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I can confirm that I now have a "Restart" menu item. Too bad it took a whole year (2 full releases) to get fixed.

While I cannot be sure, it looks like you are using XFCE. XFCE has issues when it comes to external monitors. A few people have already complained in IRC about this (server freenode, channel...

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Does anyone know why Chromium is no longer being updated in Ubuntu? 12.10 has the exact same version as 12.04, which is of course outdated (released July 28th). All PPAs have extremely outdated...

Thanks everyone for the information.

I had no idea people still used serial cables. So pause & break don't really do anything on modern machines/software, does it? I tried to use it in bash to...

What do the following keyboard keys do? Do people still use them, and for what? And what is their function in a modern GNU/Linux or Ubuntu desktop or server?

The weird keys in question:


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VLC reaches 2.0

It's finally out. Highlights for this release:


faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware...

I there a way to enable the "restart" entry in the actual indicator so that "restart" is listed along side of shutdown, logout, suspend, etc.? I only use restart and suspend and would like them to be...

Awesome! This works on Intel video card's as well! Ubuntu 11.04 (natty). On my system I had to add cpu2 to the script.

Thank you so much clrg!

My script that was added to...

Whyis everyone freaking out? If you want the newest Firefox 4 release NOW, it's not a problem. Mozilla has a stable release PPA which of course has the newest Firefox 4 in it. Just add the ppa and...

Found a quick temporary solution. Open terminal and type:

gnome-settings-daemon(press enter)

Just do that anytime you encounter this problem.

I suggest making sure gnome-settings-daemon is...

Repository is a much better option because it's much cleaner. If you ever need to remove the drivers, you just remove them like any other program. Plus the author cleaned them up a bit (Samsung just...

I may have found an answer for you:
http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/

Read that page and follow the directions. It's a repository that will have your driver show up like any other program in Ubuntu...

Something is wrong. VirtualBox should not crash even if your CPU does not have VT-X and VirtualBox option for vt-x is checked.

Make sure you do not have any other VM installed, such as xen or kvm....

Here is how I solved this problem.

1) Close any package manager, this includes Synaptic, Update Manager and Software Center.
2) Open terminal and execute the following commands (press Enter...

drs305,

Thanks for merging the threads and keeping the forums clean!

zekopeko,

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I had a problem where Flash would cause 95-100% CPU usage in Firefox and other browsers. The movie would first stop having sound then would freeze altogether. Closing the tab where the flash movie...

I had a problem where Flash would cause 95-100% CPU usage in Firefox and other browsers. The movie would first stop having sound then would freeze altogether. Closing the tab where the flash movie...

I had a problem where Flash would cause 95-100% CPU usage in Firefox and other browsers. The movie would first stop having sound then would freeze altogether. Closing the tab where the flash movie...

Not into /bin/ but into ~/bin/ which is short for /home/YOUR_USERNAME/bin/
~ is short for your home directory.

And it's not sickening that you cannot add into /bin on Linux. It's one of the...

** SOLUTION NOT REQUIRING ROOT/SUDO **

Introducing... gnome-power-control
No sudo, no root, no fuss!

I found the solutions in this thread and elsewhere inadequate, because they just bypassed...

I fixed my DNS problem. Disabling IPv6 for grub 2 (or this for grub 1) fixed it for me!

Don't know whether you have grub 1 or 2? First, check if you have the program update-grub2 and if you do,...

I fixed my DNS problem. Disabling IPv6 for grub 2 (or this for grub 1) fixed it for me!

Don't know whether you have grub 1 or 2? First, check if you have the program update-grub2 and if you do,...

First, give the exact error you receive and where. Show a screenshot if you think it will help.

Are you sure you can ping the same website you are trying to reach via your web browser? Try a few...