I am going to put an additional (non-USB) hard drive in my system. I already have Ubuntu on my other hard drive so I do not want to install Ubuntu on the additional drive but only use it for storage. How do I add the additional hard drive to my Ubuntu system, e.g. make Ubuntu recognize it and mount it properly?
My right hand is temporarily immobilized and I would like to do some minor general work on my computer. Mostly web browsing, mailing and file and directory browsing and editing. For this I currently use Firefox, Thunderbird, Nautilus and the GNOME terminal (I have already asked a specific question about Emacs). Are there ways to ease such, or any other general, one-handed work in Ubuntu?
I have found https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2391805/how-can-i-remain-productive-with-one-hand-completely-immobilized but that is not exactly what I am asking for. I want to ease whatever little time spent one-handed in Ubuntu and this is also interesting for situations where there is no injury involved, such as when one hand is occupied. I do realize I should avoid unnecessary strain.
The main thing that is much slower one-handed is writing. Since I am only temporarily immobilized it seems to make no sense learn a new keyboard layout. I would be surprised if I managed to learn and become more effective with a new keyboard layout (than one-handed QWERTY) before I can use my other hand again.
What I have already found:
- Sticky keys for making it easier to enter keyboard commands.
- When writing one-handed there are more cases of where it is useful to paste in phrases rather than to reenter them.
- It is easier to use Super+S rather than CtrlAlt+arrow keys to switch work space.
How do I check whether a given file, such as an audio file, is DRM protected or not?
In Unity the user name is shown in the panel. Is is possible to make it so that it is not displayed? For example it would be nice if only the icon but not the user name were displayed.
In Oneiric gedit includes support for SyncTeX and Evince has supported it since 2.32 (Oneiric includes Evince 3.2.0). How do I use SyncTeX with gedit and Evince? I have compiled with the -synctex=1 option but nothing happens when I try to backward/inverse search by Ctrl+click on the document in Evince.
I have installed TeX Live 2011 vanilla and I have trouble setting the TeX Live path for root (in Ubuntu 11.10).
The problem is that when I run sudo tlmgr I get:
sudo: tlmgr: command not found
To fix the path for non-root it was sufficient to add
PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH
to /etc/profile.
I have tried adding this same line to /root/.bashrc and I have also tried to add it to /etc/profile.d/zzz-texlive.sh like Herbert suggest in https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/26624/tlmgr-inaccessible/26626#26626 but it does not help.
I want to temporarily use Firefox in another languages so that menus and everything else in another language. How can I do that?
I have tried
firefox -no-remote -UILocale en-GB
but that still loads Firefox with my default locale (I have en-GB locale for Firefox installed).
I also found https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/565209 but I dunno if it's due to that.
In Chipaca's answer to Managing files and sync scenarios there's a screenshot with certain highlights. The highlights are the following:
- A row of a GUI list is highlighted by the other parts of the screenshot being darker.
- A check mark is highlighted by being circled by what looks like a (orange) crayon.
How do I create both of these highlights on a screenshot? Is there an automated process?
The screenshot I'm referring to looks like this:
There is a gedit plugin called Modelines and the plugin is described as
Emacs, Kate and Vim-style modelines support for gedit.
What are modelines? And how do they work in gedit?
It has been said that Firefox 6 will perform better than previous version because it compiles with a newer version of GCC, version 4.5, and aggressive optimization.
When I updated to Firefox 6 in Natty I read the changelog and wondered whether Firefox 6 really would perform better than previous version in Ubuntu because one item in the changelog read (the changelog can be read via apt-get changelog firefox):
Unconditionally build with
--disable-elf-hack. It's basically a noop on Ubuntu, as we don't get any of the nice space saving and startup time improvements that upstream builds get with it. Enabling it is problematic (it fails to build on all architectures in Ubuntu from Firefox 7 onwards, and is already problematic on armel when building on older Ubuntu versions)
What does this mean? Does it mean that Firefox 6 performance worse in Ubuntu than upstream?
How do I wipe the music database of Rhythmbox? I have imported lots of music into Rhythmbox. Now I want Rhythmbox to forget everything that I've imported.
I have got the directory /home/user/oldname and I want to rename it to /home/user/newname. How can I do this in a terminal?
How do I check if a partition is encrypted? In particular I would like to know how I check if /home and swap is encrypted.
In Is a 40GB SSD practical to use for ' / ' Jorge describes how he symlinks directories in his /home that would benefit from being on an SSD. The directories he names are
~/.cache~/.config~/.gconf
I know how to make the symlinks. What I am asking for is if this is a good list of directories in /home that benefits from being on an SSD? I figure that good items on such a list are files that are read often. The reason for asking this is that I cannot fit all of /home on the SSD but I still want to get as much performance out of the SSD as possible.
In Is a 40GB SSD practical to use for ' / ' Jorge describes how he symlinks things in his /home that would benefit from being on an SSD. How is this done?
I've figured that I need to do the following:
- Create a directory on the SSD to hold what I want to link from
/home, e.g.mkdir /var/jorge. - Move the things from
/homethat should be on the SSD, e.g.mv /home/jorge/.config /var/jorge. - Create the symlinks, e.g.
ln -s /var/jorge/.config /home/jorge/.config.
Is this the correct way to proceed? Do I need to do it from a live CD?
In Rhythmbox it's possible to disable compression for ReplayGain by unchecking a box in the settings of its ReplayGain plugin. The option is described like the following:
It provides configuration options for [...] enabling or disabling compression in order to prevent clipping.
I wonder if there is such an option in Banshee? I have checked in its menu and glanced under Banshee in the dconf-editor without finding anything.
The reason I'm asking is after reading the following in the ReplayGain specification:
The audiophile user will not want any compression or limiting on the signal. In this case the only option is to automatically and temporarily reduce the pre-amp gain below the user-selected setting for tracks where clipping would otherwise occur.
I'm looking for a way to keep a desktop and a laptop in sync. Something that I want to keep in sync are Gnote notes.
If it matters I can connect to my desktop from anywhere via an URL but my laptop is harder to access since it might be behind NAT and such.
How well does Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) support the processors of Intel's architecture Sandy Bridge and their Intel HD Graphics? Are there any problems with running 11.04 on Sandy Bridge?
Will Ubuntu 11.10 ship with TeX Live 2010 or 2011? It seems Debian will package TeX Live 2011 and TeX Live 2011 has now been released.
See also: needs-packaging request on launchpad.