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Others might want to call it "Virtually Indispensable," considering it can be very useful to us advanced users. Putting a project to death just because it's not useful to one particular person...

The following community documentation on this subject might help you.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia

You mean the eval command. :)

Thanks! It worked by adding that flag. I checked the man page and it says:


--fstrans Enable/disable filesystem translation. Filesystem translation
enabled causes the...

According to the INSTALL file with the git distribution, I shouldn't need to ./configure. Please see that file for more information. Also note the "$ make prefix=/usr/local" command.

This is...

Hello!

I'm trying to install git (git-scm.com) from source. I need apt to recognize that it's installed, so I figured I would install it using the checkinstall program.

I followed the steps...

The following link has some documentation on how to compile with the new build system (CMake):

http://wiki.compiz.org/C++Compiling

Those instructions helped me to build and install, but I...

No problem! I'm sure you'll do fine on your own, you seem like a capable chap. ;)

mechro, yeah that's true!

You can start up aptitude without arguments:

$ sudo aptitude

then search the database, using the "/" key, for "giggle". Upon having the... shall we call it...

Hah! Right, figured that would be the one. ;)

Anyways good luck on your scripting. :D Feel free to look me up if you need more help. I'm far from an expert on shell scripting, though I have done...

tropdoug, `gnome-search-tool', which is what you used, doesn't use any indexing other than perhaps the 'locate' program. From the man page:

"GNOME Search Tool uses the find, grep, and locate...

No problem! :) lol, which of all the Larssons are you referring to? :D

There are a couple of entries in gconf-editor under /apps/metacity/general that deal with the type.

I'm not sure whether it will make the window flash though. It will definitely not do anything if...

Oh you are thinking of making your own shell script verbose if the user says it wants it to be? If so then yes I do believe you have to check every time and then specify what you want to output. This...

150 GB is a lot of music. I've got about 100 GB myself, and I wouldn't advise you to do anything automatic with your music. I would advise you to get started on moving the files and renaming and...

If you run the program `alacarte', or alternatively right-click the menus and select "Edit Menus", you will be met with a program that can edit your menus. There is a category to the left with the...

Verbose usually means to output extra information as things are happening in a program. For example in the man page for the `cp' utility, the -v flag is described:

-v, --verbose
...

mechro,

That worked. The only problem is that giggle now for some reason thinks it has an update:

"giggle could be upgraded to version 0.4.95-0ubuntu1~ppa0, but it is being held at version...

I apologise for being so whimsical, but there's a big problem now with the apt database.

After installing giggle as in my previous post, now every time I want to use aptitude to install/remove...

Ah, thank you very much! I didn't think of that. What I finally did was:


$ sudo aptitude download giggle
$ sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/giggle[...].deb

And that's it! It gave me some...

Hello!

I have git (the source code management tool) installed from source, because I like to keep it updated more frequently than the repositories are.

So now I hear of this new program called...

If you run the configuration editor (gconf-editor), then go to /apps/metacity/general, there is an option called "focus_new_windows". The descriptions of this setting are as follows:

Short...

You could right-click the title bar and select Always On Top, if that's sufficient. There's also an "Always keep on visible workspace" option which does exactly what it says. :)

Which Recurring Task dialog are you referring to exactly? I'm not sure I recognize this. Are you talking about the "crontab"?

I believe this thread might be of interest in this situation:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1419459