I don't really enjoy Evince, and I use Okular for my pdf needs.
Okular is nice, but when I open a document with it, it's not added to my recent documents, nor appear in the fast dash file search (it does appear after a while when the locate search is activated).
I expect Okular to register his things with Nepomuk instead of Zeitgeist.
Is it possible to get either Okular or Nepomuk give that info to Zeitgeist?
Oneric comes with Glade 3.10 by default, and I need to install the older version. Is there any PPA, or some nice way to install it short of download the natty deb, pray that it works and pin it in synaptic?.
Some background: Glade 3.10 has dropped support of Gtk2.GUIs developed with Glade 3.10 don't work on older Linux distros and they can't be used with pygtk. I'm need my gtk programs to support 10.04.
I have a big mp3 file which comes from ripping a full CD. I would like to split it into one file per song. It will be great to find a software that can split the file automatically, detecting the start and the end of each song.
Extra background:
I have tried mp3splt and audacity. The first one fails to autodetect the songs and audacity seems to be unable to do it.
I would like to burn the songs to a CD (mp3 format) to play then in my car radio. It will not support any fancy stuff, it doesn't even have an USB connector.
I have a computer that has no monitor attached to it.
When I boot the system, X fails to start because there is no monitor detected. If I boot it with a monitor attached and after X has started, when I remove the monitor everything works fine.
Details and Background:
This computer is a kind of hardware consolidation server. It's only purpose is to run two Virtual Box VM's that run Windows XP and some important but seldom used (once or twice a month) programs. For a couple of time it has been lying in a corner with an old monitor attached to it and working great.
But space in the office was getting scarce and I moved the computer to the server room. There is no monitor attached to it there (no space), and sometimes the computer is rebooted. When it boots without monitor X is not started, the vms doesn't start and I get called to solve the problem.
I love fish. I have a nice Ubuntu 8.04 Server running some services. So I edited the /etc/passwd file, as I did in the past, to change my default shell from bash to fish. And ,yes, I made I typo (BTW: I know about chsh, I'm just that stupid and overconfident). Please, stop laughing.
As expected, now I can't login. Is it possible log in without restarting the server?. I know that I can restart the server in safe mode and solve the mess, but I'd like to avoid it.
Oh yeah, I have no other user with sudo rights in that server. Stop laughing again.
BTW, I made the mess using ssh, but I have easy physical access to the server, it's just a couple of rooms away.
I want to move Zeitgeist data for a user from one computer to another. He uses Gnome Activity Journal, and it would be nice to move his history.
There is not much more to say. I'd like to be able to see my gmail contacts in the contacts section of Evolution. I'm going to change them only from gmail, so a read-only solution will work.
What I really want is to be able to access my Android phone-book (stored on gmail) without retrieving my cellular from my pockets. Yes, I'm that lazy.
Hplip is the software that drives most hp printers. Usually new printers are only supported in newer versions of the software. Canonical doesn't backport new versions packages to older Ubuntu versions, that means that newer drivers are not going to be available in the Software Center of older Ubuntu versions.
As an example yesterday I needed to hook a hp 1005p to a computer running 8.04. I was forced to install a newer hplip than the version available in the repositories. I installed it using the script from the hp page, but I'd like to know other alternatives.
Which is the best (technically, not the easiest) way to install it and why?.
If you use skype with the default 10.04 theme you can't read any menu because the font and background colours are too similar.
I need to boot Ubuntu in a computer (computer A) with no CD. I have a 16 Gb pendrive with a live Ubuntu version. The pendrive works in at least two newer computers. Computer A boots from a 2Gb pendrive right. So it's likely a BIOS issue.
But it's quite inconvenient to always carry two pendrives, how can I made the older computer boot from the bigger drive?.
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