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So yeah like I said, what you guys do is your own bags.

I really, honestly, truly don't care what you do to your computers or your browsers.

Well how do you know what I have and haven't run into or what problems I have or have not overcome in the past? Your observation is based on a few sentences that I have typed into this post and is...

Well look I wasn't trying to put anyone down or make fun of anyone or anything, what you guys do is your own bag, I just thought it was a bit extreme and voiced my opinion. I don't think people who...

Doesn't matter all your traffic still goes through your ISP and they are collecting data.

I get my themes from noobslab and if they are dark themes the theme developer usually includes terminal commands to fix the software center. Here is what my software center looks like -...

Wow you guys are really going through ALOT of trouble to 'secure' your browsers which from what I am reading seems to border on extreme paranoia. You guys are acting like every site you go to is...

A faster way to run Win programs in Wine if you don't want to create a custom launcher for them is goto your /home drive or the first directory that appears when you click Files from the launcher,...

Usually when you install a program or game using Wine it creates a .desktop file to launch the program on your desktop. But if you need to create your own here is a sample of a desktop file that...

Quoted from this link - https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/309527-understanding-linux-file-permissions

The execute permission means that without it running a script or a .desktop launcher for a...

For the record I wasn't arguing with anyone, I was just pointing out what op had posted about and he said it was for a game so I took his word for it because he is the one trying to install it...

I noticed that it seemed to be starting an instance of mySql but in the original post he said it was for starting a game which would probably need Wine to run so I just agreed with what buzzingrobot...

What are the things that you have to use Windows for? Is it like Photoshop or Ms Office software? Adobe software and Microsoft office software seem to be the only things that keep alot of people from...

Maybe you accidentally zoomed your browser, try to press CTRL + 0 which is control plus zero to reset the zoom.

I have seen t0o many problems on this forum that stems from trying to dual boot with...

I have read a couple places that sometimes Windows does not shut down all the way when you tell it to shutdown and it causes havoc with the boot procedure since Windows try's to retain ownership of...

They will work but you need wine installed like buzzingrobot said, I found this guide if you feel like reading it. But again like buzzingrobot said it may or may not work but experimenting can be fun...

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sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh was required to run in terminal before my desktop computer would start playing videos. Maybe since you apparently compiled a package...

I don't see anything in here that says you installed the ugly gstreamer packages from that link I sent.

Did you run it by using gksudo hp-setup from the terminal? I found this article here and it says there is a bug that if you use just sudo hp-setup it will not download the plugin.



For your...

I followed the quide at this link to get dvd's to start playing on both my computers - https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/video-dvd-restricted.html

It says to install a couple gstreamer...

You should have to install Ubuntu Restricted extras to get the correct codecs for reading/viewing dvd videos. It is available in the repository or you can install your version using the guide at this...

With this you can check what permissions a specific user has for a specified directory by replacing username with the user name you wish to check permissions for that can be obtained using one of the...

To quote from this link - http://askubuntu.com/questions/410244/a-command-to-list-all-users-and-how-to-add-delete-modify-users

Could you try to run hp-setup from the terminal by typing just hp-setup and post any errors you are seeing? You can also try to run hp-plugin from the terminal also.

I don't know how you tried to install it but I found this maybe it will help. This suggests opening a terminal and typing in hp-setup and then following prompts. I guess this would be after the...