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My laptop has a widescreen 16" (1600x900) display. When I connect to a projector, the only way I can get a presentation in openoffice to work correctly is to change my laptop display to a 4x3...

Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately that made no difference whatsoever. I can still play the clip in preview but in the slideshow I just get a white box where the video clip is supposed to be.
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Just as an update, I also tried converting the movie to .mpg and had the exact same result. I can show the movie clip in preview, but not in slideshow where I just see an empty white box where the...

Has anyone had success showing video clips in OpenOffice Impress slide shows in presentation mode? I have so far had none.

After posting my problem earlier, I thought I would try posing it as a...

I'm personally quite fond of abcde. Very simple command-line interface makes for very quick ripping to whatever format you want. Lots of control if you like, and simple to automate as well.

I think I'm halfway to solving this now. I installed gstreamer-ffmpeg and now I can see the movie in openoffice impress, but ...

When I run the presentation I cannot display the movie there. Now...

I'm running Kubuntu 10.10, OpenOffice 3.2.1. I am trying to insert a video clip - either .mov or .avi format - into an openoffice presentation but it doesn't work. With either format I just end up...

Thank you for digging that up. It describes why they don't ship Gimp in part of the regular installation, but it doesn't really answer the question of why the upgrade wants to remove it from a...

In case anyone else runs into this same ugly problem and finds my post wondering what to do next, I will say I ended up giving up on the problem. The "upgrade" made an unholy and unrecoverable mess...

Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately that did not work. I reinstalled GRUB as per the directions you linked to, and after rebooting I received the same GRUB error that I had before. I still...

I have been running Kubuntu 10.10 for some time, and thought I would try upgrading to a new version. First I tried the upgrade mechanism that popped up on my system to go to 11.04. The first few...

I have a system I am using with a Via 82xx sound chip in it, which I recently formatted and installed Kubuntu 11.10 on. This system does not seem to recognize the sound card; ie
$ aplay -l
aplay:...

I found it. http://www.plugintolinux.ca/smf/index.php?topic=815.0

Apparently RealVNC is hiding out as the package 'xvnc4viewer' - at least in desktop installations of ubuntu. Why it comes up by...

I have found that on my Kubuntu desktop workstations, when I run
sudo apt-get install vncviewer I end up with tightvnc installed. However on a Ubuntu 10.10 server install, the same command results...

I am running Kubuntu 10.10 on my laptop, and a while ago I clicked the popup for the 11.04 upgrade. I looked over the list of packages that it was going to upgrade or remove, and GIMP was on the...

I think your reply may have stated my concern more clearly. Plenty of other applications that I have installed were not listed to be uninstalled by the upgrade, but Gimp was on the uninstall list.
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I am currently running Kubuntu 10.10, and it works very well on my system currently. I've been seeing the popups offering to upgrade to 11.04 for some time, and I clicked on it a while ago to look...

I just wanted to add that I found a solution to the inability to adjust brightness on my system:
enable nvidia brightness control in ubuntu 10.04 which basically boils down to adding the line ...

I think I may have found a solution to this problem already. The thread here on the T410 thinkpad with the nvidia graphics mentions that you can switch your graphics card in the BIOS, as these...

I have a Thinkpad T510 with an Nvidia NVS3100M discrete graphics card, and I am not able to use the Nvidia driver for it in Kubuntu 10.10. I was able to install the driver through...

I have heard that suggestion before but I was unable to find any pulseaudio settings that made any difference. I also checked the files in /etc/pulse and ~/.pulse and found nothing that referred to...

FWIW I picked up a low-end Logitech webcam, about $30 (sorry don't have the model number) and it works fine in skype in kubuntu. Sits on top of the monitor and looks somewhat like a grey ping-pong...

I found that after installing the plugins (gstreamer and associates) for rhythmbox to play mp3 and streaming internet radio, amarok now plays at an audible volume.

Frustratingly, however, I have...

After poking around a little more, and finding more people who have had the same problem and not found an answer, I saw one person mention rhythmbox. I installed that and found the volume works...

I am running Kubuntu 10.10 on my laptop, and the sound works fine in firefox (flash video, etc). However Amarok is so quiet that I can barely hear it at all. I have every volume adjustment I can...