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JoeNotCharles posted:Updating my system just hosed my Gnome install (a couple of base packages are missing from the Ubuntu servers, so it's in an inconsistent state). Fine by me - I don't really care about the whole desktop bit, I run ion as my window manager. The one thing that I miss from uninstalling gnome is gnome-terminal. Heh, I went over to Konsole on GNOME because I found gnome-term would really slow down when my system was under a heavy load. I'm happy with it after reconfiguring it a lot, but I guess this doesn't help you much.
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# ¿ Mar 24, 2007 04:39 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 18:42 |
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ShortStack posted:I'm using Kubuntu on my Compaq laptop. I have 915resolution installed and my screen resolution is currently 1280 x 800. I'm not sure if I can do this, or how I would go about doing it but is there a way I can set my resolution to 1440 x 900? I think that the max resolution is 1280 x 800, and I have my doubts as to if I can change this or not. Thanks Have you seen http://absolutebeginner.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/absolute-beginner-guide-915resolution/ ? Seems to cover this case.
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2007 05:35 |
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Digital Drifter posted:Yeah I was looking at Debian and (K)ubuntu as well, one of my greatest motivators is something minimal that I can install and build up on. You could do a custom install with only the ubuntu-minimal package and build up from there.
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# ¿ Mar 30, 2007 05:54 |
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percocets posted:i'm having trouble installing ubuntu. I have the boot disc, but whenever I try to run Ubuntu from the disc my computer won't load anything but a blank salmon-colored screen and a cursor. Is the computer frozen, or is there something I should be doing when that screen comes up?? Try the alternate install disc - it installs Ubuntu in a text-mode installer that should work on more systems. What kind of computer are you using?
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# ¿ Mar 30, 2007 21:14 |
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percocets posted:Thanks. Computer is a Dimension 2400, and to be honest I don't know the specs, as I just rescued it from the dumpster at work for the purpose of putting Linux on and playing around. I'm assuming 128 mb ram, and the hard drive is like 30 gigs. Yep. One of the dumbest aspects of Ubuntu is that you need 192 MB to install using the graphical installer, or you've got to dig up the alternate CD. I don't know why they don't just put the textmode installer on the regular disc.
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# ¿ Mar 31, 2007 09:18 |
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What's the command-line way to get system temperature? I remember using a simple command that gave the temp at a few different sensors, but I can't find that command now.
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2007 08:03 |
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Mr. DNA posted:I have a directory that contains several hundred other directories and in each is a handful of files of the same type. What is the best way to get all the files in the child directories into the parent? I'm using ubuntu, if that matters. code:
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# ¿ Apr 4, 2007 01:24 |
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juggalol posted:For a long time, I've always used the "swap partition should be twice the amount of RAM populated in the system" rule when defining disk partitions for a new install. I'll grant that a 16GB swap sounds pretty pointless, but what are you getting out of that 8GB? At this time, a program that expands to fill all that space seems either really esoteric (processing huge scientific datasets?) or just badly designed. And if you are running something that really uses all that much memory, you should make sure you have enough swap space for a worst-case scenario.
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# ¿ Apr 4, 2007 01:33 |
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lilbean posted:acpitool -t should do it. I didn't have that installed, but it seems to work well. Actually, I can just use 'acpi -t' to do the same thing. e: Actually, the latter gives much lower numbers. Weird. But I doubt my processor is really idling at 85 C, so I think I'll believe acpi.
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# ¿ Apr 5, 2007 06:28 |
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Captain Cool posted:What are the panic keys in Linux? Ctrl-alt-backspace, any others to try in this situation? I've had it lock up before, but always in the gui. It was folding at the time, also running gaim, an idle azureus, and shareclip, which hasn't caused any problems before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
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# ¿ Apr 9, 2007 17:24 |
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You can get builds of Feisty now, and just upgrade them to the release version when it comes out. They aren't guaranteed to work, but I dist-upgraded from edgy without incident, and I'd expect very little to be broken this close to release. The Release Candidate ISO will be out in the next few days, if you want something official.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2007 23:55 |
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tehk posted:I wouldn't today. The 14.23 and 15.24 Kernels mess with some sata controllers(lock up at boot). They are going to have the 15.25 kernel up in like 8 hours(area depending). The RC was delayed because of this. Heh, I was trying to do a regular apt-get upgrade today and I wasn't able to get the kernel image because I kept getting a 403. Guess that was on purpose.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2007 05:42 |
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After restoring from suspend mode, I always need to run 'sudo ifdown eth1 && sudo ifup eth1' to reassociate my wireless card with the AP. Is there a way to automatically run this upon getting back from suspend? I suppose GNOME has a script that runs when restoring from suspend handle this, but I don't really know anything about the power management system. This is on Ubuntu 7.04.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2007 05:39 |
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SnatchRabbit posted:Would someone be willing to give me a crash course in compiling and running a c program in KDE? I've got the latest release running, a program.c and makefile files(not written by me), but I can't seem to figure out how to get them up and running. It's been a long time time programming 101 and even then I only got my feet wet in java. I think I'm using the cc99 command for compiling in KDE, although I must be doing something wrong since the program kicks out a bunch of errors when compiling. If there's an easier way to do this than the KDE compiler someone please let me know. Could someone just write up a quick how-to, if that's even possible? KDE doesn't have anything to do with compiling. Linux systems generally use the GCC compiler, which is presumably what you have - c99 is just a frontend to the compiler which is used for compiling C programs. But if you have a makefile, don't run the compiler directly - the makefile contains commands for intelligently compiling the program based on the environment. Try just running 'make' in the appropriate folder - you might have to run 'make install' to install the binary.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2007 23:03 |
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minute posted:Well, I finally got MPD installed. I want to create a launcher for sonata on my panel, but I can't find the icon for sonata. Is there a way to find icons for various programs? Try searching for .xpm and .svg files in sonata's data folder, probably in /usr/share/sonata.
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2007 08:31 |
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I have my Feisty laptop set up to suspend when I close the lid, which is swell. But when the laptop is opened (say, by the security guy at the airport) and closed, it doesn't suspend again, because I haven't logged in to my GNOME session, and it sits around at full power, burning through the battery. I'd like to fix this problem, but there's plenty of other power management junk I haven't figured out yet, like how to get hibernate working. Is there a guide somewhere to getting GNOME Power Manager, or power management in general, to behave more sanely? edit: Ha, googling for more info on this turned up the GPM developer, who can't get his laptop to work. I don't like smarmy comments about open source, but... Vivian Darkbloom fucked around with this message at 03:36 on May 1, 2007 |
# ¿ Apr 30, 2007 23:10 |
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Tracer Tong posted:I have a Dell 1501, Turion 64, Ati el-cheapo with shared video ram. I installed Debian Etch after being disapointed with ubuntu. The various function keys worked fine in ubuntu + gnome. Screen brightness, volume control, cd tray eject, etc. In etch they do not. I manually binded a few but there is no way I can figure to control the screen brightness (which randomly sets its level). Heh, let me know if you figure this one out. In theory this is abstracted through an ACPI manager program, but I'm having a hell of a time actually getting one of them to do what I want, because Ubuntu apparently controls it all through scripts I can't seem to find.
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# ¿ May 9, 2007 18:28 |
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fletcher posted:20,000 files in an uploads directory, i want to chmod all the ones that aren't 0644 to 0644. how do i do this? code:
Vivian Darkbloom fucked around with this message at 06:57 on May 13, 2007 |
# ¿ May 13, 2007 06:51 |
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fletcher posted:awesome, thanks! code:
Vivian Darkbloom fucked around with this message at 09:45 on May 13, 2007 |
# ¿ May 13, 2007 09:42 |
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Does anyone else use Konsole on GNOME? For me, there's an annoying effect where switching desktops always causes Konsole to try to grab focus, making its taskbar icon blink. Do others see this bug?
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# ¿ May 14, 2007 20:42 |
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dfn_doe posted:I see that on one of my ubuntu 7.04 boxes... not sure what the root cause is though... Seems like a bug in Konsole or Metacity. e: filed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/114740 Vivian Darkbloom fucked around with this message at 08:06 on May 15, 2007 |
# ¿ May 14, 2007 23:11 |
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Marmot Whisperer posted:A few years ago I used Rhythmbox to rip a cd. I've since lost that cd (rare ep of a local seattle band; it was out of print when I bought it 7 years ago). Nothing except for Rhythmbox will play those mp3. All I get is a short, high pitched screech. Sounds like a problem with encoding, not ripping. What mp3 encoder is Rhythmbox set to use?
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# ¿ May 17, 2007 21:04 |
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In Emacs, is there any way to map Escape to a function? I tried (define-key global-map [ESC] 'keyboard-escape-quit), but it doesn't work. I think this is because [ESC x] is a synonym for [M-x], but I don't need it to work like that.Marmot Whisperer posted:Unfortunately, I don't know, but I assume it was LAME. I did this on an older laptop that I no longer have. Every CD I ripped with it through Rhythmbox will only play in Rhythmbox. I guess it's kind of a moot point, now. Yeah, but if the mp3s are playable I bet they can be fixed. Upload one and post it here or in a new thread.
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# ¿ May 18, 2007 03:20 |
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Twiggy794 posted:It should. Just do a Incidentally, it's included with Ubuntu's kernel, like most other widely-used modules.
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# ¿ May 23, 2007 09:17 |
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Tipps posted:I've been running Ubuntu 7.04 on this laptop here for about a month, and everything's been going more or less smoothly since. There's just one thing that been bugging me. Ever since I installed it, my speakers have been really really lovely. I dont know if it's because my sound card is incompatible with it or something, but even with the volume at 100% the sound can barely be heard. It's more of an annoyance than anything else, but if there's a way to fix it that would be cool too According to the readme, this program must be compiled, installed, and launched from the command line. That means you'll need a little familiarity with CLI commands. There's a zillion little guides to CLI on Linux -- my favorite is this guide. Once you've figured out how to get around (read chapter 2 of that guide, at least) you can install the software. Open a terminal window (Applications > System Tools > Terminal). Browse to wherever you downloaded the file and uncompress it: code:
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After it's installed, you'll be able to run hamachi from the command line, from any directory. Just enter the commands the README specifies, such as 'hamachi-init' and 'hamachi start' to operate it.
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# ¿ May 24, 2007 21:52 |
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Toiletbrush posted:Konsole probably requires various KDE libraries. KDE is a loving pain in the rear end to compile on Solaris Indeed. I use Konsole under GNOME, and I'm unhappy that it seems to launch a bunch of KDE crap that's not getting used by any other program.
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# ¿ May 25, 2007 18:13 |
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Tipps posted:Followed your instructions up until I tried to start the program, but got hit with: If you're getting that error, try running hamachi as root.
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# ¿ May 25, 2007 21:05 |
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Tipps posted:And now I learned what a root account is too, and why its deactivated by default in Ubuntu (everywhere you look there's large red-fonted warnings about how if you touch anything while logged into Root your computer will explode ) Ubuntu's focus on 'sudo' rather than 'su' is helpful, because it ensures you won't accidentally stay logged in as root and get into trouble. I wouldn't be surprised if Hamachi required root. I don't know about the technical details involved, but networking is usually something restricted to root.
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# ¿ May 26, 2007 04:25 |
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Smegmatron posted:Can someone please explain the licensing of RedHat enterprise to me? You can get the whole thing free off Red Hat's FTP, and because it's open-source you're not bound by any licensing stuff. But they're aggressive about their trademarks, so other distributors have to sell it without the Red Hat brand. Even CentOS refers to "a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor" as their source.
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# ¿ May 28, 2007 05:48 |
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covener posted:Oh come on... Fine, you're not restricted in modifying and redistributing the code, beyond the terms of the GPL? You know what I mean.
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# ¿ May 28, 2007 19:30 |
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I'm having some trouble debugging a C++ program in GDB:code:
This started happening suddenly the other day, but I don't know what I might have changed. The program compiles and runs correctly with the functionality I've added, so the object files must be working correctly. I'm using 'gcc -g', I've recompiled the program and all its needed libraries, etc., and it doesn't help. What's going on?
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# ¿ May 31, 2007 05:39 |
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teapot posted:It is looking for file in the directory where the compiler took it from. Unfortunately, I think the problem is deeper. That's the only TimeSeriesDisplay.h around, and GDB knows about it - maybe. It CAN set breakpoints in that header file, and in the other files the program is compiled with - but it acts as if those are older versions of the files, somehow? Let me give an example of how it's behaving: Suppose I have a function threeFifty() at line 350 of Header.h. I start up GDB, and set a breakpoint at Header.h:350, and it works fine. Now, I add some code near the beginning of Header.h, so that threeFifty() happens to be bumped down to line 400 of the file, and I recompile. Running it indicates that the new code is operational. But now I load it up in GDB, and again type "break Header.h:350", expecting that the breakpoint will be at a different place - but 'info breakpoints' indicates the breakpoint is at threeFifty() still. What the hell? And when I make the longer than the old version, GDB doesn't recognize the new lines - it won't let me set breakpoints beyond the EOF of the old version. In these cases, the "old version" is apparently the same as the CVS version. Maybe it has something to do with that, but I'm not sure. I can't imagine that GDB would be looking files up elsewhere, though I'm sure I'm overlooking something dumb here.
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# ¿ Jun 1, 2007 19:54 |
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Seaneseor posted:I'm running Ubuntu (Feisty) and I can't figure out how to kill the "init" process. Yes, init is allowed to ignore kill signals. Given that all processes ultimately derive from init, and killing a process generally kills its children, you can probably guess why that is.
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# ¿ Jun 2, 2007 07:49 |
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Emacs 22 is finally released - the first major release in six years. The most notable feature is Gtk+ support, and there's a lot of nice features (more Unicode support, decent fonts under X, the god damned mouse wheel works) - see this overview. I got it to build from source fine, and there's a a Debian repository here that seems to work fine for Ubuntu as well.
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2007 19:04 |
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Twiggy794 posted:I've been using the unstable version of this for some time to get the font anti-aliasing. It looks great and really cleans up the interface. Unfortunately, I think that branch is going to be Emacs 23, and the anti-aliasing isn't in 22. I spent a while trying to build that, and couldn't get the Xft support to work, but I found a good unstable snapshot here.
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# ¿ Jun 6, 2007 03:51 |
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Scrios posted:Does anybody know why Pidgin, compiled from source on Ubuntu, wouldn't allow reporting of idle time based on keyboard/mouse use? These are the only options I have. It's fairly strange and I can't think of what it would require for this. Check the Makefile and INSTALL to make sure you weren't missing some compile-time option, or an optional library that makes that feature work.
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# ¿ Jun 9, 2007 06:38 |
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FrontLine posted:This is more an AIX question then it is a Linux but I get the feeling the same solution will work on both. I can't tell what you mean, exactly. How would this be different from just creating a 9G file?
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# ¿ Jul 2, 2007 00:28 |
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bigperm posted:This may seem like a stupid question, but how do I make shortcuts on my desktop in Ubuntu 7.04? It seems like this was a straight forward thing last time I install unbuntu (6) but now I have no idea! I just want to be able to get to my music folder from my desktop without it actually being in /home/desktop In Nautilus, drag a file or folder to the desktop while holding Alt.
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# ¿ Jul 2, 2007 08:56 |
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Kobayashi posted:Here's one of those niggling little tips that might make a huge difference for some of you. If you, like me, cannot stand the way CTRL+BACKSPACE erases the entire URL in Firefox (or otherwise does not work like it does in Windows), then I have a simple fix: Oh, thank God. I thought it was a GTK thing that couldn't be changed.
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# ¿ Aug 16, 2007 23:29 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 18:42 |
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teapot posted:GDB can be more or less integrated as well, however as I have mentioned many times if programming threads, debugger should not be used for development of new code, its use should be limited to reverse engineering and crash analysis. What's wrong with debugging new code? Seems pretty useful to me.
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