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  1. [ubuntu] Keyboard shortcut for setting inverse video on window?

    In older versions of Ubuntu, with the Gnome Classic desktop, it was possible with the keystroke Super+N to set inverse video on a given window, or with Super+M to set reverse video on the desktop as...
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    [ubuntu] Mysterious out of space messages

    A couple of days ago I got a pop-up message box saying there was only a few hundred megabytes of free space on my hard drive. I deleted a few things and emptied the Trash, then checked df; it said...
  3. [ubuntu] Re: Solution to Broadcom 43xx Card Problem (12.04 - Precise Pangolin)

    This finally fixed the problem:



    sudo apt-get remove --purge firmware-b43-installer
    sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-lpphy-installer


    Immediately after the second command above finished,...
  4. [ubuntu] Re: Solution to Broadcom 43xx Card Problem (12.04 - Precise Pangolin)

    When I search for "driver is activated but not currently in use", I find a lot of threads relating to a problem with the Nvidia graphics card driver, but nothing relating to a wireless card driver. ...
  5. [ubuntu] Re: Solution to Broadcom 43xx Card Problem (12.04 - Precise Pangolin)

    I had wireless working fine on a clean install of 11.10. When I upgraded to 12.04, wireless stopped working. This is my wireless card:



    lspci -vvnn | grep 14
    0c:00.0 Network controller...
  6. [ubuntu] Reverse video on individual window or GUI as as whole?

    In older versions, such as 8.10 (which I recently upgraded from), one could reverse the color palette on an individual window or the GUI as a whole by pressing Super+N or Super+M. These keys don't...
  7. [ubuntu] Re: Upgrade from 8.10 to 12.04 failing in multiple ways

    I *was* trying to upgrade one version at a time, 8.10 to 9.04, 9.04 to 9.10, etc. But I never got farther than 9.04 before something got corrupted and the main partition became unusable. *Now* I'm...
  8. [ubuntu] Re: Upgrade from 8.10 to 12.04 failing in multiple ways

    I tested that CD on a Windows machine. It works fine when I boot from it and "try Ubuntu without installing".

    I downloaded the Windows version of unetbootin and used it to recreate the bootable...
  9. [ubuntu] Re: Upgrade from 8.10 to 12.04 failing in multiple ways

    I haven't tried the "try it out without installing" option on the Windows machine. I'll try that next.

    On my own machine, I have to press F12 before GRUB starts, then I get a list of places to...
  10. [ubuntu] Upgrade from 8.10 to 12.04 failing in multiple ways

    I have a Dell Inspiron 15n which came with Ubuntu 8.10 preinstalled. I've installed a few additional programs (Emacs, etc.) on it but never felt a particular need to upgrade the OS until recently. ...
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    [ubuntu] Hard drives etc. not mounting

    Last night I had one of my external hard drives connected to my laptop -- Dell Inspiron 15n, running Ubuntu 8.10. It had mounted normally when I plugged it into one of the USB ports. About fifteen...
  12. [all variants] Linux-compatible MP3 players: recommendations? (hardware)

    My Sony Walkman NWZ-E436F seems to be on its last legs, its battery being erratic about recharging the last couple of times. My initial inclination is to buy another instance of the same model,...
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    Re: How did you get involved in programming?

    We had Apple II's at my elementary school (two computers for threee or four hundred students), but I never got to use one, though I checked books on BASIC out of the school library and taught myself...
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    Re: Help with shell script

    For debugging a shell script, I generally put



    set -xv
    at the beginning and



    set +xv
  15. [ubuntu] Keyboard settings resetting to default when plug in external keyboard

    I have an Inspiron 15n laptop, into which I plug an external ergonomic keyboard whenever possible. it's an older keyboard with a PS2 connector, plugged into a USB/PS2 adapter and thence to the...
  16. [ubuntu] Keyboard settings resetting to default when plug in external keyboard

    I have an Inspiron 15n laptop, into which I plug an external ergonomic keyboard whenever possible. I normally boot up with the keyboard already plugged in and have no problems. However, if for some...
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    [all variants] Re: Question on hard links and symbolic links

    I've discovered another advantage to symbolic links, and another advantage to hard links, since I posted the above:

    1. If copying a directory hierarchy to an NTFS filesystem (presumably a fortiori...
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    Getting properties for image file

    I'm looking for a way to get the basic properties -- particularly, the height and width in pixels -- of an image file from a shell or Perl script. E.g., a Perl module that would let me read a file,...
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    [all variants] Flexible slideshow app

    I'm wondering what other image viewers out there might have better, more flexible slideshow functions than Eye of Gnome. It's -s function takes the full screen and displays the images from files...
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    [all variants] Question on hard links and symbolic links

    I know the basic difference between hard links and symbolic links, and how to control which kind one makes with 'ln' vs. 'ln -s'. There's something in the Ubuntu Pocket Guide that leaves me a bit...
  21. [ubuntu] mplayer stops playing audio, error "Failed to connect to server"

    I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 on a Dell Inspiron 15n laptop. I've had a problem with sound not playing several times now. The first time was after Rhythmbox hung and I had to kill it -- I think it got...
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    [all variants] Re: Scripts -- how to cd from a list

    I got this working using Soundconverter, as a previous poster suggested
    -- it worked better than lame in preserving metadata and better than
    ffmpeg in handling .oga files. However, I couldn't...
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    [all variants] Re: Scripts -- how to cd from a list

    It looks as though when you catenate a file as the list for a "for VARIABLE in LIST do .... done" structure, it doesn't treat the slashes before spaces and other metacharacters as special. I'm not...
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    Re: Why do you choose Ubuntu over Windows

    For the last few years, using a Windows 2000 machine to work from home, I've been spending nearly all of my time in four programs: NT Emacs, the Cygnus bash shell, Firefox, and NetSupport to connect...
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