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Hi all, this is a bit difficult to explain so hear me out.

I'm trying to use xrandr to create some scripts for swapping monitor configurations on a machine running Ubuntu 18.04 with i3 and i3-wm....

Hi all, I haven't found anyone else with this problem so far, not sure where to start...

Brand new Dell laptop, Precision 5520, set up by my company's IT department with the 16.04 image provided...

Hi all, let me try to explain this problem a bit...

So I wanted to try some alternative desktop environments (display managers?) in my Ubuntu 18.04 machine here, so I installed i3 and openbox....

Excellent info; I definitely mixed up the window manager vs. display manager there...

My display manager is gdm3, and I would like to disable it and use a text-only login screen; I would then like...

Hi all, I've found lots of outdated threads on this topic, but nothing that seems to be relevant to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Here's my situation: I would like to disable the default graphical login screen...

I actually made some progress playing Zork, I'm starting to get the hang of it! Even figured out how to save/restore games.

Back to the issue of "pages", I looked through the IBM materials, then...

I've got an Ubuntu Server 10.04 virtual machine connected to an external serial text terminal via ttyS0, but for some reason I can't seem to enter any text. I can see the login prompt just fine, but...

Thanks for the link, Dr. C! I searched all over the web and never found that page before. Hopefully that has a better explanation of the page feature. Right now my main purpose on this thing is to...

Better yet, who remembers how to use them! :p I've got a nice old IBM InfoWindow 3153 which is working nicely with an Ubuntu Server 10.04 virtual machine (meaning yes, the serial port is tunneled...

I configured a server with vsftpd, and what I want to do is force local users to use SSL (which I have done), and allow anonymous users on the "ftp" username to access the server with only a password...

I'm sort of confused here...

I've set up an Ubuntu Server 10.04.1 machine as an HTTP/FTP server. I made one FTP account which I plan on sharing with others, mainly for read access only. So, I...

I have a really strange issue here...

I'm on a system running Ubuntu 9.10 (gnome), upgraded from 9.04. I had some issues with pulseaudio early on so I managed to disable it and run alsa instead....

I've had a strange issue going on ever since I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10. In general, the sound system is much less fussy (i.e. it works consistently every time I boot up). However, the ONLY...

This is the contents of the CUPS error log as accessed through the web interface:


E [18/Nov/2009:08:10:03 -0500] PID 26770 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp) crashed on signal 9!
E...

I have a HP Laserjet 1100 connected to an always-on server in my living room which, among other things, acts as the print server for that printer. I have 2 computers connected to the printer, one...

I have what is apparently a corrupt profile in Firefox. What I need to do is transfer some of the theoretically non-corrupting items like saved passwords, bookmarks, add-ons, etc. to the new Firefox...

I have a HP Laserjet 1100 which I bought used about a year ago in perfect condition. I've used it a lot since then with my main desktop PC running Ubuntu 8.10 with no real issues, but recently I...

I figured it out...had to do some poking around, but I had some incorrect operators ( -a instead of == ), typos, and most importantly, I realized that the until statement needed to be on the same...

I'm trying to create a shell script that will be a substitute for the normal Amarok launcher on a computer I have which reads its music library from another "server". The server is actually my main...

I seem to be having some strange issues with my CUPS page log. I've set up some cron jobs that save the page log statistics to a separate logfile every hour so that I can collect print info for the...

I finally figured out what I wanted to do. I searched around a bit for some way to log the print data in such a way that I could use it to tabulate printer usage by user, and I found this:...

So, for example, I would just need to add:

#!/bin/sh -e
sudo hdparm -S120 /dev/sda
to the /etc/rc.local file? Or is there more to it? I'm still not exactly an expert at writing these little Unix...

Thanks, that's a good start, but how do I make it permanent? I may or may not be powering down this machine from time to time, and I'm sure I'll forget how to set this up after a certain amount of...

I'm looking for ways to save some energy on my little home server, and read something about using hdparm -S to spindown the disks after a certain amount of time. I also read that you could make it a...

Could you elaborate a bit on this? The main reason I wanted to avoid WOL is simply because it looks like you have to manually send the "magic packet" every time you want to wake up the remote...