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I got some help from plucky and sudodus in another thread and was able to open a command-line window with Ctrl Alt t. Then, following the instructions provided by dino99 got my system back on its...

Thanks very much, plucky and sudodus -- Ctrl Alt t did the trick.

Are these Ctrl Alt functions documented somewhere?

I've managed to bork my system to the extent that I have no launcher bar and no system bar (or whatever the bar at the top of the screen is called) in Unity. I think the first step to recovering...

Thanks very much, dino99.

I've tried the steps you suggest, but my Unity desktop remains as before. Here's what happens....

I boot up and get to the Unity desktop. Then I hit Alt-F4 and get...

A few minutes ago I uninstalled everything related to IBus that I could find in Synaptic, because I was having trouble getting IBus to allow input of Chinese characters and wanted to re-install it...

Allow me to update my experience with using the XP-405 under 13.04 Quantal.

The problems I had initially with wireless scanning seem to have vanished now that I have installed Epson's basic Linux...

Yo, plucky, you da man, dude!

Thanks -- it worked perfectly.

I can't get any software updates. Running apt-get check produces the following error message:

Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with...

Thank you all very much. I do appreciate all of the views and suggestions and am going to look into them.

Thank you. I am familiar with Python and quite like it, but it hadn't occurred to me for this purpose, because it's not clear to me that it's easy to code something that my nephew will enjoy. Is...

I'm thinking that my 7-year-old nephew might find programming fun. I'm trying to find the best language to introduce him to. The only one that comes to mind is Logo, though I know next to nothing...

Thank you for pointing that out, but reading the reviews of that cable makes me think it won't work for my purposes. It seems to provide RGB rather than component (PrPbY) signals to the RCA plugs.

I had in mind a live feed from the laptop monitor rather than a video file. But, it would be good to get the TV's DLNA function working for streaming, so I'll look into ps3mediaservier. Thanks!

Yeah, I've seen VGA-to-HDMI cables advertised, but I've read that the you still need a converter.

I have an old HP (Compaq) laptop with the following video outputs:

* VGA and
* S-video,

and a new Samsung TV with the following video inputs:

* Component (PrPbY),
* HDMI,
*...

I have a 700-kB JPEG image that I'd like to use as a desktop icon for one of my folders. I've already set the folder's icon to be the image, but this seems to cause Nautilus to sometimes go into an...

Thanks, pdc -- I've installed my new XP-405 under Quantal, and it works great as a printer, both wirelessly and through a USB cable.

As for scanning, it works over the USB cable but not yet...

I finally found out how to do this. I'll post it, on the off chance somebody else is looking for the same information.

It's simple: with the GNU compilers, just use the -shared option. For...

Thanks very much, V13 Noob -- your fix solves a lot of my problem. In some ways, it's actually better than before: the wireless indicator light is basically on now but blinks when data is flowing. ...

Does this mean it's now safe to install 12.10 with ext4? Or should I wait a bit yet?

I don't fully understand the linked-to article, but it sure sounds scary. I was just about to install Ubuntu on a new machine; should I opt for ext3 instead of ext4 to avoid this problem?

I'm temporarily living in an apartment that has a built-in wifi-enabled sound system. I'm told that if you have your music in iTunes on your laptop, you can wirelessly play your music through the...

You could try this trick using Perl.

Since upgrading to 12.04, I've found when logging in that if I mistakenly try to type my password outside the password box on the log-in screen, Ubuntu freezes and becomes completely unresponsive --...

I don't have a solution, but I have a similar or identical problem and I'd like to commiserate. It used to be that the blue wireless indicator on my laptop was illuminated whenever the wireless was...