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Hello! I am involved in STEM, and I think there are a few others, as well. :D I'm a software developer and data lover who is working to bring more diversity to STEM fields.

The rig is nearly complete! I am just waiting on some wiggle room in my budget to get the power supply. :D

Wow I feel really silly. Thank you so much, haha! I just wasn't waiting a fraction of a second longer when clicking on the icon. It was bugging me that the launcher was moving up and down instead of...

I just tried to replicate the "random app" opening bit, to no avail. My open applications stay in the order in which I last accessed them, which feels the same as in Cinnamon, Windows, and the like....

I use it from time to time! I'm actually buliding a rig specifically for music-making, and will be putting Ubuntu Studio on it. :)

We needed something that was 'out of the way' while working and that had a small barrier of entry for people new to using Linux. We ended up using machines with Cinnamon, GNOME 3 and Unity, and let...

This is looking to be pretty awesome. I'm going to have to keep my eyes on it! :D

Putting 11.10 on my household SQ1! So far everything is working flawlessly, thanks to the keysym suggestion. :D

Aw, no crystal ball? ;)

As said above, I'd definitely look through the Linux Mint forums. While Cinnamon is great and all, I don't think it's stable enough (nor is it configurable enough) to be...

This worked perfectly for me in Lubuntu 11.10! Thank you both quite a bit! :D

The way my machine is currently running, I have yet to remove ubuntu-desktop and its components. I'm currently going through and evaluating what I do not want.

I think that this would be the only...

You are quite welcome! I am glad that it is of help to you.

This: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/xubuntu should help you - they also have information on removing Ubuntu (gnome) packages, so you could potentially have a more 'pure' Xubuntu experience.

Sometimes it takes a little while to get answers to these sort of things.

I'm looking through the Ubuntu forum and wiki, and it seems there's quite a few people who have the same problem with...

My user shows up in the audio group as well - and so do others when they perform the fgrep command... so I don't know if that documentation is exactly right or not.

Did you put yourself in the...

If I understand things right, when you take yourself out of the audio group, you will lose access to having sounds/music come out of your speakers (for the user you take out of audio, that is).

If you are looking for help *right now*, I would suggest joining us at http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-beginners and talking to us there. Forums are generally not a place where you gain...

You can alternatively also install it via the terminal with

sudo apt-get install php5

Interesting. I think I will be following the development of VEDICS. :)

That is pretty nifty, though to me it seems *too* much like the actual Ubuntu website.

Geany is really useful for writing out your html, css, php, python, and any other style of script/language you want to use to create a website. I use wordpress but that does not mean that I need to...

I agree with Truemedia.

There is a lot of "practical" that can be shown without having to show the terminal. One of the things that I have done throughout my helping people move from Windows to...

I think that the solution for this, aside from adding the ppa, would be to do what was suggested earlier:


Make sure that you're in your home directory when you type those in. (The $ shouldn't be...

I too am having a problem with blank screen before logging in.

Hey, I was able to confirm the same error and apply the workaround. Everything is now working like it should!

Thank you :D