I am looking for a way (preferably terminal) to organize over 1000 fonts by their first letter.
Basically create directories A-Z, # then move the font files to those directories based on their filename first character. Fonts that begin with numbers [0-9] or other special characters to be moved to the # directory.
This is somehow a follow up of this question:
How can I detect the BPM (beats per minute) of a song?
But now instead of detecting them in songs, I want to generate them.
I am looking for an application that will output a sound (something short like a beep) a configurable number of times per minute.
If I say 20bpm, it will output that sound every 3 seconds. (60/20)
If 60bpm, every sec.
If 120bpm every half a sec.
The reason for this is that I am learning how to play drum sets and the bpm looks really important. I am following this video on youtube.
Seems they are called metronomes and even Google got one. Cool Stuff.
https://www.google.com/search?q=metronomes
Thanks Nick.
I am using Google Chrome 48.0 32-bit. Today when I launched Google Chrome, I got this message:
This computer will soon stop receiving Google Chrome updates because
this Linux system will no longer be supported
I thought Ubuntu 14.04 is supported for five years, what's exactly happening here?
And on 64-bit Ubuntu, I get an error from Update Manager and apt-get update:
Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release
Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i386/Packages' in Release file
(Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
Some index files failed to download.
They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Let me describe my problem:
I have a site where I post sponsors company logos. Once I'm sent the logo (or I've googled) they are usually in rectangle size - width and height are not equal.
On my site, once you upload the logo image, you then crop it to a square.
For logos that are rectangular, I usually open them up in GIMP, increase the canvas size to a square, create a new layer of the background color and finally export it as jpg or png for the site. Quite time consuming.
I'm looking for a way to do that hopefully with just a terminal command.
Consider this Safaricom (Kenyan Telecommunication company) logo below. It's of 650px by 380px - how can I make it 650px by 650px and then center it horizontally from the command line?
I have a very big text log file of about 37MB.
Using cat file | more I can view the file contents one page at a time.
The problem is that this always starts from the top - the old entries.
How can I make it start from the bottom where the newer entries are then move up page by page?
I am looking for a software alternative to EasyWorship.
This is a church software to manage slides showing either Bible verses or song lyrics or just plain text for projection.
Among the core features I'm looking for are:
I have two image tabs open and I want to copy one layer from the first image to the second image keeping dimensions and size.
How would I do that?
Example:
I have this 640px by 400px first image with two layers - the background and a brush
and I want to copy the brush layer to this other image of 1600px by 1200px.
I have a SanDisk 16GB USB drive that is not being detected by Ubuntu 14.04 but is detected by Windows 7.
lsusb detects it but sudo fdisk -l or blkid doesn't.
Even GParted and Disks don't detect it.
Here's some terminal output:
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 12d1:1003 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E220 HSDPA Modem / E230/E270/E870 HSDPA/HSUPA Modem
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0781:5576 SanDisk Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 008 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 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 1a2c:0021 China Resource Semico Co., Ltd Keyboard
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04f2:b070 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Sep 10 22:28:22 xhakz kernel: [ 2203.587319] usb 2-2: USB disconnect, device number 4
Sep 10 22:28:25 xhakz kernel: [ 2206.212045] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci-pci
Sep 10 22:28:25 xhakz mtp-probe: checking bus 2, device 7: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-2"
Sep 10 22:28:25 xhakz kernel: [ 2206.344889] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5576
Sep 10 22:28:25 xhakz kernel: [ 2206.344895] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Sep 10 22:28:25 xhakz kernel: [ 2206.344897] usb 2-2: Product: Cruzer Facet
Sep 10 22:28:25 xhakz kernel: [ 2206.344900] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: SanDisk
Sep 10 22:28:25 xhakz kernel: [ 2206.344902] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: 4C532000030522108444
Sep 10 22:28:25 xhakz mtp-probe: bus: 2, device: 7 was not an MTP device
T: Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 7 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0781 ProdID=5576 Rev=01.26
S: Manufacturer=SanDisk
S: Product=Cruzer Facet
S: SerialNumber=4C532000030522108444
C: #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=200mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=(none)
I don't know what to do anymore to get it detected and I don't want to format it as it contains important data.
I backed up my data in another laptop, formatted the drive in Windows 7 but still it's not recognized. The funny thing is that Windows 7 detects it and uses it fine but it's not detected in Ubuntu except by the lsusb command. Weird.
Requested command output:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 149.1G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1.5G 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 74.4G 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 1K 0 part
├─sda4 8:4 0 32G 0 part /media/kagz/New Volume
├─sda5 8:5 0 1.9G 0 part [SWAP]
└─sda6 8:6 0 39.4G 0 part /
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
http://paste.ubuntu.com/8332788/
Linux xhakz 3.13.0-35-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 15 01:58:01 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
Something interesting:
The USB DOES NOT work in guest mode but WORKS in live session mode. All running Ubuntu 14.04.
Re-installing is not an option.
Other USB's don't work, this is a problem with the system not the USB.
I have come to a situation where I have an image in Gimp with multiple layers. Now, I want to export every single layer as an individual image (PNG format preferably) automatically to a folder somewhere.
Is this possible?
The long method: Hide all layers except one, crop the section you want, export image. Hide saved layer, unhide another one, crop section, export. Repeat. Kinda cumbersome for an image with about 20 layers.
Following my question from long ago, I am still trying to tweak my fortune handling capabilities. The display in terminal is awesome, just one thing remains - syntax highlighting in Gedit as I add, edit or delete individual fortunes.
My custom fortune files are in this format:
Friend: "Whats a good movie?"
Me: "Snakes on a plane"
Friend: "Whats it about?"
Me: "Horses... horses on a boat..."
@AYYSIAN
%
Me on my wedding: you still like me, right?
@ComedyPosts
%
Mum: Son I'd love to meet your girlfriend...
Me: Me too...
@ComedyTruth
%
Doctor: "Ok, so what's wrong, how are you feeling?"
Me: *Looks at mum waiting for her to explain*
@ChildhoodFact
%
Friend: 75% of people are good at maths...
Me: Mmmmh, I guess then am in the remaining 18%...
@TheFunnyTeens
%
I loved the Titanic. My favorite character was the iceberg
@__GrumpyCat
It's basically a tweet, @name and the % character. Then repeat.
When I open it in Gedit, everything is black.
I'm looking for a way to create a syntax highlighting file that will convert the % to something like blue and the @name to something like magenta. The tweet can remain black.
NOTE:
text/plain and only the given format really distinguishes them from another plain text file.
I edited a GIF image (no animations) with gthumb and on trying to save I encountered the error:
Could not save the file
Could not find a suitable module to save the image as "image/gif"
I jumped over to the preferences only to find save as GIF isn't there. Only JPG, PNG, TIFF, TGA, WebP.
Is there any way I can save an image as GIF from gthumb without converting it to the other formats?
How can I get the instrumentals only from a file and remove the vocals?
I understand this is called karaoke.
In GIMP under FIle -> New menu, we have a preset number and resolutions of templates. See image below:
I'm looking for a way to add new image sizes and resolutions to this list.
I have already tried editing my ~/.gimp-2.8/templaterc file but that had no effect. Even editing the global one in /etc/gimp/2.0/ had no effect either.
Then there is a warning on the ~.gimp-2.8 templaterc file: "This file will be entirely rewritten each time you exit."
How can I achieve this in Gimp 2.8?
I asked a question earlier about viewing the history of notify-osd using the indicator-notifications app.
The answer was that I needed to add LOG=1 in my /etc/environment file.
That sounded suspicious and I didn't do it because:
I browsed around and saw this question which also highlights the issue. Look specifically at this answer:
Small warning: this could be a bad idea... LOG=1 in /etc/environment makes it a system wide variable and could break stuff... God knows what reacts on LOG (ofc. they should have made it something like NOTIFYOSDLOG). Maybe for starters I would add it to bashrc for 1 user just to be sure.
My question is, how will setting LOG=1 in /etc/environment affect the system? Which 'stuff' will be logged? Is this advisable?
EDIT
I solved the notification issue and now I'm just asking about the effects of setting LOG=1 in /etc/environment.
Look at my question above: "How will setting LOG=1 in /etc/environment affect the system? Which 'stuff' will be logged? Is this advisable?"
I accidentally typed ctrl + L in terminal and my terminal window jumped one 'screenful' size. I looked at the keyboard shortcuts in "Edit"->"Keyboard shortcuts" and didn't find that shortcut.
What does ctrl + L do and where is it defined?
Most browsers have a 'undo closed tab' which will reopen a closed tab in case you closed it by mistake. For firefox, it's ctrl+shift+t. Can I replicate this behaviour in nautilus and how?
I looked at nautilus shortcuts but couldn't find a shortcut for that.
Assume you have a deeply nested folder thats open in a tab in nautilus, then as you go to select it, you accidentally close it. Now to reopen the tab, you will have to manually track it down under multiple other folders. Am looking for a shortcut (not necessarily keyboard) to restore the tab in the current open nautilus.
I want to add these four ppa's to my machine.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/malys-themes
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alecive/antigone
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nitrux/nitrux-artwork
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/themes
Instead of adding them one-at-a-time, I thought I would list them one after another - like we do when installing apps.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/malys-themes ppa:alecive/antigone ppa:nitrux/nitrux-artwork ppa:upubuntu-com/themes
But it returned an error: Error: need a repository as argument
I searched around and saw this question How to install multiple PPAs and applications at once? but it proposes a bash script as a solution.
Is there a way to add multiple ppa's at once without using a script?
EDIT
Am just curious, why doesn't
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/malys-themes ppa:alecive/antigone ppa:nitrux/nitrux-artwork ppa:upubuntu-com/themes
work but
sudo apt-get install moka-icon-theme moka-icon-theme-blue moka-icon-theme-dark malys-deda awoken-icon-theme nitrux-icon-theme nouvegnomegray
works?
EDIT 2
Is there any workaround where
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/malys-themes ppa:alecive/antigone ppa:nitrux/nitrux-artwork ppa:upubuntu-com/themes
can be made to work?
And I totally understand the risks here.
When I run sudo gedit /path/to/some/random/file I get the following error
** (gedit:6262): WARNING **: Command line `dbus-launch --autolaunch=7f8731869e1c690b8205727e0000000a --binary-syntax --close-stderr' exited with non-zero exit status 1: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.
Cannot open display:
Run 'gedit --help' to see a full list of available command line options.
Using gksudo doesn't help either which returns
Cannot open display:
Run 'gedit --help' to see a full list of available command line options.
Any help guys. I need to have this capability to open files in Gedit as root.
I found this question with the same error but no solution Unable to launch gedit with sudo
EDIT
I found this post in Ubuntu Forums.
These are the instructions:
On coming to command #3, I got this error
xauth: file /root/.Xauthority does not exist
Maybe this new info can shed more light.
I usually use Ubuntu tweak to do cleanup jobs on my PC. This includes apt and program cached data and old kernels. This goes alright for most programs except Mozilla based application - Firefox and Thunderbird.
Ubuntu tweak doesn't seem to know where their cache folders are and always returns 'zero packages can be cleaned' even when the cache folder is full. Check screenshot below:
I am looking for a way to clean up ALL my cache data and unneeded packages at one point.
If someone knows how to change the ubuntu tweak cache folders for Firefox and Thunderbird, that would be perfect.
I tried bleachbit last but it crashed my PC to a point I had to re-install Ubuntu.
I am using Ubuntu tweak 0.8.6.
EDIT
Same issue with the screenshot of this question: Why isn't Ubuntu Tweak's Janitor working?
EDIT 2
For the python programmers out there, this answer shows the commands that Ubuntu tweak janitor runs to clean up the system. Maybe something in there will shed more light to this issue.
Am using VLC 2.0.8 and I was wondering if its possible to add more visualizations to show when playing audio?
EDIT
VLC has two waves in its scope visualization. Is there a way I can remove one? Am looking for something like 'simple scope' in banshee media player or 'blur scope' in Audacious.
I tried the projectM visualizations but didn't like them; I just then deleted them.