I also believe Canonical is going the wrong way.
(and so I switched to Arch Linux which is great because it gives you freedom and vanilla cutting edge software.)
But it is not only me:
See this...
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I also believe Canonical is going the wrong way.
(and so I switched to Arch Linux which is great because it gives you freedom and vanilla cutting edge software.)
But it is not only me:
See this...
the effect it had on me: i love the flexibility of gnome-shell and i don't use any ubuntu specific developments at all. so my consequence was: goodbye ubuntu. i moved to arch on my main computer, it...
Unity is still bad:
No workspace separation on the launcher
No way to minimize windows with single click on launcher
getting more and more commercial
Gnome Shell is great. Mainly because of two reasons:
1. good design
2. EXTENSIONS!
So Gnome-Shell is an open platform you can customize very much. in contrast to unity. (which i hate.)
Sorry if this was mentioned before, haven't read the whole thread:
If your Flash-Fullscreen display immediately returns to small size, here is a workaround:
DOUBLE-click the fullscreen icon.
(So...
I have the same problem with 12.10 (and Gnome-Shell), and I found a workaround:
DOUBLE-click the fullscreen icon.
(So it seems to be a focus problem.)
I have the same problem with Libre Office and Gnome-Shell on 12.10 64Bit.
Any ideas how to solve that?
OK, got it. In a terminal:
cd /etc/pm/sleep.d/
sudo touch 20-hdparm
sudo chmod +x 20-hdparm
sudo gedit 20-hdparm
and there:
#!/bin/bash
case "$1" in
As this is a beginner, it maybe useful:
As written there, add the repository by entering in the terminal:
wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh...
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I want to spin down my external USB drive /dev/sdc as fast as possible:
/etc/hdparm.conf:
...
/dev/sdc {
spindown_time = 1
}
that works, although I get
I like Gnome-Shell very much.
Very good design, good and most of all configurable user experience:
https://extensions.gnome.org/ + gnome-tweak-tool + dconf-editor
About the notifications:...
I also tried to get the fonts better with the gnome-tweak-tool in fedora, but it didn't affected Firefox! I was only able to control Firefox rendering by .fonts.conf...
A, but there is one thing...
Why I started:
I like Gnome Shell. Mostly because of its ability to be modded by extensions. But this bug (and some other things...) made me think I can't get a real good vanilla Gnome-Shell by...
OK, concerning this, you are right. :-)
ehm, markbl, please note that
(a) this thread ist marked as "solved" now
(b) I wrote an extension for that now, you can be sure I don't need to read beginners guides anymore... ;-)
(c) It's nice...
It took some time to get started, but now I have written a Gnome-Shell-Extension myself for that:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/440/workspace-separation-on-dash/
It's for Gnome-Shell...
It took some time to get started, but following the links here, looking in other Gnome-Shell-Extensions (in ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/) and in Gnome-Shell's original Code (in...
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I'd like to have an easy and flexible NFS-share system that keeps me from editing /etc/exports and /etc/fstab every time I add or remove a shared folder. For that, I tried to set up one...
Hello,
on my girlfriends netbook (Samsung NC10), suspend on closing the lid worked only sometimes. that really bothered me (more than her...;-)), because that didn't make linux look good...
So...
What I really like about the goo.gl URL-Shortener, is it's automatically generated statistics, e.g. http://goo.gl/#analytics/goo.gl/ee9IG/all_time for http://goo.gl/ee9IG (which links to the...
OK, found it:
1. scanned songs are in ~/.config/tangerine
2. I didn't really delete the playlists, only moved them to trash. Whyever, they didn't occur in my trash, but in a .trash0001 folder in...
Hello!
I got the following trouble:
Tangerine only scans a part of my music collection in the selected folder, about 1000 of 5000 files are missing.
Looking in the log files, I found several...
Yes, adding %f solved it, thanks! :-)
(restarting nautilus wasn't even necessary.)
Thanks, I added that (so the line is now
MimeType=application/x-kvtml;application/csv;text/plain;), restartet nautilus with
nautilus -q, but it didn't help: KWordQuiz isn't in that list. :-(...
open .csv files with KWordQuiz via Nautilus seems not to be possible: even with the expanded view of the "open with" dialogue, KWordQuiz is not mentioned.
I tried to change that by editing the...