I would prefer to not have directories sorted before files within the file open/save dialogs. I would like everything sorted by modification date regardless of file or directory.
I have done a fair amount of googleing with trial and error still without a solution.
specifics
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I have installed xubuntu-desktop ontop of a stock Ubuntu installation.
When using ssh, or more specifically git, I always get this warning
WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /tmp/keyring-IVaeDO/pkcs11: No such file or directory
I have done a fair amount of googling to disable/enable the proper services at boot time, but so far I always end up with this error.
Any insight on completely removing gnome-keyring, and it's downfalls, OR integrating gnome-keyring into xubuntu/xfce would be awesome.
Is there a drop down terminal as smooth as gnome-shell's 'looking glass' that has a normal bash shell?
Gnome-shell's looking glass (alt+f2 then lg then enter) is so smooth. I'd like to see a simple gnome-terminal session in a drop down that smooth.
I know you can smooth drop down Tilda, but, well, it flashes and it's not that smooth. I dislike Guake's excessive ui chrome and yukake is outta place. Any other solutions? Has anyone taken the 'looking glass' code and baked a gnome-terminal into it?
When I open a file with root gedit I'd like to have the same setup as my normal gedit. So theme, preferences, and addons.
Can I set up some sym links in the right spot to achieve this?
Samba and all it's dependencies are installed. Why does gnome-file-share-properties (Personal File Sharing application) say:
This feature cannot be enabled because the required packages are not installed on your system ?
What packages am I missing?
EDIT:
Personal File Sharing application may also be known by gnome-user-share.
This is a Samba thing, yes?
What file can I edit to change that name?
Is there a GUI settings manager for Mutter? Something where I can adjust the window shadow size, or the hot corners, or opacity, etc...
How can I change the window shadow size for windows in the gnome shell?
I'm trying the shell out and I like it so far. I know it uses mutter rather than compiz so there's no ccsm that I'm used to.
But I understand you can configure almost everything within /usr/share/gnome-shell via css and js. Awesome
Anybody know where the window shadow line is?
I want to spin down external hard drive from the terminal before unmounting.
It is an sata drive connected through usb.
Running hdparm gives this
ry@G62x:/media$ hdparm -S10 937b2299-48ff-4a9c-8228-67ed4453e8fb/
937b2299-48ff-4a9c-8228-67ed4453e8fb/:
setting standby to 10 (50 seconds)
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(setidle) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
I'm looking for a clipboard manager that doesn't need the panel to be useful. Something that can be triggered another way. Or... If someone can provide an easy way to trigger the dropdown that would normally occur with a clipboard manager had if I didn't have the panel hidden.
I want to completely remove titlebars from windows...but still have shadows via window decorations.
I am using the Elementary borderless theme and Compiz. But it doesn't matter too much which theme I use, I suppose. Basically I want to get rid of all window decorations except for the shadows.
What should I look for in my theme file to get rid of the titlebars? Or is there a better way?
I'd rather not use Emerald or another window manager right now.
I mainly use keyboard shortcuts for all window activities.
For me Synapse idles at approximately 7MiB, Kupfer at 23MiB.
That is with nearly all except four plugins off for Kupfer. I thought it was supposed to be the lightest and I love the plugins for it.
I used to be a die hard Gnome-Do fan, Then I switched to Synapse when it lost development because I heard a developer from Do went to Synapse.
I want to like Kupfer more but if the memory consumption could match Synapse I'd be sold.
I was coming dangerously close to filling up a virtualbox disk(.vdi) with Ubuntu on it.
So I enlarged the disk
VBoxManage modifyhd YOUR_HARD_DISK.vdi --resize SIZE_IN_MB
I went from a 6GB disk to a 12GB disk.
Virtualbox recognizes the new disk size. However booting into the Ubuntu guest does not.
How can I tell Ubuntu to take a look at the disk size?
Ubuntu 11.04 64bit - Host
Ubuntu 10.04 32bit - Guest
I am new to git so chances are there is a simple answer.
I have a git command for grabbing a site
git clone [email protected]:foob.com.git
Now when I run this I am prompted for a password via GUI.(Enter a password to unlock the private key) My local root, and user passwords don't work.
what's going on? Do I need to get a password from the git repository manager?
EDIT- Sorry, It was for grabbing drupal sites. I thought this may have been a common issue among others here.
Often compiz will crash and leave the keyboard useless. Normally I drop to the console and restart GDM.
Is there a solution where I can start Compiz back up without losing everything in the current session?
compiz --replace &
That's how I usually restart Compiz when it crashes and I can still use the keyboard.
(If you have a tip on how to prevent Compiz from crashing I've posted here https://askubuntu.com/questions/42096/fresh-install-of-11-04x64-displaycompiz-constantly-failing
??? - Am I right that Compiz is failing or is it X?
I've only been booting into classic gnome desktop since 11.04 and since upgrading to 11.04 I'm having horrible window flickering and what seems to almost be gdm restarting. Maybe it's not gdm restarting but what happens is the desktop will flicker, all windows from all workspaces will come to the current workspace, often all window decoration will be gone, artifacts, and super choppy window dragging.
Anyway, does unity-window-decorator have something to do with it? Is this compiz? Can I replace it with something else?
EDIT: I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the buggy nvidia drivers. I know that the switch to unity-window-decorator is new between 10.10 and 11.04 so thought it may be an issue too.
EDIT:For reference if it does have something to do with the drivers, I'm using nvidia-current on -
product: G92 [GeForce 9800 GTX+]
vendor: nVidia Corporation
I run $compiz --replace & but that doesn't fix it.
I understand if I boot from a live cd I can see all the system logs under System > Administration > File Log Viewer
I have a major error with a disk not mounting and I want to trace i tback to the last time it did work and what may have corrupted the ext4 filesystem on it.
So within the File Log Viewer Where do I start examining?
I can no longer mount an extra internal hard drive on my Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit system. I could up until a few days ago.
I think this has something to do with the problem ---- I had added a line at the end of fstab for the drive (/dev/sda) to automount, but I don't think it worked so I then removed the line from fstab. I think that I removed the line while the drive was mounted. The drive will no longer mount via GUI or CLI. At least I think the problem is related to this, it may not be at all.
Trying to mount:
$ sudo mount /dev/sda /media/openSpaceI
(I realize this is not /dev/sda1 - I don't have an /dev/sda1)
GUI:
That gives this error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
GUI:
Here is the print out from dmesg | tail:
$ dmesg | tail
[ 9344.234380] compiz[6098]: segfault at 28 ip 00007f1fa0641335 sp 00007fff0b306700 error 4 in libregex.so[7f1fa063c000+8000]
[ 9987.879043] nautilus[6899]: segfault at 1505b817b60f ip 00007ff6eeefdb8d sp 00007fff09aa6170 error 4 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.2800.6[7ff6eeeca000+4e000]
[10001.231835] compiz[7360]: segfault at 28 ip 00007f38e0cfe335 sp 00007fff3228d380 error 4 in libregex.so[7f38e0cf9000+8000]
[10113.817592] compiz[7429]: segfault at 28 ip 00007f01c11cd335 sp 00007fffac4f4250 error 4 in libregex.so[7f01c11c8000+8000]
[10116.592022] compiz[7651]: segfault at 28 ip 00007f4369548335 sp 00007fffb3b2b030 error 4 in libregex.so[7f4369543000+8000]
[10117.958485] compiz[7666]: segfault at 28 ip 00007f3861d7d335 sp 00007fff268395d0 error 4 in libregex.so[7f3861d78000+8000]
[10366.207793] EXT4-fs (sda): bad geometry: block count 156282966 exceeds size of device (156282701 blocks)
[10855.975855] EXT4-fs (sdb): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[10863.666747] EXT4-fs (sda): bad geometry: block count 156282966 exceeds size of device (156282701 blocks)
[11125.922998] EXT4-fs (sda): bad geometry: block count 156282966 exceeds size of device (156282701 blocks)
My fstab file now:
I also ran disk utility on the disk. Disk is good and healthy. Here are the screenshots from that:
The drive contains no partitions and is formated to ext4 see - fdisk -
and e2fsck screen
you can see in the e2fsck.png that the filesystem size blocks differ by 265 from the physical size blocks if you do the math.
I'm bummed, I really don't want to have to wipe the data off this disk.
A funny thing I noticed is that the mount point (/media/openSpaceI) still remains. Usually after an unmount the directory disappears.
Any help getting this disk mounted would be extremely appreciated.
I really appreciate everyone who tried to help me out. I may try to make an image of the disk and work on it later. I move across the country the day after tomorrow.
After I create a bash script and double click it in Nautilus I am prompted with this - Do you want to run "sleepytime", or display its contents? With Run in terminal, Dislpay, Cancel and Run as options.
Is it possible to just choose "run" or "run in terminal" by default?
Anyone know of an application that will rename a folder to the contents id3 tags?
My music directory is a mess with folder names. Not a big deal since I use Banshee to library everything. I have a fairly large music collection on my main hard drive(>140gb) but I keep id3 tags clean.
I'm setting up an ftp server and it will be impossible to navigate the way the folders are now.
In Banshee I have 'Update file and folder names' checked under preferences, but The folder names are not being update. Even after Rescan Music Library.
Any idea why?
I can see when I update an album or track it will update the file and folder names and move them from sub-directory I have them in to the Music folder.
So
and
Something similar for movies would be cool too.