I am an Emacs user, and would love to be able to hide and show emacs from whatever I am doing, just as seen in Guake/Tilda.
I am running Ubuntu Mate 16.04, and using compizconfig-settings-manager I can assign a hotkey to open Emacs, but when I press it again, it opens a new window rather than switching back to the old window.
Is there any way of doing this in Mate? I would really like it to be a single key press as well, probably an F-key.
I've got all my files on a server raid, and it has a reasonably excessive amount of space so I'm not often going to have to delete anything.
I still have things writing to the raid all the time so I don't want to have to use sudo to do that. But is it possible to set permissions so that writing is allowed but deleting files is not?
I assume this will also require me to use sudo for mv commands, but that isn't a problem
Raid uses btrfs raid1
OS is on a separate drive (Ubuntu 14.04 server)
I've been using xclip to copy the output of bash commands like so:
pwd | tr -d "\n" | xclip -selection c
So that I can then paste the output into another terminal session.
I was trying to use it on my headless server (ubuntu 13.04), which is started without x. It doesn't work with the error:
Error: Can't open display: (null)
Is there a way around this. I realise that seeing as the program is called xclip it may not be possible.
When I maximise an Image Viewer window, the picture stays the same size. In the view options none of them seem to make the image just fill the window.
I can zoom in but that is quite irritating as I have to compare several pictures in a folder and it forgets that I zoomed in when I return to a picture.
Is there anyway to change the default behaviour? Or perhaps there is a different program I should be using?
Note: This is for my work computer which will be sticking with 11.10 for at least another month, but any 12.04 specific advice would also be much appreciated.
When I use TeXworks there is no automatic spell checking. If I go Edit -> Spelling, the only option I have is none
How can I enable spell checking?
Thanks for your help
When I launch certain programs from the command line like eclipse and document viewer in 11.10 it spews a load of information that seems inconsequential.
Also when they are run in the background they sometimes continue to produce output to the terminal which I am currently working on, which is irritating.
I would like them just launch and keep the background stuff in the background. My reasoning is that if you launch these programs through the GUI (eg double clicking on an icon) these messages are never shown to me, so I don't need them in the command line.
Is there a ubuntu program like CPU-Z which will show me the actual frequency of my processor?
I do a fair amount of scientific computing which leads to me running my programs for up to 10 hrs. To alleviate this problem a little I overclock my CPU. However I can't see what the actual clock of my processor from within ubuntu which means I either have to restart and look at the bios or load into windows. If there was an applet or command line command to find out this information it would be very helpful.
Thanks for your help