So heres an interesting problem. I am using rubymine, but this applies to any editor. There are key bindings in the editor which make perfect sense and are useful. HOWEVER compiz in it's infinite wisdom decides that IT wants to take the key bindings if it sees them. Example is Alt + Ctrl + Left/Right as prev/next location. Compiz instead wants to switch workspaces.
How do I tell compiz to not execute commands on keybindings if another program handles them? Sort of a "low priority"
Is there a way to reduce the sensitivity to touch of the touchpad? I keep accidentally clicking while typing (disable while typing seems to have little use).
Other possible solutions to my issue: Hold a key to enable click of the touchpad. This way I can do work while holding key, otherwise it becomes inactive (ideal).
I cannot disable tough-to-click since the buttons on the touchpad are touch-enabled and very hard to press. You can imagine how painful/inaccurate that setup becomes.
So I currently have a dual-ati video card setup on my laptop. A low-power one and a high power one.
In windows 7 the drivers switch video cards when on external vs internal power. Also one of the video cards contains an HDMI output which I would like to use as it lets me plug in my monitor.
So is there an easy way to configure this?
Video Cards:
Potential acceptable solutions:
Some progress:
aticonfig --adapter=all --initial finds both adapters after restart. The problem is X cannot start. It goes to black screen and must be restarted.
aticonfig --list-adapters only shows one adapter in a working config. The undesirable
configuring the high power adapter leads to same x not loading as --adapter=all
We just got a Xerox Workcentre 3220 in the office (yay nobody looked up linux compatibility when ordering), and the 3119 drivers keep showing "out of paper" when trying to print.
Any ideas how to set this one up?
I've had this problem for a long while...
First the computer goes into screensaver. Then when it resumes the currently focused window cannot receive keyboard events of any kind until focus is lost and then gained again.
Anyone seen something like this/knows why it happens?
As a side note, I always password lock the computer when going into screensaver mode.
Basically my network won't start. Can't use wired connections.
To make it a further brain-scratcher, when booting into recovery, and using the network console, the network comes up and works. Outside of recovery nothing.
As far as I can tell no settings changed between powering off and on since last time it worked, except for an automatic kernel upgrade. Using an older kernel does not seem to help.
Also this hardware configuration worked perfectly fine for over a year with kernel upgrades and all. Network was always automatic.
Information for follow up questions...
Network manager is running.
Strangely enough, my network interface was never started, nor was DHCP. Where in the configuration can I find this?
To manually resolve the problem:
sudo ifconfig eth0 up
sudo /etc/dhclient
What could have happened in my config to not make this work automatically.
Info gathered:
> lspci | grep net
> 6:00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)
Contents of /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
After adding
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
the eth0 interface comes up, but the dhclient does not.
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The problem re-occurred when waking up from sleep.
I need to set up an SMTP server, really the goal is so that this server has no communication with the outside world, I would create the server, and would want a mail client looking at messages the server generates (brownie points if all messages go into the same inbox). This is basically to test out my mail system and see how it looks on different clients, while at the same time not actually sending emails to people.
Any advice, any known systems that do this?
I bound the command "terminator" to Super + T in the shortcut keys configuration.
This is nice and all except terminator starts with / as the current directory, not ~. How to change this?
It looks like my fan in my laptop is not turning on when appropriate. I already removed granola (maybe it disables it far too long?)
When I put the computer in sleep mode and resume it immediately turns on the fan (the cpu was waaaaay overheated). So the question is: why does it not turn on when needed.
There are multiple issues here: Why, and how to diagnose this issue? How can I control when the fan should turn on, how do I test that the code is turning on my fan, how do I turn on the fan manually through a command if all hell breaks lose?
Is there a tool like Hamachi (https://secure.logmein.com/US/products/hamachi2) which works on ubuntu? Bonus points if it can be paired with something running on windows/mac.
I am using a keyboard with the Fn key. This is on a laptop.
So my Fn + Up/Down/Left/Right keys are mapped to brightness/volume. I would much rather them be mounted to Page Up/Page Down and Home/End. And map the other 4 keys to these 2. The page Page Up/Page Down has Fn + them for Home/End. Its a shitty keyboard layout but I want to make it work.
Anyone knows how to figure out what the keycodes are and how to remap them?
Version: 10.04 x32
So here are some experiments:
Using xmodmap -pke I discovered that keycodes 122 = vol down, 123 = vol up. And I got all the info for Home/End/Page Up (next), Page Down (prior).
Now when using the vol up keys, there are no events being fired that xev can detect.
I can remap the volume keys to XF86AudioLowerVolume or XF86AudioRaiseVolume, but once I map those two to Home/End (respectively) they don't do anything. xev still does not pick up these events after a remap.
Remap: xmodmap -e "keycode 122 = Home"
Currently whenever I connect an MTP device (my creative zen, or blackberry) rythmbox automatically tries to mount it as a music device and opens up. I just want to be able to connect my device to the usb for charging without having windows popup every time I do.
How can I disable this "autoplay" feature?
I have to say, firefox on ubuntu's performance is attrocious. Very quickly it gets into 100% cpu use (thank god I have multiple cores) and hundreds of megs of ram. Even closing tabs does not help the issue (unless google.com uses supreme amounts of javascript).
On the same machine chromium browser runs lightning smooth. I tried swiftfox, nothing useful there. Is this a common problem? Only recent (past 3.6) versions have even been able to scroll rather smoothly vs choppy performance when using the scroll bar on pages. The performance is getting close to running firefox on a windows xp virtual box vm.
Edit:
OS:
Kubuntu 9.10. Installed Gnome packages for Ubuntu and use those. Upgraded to 10.04.
64bit
Nvidia Proprietary Video Drivers using the Restricted Driver tool.
Hardware:
Core 2 Quad
4gb DDR2 667 ram
7200rpm hdd
Nvidia GeForce 8800
Also note for everyone responding:
The default settings work damn well in windows on the same machine. The performance in Linux is what sucks.
I am running UNR (but using the regular gnome launcher) and have DropBox installed. Since I use my laptop on the train, there is no network connectivity. However once I reconnect to a network, dropbox seems to be completely unresponsive to the fact that there is a network connection and has to be restarted (which means lots of hard drive scanning, battery usage, slowdowns, etc). Is there a way to get dropbox to reconnect automatically, or gota wait for a patch?
Edit:
Nothing special about my network configuration, pretty much out-of-the-box. Note that most of the time I connect to wifi not cable. But the problem does not change in either case.
And I forgot to mention, I usually put my computer to sleep/hibernate in between leaving home and using it on the train so it "loses" or "gains" connection on waking up.
More Edit:
I just had the problem happening again. Basically it has a network cable plugged in. Goes to sleep. On wakeup (cable still plugged in) dropbox is stuck at "connecting".