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Pelgar:
Hmm, I thought I saw a bug report pertaining to this as well. Good to see I'm not the only one experiencing this. For me, I actually use Ctrl-C for both purposes. It was kind of funny,...

Well, I work in both environments, so you can see why muscle-memory might be an issue. While it is true that on a Windows console Ctrl-C also terminates programs, you can't actually copy/paste text...

Hi:

I've currently mapped Ctrl-C/V to copy/paste in Gnome-Terminal because I come from a Windows background. This causes an obvious problem because Ctrl-C is also used to send the SIGINT signal...

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john/Tinivole: I followed the specified steps, and my swap partition has a UUID again. What was weird was that my swap partition previously lacked a UUID (it wasn't that it had the wrong one). ...

Relevant output of "fdisk -l":



Disk /dev/sdc: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 486344 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Disk identifier:...

Hi:

I've recently started having some problems with my swap partition. When I start up my computer, often I get an error message that says Ubuntu couldn't mount the swap partition. After logging...

Bump. Surely I can't be the only one who needs to run a graphical program as another user?

@tinivole
Entering "export DISPLAY=:0.0" doesn't change anything.

@roboguy
Running with gksudo gives me this error:



GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible...

Hi:

I'm trying to run gedit as a different user in order to create some configuration files. I used the following command:



sudo -u www-data gedit syntax.php


but I get the following...

Sorry, I should have been more clear that


A="foo"

was setting the environment variable A to "foo", and not setting up an alias.

To confirm, I only need to edit ~/.bashrc. If I wanted...

Hi:

I've been setting environment variables in the file /etc/environment, which has worked fine. However, I'd like to stop doing this because I'd like to have all of my settings in my home...

Perhaps some of the confusion also stems from the "want X, but ask for Y" problem.

My original reason for wanting this is I'm tired of not being able to do what I want on my own system (sort of...

Err, I appreciate the warnings, but I think those of you warning me are missing the point. I'm not asking how to activate the root account - I'm already aware of how to do that, but it doesn't do...

Wow, thank-you very much for your effort. Unfortunately, I'm not too comfortable with compiling and installing my own gnome-panel, so I think I'll just stick with the current behaviour.

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mdurham: Thanks for understanding :)

3rdalbum: I see.

Ok... how about this: I start my GDM session by using "ssh -i [GDMSession]". Since all processes that I start after logging in will be...

Thanks, but that isn't quite what I'm looking for. That only enables the root account (and will allow me to log into my system as root), which I can already do. What I want to do is be able to...

Hi:

I'm interested in the following: I would like to make my regular user account a root account. What I mean is that I want to emulate the behaviour of Windows XP (and older), where the default...

Not sure if you still need help with this, but I ran into the same problem. I had unmounted all the logical partitions in the extended partition, but GParted still didn't let me resize/move the...

It was a really simple (and stupid) error. I forgot that I had physically switched the order of my hard drives. Thus, the BIOS boot order was trying to boot first from the drive which contains my...

Thanks, but I'm using GRUB2, not GRUB.

Some new developments. I decided to re-install Ubuntu, but I still had the same problem. Then I decided enter the BIOS boot menu (i.e., the menu you get by pressing F11 during boot-up). The menu...

Hi:

I wanted to set-up a dual-boot environment. I first installed Windows 7 on the first partition of my hard drive, and then I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on the second partition. However, when I...

I am having the same problem, and it is very annoying to have to restart Firefox (I basically have to do this once a day). Does anyone know how to fix this?