I have a certain template file for LO Writer.

How can I edit that file directly, i.e. not by creating a new .odt file and saving it as a .ott file again?

This question is based on the following experience: under Windows, it is possible to right-click the file and choose something along the lines of Edit this file, which then open the .ott-file itself instead a blank new document.

• Xubuntu 14.04

• gmusicbrowser 1.1.13.1

I'd like to transfer my playlists from gmusicbrowser to Banshee. For this I'd like to export the playlists in gmusicbrowser. Is this possible?

For 13.10, I used this guide to get Intel iGPU-supported playback of flash videos in Firefox: http://www.webupd8.org/2013/09/adobe-flash-player-hardware.html

All in all, Intel graphics acceleration for flash content was working just fine in 13.10, at least on my machine (with Xubuntu).

I basically followed the guide to do the same for 14.04, but about 2-3 weeks ago flash videos started acting up. Whenever I have one instance of flash paused or stopped in one tab and go to the next tab to continue some song on Soundcloud or something, it's game over.

I'm clueless as to what I can do here. Did anything change in the meantime?

When booting, I'd like to see the kernel output without having to edit the GRUB line on each boot. How can I do that?

• Xubuntu 14.04

When locking my screen, my monitor/screen turns off immediately.

I don't want that to happen immediately, I'd like to have period of about 20-60 minutes or so between the two things. Is that possible?

Whatever I set the first two sliders to, invoking xflock4 via Ctrl + Shift + Del always switches my monitor off:

Xubuntu 14.04 uses Light Locker and it is advised that one uninstalls xscreensaver.

Is it possible to lock the screen or do I have to install some other program for that?

So now that 14.04 was released and the most active questions on this are from 2011 to 2012 ([1] and [2]), I'd like to ask again just out of hope:

Is it possible to change Super + T from starting the trash to starting the terminal without altering all the other shortcuts related to Super?

Or what are your current best practices to deal with this?

• Ubuntu Gnome 14.04

When locking the screen, my monitor/screen turns off immediately.

I don't want that to happen immediately, more like after 30 minutes or so. Is that possible?

I have a bitbucket account and opened a git repo there. I worked with the command line and made a few simple test commits for a few simple text files. It's actually quite simple, if I just do the, um, standard things with it, for the lack of a better term. So far, so good.

Now I would like to use a git client with a GUI on the said repo. I intend to do this on Xubuntu 13.10 first, afterwards on Windows 7 as well.

Say I use git gui or git-cola, do I simply open the folder on my PC and that's it?

• Xubuntu 13.10

I would like to have xfce4-terminal appear automatically after logging in. I would like to have this instance of the terminal have 3 tabs, the first one being title htop, the second one titled man and the last one titled Stuff.

Example:

Is that possible?

No matter which file I find via Synapse, it just gets opened in Nautilus. May that be because I recently put Nautilus as my default file manager?

Can I change that behavior to the normal action, i.e. an .ods file gets opened with LibreOffice Calc, .txt with Mousepad... and so on?

Additional information:

I am running Xubuntu 13.10.

I am on Xubuntu 13.10 and just installed and activated Nautilus as the default file manager.

I'd like to use the current default file manager (whichever that might be) when I click on my panel shortcut to open any folder shortcut and so on.

I want to try to avoid to re-define the shortcuts for the file manager. Is that possible?

• Xubuntu 13.10

• Thunar 1.6.3

Is it possible to change the sorting method for one specific folder only?

Just installed TeXstudio on Xubuntu 13.10 (the theme is Numix) and there are lots of icons/symbols missing. Is it rather related to TeXstudio or because of the the theme? If the latter, what do I have to do to make it work? I'd rather stay with Numix.

Can I somehow modify htop's default view to display processes sorted by CPU usage? I want htop to "remember" my view/sort method.

If it's relevant, I'm currently on Xubuntu 13.10.

When a search result (say a file or folder) in Synapse is displayed, can I somehow enable to go said result's location in my file manager? (I suppose it's Thunar since I use Xubuntu 13.10)

• Xubuntu 12.10

• XFCE 4.10 with Thunar 1.6.2

I have two greyed out mounted (or "mountable") volumes on my desktop:

If I right-click on them, I can mount them, implying they appear not be mounted yet. I don't understand really why they are greyed out as I can simply double-click them and then browse around. So they are mounted?

But on to my question: Neither the icon/volume named Datenträger 58 GB nor the icon/volume named System-reserviert appear in the fstab file, I checked that via GParted and sudo blkid. Here is the output of sudo blkid. The thing is, I'd still would like to have the option Unpluggable Devices in the desktop setting (symbols tab) activated for USB-related stuff. Is that possible?

I like Evince so far, I can read stuff just fine.

However, instead of buttons for navigating, I see buttons with words for Previous or Next (technically, they aren't buttons as they have no borders at all, they are just plain text) and Open Folderas seen in the screenshot below:

Is it possible to get those buttons?

My system information:

• Xubuntu 12.10

• Xfce with Greybird theme and the default icon set.

(System: Xubuntu 12.10 with XFCE)

Hello,

I have a folder named Fonts on my windows partition which is mounted automatically on boot (why, I don't know, but I like it!). The fonts are sorted in subfolders based on their style (sans, serif, monospace or handwritten). These subfolder contains several .zip-files and their unzipped folders. So in total, these subfolders contain lots of .ttf and .otf files.

Can I somehow copy all those .ttf and .otf files to their respective folders truetype, type1 etc. in /usr/share/fonts with a somewhat simple action? Going through all the font-folders would be mind-numbing. :/

edit I can answer my own question:

sudo find . -name "*.ttf" -exec cp "{}" /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ ";"

and

sudo find . -name "*.otf" -exec cp "{}" /usr/share/fonts/type1/ ";"

is what helped me.

About 1.5 years ago, I tried out Ubuntu 11.04. I remember the dash being a rather helpful tool and I like the equivalent features on both Windows 7 (via the Start-button) and the Mac OS.

When I press Alt + F2, it opens the app finder but this only gives me a little window that I do not understand how to use. If I type in Terminal or Writer, it shows neither the command terminal or LibreOffice Writer.

How can I get functionality similar to the dash?

An important edit, because 14.04 happened

Synapse still works on 14.04! :) Please go here and upvote this post (click here).

Update 2019-09-13

I strongly suggest to use Albert: https://albertlauncher.github.io :)