nothing is happening. So I went into htop and saw the process is running. When I start Ekiga from the command line, nothing happens as well. Then I tried starting Ekiga in debug modus with option -d 5. Still nothing showing up. When I call my VOIP number I can see a call coming in, however there is no ringing sound and no dialogue to pick up the phone.
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I am working on Ubuntu Karmic. The Ekiga version is straight from the repositories: Version: 3.2.5-1ubuntu1.
I hope someone has an idea what to try next.
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I just upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04. While it seemed to go fine, GDM won't start. (Instead the Plymouth bootloader just displays the splash screen continuously.) I can get in through a virtual terminal, but starting GDM via the init script does not do anything. I also tried this:
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me@host:~$ sudo gdm
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ERROR:gdm-settings-direct.c:157:gdm_settings_direct_get_boolean: assertion failed: (entry != NULL)
Aborted
I tried running sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm, but this did not change anything. Logged in from the virtual terminal I can run startx and get the desktop, but obviously I would like to have the login manager working.
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Every time I click on the icon it just keeps flashing up and crashing down. So I went to the main blender site, and downloaded one of their stand alone version of the 2.56a. I ran it and it works just fine.
I tried reinstalling blender 2.56a under Synaptic, but no use. I'm out of ideas, I want this software to run like it use to. Again, It use to run without any problems, but just under one hard render it crashed, and Now it wont launch again.
However, I did mange to get my project to render just find under the stand alone. If any one needs some sort of debugging file, or information of some kind. I would then need to know how to re-chieve it..
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ps: I use ubuntu 8.10
Suddenly I seem not to be able to start Ubuntu Software Center anymore. It worked ok for 2 months. When I try software-center in the Terminal here is what comes out.
File "/usr/bin/software-center", line 78, in <module>
from softwarecenter.app import SoftwareCenterApp
File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/app.py", line 43, in <module>
from view.installedpane import InstalledPane
File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/view/installedpane.py", line 36, in <module>
from softwarepane import SoftwarePane, wait_for_apt_cache_ready
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