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How can I start a script in terminal at startup as root? I am running Cinnamon desktop on linux-mint-13 (based on ubuntu precise). Thanks for your help.

I had converted standard swappiness of 60 to 10 and I found the swap being used much less often- a predictable response. Converting to 100 may have some special meaning and effect.

This is exactly what I needed. Many thanks. Solved.

Is it possible to search and check if an application is available in ubuntu repositories (installable thru synaptic) from a web browser while in windows or from a non-ubuntu linux/bsd distro?
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I installed nautilus and nautilus-open-terminal in xfce. It was opening xterm which I did not like. So I put following commands to try to change it to xfterm4, (which is a script in /usr/bin to open...

I have a script which I want to start as the computer starts. Do I keep it in ~/.config/autostart/ or in /etc/xdg/autostart. Also do I need to make a .desktop file or I can simply place the script...

I hope 'sudo update-grub' command updates the menu.lst on ubuntu partition only and not on the grub partition which is linked to mbr. Actually, grub2 is installed on ubuntu partition (10.04LTS) but...

I have a multiboot system with grub legacy on mbr, with grub files on a separate partition. I have Ubuntu 10.04LTS with its grub2 bootloader on its own partition, so the grub legacy chainloads to...

If your system is swapping too often you can adjust swappiness.
To check its current value, command is:

cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
Default value is 60. To reduce swapping, make the value 10...

I updated the system recently as prompted by the 'update manager' and it included some linux-generic etc (?kernel) packages. However, during installation when it asked whether to keep local menu.lst...

You can use dd or dd_rescue to bakup the damaged disk to a file on an external harddisk. Then even if there is further damage you will still have a bakup to work with. Photorec is also useful in...

Following are the results:

$ java -version
java version "1.5.0"
gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.4.3


$ update-alternatives --query java
Link: java
Status: auto

In my ubuntu 10.04LTS jre is installed and the commands 'java' and 'javac' are working but firefox is not showing java applets. I have tried following command:


ln -s...

I had earlier used 'kdirstat'. Now I cannot find it in synaptic. Is 'kdirstat' no longer available in ubuntu repositories? What are the altenatives apart from 'baobab'.

Thanks for your help.

I think you need 'remastersys'.

I found the answer on following sites. This line in /etc/fstab works well- automounts cd on /media/cd folder:

/dev/sr0 /media/cd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0...

I believe HAL can be configured to automatically mount inserted CDs to a particular folder, say /cdrom, by changing the settings in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi

But I am not sure of the...

On this newer system I am running ubuntu 11.04 natty. On 'netstat -apute' command there is no dhclient and I am able to use the internet (though I have setup ip addresses and network proxy thru...

Thanks.

When I give the command 'sudo netstat -apute' to check what applications are connected to network, it shows 'dhclient' is always there on my system running ubuntu 10.04LTS. It is not there on my...

I am using a windows program through wine. Wine has set up /cdrom as the CD-ROM drive folder. However, ubuntu always mounts inserted CD on a newly created subfolder in /media with subfolder name as...

It is version 11.04.

How can I change network/system-proxy settings in xubuntu/xfce?

Great tutorial and tips.

I am using a windoz program thru wine and it needs to access the inserted CDROM. Wine has fixed the CDROM folder to be /cdrom, but ubuntu mounts the inserted CD in a...

If I add one of the following lines in /etc/fstab , will the CDs be always mounted to this folder? What is the exact line that I should choose?

/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 ...