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In Unity you need to create a ".desktop" file to have a launcher. The details of this are explained here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UnityLaunchersAndDesktopFiles

In your case, I suppose...

If you need to stop X in order to create this file, then I wonder if it would be possible to create a bash script that performed all of the necessary actions for you. A script that stops X, then...

This page seems relevant to your situation: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MouseCustomizations

It looks like most of this is editing configuration files or installing software via command line,...

Yes, but they were crazy to start with. They didn't give users a mouse with a right-click until well into the 2000s.

Also, I seem to have no avatar or signature. And this got moved to recurring. I...

TL;DR - I'm looking for something good that Linux has to offer before Lucid Lynx loses support. I'm not impressed with Unity, Gnome 3, or Windows 8, so I'd like something good that the open-source...

Chromium scores 293 and Chrome scores 288, which is only slightly better than Firefox's 255 and Opera's 258. When compared to IE9 (130) Firefox 4 is still way ahead in standards compliance.

Also,...

Well, given that Canonical tries to include only open-source programs in their default programs, Google Chrome is unlikely to ever be the default. Chromium could be, but not Chrome.

Regardless, I...

In my experience open source projects make money in five different ways:

1. They take donations. A well known project that functions mainly on donations is the Gnome project.

2. They offer paid...

That, or you could buy one of these: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Processors/productdetail.aspx?sku=A3336421

The Cray CX1-iWS is a workstation computer made by the same people who...

The Document Foundation wants Oracle to donate the OpenOffice.org name to the LibreOffice project. The name LibreOffice will be discontinued if/when Oracle surrenders the trademark to the Document...

So I just filled out my last of 4 OpenOffice.org uninstallation surveys for my Windows installs. Each one contained the same information: I'm moving to LibreOffice.

I'm curious to see if you guys...

I fall into the group that feels that FOSS is a good idea and I love some of the software that it has produced. I also love the fact that the community of FOSS has a lot of power behind it. However,...

My family bought our first computer 14 years ago, way back in early 1997. It's specs were (and still are):

Gateway 2000 P5-200
200 MHz Pentium I
32 MB RAM
4 GB HDD

Nowadays, that is nothing....

Well, it's happened folks. Take a look at Dell's website page that shows all of their computers which currently feature Ubuntu Linux:...

My main PC, the laptop that I'm posting this from, is going to be sticking with 10.04 for the foreseeable future. My Lucid install is too solid for me to give it up. :D

My desktop, on the other...

Personally, I thought that 9.10 was Ubuntu's "Vista" and that 10.04 was Ubuntu's "7" so we are already on Windows 9. :p

(It would be a funnier comparison if I could get back the hours I spent...

Canonical and GNOME especially have been butting heads as of late. The whole Unity vs. GNOME Shell thing is just short of becoming an outright war, and there can only be one "winner". Either most...

At the university I attend, the computer science department sees a lot of Linux use. In addition to having 2 Linux labs on campus, most of the professors I have had seem to prefer it to Windows. Two...

It is difficult to connect to a wireless network via command line, so if you are trying to use a wireless connection, you'll either need to Google how to do that, or, and I would advise this, switch...

So you used that blogspot post to remove pulseaudio. Neat, I have a friend who's struggling with pulseaudio who I can show that too.

Okay, here is the problem:



You installed the...

I'm also having trouble with this exact USB sound adapter. The adapter shows up under Sound Preferences, and I can choose it as output, but it doesn't work.

It worked the very first time I used...

That bad? :shock:

It's okay... I've done worse. I usually fix the issue by going to Synaptic and undoing what I've done.

So, start by opening up the Synaptic Package Manager (System >...

I'm glad you were able to get Ubuntu to work. I also hope that 11.04 will be a strong release because I plan on upgrading my desktop to it (I have a wireless card I use with it that 11.04 finally...

I would advise running the check to make sure that the hard drive you are using isn't failing. It isn't likely, but I have found it to be the case on a couple of systems I've looked at.

The Live...

It is quite possible that it isn't a driver issue, and that reminded me of a problem I had last year that then lead to the wireless not working where the solution was to restart the router. I banged...