I've recently switched over to gnome-shell on both desktop on laptop. I hit a few usability hurdles, but have overcome most of them, so I thought I'd share some knowledge here (since I know many...
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I've recently switched over to gnome-shell on both desktop on laptop. I hit a few usability hurdles, but have overcome most of them, so I thought I'd share some knowledge here (since I know many...
Dropping you back to the login screen (i.e. lightdm) sounds like the X server is crashing. This is not good, it basically means the graphics subsystem of your computer had a hissy-fit.
If you...
This should do the job:
grep -o -e '\[[^]]\+]' *
I had two files (test_regex.txt and test_regex1.txt), I get this output:
test_regex1.txt:[phrase1abc]
test_regex1.txt:[phrase2def]
The following tutorial is an update of one I did a couple of years ago called Minimalistic Ubuntu From Scratch
Why this tutorial?
Ubuntu as a distribution has gotten a some bad press on...
After reading pppppp's post, I tried installing the fresh Natty release. No WiFi out of the box, but adding the following to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf fixed the problem
blacklist rt2x00lib...
I'm interested in trying some Vala development for my next GTK+ application. I was wondering if there's someone out there with some experience who could recommend me some tools?
For my C/C++...
I've been tearing my hair out today. I've been running debian testing for a while, today did a dist-upgrade and discovered my wifi no longer worked. After trying many things, I downloaded the...
The resource monitor shows some statistics, but it only seems to list memory that is (by its own terminology) "in use". What I'm wondering is whether this is equivalent to the "in use" statistic or...
Sorry if I shouldn't be asking this here, since it's not strictly an ubuntu question. These forums just seem to be where the people who can actually help tend to hang out ;)
There is a linux...
I have recently inherited an old laptop with only 512mb of ram (shared with video). I noticed that my media editing desktop monster with all the compiz eye candy etc. uses 300mb of ram just to sit...
after finding some interesting posts around the web, I wondered if my problems might relate to a permissions issue on /dev/dsp.
I tried running
sudo aplay whatever.wav and it worked fine, but...
so, I've tried to do a minimal install of ubuntu, got fluxbox installed and working, now trying to get sound to happen.
I installed alsa-base and alsa-utils. I can aplay a .wav file from the...
Solution found! It appears AVI files work better with constant bit rate audio than variable bit rate audio.
After reading this thread (about VBR vs. CBR and the AVI container) I decided to try...
Gave it a try, also tried -vf softskip, no dice. BTW, for anyone trying it, its actually "harddup" (note the double d). Thanks anyway.
EDIT: I think I may have found a fix. For the movie I have...
Here's what I do:
[1] Rip a dvd to the hard drive like so:
mplayer -dvd-device /media/SOME_MOVIE -alang en dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile /path/to/output.VOB
[2] Encode to XVid/MP# avi file:
...
If you mean an Audio CD/DVD created from mp3s, you should try SoundJuicer.
Aside from the Start-Of-Image and End-Of-Image markers, must every marker in a jpeg file have 2 bytes after it specifying the length of the segment?
Or are there other stand alone markers? I want...
No, that wouldn't have the same effect. Compiz-fusion and ubuntu in general are big on usability. Me writing a HOWTO for applying a specific patch from upstream for ubuntu users does not help...
It seemed to me that the patch had been applied upstream by the compiz-fusion devs, but it would be beneficial for whoever is maintaining ubuntu's compiz package to integrate that patch so that the...
I have this problem too, just thought I'd add my name to the list. Is there an official bug report somewhere already? Or should I be the one to submit it?
I would like to know, which (at the current time) is the more stable 3D accelerated graphics option in Linux - Nvidia or AMD/ATI?
Any other tidbits welcome too. Just want some buyer's advice.
I've been surfing the web all morning, looking for a way to generate synthetic joystick events in linux. I gather that it can be done through something called evdev (what evdev exactly is and how to...
I don't want the 3D effects. Various quirks of Compiz currently interfere with several wine games I want to play. I have used metacity for a long time before now and want to get it back as my...
Just wondering how (if) I can set metacity as the default window manager so that I can still turn compiz on with the fusion-icon occasionally for demos, but keep metacity as default (like DotA, lol)....
I did in fact find that information out in the process of trying to fix this. I found that STABS seemed to be the correct debugging symbol format, however, I couldn't even get this one to output.
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