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You're saying all the files/folders you created along with the keyboard shortcuts were gone after rebooting?

With the problem you're describing (and the name "dummiebeginner"), my first guess that...

Yes, you certainly can use any folder name you want under "/usr/bin" ... It doesn't have to be "brightness."

You can call it "/usr/bin/backlight" or even "/usr/bin/rosebud" if you like.

But if...

I didn't want to steal your thunder. How did you find the info anyway? Did you Google "gwibber daily ppa"? :confused:

Eh, Ubuntu Customization Kit (uck) worked for a while ... then it didn't. I haven't tried it in a LONG time, so maybe it's not "broken" anymore. Couldn't hurt to check it out. Good luck!

I've had good experiences with a little utility called "v4l2ucp". It provides an easy-to-use GUI for adjusting the properties of V4L2 video capture devices. It even has a live preview feature so you...

I did tinker around a bit with remapping keys instead of creating brightness keyboard shortcuts. But there seems to be something at a lower-level that prevents me from using the standard...

OK I just got a PM from an Ubuntu noob asking exactly how I edited the "fstab" file. Since other noobs might want/need this info, I'll just post it here publicly.

First, we want to open the file...

Well, Perl does offer some wonderful modules like WWW::Mechanize, LWP, and Net::FTP for network communications and file exchange. But that script would be significantly more complex.

At least now...

Hey, I'm really glad that worked for you! I know some of the gurus get their panties all bunched up at having such a detailed guide (they consider it condescending). But it's important to remember...

Yes indeed, different hardware reacts differently. For example, the "workaround" scripts I found specified brightness values in hex where "FF" was supposed to be 100% brightness and 19 was supposed...

I am using ...

Laptop: Acer Aspire 4736z
Graphics: Intel GMA 4500M
OS: Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat (10.10)
Kernel: 2.6.35-23-generic

And I managed to solve this problem for myself using some...

I figured out what the problem was for me. And frankly, considering I have a Master's degree in Computer Science, I'm a little ashamed I didn't catch this earlier. Here's the deal ...

My PC is...

I don't use ffmpeg from the command line for video conversions ... too many confusing options that intimidate me. But I'm SURE that with some tweaking, a script like the one I shared could be used to...

Well here's a strange tidbit ... So today I totally screwed up my distro playing around with crap I shouldn't have been playing with. To fix it, I did a clean re-install of Meerkat. After that I...

Well, I see about 10 different ways that some people say they were able to fix this ... But none of them worked for me.

Here is the solution that DID WORK for me. It was posted on Gwibber's...

Well ... I had some problems with that also. I tried "Sound Converter", and it was STILL "Adding Files" after 3 hours (because I have 10,000+ music files). Totally unacceptable. So my solution was to...

Thanks for the added info about the bug.

Just yesterday I found another bug that prevented my WLAN from connecting to networks using WPA encryption. I'm not sure if the bug is in the "iwl3945"...

My problem: The LCD display on my laptop wouldn't always go to DPMS sleep. Sometimes it did, sometimes it didn't.
I tried: All sorts of fixes including updates to xserver and gnome-power-manager ......

As the original poster said, "Due to hardware problems unable to burn ubuntu onto CD ..."

So that won't work. Otherwise, you're absolutely correct about how it would be done under normal...

Well ... sorry you don't like the ads. But that's how the site makes money. Ubuntu might be free, but servers are not.

The application is 100% free and contains no such ads. Also, it does Kubuntu...

No installer - just a standalone application.

Little Windows GUI app designed specifically for creating Live USBs for Ubuntu (and variants). "Ubuntu Live USB Imager" can be found at ...

http://phatwares.dyndns.org:8080/contentUU.html
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There are a few ways to do it ... But you can skip the CD completely and just create your Ubuntu Live USB using an ISO image of Ubuntu and a Windows program called "Ubuntu Live USB Imager". It allows...

I was having the same problem. If the laptop's wireless card was "on" at shutdown, it would hang and I'd get that blinking cursor in the top left corner. If the laptop's wireless card was "off" at...