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    [gnome] Not showing terminal size during resize

    How to make gnome-terminal show the size (rows/columns) during resizing?

    This used to work. I just installed 23.04, and am using the default desktop environment (AFAIK gnome on Wayland).
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    Re: Automatic Login not working on 17.10

    It is turning itself off after every reboot.

    I clicked Unlock, entered my pw and set the Automatic Login switch to ON. Closed the dialog, Re-started the Users dialog and confirmed that the...
  3. Updated instructions which work as of Jan. 2016

    As of January 2016 these instructions (at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TransferVideosFromTIVOToUbuntuOrAndroidUsingKmttg) are obsolete. The general information is still vald, but the details no...
  4. Re: Discussion - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TransferVideosFromTIVOToUbuntuOrAn

    There is a transcription bug in the instructions, the "& g t ;" before the word "comskip" is supopsed to be ">" (greater-than sign), which redirects the echo output to the file "comskip". This...
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    [ubuntu] Re: image viewer with good command-line options

    The feh link has changed to http://linuxbrit.co.uk/software/feh/
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    [ubuntu] Re: GParted won't stop "scanning all devices"

    The same infinite scan happens for me too when a USB hard drive is plugged in which is not formatted.

    gparted seems to be trying to access the non-existent FLOPPY DISK
    at /dev/fd... zillions of...
  7. [SOLVED] Re: Disable window maximize when titlebar dragged to top of screen?

    If disabling compiz grid doesn't help (or it wasn't enabled to begin with), visie "Workspace Behavior" in the regular KDE System Settings. It has a "Screen Edges" tab in which "Maximize windows by...
  8. Re: How to: Xubuntu - Thunar Native Windows Network Browsing

    In Xubuntu 11.10 there does not appear to be an "Applications" menu,
    nor is there a "Shared Folders" entry in the System menu. Anybody know where this is in 11.10?
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    [ubuntu] Re: compiz cube stops rotating with mouse

    When I rotate using the mouse and stop on one particular viewport, then rotation with mouse stops working. However if I use the Expo plug-in to switch to a different viewport, then mouse-rotation...
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    [lubuntu] Re: Panel disappear after enabling Compiz

    Killing & restaring lxpanel seems to make the panel re-appear.

    Sounds like a race condition somewhere...
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    [ubuntu] Re: postfix authentication problem with comcast

    A good reference is http://www.postfix.org/SOHO_README.html

    The key requirements are:

    Tell postscript to use SASL login authentication, and supply your comcast.net username & password
    Map...
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    [ubuntu] Re: [SOLVED][NOT] banshee podcast

    No! The screenshot in post #11 shows the "Delete and Unsubscribe" feature which deletes *EVERY* episode and cancels the subscription!

    There does not seem to be any way to get rid of individual...
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    [ubuntu] Re: convert FLAC to ALAC

    Thanks for the pointer to ffmpeg!

    I tried a round-trip encode/decode using ffmpeg + alac-decoder and got back a .wav file of exactly the same length as the original one, but different contents. ...
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    [ubuntu] Re: convert FLAC to ALAC

    ALAC is *not* a variant of AAC. They use the same MP4 container (probably why both types of files use the .m4a extension), which causes confusion.

    ALAC is a completely different (and lossless)...
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    [ubuntu] Re: How does Hardy Heron do file & folder sharing?

    Nautulus can not, by itself, cause files to be shared. Somehow it must tell Samba (smbd, presumably) to create the shares. But how?

    The smbd man page says smbd finds out about shares by reading...
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    [ubuntu] Re: How does Hardy Heron do file & folder sharing?

    OK, so can sombody explain *how* samba finds out about the shares defined in /var/lib/samba? How exactly does this information get injected into smbd?

    Thanks in advance...
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