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  1. Re: Mint starting applications full screen.

    I can't find that. Can you please post the URI?
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    [ubuntu] Blue dots after login

    A few years ago, I installed Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS on my mother's old Fujitsu-Siemens PC, where it's been running perfectly ever since. I run an upgrade when I visit, and that's fine too, so everything...
  3. Re: Mint starting applications full screen.

    Sorry, I should have said. Cinnamon. And I should clarify that I mean 'maximised' (real 'full-screen' doesn't even have window-furniture, and that's not the case).

    It's not clear why anyone would...
  4. Mint starting applications full screen.

    I need exactly the opposite. Mint 19 is starting my applications in full-screen and I need to stop it.
  5. [ubuntu] Where is ftape support for parallel port tape drives?

    I have an old Trakker 250 tape drive with a parallel-port connection that I need to use to read some old tapes.
    The ftape driver has vanished (all the links to archives on ftape pages are dead).
    Is...
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    Re: Printer Stopped "Filter Failed"

    CUPS regularly ships updates which are plain broken, either in the HP PPD (driver) files, or in the filters. It has happened so often that I have given up even trying to report the errors. I don't...
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    [xubuntu] A3 printer truncates output to A4

    I have a HP K7100 A3 printer with duplex attachment which is working fine with A4 paper using the latest HPLIP driver in CUPS.

    It is not possible to print A3 using the same printer name in CUPS;...
  8. [ubuntu] Enlightenment chromium opens mailto links in mutt instead of Thunderbird

    Since installing Enlightenment e17 under Ubuntu 13.04, all mailto links in web pages (chromium) now open mutt in a terminal, instead of Thunderbird.

    How do I fix this?

    I have changed...
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    [SOLVED] Re: GIMP window missing maximize button

    Aha. Turns out that Single Window Mode (where images are opened in tabs) prevents the window being resized vertically. I have no idea how is got into Single Window Mode, probably some random...
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    [SOLVED] GIMP window missing maximize button

    Suddenly my main GIMP image window is taller than the screen (runs off the bottom) and it's missing the maximise (square) button. The button is there for a split second when the program fires up, but...
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    Re: Resizing Eps/ps files

    Install ImageMagick and type

    convert myfile.eps -resize 75% myfile-smaller.eps

    (or whatever)
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    Re: Drawing block diagrams and schemes for LateX

    Use Inkscape, a vector drawing program that exports vector PDFs.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Pdflatex. How to install sty files?

    There is only one place: in your personal TeX tree.
    This is ~/texmf, so create it now, and install packages that didn't come with your distribution in there, in the right subdirectories. TeX will...
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    [ubuntu] Re: How to install TeX packages in Ubuntu

    That page explicitly says it is designed for use with the Omega variant of TeX. If you want to use this package, you must be running Omega, not regular TeX.

    Having said that, the zip file appears...
  15. [xubuntu] Re: Installation: Can't get past "Preparing to install Xubuntu"

    I re-downloaded the ISO as a single file from one of the mirrors instead of using the torrent. That burned fine, and installs fine.

    So forget using the .torrent, download the ISO as a whole file.
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    [xubuntu] Single-click in Okular file dialog

    I have Xubuntu 12.10 installed, and I set Single click to activate items in the File Manager settings. This works fine.

    But Okular seems to use a different file manager in its file dialogs, and it...
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    [xubuntu] Single-click in Okular file dialog

    I have Xubuntu 12.10 installed, and I set Single click to activate items in the File Manager settings. This works fine.

    But Okular seems to use a different file manager in its file dialogs, and it...
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    Re: CUPS gobbling all my CPU at boot time

    Fixed. Apparently I had clicked on "replace" when performing the upgrade and it asked if I wanted to keep the current cupsd.conf or replace it with a new one. Not having consciously modified the...
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    CUPS gobbling all my CPU at boot time

    I recently upgraded my older machines to Xubuntu 12.10 and everything has been working fine for a week or more. My printer is on one of these machines, and has been working perfectly since the...
  20. [xubuntu] Re: Installation: Can't get past "Preparing to install Xubuntu"

    I can confirm the identical problem using XUbuntu 12.10 burned to a USB, with the exception that it still hangs even if those options are left unchecked.

    I am therefore stuck: short of burning a...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Printer not printing

    Oh duuh. One of the cartridges was out of ink. Replacing it fixed things.

    So WTF doesn't the log file fscking well say so, HP?
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    [SOLVED] Re: Printer not printing

    All I have tried so far is the built-in test page from the CUPS web interface and the Printer application. I haven't tried printing a file of my own yet. If it can't print its own test page, it's...
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    [SOLVED] Printer not printing

    I just did a clean install of 12.04 on my Dell Optiplex 755 and it's all working nicely except for printing. I have a HP OfficeJet Pro K8600 and it was detected at install time, but when I print, the...
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    Missing phonon-compat

    Under Ubuntu 11.04 I'm trying to compile the latest TeXStudio from the dev svn, and it's saying cc1plus: warning: /usr/include/qt4/phonon_compat: No such file or directory

    I have the qt4 and...
  25. [ubuntu] Re: Endnote (with Wine) on Ubuntu 11.04 not working

    Don't use EndNote under WINE, it breaks (and EndNote is huge overkill for most authorial purposes anyway).

    Use JabRef instead: it's designed to work with LaTeX and BIBTeX, and it can import and...
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