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    [ubuntu] Re: Is xemacs better than gedit?

    Is red better than green?


    In the end, it boils down to your personal opinion.

    Personally, I use vim compiled with the --with-x=yes flag so I can use X's primary/clipboard buffers with it....
  2. Thread: kubuntu: where?

    by WorMzy
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    [wubi] Re: kubuntu: where?

    I guess you have an out of date version of the Wubi installer, or Wubi itself is out of date. The current daily images are of 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal)
  3. Thread: I broke my X

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    [SOLVED] Re: I broke my X

    To elaborate on what stderr and steeldriver are saying, you shouldn't run "sudo startx". "startx" should be run as you, not root. By sudo-ing it, you probably messed up the ownership of your...
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    [SOLVED] Re: 12.04 cant delete .Trash-1000 folder

    Try using Shift+Delete.
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    [SOLVED] Re: Cannot chown a directory as root user

    Try a lower case o.


    -o, --options opts
    Options are specified with a -o flag followed by a comma sepa‐
    rated string of options. For example:

    ...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Cannot chown a directory as root user

    I honestly don't know. I haven't used Ubuntu for years (I use Arch), and I've never used KDE.

    But I'm telling you to use mount, not a graphical filemanager.

    When you mount a filesystem, you...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Cannot chown a directory as root user

    ...


    http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/en/man8/mount.8.html
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    [SOLVED] Re: Cannot chown a directory as root user

    FAT and NTFS don't support UNIX file permissions.


    man mount

    Read up on mount options for fat, particularly uid, gid and umask.
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    Re: Steam and Diablo 3 crash upon startup

    They're designed for Windows and you're running them on Linux.

    Check wineHQ to see if there are any suggestions about how to make them work.
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    [ubuntu] Re: no os option on boot

    Post the contents of your /boot/grub/grub.cfg file here, in-between CODE tags.
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    [ubuntu] Re: no os option on boot

    Do you have multiple Linux installations?
  12. [ubuntu] Re: Ctrl+F Constantly Launching: Which Package Controls Ctrl+F?

    No package controls an arbitrary key combination. o_O

    Try unplugging your keyboard, then launch an application that displays the behaviour. Does the same thing happen?
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    [SOLVED] Re: Teminal recursively

    Are you using a custom script or alias to launch gnome-terminal?
    type gnome-terminal

    Can you launch xterm correctly?
  14. [ubuntu] Re: Cannot boot into any OS after reinstall-attempt

    Heh, I like you. :P




    Then sleep. The problems will still be there in the morning, I assure you. You're more likely to f*** something up if you can't concentrate.



    That depends entirely...
  15. [ubuntu] Re: Cannot boot into any OS after reinstall-attempt

    Then you're doing it wrong. Your LiveUSB shouldn't be using the same partition that your borked grub is trying to use. Make sure you're booting from the USB drive by checking your settings in your...
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    [all variants] Re: Dual Booting with Windows 7

    To be honest, Iqm still not sure what you're doing here, but in regards ts that error, /dev/sdh1 is a partition on /dev/sdh, which is why it's "not a master device with a primary parition table". Try...
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    [all variants] Re: Dual Booting with Windows 7

    I assume that's what OP is doing, hence why they're trying to format their disk. I still don't understand the problem though, grub (and it's configuration) isn't looked at while booting a LiveCD..
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    [all variants] Re: Dual Booting with Windows 7

    What are "the boot entries", and why do they prevent you from formatting your hard drive?
  19. Thread: But why not?

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    Re: But why not?

    You can use Wine to run a large number of Windows applications, albeit with a varying degree of success.

    As for "Why not itunes on ubuntu? Why not Adobe on ubuntu? Why not Blizzard on ubuntu?"
    ...
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    [SOLVED] Re: sudo -i not prompting for password

    I you want to be prompted for a password every time you run sudo as a regular user, add "timestamp_timeout=0" to your list of Defaults by using


    sudo visudo

    Of course any NOPASSWD declarations...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Windows Alt Codes in Linux?

    You mean like this: ❤?

    Shift+u+2764.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters
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    [ubuntu] Re: Space for new 1TB Hard Drive?

    You can specify partitions during the installation phase, if you choose to partition manually. Or you can create partitions in an existing installation using partitioning software (e.g. gparted), and...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Space for new 1TB Hard Drive?

    Depends on how you set it up. Most linux distributions will use less than 5GB for /, but if you don't have a dedicated data partition (for user documents, etc) then you'll probably need a much larger...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Wine does not run

    Just to be pedantic, but Wine Is Not (an) Emulator.
  25. Thread: New to ubuntu

    by WorMzy
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    [ubuntu] Re: New to ubuntu

    Hi. I recommend that you read this before proceeding: http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm
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