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Ok I found the cause of the problem!
Just add


gnome-settings-daemon & to your start-up options and everything should work.

urgh... my volume buttons got screwed too. Now they don't work until I open System>Preferences>Sound.

this sucks. GNOME changes my icon set to the **** brown ubuntu, my font size to a ridiculous 10, and the butt ugly default gtk theme. This problem happened after installing kde. I'm looking for the...

Come on, practically every compositing/stacking window manager allows this. It make it ridiculously impossible to click most OK/CANCEL/APPLY buttons in a netbook. Is there a plugin I'm unaware of...

I just wanted to share this.


# Google Desktop-esque search. Just type 'google:keyword' to use.
URL_google = x-www-browser 'http://www.google.com.ph/search?q=%s'

I never knew URL_ can be used to make aliases... great work, Salute.
I salute you. lol

To counter that guy's argument:

Learning curve - true, changing applications is a PITA. If you use something other than a decent X Window Manager (which OS X or Windows has), the interface is...

Thanks :)

How do I build a .deb package containing artwork? I kinda want themes to be installable/removable via apt.

well, obviously, there's split. But what if I did:

cat a.mp3 b.so c.jpg d.exe e.wav >> junk

is there a way to recover those files individually even if I have no idea how big they were, what...

apt-torrent'd be nice, but it looks dead...

@the OP:
You can sell GPL'ed code. Some distro's available only for sale are RH and some fork of Debian with E17 (forgot the name).

And anyway, my 2...

The annoying "switch page direction" feature

whoops... sorry then.
just thought that this also concerns linux in general. I'm pretty sure there are people out there who have to deal with guys like this. People with "authority" who have no idea...

Screw that computer-literate-because-he-types-htt p:\\ww w.google.com\-at-hunt-and-peck-20-wpm. He actually called my computer (hardware) junk because it got a virus. Screw him entirely for blaming...

WHAT!? But I use that when Compiz locks-up when I tinker with it.

Also, difficulty is subjective. The only thing objective that's remotely similar to difficulty is complexity. It involves many...

Thanks for the info on xmessage and zenity! :D

also I found this in zenity's manpage:

:lolflag:

I have a bash script that works perfectly, except, I don't know if it's done or not. Well, I would know if I executed it from the terminal, but in this case I execute it from thunar... more...

I think you can drag and drop them to emerald theme manager.
There also is an "Add Theme" button there.

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=g33orp.2.38
Who knew freedom was more than a dirty old man? turns out it's also a


but then again, you did say software patent...hmmm...

DISCLAIMER: Before you go further, remember that I'm not serious. Think of this as something like the flying spaghetti monster. I know somethings I will say are wrong, contradictory and factually...

I thought you meant site admin LOL

anyway in ubuntu at least, from my own *little* experience and *little* understanding, it was designed so that the root account is disabled (which means no root,...

Well, anyway, the point is I don't like the term because it's being abused and distorted. That's it.

Perhaps the culprit is the weird computer curriculum here in the Philippines. My cousin was...

care to share more? that was interesting.

@samjh - you made my day with your avatar XD

day to day tasks=does not include mysql, flash, javascript, qbasic and frigging ms paint. but I'm grateful they taught us the first 4 at school. :)
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well yes, majority of the people who use computers do not need and do not want to know how computers operate. they just care that it works. I don't even think that some genius computer user knows the...