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Don't recall. It might've fixed when I properly restarted conky. It might've been the own window thing. Sorry I can't give you more at the moment.

here's my config file:



# Create own window...

Awesome. Thats exactly what I was looking for. wonder why I missed it in my google search.

I know of the way to do it once the gui is open. I would like cli access though, so I don't have to launch the gui. and so I can script automate conversion.

ah. I just assumed it worked from the cli the way openoffice does.

does anyone know how to do this?

take a .doc file and print it to a .pdf using libreoffice?

I want to use vim when I hit f4 (view) in midnight commander but I can't seem to get it to work. It keeps using nano

I have export EDITOR="vim" in my bashrc file
vim is in my PATH
if I use
...

I've reinstalled ubuntu-desktop via apt-get.

I've unistalled ubuntu-dekstop and gnome-power-manager via apt-get. The original error notification no longer appears but I'm still unable to...

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here's the error I get

"The configuration has not installed correctly for Gnome power management"

Updated my 11.04 install via the update manager last night. When I turned my computer on today...

clearly I'm messing up something with the audio

tried this:


ffmpeg -i WAR.VOB -acodec ac3 -sameq output.mp4
There is a lot of output, but these arein red and seem bad:

[ac3 @...

Thanks for the response. I looked into ffmpeg before, but couldn't seem to get it to work, despite looking at a few different tutorials.

The tutorial doesn't explain what the video container is? ...

I'm currently using handbrake (with the gui) to convert some video files to mpg4. It takes about 2 hours to convert an average movie is there anything a little speedier? I'm running a core2duo...

using minimum_size
maximum_size
maximum_width

do not work. Is there some other config file superseding these settings?

How do you change the size of the panel? I've looked through each line of my .conkyrc but can't find anything. I'd like to make it a thin panel that strecthes vertically down the right side of my...

needlessly wasteful but is there a way to just cat each line to a file

ie

word1 1 2 3 4 5 -> vars1.txt
word 2 1 2 3 4 -> vars2.txt
word3 1 2 3 4 5 6 -> vars3.txt

then I could for loop...

scrub?

no I need to input each line into the script. the script gets run one time for each line

./script line1

where line1 (word1 1 2 3 4....) automatically gets broken into

$1 -> word1
$2 -> 1...

I've written my script so that it reads in the variables $1 $2 $3 $3....$12

I have an input file as follows

word1 1 1 2 3 4 5
word2 1 1 2 3 4 5 6
word3 1 1 2 3 4

I would like to take the...

I have been trying to get icecast up and running for a while now. I am attempting to remove all earlier vestiges of it and reinstall it from the beginning. I uninstalled it from the ubuntu software...

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I'm trying to setup icecast2 so that I can stream music from MPD to other computers in my local network. I have MPD all setup, but I'm having trouble getting icecast to work. I believe its a...

this did the trick on 11.04

http://gmpc.wikia.com/wiki/MPD_INSTALL_USER_SERVICE_UBUNTU

now to setup icecast...

I'm also interested in MPD. Can anyone point me towards a recent tutorial. I've been looking around quite a bit and all I can seem to find is old stuff for ubuntu 6.xx and stuff from 2005 2006. ...

what are the pros and cons of twinview vs a second X screen?

what about moving stuff around on the second window? or keyboard shortcuts?

its an alienware laptop so it might not follow normal...

got my panels (taskbars) back via http://netgator.blogspot.com/2010/06/taskbar-missing-in-ubuntu-1004.html

specifically these commands to confirm gnome-panel was installed:

gconftool...