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  1. [ubuntu] Re: HP probook 4520s - touch-pad right click don't work

    Hi, I have the exact same laptop, an HP ProBook 4520s, and I am also experiencing the same problem. Right clicking doesn't work for me in 11.04 either when using the trackpad. With an HP MG-0133...
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    Re: How to completely remove Wine

    I tried a purge, but that was insufficient. These commands pretty much guarantee that everything related to wine is completely deleted.
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    Re: How to completely remove Wine

    if you have the wine ppa installed, winetricks is now automatically installed with wine1.2. That's why I included that command in there. The stuff about menus and shortcuts is totally useful to me,...
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    How to completely remove Wine

    Ok, so I was having trouble with wine -- it was starting up slow, and I decided I just wanted to delete everything in it and start over. After a while, I figured out how to do that, and I'm posting...
  5. [ubuntu] Re: Missing Menu Icons in Lucid with NO Option to Restore Them? Seriouslty?

    I managed to find a solution here, but I still believe this option should be enabled by default. For those who are interested, try this code:

    gconftool-2 -s -t boolean...
  6. [ubuntu] Missing Menu Icons in Lucid with NO Option to Restore Them? Seriouslty?

    This probably doesn't matter at all to any of you, and I'd like to apologize in advance for ranting, but it really irritates me that in Ubuntu Lucid not all the icons in the menus on the panel at the...
  7. Re: Advanced: Reinstall (Almost) All Packages Without Reinstalling All Of Ubuntu

    Hey... a while back I wrote a guide to reinstall all packages based on your method, just wanted to say thanks for the starting point, and post a link to my thread:...
  8. [SOLVED] Re: need to be root for everything to be done!!!!!!!!!!!

    Thanks! I should've probably clarified that, but I see you did it for me. :)
  9. [SOLVED] Re: need to be root for everything to be done!!!!!!!!!!!

    The problem is that all those files belong to root, so you can't modify them. Use chown to change the file permissions, and it will work properly.
  10. Re: Would converting MP3's to FLAC make sense?

    If you care about quality, music degrades in quality when converted to MP3, but not after that. It doesn't suddenly lose quality, but if you convert music to FLAC from a source, it will be in the...
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    Re: Software Center

    I'm going to install Qt Designer, download the source code, and see if I can get some basic theming support working for people like you who are unable to use the default theme... It may take a while...
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    Re: Software Center

    I think the colors are hardcoded into the Software Center and non-changeable at the moment. Implementing a color chooser isn't difficult at all, given all the premade ones at Canonical's disposure,...
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    Poll: Re: what instant messenger do you use

    Pidgin here too :)
  14. REAL:LY Quick and Easy Title Bar Button Side Switching

    A ton of users are dissatisfied with the decision to change the buttons on the title bar, however, it's incredibly easy to change back and forth between the old (Karmic) look, and the new (Lucid...
  15. HOW TO: Reinstall (Almost) All Packages At Once Without Re-Installation

    Introduction

    First of all, I want to start by saying that most of this is taken from this great post here by Lumenary. I simply took his bash script source code and greatly improved it by making...
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    Re: Survey request and comments

    If Steam was available as a platform for Linux, more developers would be enticed to write their games for Linux to generate additional revenue.
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    Re: Why OpenGL is the future of games.

    I absolutely loved this article. I actually found it before I saw your post, but it's such a great insight into the world of game development, and seeing how microsoft is abusing their money to get...
  18. Re: Vote for Linux support of Unity game engine !!!

    Since everyone seems to have forgotten this important goal -- seeing as Unity is starting to become more prominent, Linux support is currently the #1 most voted for item on the list, and it would be...
  19. Re: How To: Disable cpu scaling in 9.04 and 9.10

    When a CPU is scaled down, it's to make it last longer. I was able to get my Core2 Quad to at least 90% on all cores without disabling this, because of the tasks I am doing. There is no good reason...
  20. Easy OCR with ImageMagick and Tesseract-OCR

    After playing with tesseract OCR for a while, I decided to write a simple bash script to automatically convert an image to a grayscale tif file and then run tesseract on it to convert the image to...
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    Re: The BUMP Thread

    BUMP!!!
    ...why does my post keep getting changed to lowercase if the whole thing is capitalized?
  22. Tip: Buying a Dell PC? Buy it with Windows, not Ubuntu!

    Before you start flaming me, take some time to actually read this post. Everything in this post is true, and not made up. I actually contacted Dell Customer Support and have chat logs to back up my...
  23. [all variants] Can not open a media file if one is already open

    Hello, this issue recently showed up after some updates and messing with configuration. This isn't necessarily a huge deal, but it's annoying enough for me to ask how to fix it. When I open a file in...
  24. [ubuntu] Re: Can barely run anything as root, desperately need help.

    Hmm... I fixed this, but I'm not quite sure how... I simply deleted all the files in ~/.dbus/session-bus, and now it works fine. Can anyone explain how that worked?
  25. [ubuntu] Re: Can barely run anything as root, desperately need help.

    Unfortunately, It didn't... Here's what I tried (in order):

    root@DYLANTAYLOR-PC:~# chmod 700 /tmp/gconfd-$USER/
    chmod: cannot access `/tmp/gconfd-root/': No such file or directory...
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