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If you are using compiz ("Desktop Effects") then you can do tiling.

You need to first install some compiz plugins by installing the package compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported and the package...

I use nx from nomachine. There are probably good how-to's on the forums if you want to try this, but basically you need to install (on the linux machine) the ssh package as well as the packages for...

Maybe this post is relevant.

I think this is something that happens with certain graphics cards and only certain versions of the proprietary nvidia driver. For example, I have a machine with 7600 card. I get the problem...

The following works for me using Ubuntu 8.04 and texlive from the repositories. My test file looks like:

\documentclass[landscape]{article}

\pdfpagewidth 11in
\pdfpageheight 8.5in
...

The font should be installed in a default Ubuntu installation. It is installed as part of the package "ttf-dejavu-extra".

You can see whether the actual font file is on your system. Opena terminal...

I once had something like this that was fixed by going into the gnome preferences and resetting my preferences for Keyboard Layout (System->Preferences->Keyboard). Try selecting a different keyboard...

This may be a reflection of the choice of driver for the printer. You could try using the "ljet4d" driver, which supports the LaserJet 4M with duplex (that's the "d").

To switch drivers (on Ubuntu...

I think a better way to do this is to first install the grub package in Ubuntu. This should not disturb your Fedora grub installation (but I may be wrong, please note!). I think that if you do:

...

You seem to have typed something wrong in your menu.lst. You have:

title Ubuntu 8.04
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic ro root=dev/sdc3
initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
boot...

Something like

apt-cache policy `cat check-pkgs` | grep -B1 Installed

should give you output like

tomboy:
Installed: 0.11.1-0ubuntu1
--
nautilus:

Assuming these are actually swap partitions, I think you should check that you have corresponding entries in /etc/fstab. You should have something like:


/dev/sda3 none swap ...

Scripts based on grep in this way may run into false positives, if you aren't careful. For example, you will get a false positive for an entry "foo-bar" in check-pkgs if your system has a package...

I don't think you'd do any harm by deleting all the contents of /root here. But why bother? You shouldn't worry that the /root folder is "threatening to fill up [your] root partition completely". The...

You should check first if the file libQtDBus.so.4 is really present in your system. It should be located in /usr/lib. So try opening a terminal and typing


locate libQtDBus.so.4

The file...

If you open a terminal and do:

lpr filename.ps
then that should print the postscript file "filename.ps" to your default printer. (Alternatively, double-click on the postscript file to open it in...

A workaround is to disable thumbnailing of pdf files altogether. (This is something I did ages ago, because I find that all thumbnails of documents look pretty much indistinguishable. I prefer to see...

They are in /usr/share/fonts I think, in directories like /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera.

You can install fonts also in /usr/local/share/fonts, I believe. For a single user they can...

I'll have a guess at what might have happened. The version of the virtualbox modules that you installed ends in -386. This means (I think) that it is for the -386 kernel, not the -generic kernel....

Another option for those of us who can never remember the syntax of "find" or shell patterns is something like (untested):



ls --hide=file1 --hide=file2 # And if that seemd to work, then ......

In OpenOffice, I saving as ps is easy. In the Print dialog, check "Print to File". This will save as a ps file. (At least, that's how it works with both my printers.)

You will probably then want...

Another alternative is nx, from nomachine.com.

You could proceed like this. (I am assuming you don't have and have never had a separate partition for /boot.) Doing it this way will still use the grub files on your old partition, but will allow...

If it's a muckked-up-used-to-be-raid problem, then I'm afraid I am out of my depth also. Since copying things over with rsync is fairly painless (once you've figured out how to do it once), my...

When you say that it is unmountable, what do you mean?

For example, if you boot from the working ext3 partition on drive 1, and then try and mount the other ext3 partition, do you get an error...