I recently switched my 13.10 installation from Unity to Gnome Shell. I did that by installing ubuntu-gnome-desktop. Everything is working fine and I'm using LightDM, but I want to switch to GDM to...
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I recently switched my 13.10 installation from Unity to Gnome Shell. I did that by installing ubuntu-gnome-desktop. Everything is working fine and I'm using LightDM, but I want to switch to GDM to...
Kubuntu installer erased the entire drive. (almost) no question asked.
After several years with other Linux distributions I decided to re-try Kubuntu and install it on my laptop.
The laptop had a Gentoo system on LVM and Windows install. I was planning to switch the...
exif_data_new_from_file may fail and I returns NULL when it does. Since you don't preform a NULL check after you call exif_data_new_from_file, There's a possibility that "data" will be NULL.
The...
Maybe they can use virtualenv to create additional Python environments containing different Python versions. I agree with bluexrider: Moving to 2.5 Shouldn't case harm, but they may see deprecation...
Well, your options are basically:
1. Try to get use to either Unity or GNOME Shell. You can check out YouTube for tutorial videos about both.
2. Decide that you don't like them and move back to...
Until today I could launch the unity dash using the "windows" key, write a name of an application and then select it when it appears at the dash.
After the last Unity update, when I launch the...
I'm using vnc4server in my computer. In my xstartup file I run:
gnome-session --session=ubuntu-2d &
In order to launch the 2D version of Unity. When I log in to my session I see no background...
When I used to copy files using the old GNOME interface, a "file operations" icon appeared at the top bar and I could access the file operation dialog using that icon. The icon disappeared once the...
I managed to solve this after a bit Googling. The cause was the fact that I disabled ipv6 on the server. As described Here, I had to add sshd_config
AddressFamily inet
Thank you for replying. I tried -X and -Y and none worked. Setting the DISPLAY environment variable manually didn't work either.
I looked at auth.log and found a line that might indicate the...
Did Ubuntu 11.10 break the X11 forwarding feature completly?
Anyone?
On my PC I have Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit installed. On my laptop I have Ubuntu 11.10 32-bit installed. I want to be able to forward X applications from my laptop to my PC using SSH.
I followed all...
I installed HOMM3 on Ubuntu 11.10 32 bit edition. The game work as expected but without audio. When looking at the console, the HOMM3 scripts just says "Could not open audio". Running it as root...
I'm not sure this is the right forum for this post but here goes:
I can't use the " key in vim in order to execute a command that uses a register. I remember that I could use that key back in the...
Your conversation is about x11vnc specifically, mine is about remote desktop in general :)
krfb is heavily depends on KDE. I rather not install 200 MB of new libraries just for another VNC server
Can NX show me my currently logged on session or can it just open new sessions?
If it...
The whole subject of desktop remote control is very frustrating in Linux, and it seems that it's getting even worse in every new version.
I want the ability to control my currently logged on session...
Great tutorial!
It works great when trying to set permissions to different folders inside an NTFS partition.
I tried that and still got no luck. Finally I gave up and did a fresh installation of Ubuntu 11.04. Now Unity works on my laptop. Before marking this thread as solved I would still like to know what...
Until recently, my laptop was running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS just fine. I waned to try Unity since it's very spoken about, so I decided to upgrade my Ubuntu version from 10.04 LTS to 11.04. I ran the...
What I'm trying to do is connect the PC to the laptop using an ethernet crossed cable, then bridge the latop's wireless interface to its ethernet interface. I think it should work unless there's a...
I am trying to set up a bridge between a wireless network card and a wired one. I am aware of Network Manager's "share to other computers" feature, but using this feature uses NAT instead of a...
Do you want to be able to see the traffic in Wireshark on a regular basis, or just temporary for debugging?
If, for some reason, you want the traffic to be always visible then why don't you run the...
This functionality can be easily achieved using dynamic languages like Python:
#!/usr/bin/env python
OPERATORS = {
"add" : lambda x, y : x + y,
"greater-than" : lambda x, y : x >...