This is didn't work.
However, after trying various metacity --replace and compiz --replace, I killed firefox. That seemed to free up the mouse.
If it happens again, I'll try killing firefox...
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This is didn't work.
However, after trying various metacity --replace and compiz --replace, I killed firefox. That seemed to free up the mouse.
If it happens again, I'll try killing firefox...
Re: mouse clicking stops working
There is no existing metacity process running -- I only saw a compiz process running, and thus did the compiz --replace. Does it matter what processes are running?
mouse clicking stops working
Sporadically, randomly, occasionally, clicking on my desktop (Gnome 2) stops working. (I'm on 10.04.) This only seems to happen when using VNC (remmina is the client, vino-server is the server). I...
switching alt-win keys when using external keyboard?
I'd like to switch my alt (option) and super (windows/apple) keys whenever I use an external keyboard on my Apple Macbook Pro laptop and have it switch back when I unplug it.
In particular, I'd...
Two things.
Windows. It turns out that this external touchpad works fine in Windows (Win7).
Model. It looks like there are two models of USB versions of this touchpad. More below.
There are 2...
I'm having an odd problem.
When I plug in my PS2 Cirque Touchpad into a USB converter into my laptop, everything works. But, if I plug in my Adesso Cirque Touchpad USB directly into laptop, it...
In general, OpenOffice is quite buggy.
My latest problem has been printing. I have this .dot file. When I print it to a networked printer, the document never prints. However, these work:
...
Did anyone ever figure this out?
For me, unlike the original poster, I'd like to know how to change the width of the scrolling area on the touchpad. It just seems to have an evdev driver, which...
I too am interested in this answer.
I tried using OpenOffice (ooffice) to open it, but it just flashes the splash logo and then disappears -- nothing gets opened. (On my Karmic machine, it says...
I have an Aspire 5740-5513 and I tried
acpi_osi=Linux
acpi_osi=
acpi_backlight=vendor
and none of 'em allow either the brightness applet nor the Fn-left/Fn-right keys to work.
I appear to...
permanently change transmit power when using NetworkManager?
I'm using Network Manager on my laptop. Works great.
This also works great:
sudo iwconfig wlan0 txpower 10
So, my question is: how can I make this change permanent each time I boot and use my...
This fixed it.
Apparently, /etc/timezone had just
US in it (i.e., an invalid timezone). I discovered this by looking at /proc/PROCESS-ID-OF-CROND/environ and saw that the TZ environment...
crontab, cron jobs, gmt, and local time zone
It seems that my cron jobs are never executed in my current timezone.
I checked the hardware clock (UTC-based) via hwclock and it is correct. The system date/time is also correct. ...
Re: apt-policy cache does not work
Figured it out. Feel dumb.
Apparently, with Lucid Lynx, you have to do sudo apt-cache policy. (Don't know why all other machines don't need the sudo.)
apt-policy cache does not work
apt-policy cache works great on my Debian machines and my Karmic Ubuntu machine, but does not work on my Lucid Lynx machine. Here is the output:
$ apt-cache policy
Package files:
100...
slow connectivity due to one-way packet loss problem
I discovered a very strange problem I'm having.
It always feels like, when typing into my ssh session, I was typing into a teletype (ok, so I'm old skool) -- I'd type a letter and sometimes it...
openssl or bcrypt agent?
For years, I've been using GNUpg for storing my passwords. The various agents (quintuple-agent, gnupg-agent) have been god-sent so I don't have to always enter my password.
I recently discovered...
Re: firefox doesn't render pages properly due to font problems
OK, I fixed it.
I realized that I had a bunch of symbolic links in my $HOME/.fonts directory to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts . That directory was virtually empty except a README which...
firefox doesn't render pages properly due to font problems
It seems that I have been running Firefox unbeknownst to me with a broken configuration. It seems that if I enable the in Edit->Preferences->Content->Fonts&Colors->Advanced, pages will no longer be...
I fixed this. I reinstalled Openoffice, as described in http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9445507&postcount=3 .
openoffice crashes on "new html document"
Openoffice crashes on File -> New -> HTML Document . It gets
OpenOffice.org Document Recovery
Due to an unexpected error, OpenOffice.org crashed. All the files you were working on will now be...
update-grub in virtualbox clobbers countdown
For some reason, when unattended-upgrades runs update-grub within my virtualbox session (Ubuntu is the guest/client in this case), the count-down counter in grub no longer works -- it just sits there...
3 --
Line-In
Microphone 2
Microphone 1
Only Microphone 2 seems to work. (I assume that that is the built-in mic, which is what I'm using.)
Yes, via Audacity. The sound quality is very...
Was this ever resolved? I seem to have the same problem. Guvcview correctly records video and sound, but the sound quality is terrible (at least, compared with "arecord test.wav"). Cheese doesn't...
It appears that capturing/recording video via guvcview under Karmic just will not work at all no-how. I tried recording video, transferred the .avi file to my Lucid machine and it still would not...