Hello, could you please have this account closed as I no longer wish to participate in any of the discussions on here. I have lost interest in these forums and in particular Ubuntu.
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Hello, could you please have this account closed as I no longer wish to participate in any of the discussions on here. I have lost interest in these forums and in particular Ubuntu.
I am thinking of moving away from Canonical based distros. (Ubuntu/Xubuntu/Kubuntu/Lubuntu) and would like to try one of the "harder" distros Slackware/Arch/Gentoo.
So of these three, which would...
After upgrading to 12.04.1 did you check that Ubuntu-restricted-extras was still installed? It shouldn't have done but all the media codecs might have been removed.
Also, the problem might be...
Having looked in Muon Package Manager I have discovered that lightDM is still installed, but Plymouth is being used in its place.
Now I need to work out how to swap Plymouth with LightDM.
I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with Unity, Gnome-Shell and K desktops installed. I decided to remove Unity as I have Gnome-Shell and didn't feel the need to have two desktops that were similar.
I...
Without having full details of your system, it sounds like the upgrade did not perform correctly and may have caused conflicts within the Gnome environment. Did you upgrade from Update Manager or...
Within 'Network Connections' has it set up the Wi-Fi card under the Wireless tab?
Glad to read that your problem has been resolved. In answer to your question regarding legality of DVD playback, in some countries US being one of them, they have software patents which restrict the...
When you mention desktops, do you mean deskstop environments like LXDE; XFCE; KDE; Gnome-Shell; Unity etc.?
If you do then yes it is possible to run different desktop environments on a single...
How secure is the power cable? As the laptop has no battery it is relying on an AC supply being present all the time, should the power cable become loose there will be no power and the laptop will...
Escort web browser Does this help?
Would the info in the following link help you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wvdial
Instead of re-configuring ttf-mscorefonts-installer as mentioned above, have you tried to remove (purge) that package then install it later?
sudo apt-get purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer
then
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Don't you guys think that as the OP hasn't responded to any of your comments and that they had been trying for a year to use Linux and still claim that you need programming experience to install...
I have noticed that all partitions are set to NTFS. Using GParted (from the liveCD) replace at least one of the NTFS partitions (that's not being used for anything) to Linux partition (ext2/3/4).
How have you installed Ubuntu? From liveCD/USB or Wubi. Also, are you duel-booting with Windows?
Without having full knowledge of your system it is difficult to find out what is wrong. It could be...
It's the 'indicator plugin' you want to add to the panel to get the adjustable volume control.
Right-click on the panel -> select panel -> Add new items -> select Indicator plugin -> click ADD
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I think Asunder uses the CDDB database for CD information and has a lot of CD's in its database however it does not have every single CD so in some rare cases you will need to enter the information...
Please follow the instructions on the post under Kubuntu forums to install LibreOffice 3.6 Reply 2 in the thread
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It is Gnome-tweak-tool you need to install to be able to change themes.
sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool
Remove the PPA for Gnome3 from within your repositories. You don't need that.
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Thanks anyway. As long as it works then I think I'll get one when they have them in stock again.
Hi, I have just been looking on the Ubuntu shop and have seen the Ubuntu flexible keyboard for sale. However, as of time of writing it's sold out of the European keyboard.
I just want to know, if...
If your determined to use those Windows apps then I would suggest that you install Ubuntu (or any of the other Linux distros) alongside Windows. You can then boot in to Windows to use those apps...
Lubuntu 12.04 is NOT a LTS. Support lasts for 18 months.
But after 18 months I'm sure you'll want to upgrade anyway.
Xubuntu 12.04 is LTS. Support lasts for 3 years.
Kubuntu 12.04 is LTS....
Actually thinking about it I don't think it will work because I didn't install OpenOffice (or LibreOffice) from the repositories so even if I can download the gtk integration for OpenOffice it might...