Yeah that's the other way i could have gone about it. power down or close the window. i think it's the clean-up script to remove the oem-config stuff and the temporary oem user that's set to run...
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Yeah that's the other way i could have gone about it. power down or close the window. i think it's the clean-up script to remove the oem-config stuff and the temporary oem user that's set to run...
Hi
I made an OEM install on my old laptop (Kubuntu 22.04) so i can give it away. worked like a charm, it booted up and gave me a nice welcome and setup dialoge.
Closing that dialogue (because...
Please don't use
shred unless you really want to securely destroy a file, say if you're a russian spy :P. for normal delete it's quite the overkill. it scrambles the data on the hard drive three...
fair enough. t'was a force of habit to read /etc/... and go for root acces.
again, fair enough. didn't know about pkexec though. is gksu going away?
+1
apparently. like Impavidus said,...
compiz does support setting up profiles, so that you can load a profile, depending on your session.
you could make a new profile and mess around in that one while keeping the 'Unity' profile...
there appears to be some odd text in that source file, which apt can't work with. did you by chance alter that file recently?
can you attach the file to a post (advanced reply, paperclip button),...
I've heard of battery capacity declining when drained too far (a risk regardless of which os you use), but i've never heard of destroying a battery overnight this way:? this should not happen. can...
What android version is your phone? android 4 and up don't connect like normal USB drives.
according to http://askubuntu.com/questions/376815/how-to-connect-mtp-android-device-to-ubuntu-13-10
...
Also has the card been used in a windows pc previously? has the card been removed properly from that pc, or any other device? is the card write enabled in other devices?
Battery
Battery problems are a bit troublesome to pinpoint. as you say it's an old laptop. several things can be going on:
- the battery is old and can't carry a load like it used to. it says it's...
i smell a case of PICNIC.
Just wondering, do you scrap your entire car when it has a flat tyre after you went head first and poked at it yourselves?
From what i gather it does boot into ubuntu,...
Well, that at least suggests it's a browser problem, specifically in handling certain video formats. i can understand if you have reservations about using chrome, but if you insist on using a Google...
You can retry the commands with
sudo apt-get install --reinstall <package>
since you have only damaged files for your user only (guest is OK, and other/new users should be ok as well), ...
Do you have older kernels still installed?
hold down shift at boot and choose an older kernel from the Grub menu, and see if youtube doesn't crash.
could be a graphics related thing. do all of...
@i_dreamer,
So... Did you solve your problem?
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@mobin2,
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Hi,
maybe this can help:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/66718/how-to-manage-users-and-groups
http://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2012/05/install-old-graphical-users-and-groups.html
if you install...
Hi,
What graphics card and driver do you use? depending on the driver you could disable displays while keeping them plugged in. in this case your integrated laptop display.
keyboard backlight,...
@e3e9c236, If you haven't gone for a complete reinstall yet, you could run the following command:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop ubuntu-settings
this will install all components that...
A friend of mine dressed up as an alien once by wrapping himself head to toe in aluminium foil. It Iooked awesome and he spent 2 hours that way, heating up until he panicked and we had to tear the...
i think it's pretty easy to trick a user into giving sudo away. just fake an apport bug report like dialogue or some other fake gksu dialogue and people will happily give their sudo to whatever...
^in this case, I suspect 'community' means 'anyone not on Canonical payroll'. it doesn't specify if these people are devs, users, or random people who care.
/edit:
At least, I suppose some...
^how big is the graphics card market for servers?
what runs on servers?
^ when a company says "we have no plans for that", they mean just that. it doesn't mean "we have plans to not do that". it doesn't mean there weren't plans, it doesn't mean there won't be plans in...
^ riding on the back seat and still raking in the dough. that's a strategy too... for now
riding shotgun wasn't a very pleasant ride; cutting edge high risk hard/software just isn't their game, it...