Currently, the Meta key (for me it's the "Windows" key) toggles a screen that shows all my open windows and a search box.
That search box will find directories deeply nested in in /home/Documents and /home/Videos but it's skipping /home/Dropbox -- I looked at the Search settings and I don't see anyway to tell the system search to please also search Dropbox.
How do I tell it to search Dropbox?
In IRSSI, I've always been able to use alt3 or alt5 to jump directly to specific windows. That seems to have stopped working. I think it probably happened with the update to 15.04, but I can't swear to that.
I can still use alt-> or ctrln to cycle through windows but I don't see a way to hop right to the window I want anymore. So ... how do I get that functionality back? Or is there a new way I can hop straight to a specific window in irssi?
In Unity, the meta key brings up a quick search bar. Handy. But if I have multiple directories or files with the same name (say ... README) there doesn't appear to be any way to distinguish them:
Hovering over the folder icon doesn't expose anything. Selecting one icon exposes the directory (or file) size and modification date. I can open, reveal or email it, but I still don't know which directory the file is in.
Is there any way to expose that information?
A friend has given me a spreadsheet generated by Mac OSX "Numbers" and before I ask her to resend it, I'm wondering if there's secretly a way that I can just read this in Ubuntu.
Is there maybe a plugin for LibreOffice? Just googling isn't turning up much -- "numbers" kind of gets lost in the noise.
This is incredibly weird. I don't see "preferences" in any of my gedit menus. I'm running Version 3.8.3. All I want to do is show line numbers, but I can't do that without preferences.
Where the heck are they hiding?
note: I did remove indicator-appmenus because I dislike having the menus detached from the window.
2015 Update: somehow this is being flagged as a dupe of Enable line numbers in gedit which is a little confusing. The solution is the same but the questions are different.
I have a brand new 13.10 install and I want all this shopping spyware nonsense gone. Searching for "Ubuntu shopping spyware nonsense" led me to apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping but I don't actually see a unity-lens-shopping package. How do I remove shopping searches in 13.10?
Update: Is there any way to distinguish the scopes that search remote servers (Ebay, Amazon, AskUbuntu) from the ones that search my local computer? Or do I have to go through them all?
I'm puzzled because my phone used to just appear when I plugged it in. It doesn't anymore and The development options are definitely set to allow USB debugging. The phone is charging via USB but doesn't appear in lsusb
[0 amanda@luna android-sdk-linux_86]$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 17ef:4807 Lenovo UVC Camera
Bus 003 Device 012: ID 413c:1003 Dell Computer Corp. Keyboard Hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 08ff:2810 AuthenTec, Inc. AES2810
Bus 003 Device 013: ID 413c:2010 Dell Computer Corp. Keyboard
Bus 003 Device 014: ID 046d:c001 Logitech, Inc. N48/M-BB48 [FirstMouse Plus]
adb devices -l shows nothing.
In my Wireless and Network settings I changed the USB connection settings to "Mass storage" -- they were set to "Ask on connection" though I definitely wasn't getting asked. I don't get any Click here to connect via USB alert either.
I'm not even sure whether the issue is my phone or my computer. It seems odd that it isn't even appearing in lsusb
Not for nothing, the thumb drive on my keyring also does not appear in lsusb -- I've tried both in a bunch of different ports. I kind of assume the thumb drive is just borked, but it could be my OS.
I do a lot of listening to songs I need to learn, which means I often want to rewind or fast forward a few seconds. Instinctively I want to use my arrow keys. Is there a plugin for Banshee that can help with that or some controls that I'm just not seeing? I can move the scrubber with my trackpad, but it isn't very precise. I'd rather use keystrokes.
I recently moved all my music to a separate partion, moved ~/Music to ~/Music-bak and symlinked a new Music directory to the partition.
Nautilus updated the bookmarks to show "Music-Bak" under Computer. How do I tell it that "Music" is my real music folder?
I have two partitions that I want to mount on startup:
/dev/sda3 /mnt/devel ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda2 /mnt/excess ntfs defaults 0 2
The ext4 partition mounts fine (owned by me, writable only by me), but the NTFS mounts owned by root with R\W permission for all.
How to fix this?
drwxr-xr-x 7 amanda amanda 4096 2012-03-14 19:07 devel
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 2012-03-14 22:38 excess
I can't figure out how long this has been going on, but it finally started to drive me crazy: in Libre Office writer, absolutely nothing changes when I toggle the "Nonprinting Characters" button. ctrl F10 toggles the button on my toolbar, but also does not reveal any nonprinting characters.
How do I start fixing this?
I'm trying not to hate Unity, but I'm still not in love.
If I have windows non-maximized, I often find that the window is stuck so the title bar is hidden by my Unity top bar. I had to enable Compiz's Window Management Grid just to give myself ctrl-alt-num6 as a way to force windows back into the visible screen.
Is there a way to keep windows from slipping up under the top bar?
At some point fairly recently, the URLs shown in the Firefox location bar dropped the protocol prefix -- urls appear as "askubuntu.com" not "http://askubuntu.com" -- if the site is https://... the prefix does appear, but I'd like to see it all the time.
How do I get that back?
When I use an external monitor, my file selection dialog boxes seem to be huge -- wider than my larger screen. I assume it is a nautilus issue since it happens whether I'm trying to open a file to upload (in firefox) or attach (in thunderbird) or just open it in LibreOffice. See screenshot:
The browser window fills my left-hand monitor, the "open" dialog is wider than one screen, and wider than the window that spawned it. It's huge. It didn't used to be huge.
Is there some way to force dialog windows to be smaller by default? Whenever I try to open/attach/upload a file I have to re-size the finder dialog before I can see what I'm looking at. I don't understand why it is defaulting to such a huge window.
At the moment, I'm trying to check the fingerprint of the oracle_vbox.asc key that I downloaded from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads: they provide the key and the fingerprint but no instructions for reviewing this information myself.
How do I show the fingerprint of the key I just downloaded?
apt-key finger oracle_vbox.asc shows the fingerprints of all trusted keys, which isn't what I want.
I've got a ton of duplicate contacts in my Thunderbird addressbook. I don't want to share them with Google, but I do want to find a way to de-dupe them. There was a duplicate contact manager plug in, but it seems to have been abandoned.
Can I do this at the commandline?
I'm trying to backup my VirtualBox, but when I try to copy the .VirtualBox directory to my external hard drive I get an "File too large" error:
[130 amanda@luna ~]$ cp -r .VirtualBox /media/LACIE/Luna/Jun012011/VirtualBox
cp: writing `/media/LACIE/Luna/Jun012011/VirtualBox/Machines/Astro/Snapshots/{9fe69a30-d308-4754-b4e4-928eb90f93d2}.vdi': File too large
cp: writing `/media/LACIE/Luna/Jun012011/VirtualBox/HardDisks/Astro.vdi': File too large
[1 amanda@luna ~]$ ls -alh .VirtualBox/HardDisks/Astro.vdi
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 5.0G 2010-04-30 17:41 .VirtualBox/HardDisks/Astro.vdi
What should I be looking for here?
Is a viewport different from a workspace? What's the distinction? It seems like the terms get used interchangeably.
I'm trying to accomplish something that other people have been stabbing at for a while -- I have a script that launches a bunch of programs at once and I'd like to launch them in a specific workspace. The question's been asked:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/35678/how-can-i-start-a-program-in-a-different-workspace
How to run a custom set of programs in a specific workspace?
But the answers hop between talking about "viewports" and "workspaces" -- how are they different?
I'm trying to sort out how to open a multi-page tiff. The sender swears it has more than one page, but in the default viewer I'm only able to see the first page. How do I view all pages?
I printed a recent credit card statement straight to PDF and used PDFEdit to black out (highlight in black) the information I'd prefer not to share with the party I need to send this to. Now I can't seem to find a way to save the document so that the text isn't there, hiding under the black bars.
I tried to flatten it, but that hasn't resolved the issue.
I tried printing to PDF, but the text information is all preserved. I tried opening it in OOo Writer and I get an error.
Is there a method available to me (in 10.04) to save the PDF as an image, functionally?
I thought "flattening" would achieve that but I'm obviously missing something.