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Your March 13th post worked GREAT on an old laptop with a fresh install of Xubuntu 12.04. It was an older Centrino processor with a possible burned out wifi section and a locked (proprietary) bios...

This is fine except that the choices in the dropdown list are limited. Full size is too big on a 27 inch monitor and 66% is too small. Is there a way to populate this dropdown list with more...

In case someone stumbles onto this in a search.

I have Ubuntu 12.04- 64 and I was getting all of the nonsense above. But I opened Nautilus as root and found /var/lib/preload/preload.state and...

Worked like a charm. Thanks!! Especially since trying to unravel the documentation on GRUB2 was no small task. This not only reactivated my original GRUB but also put the original default at the top...

Thanks for a quick response!

This sounds almost too easy, especially after reading some of the instructions posted for the GRUB Customizer application at...

Installed 12.04 64 bit on sda1 and later installed 12.04 32 bit on sda3. I want the first installation on sda1 to be my default OS only occasionally booting to the 32 bit.

I thought GRUB loaded in...

Thanks. I thought that perhaps the boot loader would have issues with only an extended partition for the main OS rather than a primary partition.

I found out the hard way about the 4 primary limit...

Wanting to compare 12.04 32 bit and 64 bit, I had 32 bit installed on the primary partition sda1. The remainder of the drive was unallocated space except for a small swap file in its own primary...

I have Ubuntu 12.04 running on one partition and 10.04 on another partition- both 32 bit. I plan to delete the 10.04 partition and install 12.04 64 bit so I will have 32 bit on one partition and 64...

Thanks all. Just the info I was looking for.

But how about the key question- 32 bit side by side with 64 bit?

Just installed Ubuntu 12.04 i386 on one partition of HD while keeping Lucid 10.04 as a fall back on another partition, and I am dual booting without issues. But I have bought more RAM (going from 1G...

Thanks. I have the toolbox installed, and when I try to get into any meaningful settings, I get:

Unable to open device hp:/par/DESKJET_880C?device=/dev/parport0.

In the status tab it says:...

I am running a dual boot with Lucid and the new install of Precise with Gnome Fallback.

With a standard HP inkjet printer (880C), Precise is printing colors that are way off- flesh tones in teal...

Don't uninstall- try this.

I went through this on every installation till someone on the Amarok forums told me to open terminal and install all the dependencies:

sudo apt-get build-dep amarok...

Yep. Worked like a charm. Thanks!

Ubuntu Tweak was one of the first apps I put on after the fresh install- love it. But I forgot about that setting.

I just cannot figure out how it got turned...

Ubuntu 12.04 fresh install with Gnome Fallback.

When I plug in a USB jump drive, Nautilus opens a window showing its contents as usual, but the system no longer puts a temporary icon on the...

I believe Parcellite has been abandoned. Try Glipper again- the new version is working pretty good for me, and it is an official gnome project, so it will probably survive system updates or be fixed...

Got Glipper working by right cliking a panel and using the "add to panel" then selecting clipboard manager. The confusion came because the app did not show up on any menu AND typing glipper in...

Same with me. Parcellite suddenly stopped working. Did a complete uninstall/reinstall. Uninstalled then and ran sudo apt-get build-dep parcellite. Then reinstalled. Nothing works. The icon is in the...

You guys are A number 1.

I've been trying to get Java working for Oanda's currency trading platform for two years now without success. I kept getting "applet not initialized". Oanda tech support...

This is better than I could have hoped for. The benefits of ditching Windoze four years ago continue to be realized.

Running Ubuntu Lucid and I want to plug in a new processor, replacing a dual core Intel Pentium D (fsb 800) with an Intel Core2 Duo (fsb 1066). Asus Motherboard compatible with both.

Can I do...

Here it is, August 2010 and I had the same problem with gimp help files in Ubuntu Lucid, and these posts fixed me right up.

mark- this link does not reference Lucid, and the lightning extension is not in Synaptic on a machine running Lucid 32 bit. Are you aware of anything more current?

Also, the Mozilla site says use...