I have a cool looking lock screen that I would want to have on my
screen whenever I am not using my desktop. But my monitor
blanks out after a few minutes. How can I stop this from happening?
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I have a cool looking lock screen that I would want to have on my
screen whenever I am not using my desktop. But my monitor
blanks out after a few minutes. How can I stop this from happening?
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It was a mistake, sorry. I thought I was posting to my thread. When I found my mistake I could not figure out how to erase the first post.
Tried sudo shutdown now -h and it still hung. But it hung showing the ubuntu splash screen.
I have shut down my new Ubuntu 18.04 release about 6 times now. All but once it has hung with power still on. The screen has the following message: "reboot: Powerdown". From reading other posts I get...
I had created a new virtual host but I forgot to load the images to its image directory.
This caused me to make the erroneous reply that cariboo kindly removed for me. Thanks.
The interesting...
Sorry, I will remember to avoid large images in future posts.
After I reinstalled Ubuntu [to upgrade to 16.04] my Apache2 local development environment stopped delivering valid pages where those pages used canvas. To illustrate, I have included two screen image...
I am now looking into acquiring a NVIDIA GT610 graphics card for my Compaq Presario CQ5700Y.
But i have two questions/concerns about this card.
First, the specifications for the card call for a...
Since I upgraded to 14.04 I have been experiencing 2 problems:
First [often] Firefox and [sometimes] Thunderbird have been crashing with crash reports like this one:
ProductID:...
I recently installed 14.04 on my Compaq which has a built in VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS780L [Radeon 3000] [1002:9616] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]). ...
Some time in May a message started to appear in the upper right corner of my screen every time I logged on to Ubuntu.
The message was about the termination of Ubuntu One.
I am still getting the...
This is an apparmor issue that is fully described here.
http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1695450
The solution is to modify the local apparmor security profile for mysql in the...
Apparently this is not a problem with PHPMYADMIN. I get the same error when accessing MYSQL from the command line. I did some more work on this and posted the results to...
I am using PHPMyAdmin version 3.4.10.1deb1 to
access a local host mysql server version 5.5.24
via Apache/2.2.22 and Firefox
When I create new columns in a table the collation
field is set to...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_server#Authoritative_name_server
Perhaps https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM#GDM_always_uses_default_US-keyboard would be a useful resource.
See
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=1922
One last suggestion. Check the logs. Try
sudo rgrep -e Libre /var/log
Good luck.
The problem is that there are many files that could be messed up and cause this kind of problem. Perhaps a Libreoffice expert will reply with more help.
Try creating another user and see whether...
Sounds to me like a user rights issue.
First check the permissions and ownership on the executable.
rich@rich2:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/libreoffice
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Aug 7 19:44...
You are more likely to get help if you supply some more info:
. What release are you running?
. Are you running Unity ir Gnome ore something else?
It is much easier to get back to "classic" gnome in 12.04. I would suggest upgrading and then looking at
...
As a retired network engineer I can confidently say that the "security thing" is a much bigger issue then most people think. Do indeed turn of your wireless at both ends if you are not using it.
I am aware of a number of nvidia graphics driver freezes with various symptoms,
For example
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/1027724
They all seem to...
I am running 12.04 with Gnome-Fallback and this is what I get:
rich@rich2:~$ ps -e | grep -c '^'
151
rich@rich2:~$ top
top - 13:19:21 up 6:11, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.21, 0.33...