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Since I upgraded to 10.04 from 9.10, pressing ctrl twice no longer brings up a little search box window from google desktop...

When I upgraded to 9.10, The AdBlock Plus and ReadItLater icons in the top right hand corner of Firefox disappeared. Is this a problem with the extensions or with firefox or with my current theme?...

Can anyone confirm/disconfirm that the CD/DVD drive bug affects the latest Karmic build? I would but I'm in the middle of a big writing project and I want to avoid unstable software for the moment...

This fix works. thanks. But it resets when I restart my laptop. Can I make this change permanent?

Is there a permanent fix for the screen brightness? I found a fix that I thought worked, but it has reverted to not working after a reboot...

I have a 4810T and I'm having similar problems:
Mousepad lock button doesn't work. Haven't tried workarounds yet.
Screen brightness. (Fixed. See this thread)
Battery life not as long as with...

LaTeX I can do.

It's Emacs I need help with. I just about managed to get syntax highlighting: M-x tex-mode, and then some option I forgot the name of. Though I'd like that to be automatic when I...

Why did synaptic automatically update me to a beta version? Is that standard for a normal 9.04 install?

Can I rollback to the stable 2.0 release through the package manager?

Hi, I was recently upgraded to Kile 2.1. There are two issues that seriously bug me.

1. Spell check is awful. It worked fine before, but now it doesn't recognise a lot of LaTeX commands and thinks...

Thanks but I've used texmaker. It's alright, but Kile does what texmaker does better. What I was looking for here was something more lightweight and more customisable.

My point was that the default power management options on the pre-installed Vista are more sophisticated than for Ubuntu. So out of the box you'll get better battery life on windows. If anyone knows...

Were those websites and users using windows or linux? I doubt I've got anywhere near 8 hours with ubuntu yet. (I haven't tried to get into optimising battery performance yet, so I'm not saying it...

Hello,

I've been floating around these forums for a while now and you often hear people say "Oh just use vim" or "oh just use emacs" whenever someone asks about an editor for anything involving...

Integrated graphics version, I think...

BAM, just installed ubuntu on my 4810 with no problems. I've not yet checked multitouch or webcam, but I'm not all that fussed about either.

But I will try and get the battery life back to 8 hours...

I just put a Live CD into my 4810 and it's worked like a dream: sound, wifi without a problem. I've now just got to get it to install without upsetting windows and everything will be fine and dandy....

I want to put ubuntu on my 4810T, but if it significantly reduces my battery life I'm not sure... Also, if it involves significant work to get going, I don't know... I'll try a LiveCD first, I...

Here's a weird thing: if I have a bittorrent client running (transmission) then the internet doesn't seem to cut out...

Doesn't look like my ISP is getting reassigned. Although I might just not be checking for it in the right way.

The outages seem to come at more random intervals now...
I had no problem before I...

I've found a better way to restart the network, but its still damn annoying. And noone has any idea what to try?

Since I upgraded to 8.04, I've had two problems. One detailed here.
The other is the following:
I no longer have the preferred applications set up as I want them.
I want DVDs to open with vlc and...

I've found that if I go to the network settings and switch from "roaming" to "automatic configuration" that it resets or something, and I get more internet for another fifteen or so minutes, after...

I recently updated to Hardy Heron. My wired network connection works fine for 15 minutes and then cuts out. I tried turning off firestarter, but that didn't seem to help at all. I'm using a 8.04...

Well that sucks. I think it's dishonest to keep selling them if they do not install without a lot of effort. hardly helping the cause if they are selling games for linux which are as hard to fix as...