I have an existing ubuntu 17.10 desktop install.
I've heard many great things about this MATE desktop environment. For most of what I know it should work as a regular shell. How should I install the Ubuntu MATE session?
I've recently installed xubuntu 16.10 and the dead keys of my spanish keyboard are not working.
I've tried a couple of alternatives using dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration and the system layout is set to layout: latam which is almost correct but dead keys are not working and I can't use the right tildes.
Using xfce's proper system configuration tool doesn't make any difference.
What else can I try?
Just asking if someone out there has seen the same quirk:
If I want to drag a file to a dropzone in a website (say gmail's compose interface) Unity brings up the window picker bar (Launcher) and I can't drop the file in the webpage. It's like nothing happens.
I haven't seen if it happens in Firefox too, just tried it with Chrome.
I want to upload a batch of files to my server periodically preserving the originals only in the server, that is:
- If I delete the local folder, files are not ereased from the server.
- If local files are replaced, they are added to remote.
- It should restore the transfer if the connection is lost during the process.
- Bonus points if it works in Windows
I thought that rsync and a cron job should do the trick but I happen to have no idea about how to use those (well, ok... I have ONE idea about how to use cron).
Call it a minor annoiance, but I'd really like if vlc used the app menu instead of displaying it in the main window.
Is there a way to correct this behavior?
I don't really know if this would require patching vlc or if it's something that could be enabled with a plugin. Extra points if you can provide me more info on this.
Most of the time running a gtk application from the command line it starts dumping debug information to the stdout even though I put them in background.
Example:
~$ gedit test.html # and ctrl+z to suspend
zsh: suspended gedit .zshrc
~$ bg
[1] + continued gedit .zshrc
~$
# do some editing
(gedit:6208): GtkSourceView-WARNING **: Could not find word to remove in buffer (whoosh), this should not happen!
(gedit:6208): GtkSourceView-WARNING **: Could not find word to remove in buffer (haystack), this should not happen!
I want to note that the error, or warning, changes according to what I'm doing at the moment. The GtkSourceView-WARNING shown here is one of the cases.
Anyway... Do you know if it's at all possible to avoid getting that information printed out?
I'm in need of some vector drawings... Was rushed to install inkscape, as is the tool I use more often, but it is too bloated and heavy for the task at hand...
I was thinking in something like Fireworks, that let's you create bitmaps in a very vector-like workflow, or something like the old Flash editor that would blend shapes if they had the same color.
Do you know of any app simpler than inkscape or along the lines of those products description?
It asks me for a PID, even though it didn't in previous versions. If I don't provide one or if I choose "other problem", it closes saying that I need a PID. If I put the symptoms in the terminal, it crashes saying there is no package matching the description.
I have several bugs that don't affect any of the options provided by "Ubuntu-bug" hence I would need to file it under "other problem".
Is there some setting or package that I could use to give syntax highlighting to psql (the PostgreSQL shell)?
I have a HP G42. It was working but would randomly halt or restart the X session while running ubuntu 11.04.
Finally, last night, it froze and was not able to boot anymore. It gets stuck in the ubuntu splash screen, an if I choose the recovery mode in grub, it sort of halts in the session selection menu.
I have already run a memtest and it passes without errors.
How to proceed to further debug this issue?
... but still be required for applications that need admin privilegies?
In order to allow the following:
$ apache2ctl restart
httpd not running, trying to start
(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
$ sudo !!
sudo apache2ctl restart #no password asked
$ #works!
For reference I've seen this setup on amazon's e3 instances
Any idea?
I want to have the same keybindings in gedit and in bash. Namely all the selections, also cut, copy and paste.
I know there are some important ones that are already taken (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+W, etc), still... I want to have the same workflow in my text editor and shell of choice.
Anyone has got around this?
Recently empathy has switched it's behavior for open links.
At some point it was that links pasted in the IM window where open with whatever program was associated to the mime type of the link's content type, so, for example if the link was pointing to a image it was open in eog, if the link was a webpage it was open in gedit (my default setting).
Now it opens everything in chrome even though it's not my default browser, I've checked everywhere and chrome is not set as default.
I'm thinking that it's a bug but wanted to ask before going to launchpad. It's happening the same to you?
Is there a way to force empathy to open everything in firefox as a workaround?
I have a quite tunned up gnome desktop and I would like for the guest session to share most of the user settings, this includes:
- Gtk and Metacity themes.
- Number of panels, placement and applets.
- Applications that run on login.
I'm having a hard time finding where this configuration files are placed in the filesystem.
Does anyone know about a way to get code folding in gedit? I've found this plugin in google code, but looks like dead and doesn't work with the latest gedit.
I feel like hacking into Unity and spent a couple of minutes looking for development documentation, source code, components, the stack of aplications used, etc. It all seems to be buried in the results. Can't find anything related.
Can anyone point me a good direction?
I love Banshee media player in general, and I already have an important library of music, which I've spent a lot of time organizing (labeling, correcting, etc).
I also use the command line a lot, so I wonder if there is a way I can control banshee from the command line. As in:
- Next, Prev, Stop, Play, etc
- In anyway query the Banshee database as if using the search box in the GUI
I was akin to program it myself if there isn't, but that would be another question :)
I want to tell compiz, metacity, the gnome-terminal or whoever is in charge to open the terminal window maximized by default.
How can I do that?
EDIT for the future: most of the answers were upvoted in older ubuntu versions, since 17.10 and on the most upvoted solutions do not work.
I'm trying to make a new gtk theme using the murrine engine, using Humanity (default in ubuntu 9.10) as a template.
You can grab the code in http://github.com/tutuca/themes
However, I found cumbersome the process of creating a new theme with it. There is no central starting point.
The documentation of both, the engine options (gtkrc's and stuff), and general theming practices (the format of the index.theme files, folders, bla bla) is scarce, How to's and tutorials are often old or subject to lots of opinionated debate and results confusing (to me, having a web developer background, at least :-).
So... I wanted to ask to the fellows gtk themers and artist out there:
Which tools you use to create a new theme, and how does your average workflow looks like?