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    [ubuntu] Re: Making PolicyKit edits in 10.04

    "policies are stored as xml files in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions."

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8219205&postcount=5
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    [ubuntu] Re: terminal emails???

    I have heard that both Mutt and Alpine are good (and in the repos). Alpine is supposed to be easier to use, although I have no experience with either program.

    This will help you get set up:...
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    [ubuntu] Re: nvidia-xconfig

    have you tried installing the restriced drivers through system > administration restricted drivers?
    once you have them installed run 'gksu nvidia-settings'
    also check system > preferances >...
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    [all variants] Re: issue with conky script written in perl

    It works fine for me, I made no modifications,except for a newline character on line 28: print "$h:$min:$s\n" if($h>0||$min>0||$s>0);</nhandler>
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    Re: Flash installation problems

    you could try going to system > administration > software sources and changing the download server.
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    Re: Need help making a simnple script.

    man page for the 'find' command
  7. Thread: movie players

    by Johnny B
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    [SOLVED] Re: movie players

    you can disable the recently used documents with this:

    rm ~/.recently-used.xbel && mkdir ~/.recently-used.xbel
  8. [SOLVED] Re: How to printscreen without including the mouse pointer?

    main menu > accessories > take screenshot
    untick "include mouse pointer"
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    [ubuntu] Re: Performance slows down after 2-3 days

    run the command 'top' in terminal to see whats using your memory/cpu.
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    [ubuntu] Re: keyboard shortcut to type text

    you may need to install a clipboard daemon to get this functionality, here are some promising ones that may do what you want:
    Glipper
    Klipper
    xclip
  11. Thread: Cut command

    by Johnny B
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    [SOLVED] Re: Cut command

    are you asking to print one line at a time?
    i am not sure what you mean by "compare the rows of the first column with a value row by row"
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    [ubuntu] Re: random "Zebra stripe" attack

    i have had this problem in the past... it drove me nuts for a few days. i was troubleshooting everything, it turned out to be my graphics card, as soon as it would heat up the computer crashed....
  13. Thread: Cut command

    by Johnny B
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    [SOLVED] Re: Cut command

    awk is a command built exactly for this purpose:

    ls -ltra | awk '{print $1}'
    $1 will give you the first column, $2 for the second... etc
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    [ubuntu] Re: hey guys, nub here needs help

    i would use 'df -h' and the disk usage analyzer to find whats eating up your space.

    More housekeeping if you're interested, this is from a script:

    OLDCONF=$(dpkg -l|grep "^rc"|awk '{print $2}')...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Missing Hard-disk Space

    the second and third lines are output from the command.
    you should run it as:


    however /dev/sda2 is just an example, 'df -h' will tell you what disk labels are. ex:
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    [ubuntu] Re: Missing Hard-disk Space

    run the 'df -h' command in terminal to get a more accurate analysis of your disk space. Disk usage analyzer says 'total file system capacity' not just the partition, that includes your /home and...
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    [ubuntu] Re: What's wrong with my script?

    does this line return more than one PID?

    ps -aef | grep 'mythfrontend.re' | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'

    i would change it to:

    for line in `ps -aef | grep 'mythfrontend.re' | grep -v grep...
  18. [ubuntu] Re: nautilus actions and thunderbird - attach multiple files

    thats excelent, you are much better at writing a tutorial than i am.
    i really don't know where to send it, but just being in the forums it will be indexed by google, so hopefully it will help the...
  19. [ubuntu] Re: nautilus actions and thunderbird - attach multiple files

    there was supposed to be quotes around this:
    C=`basename "$(echo $file | sed 's/\^^/ /g')"`

    Full line (so you can cut and paste)

    BODY=$(for file in $Z ;do C=`basename "$(echo $file | sed...
  20. [ubuntu] Re: nautilus actions and thunderbird - attach multiple files

    i can't reproduce the problem, are you running a older version of ubuntu/gnome?
    when I execute the script on my machine, nautilus acts as if it is working in that directory, and my script never...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Banshee Help

    i have never used banshee, and im sorry i can't help with that. I suggest, if you have no other options, try using gtkpod to transfer files (package: gtkpod or gtkpod-aac for included video support)
  22. [ubuntu] Re: nautilus actions and thunderbird - attach multiple files

    yes, thankfully i solved that and saved it to my scripts folder.

    try this:

    #!/bin/bash
    # attach multiple files thunderbird.sh
    #thunderbird -compose...
  23. [ubuntu] Re: nautilus actions and thunderbird - attach multiple files

    I think i had a solution, but he told me not to post it.

    let me see what i can do.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Saving data when frozen??? Help ASAP!!!!

    go to tty1 (ctrl+alt+F1) log in and run the 'top' command
    find the name of the 'font viewer' process (ctrl+C to quit 'top')
    run 'killall font-viewer' (or whatever its name is)
    ctrl+alt+F7 to get...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Batch .torrent creator

    this might help
    HOWTO: Install and script BitTorrent 4.0 on Debian Linux
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