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A sound popup relentlessly pops up in the upper right of my screen. It shows me that the sound is muted, with a non functioning volume bar beside it.

This is persistent through shutdowns.

This...

Ahh... good call. Unfortunately this assumes it is just my trash, and that's not the case.

To that end my goal is to have the computer adjust to my users, not vice versa.

Thanks amac777! I really appreciate the simplicity of that compared to what I have been playing with - doing a find, loading the results into an array, and then removing based on that.

I hear you...

I am having troubles installing the Nvidia 177.82 driver after upgrading from Hardy (8.10) to Jaunty (9.04).

These are the steps that I took under Hardy, which worked fine until the upgrade, and...

For anyone else having this problem I have posted this on the Compiz forums along with a dump from one of the crashes here:

http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?p=73493#post73493

Thanks for the tip - it gave me some new insight!

I unloaded awn, and installed gnome-do. Was playing around with that and it happened again - compiz crashed. Since gnome-do doesn't depend on...

1 out of 4 times when I mouse-over or interact with the awn bar the awn bar will quickly disappear and a warning box will come up:



Sure enough I try to flip the cube and I can't do it. Compiz...

Bleachbit is a very cool little program; thanks for pointing it out!

Although it clears a lot of odds and ends off your system, as you suggested, it doesn't get all the .Trash. The only .Trash...

I seem to be having as much luck as you obviously did when you went and tried again ;) Anyways.. on to something constructive (because epeen fueled passive aggressive nerd-sults are so 2008, dontcha...

I can always rely on this forum!

It never fails, if I'm stumped I post something on here and minutes later I figure it out.

I rebooted with the "recovery" kernel option, and was presented with...

Hello!

After GUI logging in to Intrepid the system becomes unresponsive. CTRL-ALT-1,2,3.. or CTRL-ALT-BackSPce do not work. The screen remains blank and coloured the same as the login gui...

Thanks Niniel, for your time efforts!

Oh wait. That particular script that you have linked there only clears out the .Trash directory... it really doesn't do anything that I mentioned about...

Flaming? Perhaps something is lost in translation. There is no flaming intended or otherwise. My thesis statement is this:

Ubuntu is full of .Trash

So what I am hearing is I need to write a...

There is Trash in /home/everysingleuseronyourbox/.local/share/Trash, and random trash directorys popping up like .Trash-0 and .Trash-1000 nestled in subdirectories. Not to mention Trash it...

Under Hardy I used the Ubuntu Alternative installation CD to install an encrypted install of ubuntu. It has worked flawlessly since I did it. The system is currently running Intrepid. Recently I...

I just stopping by to say that I figured this out. Posting what I did here in the case that someone stumbles upon this in a search many years from now...

After reading the man pages for...

I can't seem to get SSH working without a password using ssh-keygen. The ultimate goal is to get rsync working over ssh without a password for the purposes of a nightly crontab backup across the...

I'm not good enough to be able to give step-by-step for this. The other problem is that there are going to be things that are particular to your machine that I can't anticipate. But I will fill in...

Preface: I am not an expert. Just a newb who likes to read and play around.

So I think what you are saying is you installed 9.04, it resized your 8.10 partition down so you have 2 partitions -...

Yep - you are entirely correct. Thanks!

It was working before and I'm not sure when it stopped:

-Right clicking inside of xterm does not bring up a context menu anymore. It just highlights text.

-Since I have the toolbar turned off...

Summary:
- Can't boot into 2.6.27-7 because of D945 bug (here)
- Booting into previous 2.6.24-21 no GUI - No driver
- Can't recompile Nvidia driver, might be because:
- apt-get fails on install...

Ahhh... I figured it out myself when I bumped into another problem.

I initially wrote the script in notepad, and I didn't realize (read: newb) that there was a difference between notepad TEXT and...

Preface: Yeah - I'm a week-old-newb and I am missing something obvious.

My weekly tar backup script is (finally) running successfully, but the output filename (generated by variables in the...