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My customer has a Lexmark X4690 printer attached to his Dell PC running Ubuntu Linux 12.04.1 LTS.

We followed the instructions in this thread following the link to Lexmark's webpage. Regardless...

*grins*

Yes, the original post does describe how to add debpartial, and yes: it does require a few dependencies. The link is to a .deb file. There's no way around its dependencies.

Sikander, you're a gem! Here's what lspci says when I grep VGA:
I think this is why there was an issue. Neither ATi nor nVidia graphics cards, but one created by Intel.

Having spoken with the...

Solution!

Once the system was booted into safemode, I applied an update (this brings the system up to Linux Kernel 2.6.35-24 and...? Success!!

The problem is that this machine's graphics card...

I'm not trying to avoid answering this post. ;)

I've kinda got some success . . . but not entirely

Here's what I've done so far. I've done some research on this crazy laptop. Seems getting its...

I've tried changing the file system from Ext4 to ReiserFS ... just for the heck of it.

No change. Still unable to get Gnome Display Manager to start up.

Same error messages.

I wonder if it...

I'm having a bit of difficulty installing Ubuntu on a Toshiba Sattelite T230 -01Y. Note: if any particulars about this machine are required, I'll be happy to add them.

This laptop does not have an...

luvr has indeed added soooo much to this thread that he truly deserves the credit here.

I will forever maintain that I've done nothing original. I've merely taken someone else's tutorial and...

Answer to Question 4:

Compiz has grown along with its many plug-ins. The installed set must've been growing too big for the "average user" so the number was pared down to a more manageable size. ...

I see that compiz-fusion-plugins-extra isn't default any more.

Thank you!

Noted!

:D

Searching for what appears to be "missing" CompizConfig settings in the CompizConfig Settings Manager.

Particularly: How to change the "Cube" into a "Cylinder" and how to enable floating windows...

Answer to Question 2:

Just as in Windows, files and settings are distributed throughout the file system, depending on the software.

In Windows, the typical application setup will have files put...

Answer to Question 4:

In the Compiz configuration, once the 3D box setting is selected, there's a further subsetting allowed elsewhere that enhances the box by letting it become a cylinder. This...

For Question 3:

File System is the display of your entire file system.

Ubuntu (and many other distributions of Linux) realizes you really want to manage the files under your home folder: ...

In particular: If I manually remove an entry from, say, Wine, then re-install the application, the Wine menu won't have the application icons from the most recent install.

Does anyone else get...

Fantastic!

I've been meaning to clean up this area as A La Carte seems to make a few mistakes from time to time.

Thank you, gentlemen. You are all scholars.

Okay, real quick help on editing the Ubuntu menus.

If I add a new item (launcher) to the main menu, where does it store this info in my home folder?

analysis
Inkscape: version 0.48.0 r9654 (compiled)
Compiled in: Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic


The rulers work perfectly under this system.

Inkscape: version 0.48.0 r9654 (installed from...

See the attached files for the visual glitch in Inkscape 0.48 in Maverick.


The source code was compiled under 9.10 without this visual glitch.

The source code was compiled under 10.10 with...

Thanks for catching that error, JeffCC.

Note to self: Do NOT edit the page late at night.

It has been fixed.

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AGAIN: This thread was created when I started with Ubunut in 2005. Since starting it my printer is now dead no longer used, so I can't keep up with what it needs.

Please note:

I've installed...

System Rescue CD (LINUX)
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

If I were you, i'd browse Distrowatch.com

I re-installed aspell afterward.

However, I don't have aspell in

System > Preferences > startup applications

I don't know the parameters. If someone could provide them, I'd be much obliged.

System: Karmic Koala, 32-bit

1. I downloaded OpenOffice.org 3.2 and unpacked it.

2. I decided to remove OpenOffice.org 3.1 from my system using this command:


sudo apt-get remove...