I installed 11.04. No problems. The launcher icons were too big so i resized them with compiz. Being a fiddler I played with the thing for a while, no problems until I unticked desktop wall, when the entire desktop departed. Is there any way short of a re-install to get thi gs working again ?
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I have changed some settings on my DNS / DHCP config under Debian Lenny, and now when i try to ping some box it only works with long names.
For example:
Ping borsti doesnt work (can not find host) but if i use ping borsti.borsti.iss it works. I have no idea why it doesnt work because i only modified the dnssec-key (created a new key) and nothing else in te config Here is the config i used for bind: (taken from named.conf.options and named.conf.local)
And here is my dhcpd.conf:
Some of my short cut keys seem not ot be working. Ex Alt +F2 dose not open a pop up command line. Also would like to add some short cuts. Like Ctrl + Alt+ Backspace for reboot. I went to the short cut app and I can add a short cut key, name it, but can't seem to figure out how to assign it a function. Didn't seem intuitive to me. I'm using the UNE version on a asus eel 1000.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI installed Ubuntu 10.04 choosing, as administrator, a User Name and a User Short Name. Now, I would like to change those names and I manage to do it with the first, but not with the second, the Short Name. At the same time, I would like to give the same new name to my personal folder in /home. Is it possible to do all that?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have been trying to change my password on this install to a simple 2 character alpha.
I tried using the "users and groups" menu and got the error "password is too short" that also tells me that I need more that 5 characters.
After searching for a bit I found the passwd <username> command to be used in the recovery mode. I got a similar massage there too.
upon doing a fresh install I am able to initially set a simple password to do what I want, but after changing to a more secure password I have not yet found a way to get back to where I want to be. I really don't want to burn this down do yet another install.
yes, I know the system is trying to protect me from myself but that is off the point.
I see a lot of threads on auto mount NTFS in other versions, is it still that cumbersome in Lucid?
View 5 Replies View RelatedWe are a small company producing short movies in Arabic and we stick to adobe premiere pro cs4. Lately we need to reduce our cost by moving to ubuntu to save Microsoft fees especially regular support. The main problem we have now is the tool to use for producing our short movies, so the main question is:- Does there is any tool we can use as equivalent to adobe premiere pro cs4? I am looking for a really series tool.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a quick question: how can I make the path short on the console? My problem is that if I descend 10 levels in a directory tree, the path becomes so long that it takes more, than one line of the console window. Is there a way to shorten it, and show only the name of the current directory, without the whole path, i.e., instead of
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v923z@penguin: first/second/third/fourth/fifth/sixth/seventh/eighth/ninth/tenth>
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I've tried setting short cut keys to switch workspaces with no luck. I've tried a couple of different combination of keys and none have worked. The workspace switcher works but it's sometimes a bit anoying to reach for the mouse and a lot easier to just kit a couple of keys.
View 4 Replies View RelatedOK so I goofed something up trying to make my own keyboard short cut now I get this message Error while trying to run (Alt+l)which is linked to the key (<Shift>a)when ever I hit Shift a makes it hard to write any emails and such.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIm looking for the force quit keyboard shortcut. Like XKill or what ever the force quit in Gnome panel is. Anything which will kill a misbehaving application which has locked up the mouse.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhat are the short cuts we can use for KDE desktop , for eg. To run command , to lock session. etc.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI wanted to know anyone's experience with the new deb package ncomputing released for Intrepid. I've used their products and fought my way through to make them work. I was able to get ncomputing to work for a short while with intrepid, but upon installing the video drivers (and rebooting) the l230 hasn't been able to connect to any other host. (With Intrepid running). I've updated the firmware but the box still refuses to connect, for awhile it would say TS error (....). The system log only showed,
Date SystemName ncltsd [6198]: ERROR: NULL == video
[18043]: ERROR: SrvCli.CreateSession () failed! (3211426, 1869984)
Any help I can get would be much appreciated. If I forgot anything of I apologize, as you probably noticed it's my first time using the forum and I have only been using Ubuntu for a little less than a year.
I've got a short mp3 file from the BBC's League of Gentlemen comedy show. In the clip, Papa Lazarou tells his dwarfs to put a poster in the local shop. Then he says "Tell them the circus is coming to town."I'd like to grab that sentence "Tell them the circus is coming to town" so I can make it into a ringtone for my phone or something.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've installed Ubuntu server on a small box with a couple of large hard drives to use as a remote backup server. Since my backups will run nightly in the wee hours, I'm configuring this to use Wake-on-LAN to start the server and run the backup. Once the backup completes - probably on the order of an hour later - another script shuts the server down. Once in a while I'll remote in to update packages and check on the status of the system, though I can check backup logs to insure that is still running.
Need I be concerned about the various cron jobs that periodically run to tidy things up? Should I periodically - say once/month - leave the system up for a full day to make sure that everything that needs to happen will run?
I installed network-manager-vpnc, configured cisco vpn through NetworkManager. It works slow, but the bigger problem is that after minute or so the connection just freezes.Then I tried kvpnc. It works like it should from speed point of view. But it also hangs up after minute or two.Tried to change MTU of my wired connection to 1500 - no good.Tried to uncomment line in /etc/ppp/options "mru 542" - no good.
Created /var/run/vpnc because it was giving some error "can't open pidfile /var/run/vpnc/pid for writing".From logs everything seems fine except for "nm-dispatcher.action:Script '/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/01ifupdown' exited with error status 1." in last line. If I use kvpnc it gives no errors.SO, how do I debug this thing or does anyone knows something I don't in this case?
I installed a new instance of Ubuntu server (10.04) and set the hostname equal to "ubuntu-10.04-server-i386". However when I type the command hostname I get that the hostname is equal to "ubuntu-10". I then realised that the command hostname --long gives me the full name (as defined when doing the linux installation) while hostname --short gives me the name as displayed in terminal. My question is; what is the difference between these two? Are both valid?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have installed ubuntu 10.10 for a short time, now I meet a problem:I always leave for lunch and leave my computer without turning off. When I get back, it shows a window. after I input my password, I enter my system.Then It halts, the only thing what I can do is moving mouse. After halting for nearly one minute, it resumes to normal.I hope someone can tell me what happens.
View 2 Replies View RelatedSo I have decided to switch to ubuntu since xp gave out on me. Everything seemed so easy during install untill it randomly shut off. It now does this during different stages of installation but never gets further than after entering my user details and beginning the install. Its not faulty hardware as boots into xp home ed fine. I want a full install of ubuntu only though.I have tried both 10.04 and 10.10 (32 bit) booting from Live CDs (3 diff copys, as was paranoid of probs with the iso download)
The hardwares largely unknown but easily ran xp media center previously a year or 2 before. I'm very confident its not underpowered for this.As you can probably tell I'm completely new to this and not overly technical. I have looked around and some things suggest a problem with graphics cards.
After doing a dist upgrade I discover that I have firefox 4.0 and it has disabled adblock plus 1.3.3 and I can not get the new adblock plus since I can not uninstal the old one. Does anyone know how to fix this short of zaping the entire .mozilla file?
View 4 Replies View Relatedkindly help me how to create short cut to desktop for jdownloader in fedora 15
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm using a short script when I download the Slackware-(current) packages.
Since it works for me I want to share it. I've added a configurationfile, so anyone can adapt it to his/her requirements.
Note: I don't want to prevent anyone from buying the official DVD, but maybe you'll find it usefull to download the packages when performing a fresh install of current.
Advantage of the script is that one has less downloadsize and one can exclude package-series from downloading (in the conf-file).
Here is the configfile, it has to be saved as "getslack.conf" in the same directory as the script.
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For the installation I use the bootable usb-image or create a minimal install-CD (CD1 without any packages) like here ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/slackwar...nux/README.TXT explained.
I just noticed, that the fanfare that signals a successfully finished burn process in K3B is interrupted after the first three tones. How can I get back the fanfare in full length?
I am on Slackware64-current with all updates up to 2nd May, 2010.
In windows command prompt, F8 key can cycle through your previously entered commands i.e say you enter "ping google.com" and then "pushd <dir>". Next when you type p and then press F8 brings pushd and next F8 brings ping command. You can then hit enter to execute the corresponding command i.e ping in this case.Is there anything similar in Ubuntu Terminal running bash? Very handy to get back previously entered commands.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI use a program that has 3D graphics everything has a 'laggy' appearance and freezes for short seconds. These programs included any of the games from Ubuntu Software Center, along with other applications such as games ran through Wine(seperate problem).
Things to keep in mind:
-I've downloaded the automatic updates through Ubuntu Software Center.
-I'm fairly new to Ubuntu(still learning).
-Provide as many details in, if, you post a possible solution.
-I'm only using Ubuntu 10.10 as my OS, no dual-boots with Windows or any other OS.
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With most Linux distributions, I can only get a short range to connect my laptop to the wifi. However, when using Ubuntu 10.10, this issue seemed to cure itself and I was able to use wifi in my room. I recently installed Ubuntu 11.04, but suddenly my wifi issues have come back again - I can only connect if I am near my router.
I am using an Intel Wifi 5100. I should also note I can get a wifi connection if I boot into Windows 7.
I would like to copy a file from some random folder and send to a "Test" folder in root directory. But I havn't found how to specify the root directory without using ../ until i reach the root directory.i.e. suppose I'm in my random folder where I want to copy my file sudo cp somefile.txt (root???)/Test
what do i put for root?Just as additional explanation, if I have a Test folder in my home directory that i wanted to transfer to, then i could simply do cp somefile.txt $HOME/Test.
I'm very excited to post a question, since I always do everything by myself. I'm reading several lines from a text file using istream::getline(char *, streamsize n). I get the file name from the command line. Here is the code:
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#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;
int main ( int argc, char *argv[])
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Using GCC 4.4.5 on Ubuntu 32bit Btw: I know assembly language and know what a segmentation fault is
I have a Gateway ML6721 laptop that uses a Realtek RTL8187B for wireless comms. I am very new to Ubuntu and Linux. I am trying out linux using a usb stick, 16Gb with a 4Gb persistence. If I stay in the same room as the router there is no problem. If I walk too far, I get disconnected. Works fine in windows throughout the whole house. Is there a setting I can change or do I need to use a different driver?
View 3 Replies View RelatedSince upgrading to 11.04 I have come across an issue when syncing my music to my Motorola Defy mobile phone. I have a large collection of music, the vast majority of which is ripped from CD and stored in FLAC format. I use Banshee to sync some music onto my phone by dragging and dropping. Banshee converts FLAC on-the-fly to OGG prior to copying the file to my phone.
Since installing Ubuntu 11.04 any songs that i have since synced appear to be cut short. The files seem to be of about the correct size, when the music player starts playing the track it shows the correct total length of the song in the timeline bar but the songs get cut short, usually at 5 seconds into the song but a few seem to last about a minute before skipping to the next.
This morning I tried converting files using Sound Converter and setting the Music folder on my Defy's SD Card as the destination folder. The files all appear to be of the right size, show the correct track length but only play the first 4 or five seconds. I used my other computer, also running Ubuntu 11.04, to transfer a few files and these work just fine.
