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Pardon me if I am way off-base but...

Has "baduser" configured some other application than Nautilus, even inadvertently, to open folders? I know once I right-clicked my Music folder, selected...

Still no. Man, I admire your persistence.

My file is /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock . I am not the owner, but the permissions for Others is "Access files" for the directories and "Read and write" for...

Excellent.

BTW, did you notice the "conversation" in the ensuing comments:

Does this patch speed up all apps, or only those launched from the terminal?

Only for the terminal. So you could...

Nope. No spaces. The file name is mysqld.sock .

Yep.

I just tried locate. It didn't find the file.

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It's the unselected window title bar that I can't see on one of my computers and have a hard time seeing on the others.

So either I'm confused or it is a Metacity...

I too have looked far and wide and found no GUI-based editor for metacity themes that runs. I believe there is a real need for one.

I'm also a fan of the Dust theme. I like the fact that its wider...

Thanks, that did the trick. The search is now, well, not quick.;)

I'm not using a command. I'm using (from the menu) Applications/Accessories/Search for Files...

Has anyone implemented the above as described at http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/alternative-to-200-lines-kernel-patch.html and can testify to it significantly increasing performance for normal...

1. When I run Search for Files... looking for mysqld.sock in File System, I get No files found. When I repeat the search in /var the file is found. I assumed the search is recursive thru...

I ultimately want to query an existing MS-Access database (say, contacts.mdb) from a Lazarus program I will write.

It appears that configuring a User DSN is the first step.

In the ODBC DSA, I...

It seems to me that would be an interesting quality measure for these forums. It might also indicate why Linux is not overtaking the Windows world. Of course, you'd have to factor in a guesstimate of...

What does this package enable a Python programmer to do, if anything?

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/i386/python-metacity

I installed 2.7 on my own.

I installed 2.7 yesterday and am having problems with screenlets not running, etc.

Does anyone know a way of uninstalling 2.7 such that the system falls back to 2.6?

I went through the tutorial in the BA help to create a Notebook app. It runs fine within the BA IDE, but nowhere in the project directory is an executable file for the resulting program: only...

Thanks for everyone's input.

It looks like Boa Constructor is what I'm looking for.

Accomplished what I wanted with the following steps:

1. Create copies of the original imwheelrc and startup.conf as backups in the /etc/X11/imwheel folder (after chown'ing to me for the folder and...

Vox754, my opening post could(should) have been worded as "I want an IDE for Python that is as similar to Delphi for Object Pascal as possible; i.e., drag-and-drop components for the GUI and Python...

Never mind...I'm a dummy. Such a screenlet would hide the desktop.

I pursued how to mouse-wheel scroll pages in Ubuntu for several days in various forums to no avail. Then I noticed the Advanced Settings for Firefox 3.6 which lets you do exactly what I wanted:...

What's the difference between a realtime kernel(rtk) and the default kernel in Ubuntu?

How does one obtain/install/boot the rtk?

and was wondering what IDE is recommended. I've used Delphi extensively, so something similar would be great. Would wxWidgets be the way to go to write full-fledged windowed, interactive applications...