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I've been geeking out on customizing my Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon desktop and came by here to get some new ideas. Here's what I have so far:

Clean:...

I have this exact same problem. I used to be able to plug in my iPhone 3GS and Ubuntu would recognize it and allow me to mount it to access its filesystem. Now, when I plug in my iPhone, my Ubuntu...

What software are you using to play these files? Are you using Totem?

You might also want to give other media players a try, such as VLC (my favorite), mplayer, or xmbc. See if these other...

I allocate one of my eight Intel i7 "cores" @ 4.2 GHz and 2 GB out of 6 GB of DDR3 system RAM to run a Windows XP guest on VirtualBox and it runs better than when I used to run Windows XP natively on...

That one file may not have a thumbnail because its size is over the limit set in Nautilus for making thumbnails. To check, open Nautilus and go to Edit --> Preferences --> Preview. Go to the options...

Try this simple method:

1) Open Terminal and type:


gksu gedit /etc/default/grub
2) Go to the following line and add the following bolded line:


# The resolution used on graphical terminal

Perfect! This is exactly the kind of learning experience I love with Linux. Thanks for the heads up. :)

Can you post a screenshot? Would love to see what all your hard work looks like. :)

Niteshifter, thanks for the tip. Does the folder have to be named "bin"? Or can it be named "Bin" or ".bin" (to make it hidden)?

Like philinux, I too have never had a gnome panel disappear on me except for one occasion: when I changed the setting for the panel to autohide, turned off animation, and set all delays to 0. This...

Just FYI, what Chronon was referring to was that you could have copied your executable file to the /usr/bin folder. Then your file would have been executable from anywhere.

The reason LEN=($LEN-4) gives 24-4 instead of 20 is that you've defined LEN to be a text string, not an integer value string. To get 20 (i.e., the result of the mathematical operation), you need to...

I have had this same problem since 9.04 and I've never seen a fix posted for it. It may be something inherent in the implementation of Compiz in Ubuntu. For me, it doesn't bother me too much, since...

Or you can install any version of 10.04 and just run Update Manager. Once all the updates are installed, it will be 10.04.1. In fact, you could even install a beta version of 10.04, run Update...

On my machine (with all updates installed through Update Manager), the lsb_release -a command gives me Lucid 10.04.1 but System Manager still says 10.04. I'm not too worried about it though... I know...

Does your CD drive work with other CDs? Is it only the Ubuntu LiveCD that won't boot? One possibility here is that one or more of the subsystems on your motherboard just went kaput. Recently, I heard...

Try adding "TEXT" at the beginning of your .conkyrc, like this:


TEXT
${execpi 30 ~/nectarine.pl}

Hey, I still have a circa 1986 Compaq Portable II "luggable" computer, powered by Intel 80286 with 640K of memory (was the maximum available at the time) and dual 360K 5.25" floppy drives, in working...

Sorry I can't be more specific in my help... I'm just not very familiar with this particular script. But as I was reading your output, a thought occurred to me. Which version of Conky did you...

Have you tried removing the ${ and } from the line in your .conkyrc file? ${} is usually used for displaying text in Conky, not to run a program or call another script.

Do you know what exact brand and model those hard drives are? In general, you should be able to use on Ubuntu any drive Windows can use, since Ubuntu can format the drive in a native format like ext3...

Have you tried booting into live session using the Ubuntu LiveCD and see if you can access it from Nautilus on there?

Even if there is a difference between the two versions, once you download and install all the updates using Update Manager, both should end up the same.

This process gets even more complicated because you are trying to put thermal paste on a laptop processor. Not as much room to maneuver when you put the stuff on. If it's indeed a silver compound,...

Your best bet is to copy over the fonts from Windows. You can also download some of the fonts for free. For example, you can get CopperPlate Gothic from this website.

Whether you need to install...