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Martin Hope
FUZxxl
Asked: 2018-05-24 09:35:38 +0800 CST
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I use Ubuntu Mate 16.04. I do not use wlan usually, but if I need it, I want wlan to be available. To disable wlan, I deselect “Enable Wi-Fi” in the network manager's applet. This seems to succesfully turn of wlan, but doesn't survive a reboot. How can I permanently deselect the “Enable Wi-Fi” option such that (a) that configuration survives a reboot and (b) I can enable wlan through the network manager applet if needed?

wireless network-manager 16.04
Martin Hope
FUZxxl
Asked: 2014-08-02 11:55:31 +0800 CST
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I am running the awesome window manager on trusty after having upgraded from raring. My desktop environment intentionally does not have all the Gnome / Freedesktop daemons running — I don't want them.

When I execute gedit from a terminal like this:

gedit file

It outputs messages like this all over my terminal whenever I hit enter or save or on various other occasions:

(gedit:5700): Gtk-WARNING **: Calling Inhibit failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files

I understand the meaning of this warning and I have decided that it doesn't matter to me.

How can I turn off this kind of warning? By "turn off", I don't mean any of these or similar workarounds:

  • piping the output of gedit into /dev/null
  • writing a wrapper script that pipes the output of gedit into /dev/null
  • creating an alias that pipes the output of gedit into /dev/null

These workarounds are not acceptable as they have to be applied individually to each Gnome application — gedit is not the only one that likes to mess up the terminal.

gtk
Martin Hope
FUZxxl
Asked: 2012-12-26 08:25:38 +0800 CST
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I have a laptop computer with the following setup:

  • / on a btrfs /dev/sda3 subvolume @
  • /home on a btrfs /dev/sda3 subvolume @home
  • /boot on an ext4 /dev/sda2
  • /boot/efi on a vfat /dev/sda1
  • no swap
  • /tmp on a tmpfs

Now I got a new solid state disk that I want to use instead of my current setup. Besides dd'ing the whole disk to the SSD (which I don't want to do since it marks all sectors as used), what steps should I do to copy all data in a way that my system still boots afterwards?

Big gotcha: I can't insert both discs at once into my system but I have a sufficiently fast eSATA backup disc that is big enough to store all data from the old HDD.

uefi
Martin Hope
FUZxxl
Asked: 2011-03-12 06:00:10 +0800 CST
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Possible Duplicate:
How to create a meta-package that automatically installs other packages?

I want to use Frescobaldi (an editor for Lilypond), but the packaged release of lilypond (2.12.3; lilypond is like TeX for scoresheets) in the official repos is a bit old, since I want to use some brand-new features. So I just cloned their git repo and installed it from there.

Now my question is, how can I tell apt, that I satisfied the dependency on lilypond manually, so that it doesn't tries to install another copy?

package-management
Martin Hope
FUZxxl
Asked: 2011-01-25 06:48:59 +0800 CST
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I have Ubuntu both as guest and as host. I use VirtualBox 4, just downloaded from the official repository. After installing the guest extensions, I got this strange problem:

When I activate the resizable screen mode with Host + C, the GNOME desktop won't resize with the screen. Only the wallpaper gets stretched. I use no desktop effects and haven't changed any driver options yet.

Any ideas how to fix this? Here is a screenshot of the guest machine, demonstrating how it looks like after changing the resolution:

enter image description here

I know how to use scalable mode, but I guess I forgot some configuration in the guest machine to make it work.

gnome