Are there any programs that will let me dictate (speech-to-text) to any program? Or at least to a text editor and text fields in Firefox.
I’m not interested in anything that uses an online service, it has to be on-device. It may be a commercial product.
Remix OS is an interesting desktopification of Android. It can run off a read-write-able USB stick but it doesn’t have an installer. I can boot it up in GNOME Boxes just fine, but as I’m just running an ISO file it’s not a persistent read-write system. How do I install from Remix OS’ ISO file onto the hard drive inside Boxes?
I accidentally trigger two-finger scrolling on my touchpad when I mean to tap-to-click. Can I add a minimum threshold to reduce accidental scroll events?
It causes issues when I:
when moving the cursor to click a tab in GNOME Edit/Terminal/Pidgin (scrolling on the tab bar in these apps changes tab, so I select the one adjacent to the one I clicked on instead)
# model-information, Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (1st gen)
Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=01b1
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
Say I have some video files in various formats that I want to stream to my Xbox One. Under Windows, I can choose the Xbox as a “playback device” from the file’s context-menu in Explorer.
As far as I understand it, this uses DLNA. However, I am unclear on how a server can initiate the playback on the device. Also, I’m not sure about transcoding and things.
Is there a program I can use as a on-demand server for DLNA purposes? (Click-on-a-file to stream, and then shut down afterwards.) Specifically, I only want to run the server on my laptop when I’m actually using it and not hurt my battery life when its not in use.
I guess I’m envisioning a VLC plug-in or something. Does anyone have any insights or experience here?
Every time I open documents and for every new documents I have to re-enable the spell-checker in gedit.
How can I toggle it to always be on for every document?
Primary: How can I manage a large music collection and sync parts of it to an Android device?
Secondary: To make it complicated, parts of the collection is stored in multiple formats. Computer playback should use the best quality format (for example FLAC) and device sync should use something smaller (Vorbis, M4A, MP3).
I do not see my Android phone anywhere on my system when connecting it to the computer. Would expect to see it in the file manager or maybe in Rhythmbox.
I am backing up with something very similar to the below:
/usr/bin/duplicity (irrelevant options) \
--include /home/me \
--exclude /home/me/example \
ssh://remote/backupjar
The problem I have is that the excluded example subdirectory is being included in my backups. Even after explicitly giving an option to exclude it. The output shows:
A: /home/me
A: /home/me/otherstuff
A: /home/me/example
A: /hmoe/me/example/undesired-file
I have enabled Sync Between Computers using the same Ubuntu account on three different computers.
When I open Sync Between Computers in Software Center I only see the current computer. I used to be able to see the two other machines and could access a list of the packages I had installed on the other systems. I have the same problem on all three computers.
How can I resolve this problem?
Does any other desktop environment have the type-to-search-application-menus feature found in Unity?
I’m curios about trying a more spartan desktop such as Xfce or LXDE. Or maybe something entirely different. But I want to keep the workflow where I can press the Alt key from any application and type my way to menu entries.
I have a extensive music library in iTunes on my Mac. I have found a dozen import scripts to import the metadata (ratings, play count) to Rhythmbox. But the comments I have found all indicate that they do not work very well, and none of them are in active development/have had any fixes to them after being initially dumped on the Web. Considering that this is something a user/developer only has to do once
Does anyone have experience with importing an iTunes library in Rhythmbox? Any importer scripts that can be recommended?
Also, I do not understand how these scripts are supposed to import the music itself. The directory structures and paths will be different, for example, and they do not seem to address that.
The scripts I’ve seen are itunes2rhythm and itunes-to-rhythmbox-ratings.
I connect my iPod and iPad to my computer to charge them. I do not want them to automatically mount on the desktop.
How can I keep using my computers many USB ports for charging without being bothered by auto-mounted devices?
I am having problems configuring the uncomplicated firewall (ufw) to allow outgoing multicast traffic. I am blocking all in and outgoing connections as the default policy. I have supplemented with the rules listed below. Yet, I get these error messages repeated twice after every time I boot the system:
Errors (repeated twice on boot-up):
[UFW BLOCK] IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=224.0.0.22 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0xC0 TTL=1 ID=0 DF PROTO=2
[UFW BLOCK] IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=fe80:0000:0000:0000:f66d:feee:feee:feee DST=ff02:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0002 LEN=56 TC=0 HOPLIMIT=255 FLOWLBL=0 PROTO=ICMPv6 TYPE=133 CODE=0
[UFW BLOCK] IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=fe80:0000:0000:0000:f66d:04ff:feee:df54 DST=ff02:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0016 LEN=96 TC=0 HOPLIMIT=1 FLOWLBL=0 PROTO=ICMPv6 TYPE=143 CODE=0
Main rules:
ufw allow out proto udp to 224.0.0.0/3
ufw allow out proto udp to ff00::/8
ufw allow in proto udp to 224.0.0.0/3
ufw allow in proto udp to ff00::/8
in
/etc/ufw/user.rules:
-A ufw-before-input -p igmp -d 224.0.0.0/3 -j ACCEPT
-A ufw-before-output -p igmp -d 224.0.0.0/3 -j ACCEPT
and in
/etc/ufw/user6.rules:
-A ufw6-before-input -p icmpv6 -d ff00::/8 -j ACCEPT
-A ufw6-before-output -p icmpv6 -d ff00::/8 -j ACCEPT
I have looked at the self-hosted web browser based IRC-clients Subway and Alice as I never seem to get an invite for IRCcloud.
The two alternatives I have found suffer from really bad bugs. They work for about an hour, and then it seems their communication with their backends just falls apart. Subway duplicates all open channels ever few hours and sometimes sporadically reloads. Alice has ridiculously long delays for delivering messages. Side-by-side with another client it can be up to 15 minutes (!) out of sync, and that will not do for an instant messaging client.
Are there any other alternatives I should take a look at? or services?
The desktop IRC clients for Linux simply does not cut it for me, and I like having a persistent connection that I can join from wherever.
The automatic in-app recommendations I get in the Ubuntu Software Center are just plain odd. I have only installed one game (OpenTTD) and the rest of the applications that I have installed are purely software development and debugging centric. I have installed VMware (visualization), Evolution (groupware), and Plex (media center server). I have also uninstalled a few of the default applications, add-ons, and Unity Lenses that I would never use.
The recommendations I get for my account are exclusively for applications that I have already installed, applications that are instaleld by default (even the ones I have chosen to uninstall), graphic design; typesetting; and photo tools, and weird games I have never heard of and that does not look interesting.
How are these recommendations intended to work? Are they not personal (they only appear after logging into my account so I assume they are personal)? and how can I improve them? I have rated a good chunk of applications without that seeming to have any effect on this.
For example Amazon has this page you can go to to rate the suggested products to help improve the recommendations you will get in the future. Is there such a thing on the user side?
How does the rating mechanism work? (and where do I find it/can contribute improvements to it?)
I find my self constantly dragging text, links, icons, and other things a few pixels by accident. Can I somehow increase the drag threshold? I thought at first it was because I use a trackpad, but I get the same unwanted behavior with a plain old mouse.
I am using mostly Unity and sometimes GNOME in Ubuntu 12.10.
My /run/lock/ directory is empty except for ./whoopsie/. I have understood /run/lock/ as a replacement for /var/lock/ but was surprised to find it entirely empty.
Is whoopsie meant as a deterrent from using this directory?
I did find other lock files under /run/, though. Most notably in /run/user/<me>/. I would have expect per-users lock files in /run/lock/user/ and not in a separate directory.
Hoping for some clarification!
Is there an easy way to do array manipulation in gsettings? I am comparing gsettings to OS X's defaults command that offers the defaults domain --array key overwrite-value and defaults domain --array-add key added-value interface for manipulating arrays.
As far as I can tell there is only gsettings set domain key "['overwrite-value']" available to gsettings. Not really pretty for when you want to add or remove one entry from an array.
I have seen a suggestion that allow me to add to an array, but I would rather use a interface if there is one.
Say I have connected to a remote computer via SSH. From a program on this remote computer, I need to execute a command on my local computer (the connection initiator).
Which raises the question: is it possible to leech onto the existing connection between the two computers to run a command on the local computer?
I have considered running the command ssh user@host-of-connecting-party <command> on the remote computer to establish a reversed connection. But this is harder to automate and will require user intervention. I was hoping I could fully automate it, or at least detect the user/hostname of the connected user.
OS X‘s Time Machine backup system has an API that let application developers indicate that certain folders belonging to the application should be excluded from the user‘s backup. This is done through an extended attribute set on the directory in the file system.
With the mission statement “[…] [Déjà Dup] hides the complexity of doing backups […]” I kind of expect there to be such a thing. As an application’s developer should be well suited to know what folders are safe to exclude. But I cannot find any mention of it online.
Nudges in the right direction or to the right feature request would be appreciated.
I have a Macmini4,1 (most recent variant) with a Mini DisplayPort connected to a DVI monitor, and HDMI connected directly to a projector. Both monitors are on but black when booting of the ‘Natty Narwhal’ Live CD.
I hold the Option key to get into the EFI boot selector and choose the CD’s EFI boot. Grub loads, and I choose Try Ubuntu from the grub menu. From there on the screen is black.
How can I get Ubuntu to detect my available monitors? Anyone got the same experience?