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  1. Re: How to: Create a complete, snappy and beautiful Ubuntu Desktop

    Hi there,

    Here's hoping everybody had a good new years.

    I´m still having minor issues with this install: enable networking panel icon shows a red mute x (wired networking does not seem an...
  2. Re: How to: Create a complete, snappy and beautiful Ubuntu Desktop

    Howdy fellow commandline-install buckaroos!
    [update] on my own question from Friday, Xmas day: decided to start over and re-install today, and got a formerly-ugly-but-no-longer gnome-desktop with...
  3. Re: How to: Create a complete, snappy and beautiful Ubuntu Desktop

    Hello & Happy Xmas!

    I was looking forward to trying out your recommendations on a new-old govt. surplus desktop I picked up at auction. But I'm presently stumped just before Step 4, where the...
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    [ubuntu] Re: printer not connected?

    Thank you v. much for your reply. I don't remember removing any redundant orphans within the past few years. (Maybe it's time?!) I did manage to pretty much hose my then system a few years back with...
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    [ubuntu] printer not connected?

    Hello
    My HP LaserJet 4plus, which was working fine last week, has become invisible to the operating system, an otherwise up-to-date Intrepid Ibex.

    I first noticed the problem trying to get my...
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    [all variants] Re: Comprehensive Multimedia & Video How-to

    Hi Jane



    Hth.
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    [all variants] Re: Comprehensive Multimedia & Video How-to

    Make that 283 users [who want to thank reassuringly... for his helpful post.] Thanks a lot!
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    Re: HOWTO: Adjust screensaver settings in Dapper

    Hello,

    Thank you for both your how-to guides. I'm afraid I'm still a bit confused. I've got Edgy working great, and the screensaver cycling through a stripped-down Pictures folder, but...
  9. Re: HOWTO: Epson Perfection 1670 Scanner (and other SnapScan scanners)

    hello!
    i just successfully installed my saved-from-the-dump Snapscan 1212 scanner on my ubuntu edgy machine using the instructions found here. thanks to bernardfrancois and remix_88. if anyone's...
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    Re: Comprehensive Sound Problem Solutions Guide

    hello,
    you can add my thanks to the other several thousand! i've got SOUND again! and i was going to mention that intensive purposes s/b intents & purposes, but i see you've already fixed that too!...
  11. Re: HOWTO: Upgrade to Firefox 1.5.0.4 the easy way

    no worries, mite! thanks for your help. for any other out-there newbies' info, i just closed off my 1.5.0.2 firefox, re-ran the gksudo firefox, (whether i needed to or not!), re-started firefox, et...
  12. Re: HOWTO: Upgrade to Firefox 1.5.0.4 the easy way

    thank you for your reply. gksudo firefox produced a second firefox window with a 1.5.0.4, but without the bookmarks etc. in 1.5.0.2. will closing .0.2 and restarting nuke the bookmarks?
    yours in...
  13. Re: HOWTO: Upgrade to Firefox 1.5.0.4 the easy way

    hello aysiu,
    looks like heffo_j got the script to work, but i'm still having trouble.

    the ./firefox line, above, still shows 1.5.0.2, btw.

    nano's script barfs (?) at:
    Linking launcher to new...
  14. Re: HOWTO: Upgrade to Firefox 1.5.0.4 the easy way

    hello,

    thank you for your reply.

    yes. pasted each step into a gnome-terminal, and watched while each did its thing. but 'about firefox' still shows 1.5.0.2.

    and that's still the case, this...
  15. Re: HOWTO: Upgrade to Firefox 1.5.0.4 the easy way

    hello,

    [/QUOTE]
    1) Download Firefox 1.5.0.4:

    wget http://backports.org/debian/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-0bpo1_i386.deb
    2) Download Firefox gnome-support (ignore this if...
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