I am working on a project with kids to make them narrate and illustrate their own tale on a digital format. There will be several illustrated pages and an audio files of themselves narrating the story.
I looked in to Libre Office Impress, but the embedded audio or audio transitions don't seem to work and there isn't an easy solution to this it seems.
What alternative application do I have to make this project?
I am using a Huawei E1731 Mobile Broadband Device since few months now. I've had no problem with it, after installing it it ran perfectly.
However two hours ago suddenly the device is not detected anymore. The LEDs are still lit on the device but it doesn't show up among my network interfaces.
I haven't done anything special to my computer this day, just browsing the web, using Skype and reading some PDF. I haven't downloaded anything nor have I done any updates.
I tried unplugging and replugging the device, rebooting, rebooting with the device and without the device, no matter what I do, nothing seems to fix this.
lsusb does not list the device:
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 001 Device 003: ID 0c45:63e0 Microdia Sonix Integrated Webcam
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0483:2016 SGS Thomson Microelectronics Fingerprint Reader
What can have happened? And how can I fix this?
I am using Kubuntu 12.04 with Firefox.
Since version 13, a new tab in Firefox displays a mosaic buttons representing the most visited pages as short dials to those pages.
These buttons should be thumbnails, but in my case, there is no thumbnail to be seen in a any of these buttons, nor is there an option to force a thumbnail to be loaded.
How can this be solved?
Both Krunner and Kickoff in Kubuntu return a list of found items after the user has entered at least three characters in the search field.
Usage on Synapse shows that returning a list after one character onwards is faster and efficient.
I would like Kickoff and Krunner to behave similarly, by making the return a list of items after entering the first character in their search field.
How can I achieve that?
I would like to set a shortcut for the Run-Command in Kubuntu 12.04, where the shortcut key would be the Win key (aka Meta).
The Global Keyboard Shortcut settings however does not allow me to use the Meta key alone, but rather in combination with some other key.
As a keyboard-power-user, I find this frustrating: I want to open-search as fast as possible and the Win key is a perfect candidate, which I used to use with Gnome or XFCE.
Is there a possibility to override this rule preventing me from using the Meta key alone as a shortcut key?
If I try to copy-paste a large amount of text (from Firefox to LibreOffice), the amount of text thus copied is truncated. What setting / application imposes this limit (I assume it is the DE)? And is there anyway to increase the size of the clipboard?
I would like to implement a keyboard shortcut to restart gnome-shell whenever this one crashes (some bugs aren't currently fixed just yet). For this I would need a command line to restart the shell.
The Alt+F2 and restart command won't work when the shell is crashed because the prompt is implemented in the shell.
Hence, how to restart the gnome-shell from command line?
I have installed Compiz on Xubuntu 11.10 with
sudo apt-get install compiz compizconfig-settings-manager
compiz --replace ccp &
In the process the XFCE window decoration theme is overridden by that of Compiz (Gtk) which uses the Adwaita theme instead of the Greybird theme. Since Gtk is doing window decoration, I cannot change it back using the XFCE settings.
I just need compiz for scale and window switch and I would like to return window decoration to XFCE (Xfwm4) or to be able to change the Gtk window decoration theme.
How can I do that?
I have found part of the (workaround) answer already:
org.gnome.desktop.interfaceThe problem really at stage 2 is where do I place the theme? I tried in ~/.themes/ and then changed the value of gtk-theme in the editor to Greybird. But I saw no change.
I have discovered with great surprise that Evince 2.32.0 allows for annotations on a PDF. To my dismay however, I have found no means to delete annotations (no button, no menu, no right-click-menu, nada). How can I delete an annotation then?
There are many derivatives to Ubuntu, of which Xubuntu is one, using XFCE as a desktop environment. One can install Xubuntu directly from an ISO or install XFCE as an alternative session on Ubuntu.
I am wondering: Is there more difference between installing Xubuntu from ISO and installing XFCE to Ubuntu? - If so which are these difference? - Which of the two do you recommend and why?
Sometime I need to run an application from terminal for debugging. If I am sure the bug will occur short after launching the application, I can run this application from the Terminal.
However, bugs occur unexpectedly, and then only I need to monitor the buggy application from the Terminal (to see its output).
Can I then pick up an application from terminal, which was not launched using Terminal? If so how?
There are several related questions, but I found none that really answered this detail:
Where is the reference to the current icon theme stored?
Since the icon theme can be changed, hence so too the path to its folder, it must be stored somewhere. I'm making an application and I want it to draw its own icons from the icon theme currently in use. I've seen answers showing how to retrieve the path using Python and Gtk, but I am using PyQt and would like to avoid importing Gtk as well.
Is there a configuration file somewhere holding the current icon theme's name or path? Or do you know a PyQt means to do that?
Firefox 5.0 has the option to "switch to tab" if the requested URL or search terms point to an already open URL (great thing by the way).
Now, to open a URL from command line to Firefox a mere firefox http://myurl.com would do, but even if that URL already is open, Firefox will open it once more in another tab.
How can I---from command line---tell Firefox to open the desired URL in an already existing tab if possible?
I've been using Synapse for a while now. The earlier bug regrading the lacking ability to remember recurrent launches was fixed.
I've been launching the same documents I am working on at the moment for the past months and there was no issue. But today, for some mysterious reason, Synapse doesn't remember any of these, nor can it find them in its search. I had to browse and launch them myself! (How medieval is that! :) )
So, did something happen? Can I find out what and why? And most importantly: can it be fixed?
NB: problem also posted on Launchpad.
I have some play/pause, stop, next etc. keys on my Dell Vostro 1510. These interact with Banshee but don't with Amarok. How can I bind the latter to those keys?
I've recently started to use Amarok, it went smoothly for a while but now for some reason the collection's completely messed up. It seems that Various Artists albums are ignored or partly shown. Tags are OK and consistent as far as i can tell. I tried to import from file and move to collection but Amarok split my albums in many folders, sorted per artists (the nightmare!!!)
So how can i get Amarok to simply read what's in my Music folder and how can I prevent it from changing my files? As I see it the program should adapt to my music, not the other way around.
Thanks for the help.
I would like to retrieve an important password which I forgot, but which Firefox has remembered and uses to log in. Where is this password stored and is it (or can it be made) readable?
Compiz ring-switcher shows minimized windows' icons of very low quality (other than the current icon theme btw). Can I make it pick SVG icons from the current icon theme instead?
PS: This is also true for shift-switcher.
I installed Ubuntu 11.04 recently. Then for the sake of trying, i installed the Kubuntu Plasma package from the Software Repos. I didn't like Kubuntu, so i removed the same package from the Software Centre again.
Some programs remain from the Kubuntu Session however: like K-torrent which came to replace Transmission as a default torrent program. Then the splash screen remains that of Kubuntu and not Ubuntu and finally the session randomly logs out!!
I'm quite shocked, i thought that by now Ubuntu could handle this kind of switches easily and cleanly.
But first things first, how do i clean this mess up?
Several Kunbuntu packages are still on my computer if i believe Synaptic. I didn't dare taking them out without knowing what i do.
Please help. B.
I'm playing around with dbus-monitor to try and understand how dbus is working in Ubuntu environment. I have several questions in this regard:
Could you please let me know how to read the following properly? I understand the big idea, but not the details.
signal sender=:1.1948 -> dest=(null destination) serial=1829990 path=/org/ayatana/menu/DA00003; interface=org.ayatana.dbusmenu; member=ItemPropertyUpdated
int32 23
string "enabled"
variant boolean true
method call sender=:1.6 -> dest=org.freedesktop.Notifications serial=1399 path=/org/freedesktop/Notifications; interface=org.freedesktop.Notifications;
member=GetCapabilities
I get that the first one is a signal whereas the second is a method. Does destination mean there can be a specific receiver/slot for a signal? What's a member? And are the items of the list following the signal the arguments passed in the signal? What are sender and serials?
I noticed something about the relationship between volume-control and notifications. From what I read from the dbus-monitor output
method call sender=:1.6 -> dest=org.freedesktop.Notifications serial=1400 path=/org/freedesktop/Notifications; interface=org.freedesktop.Notifications; member=Notify
string "gnome-settings-daemon"
uint32 0
string "notification-audio-volume-medium"
string " "
string ""
array [
]
array [
dict entry(
string "value"
variant int32 38
)
dict entry(
string "x-canonical-private-synchronous"
variant string "volume"
)
]
int32 -1
It seems that the notification is triggered by its method. I just don't really understand why it works this way. In my view it would make more sense if there was a signal emitted "notification-audio-volume-medium" while the notification would listen for this signal and react accordingly. If the sending / receiving would be public rather than private, wouldn't it allow for more flexibility and efficiency? For instance if there was a public signal for "notification-audio-volume-medium" then several applications could listen for this signal (which would allow for competing notification applications to come to existence) and developers would just have to be concerned with sending signals, while picking up and handling a signal would be the notifying application's business (or any other program that needs those signals).
I'm just new to Dbus and want to learn more as I am working with Dbus on Python, mainly to develop some applets. I've seen the dbus-python tutorial and it teaches how to listen to all signals (by specifying neither interface nor path etc.) But how to track methods when they are called, like dbus-monitor does?
If you have the patience to teach how that works, you're welcome.