Is there a way to subscribe to messaging menu events? Specifically, I'm looking for a signal (over DBus?) that is fired when the online presence status changes in the messaging menu
I need suggestions. Currently fogger creates .desktop files for fogapps and puts them in ~/.local/share/applications so that they can be launched from dash or legacy app menus. Everything works as expected but these application shortcuts remain lying around after fogger is removed by the user thus cluttering the applications lens with useless entries. I've a couple of solutions in mind.
Ship fogger with a postremoval script which finds all fogapp .desktop files for every user and removes or disables them (Hidded attribute) and a preinstall script which again finds already present apps and enables thems. This should be straight forward but I'm not sure if it is considered a sane practice for deb files to mess with users' home directories.
Second solution is to keep all the .desktop files hidden by default and ship fogger with a special lens for launching fogapps. The draw back here is that fogapps will not be shown in legacy menus or launchers other than dash like synapse. Also, only 2 days are left to implement this and fix/improve/add other features.
If I have had two partition on my laptop ever since I use Linux. One for root and another for home.
What does ubiquity do if I ask it to replace previous installation of Ubuntu with a new one? Will it install everything to / (root) or will it respect my partition scheme and take home partition as /home?
I recently got a Sony Bravia HD TV but can't connect it to my Ubuntu laptop. I've a Dell with Intel GM965 Graphics. When I connect to the TV using an HDMI cable, it says:
Unsupported signal, check device output.
It is detected by Ubuntu just fine. I tried with different resolutions in the display settings but couldn't get it to work. Also, I couldn't find settings for refresh rate (I'm on 11.10).
The TV/Cable is fine as PS3 works perfectly well.
How are the packages vim-gtk and vim-gnome different from each other? I've tried both and the resulting Gvim feels the same (to me). If there is no difference, why are both packages maintained?
I want to create a new user to run a service on the system but don't want to have /home and other configuration files for it. Like there is a user for postgres but it doesn't have any /home directory.
I have a TATA Photon+ (Huawei EC1260) mobile broadband device and am unable to establish a connection either using wvdial or the network manager.
Here is my wvdial.conf
[Dialer Defaults]
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
stupid Mode = 1
Modem Type = Analog Modem
ISDN = 0
Phone = #777
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
Username = internet
Password = internet
Baud = 9600
and here some info from /var/log/messages
Sep 30 15:45:27 owais-laptop kernel: [ 3130.499111] usb 6-1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB2
Sep 30 15:45:27 owais-laptop kernel: [ 3130.509143] scsi44 : usb-storage 6-1:1.3
Sep 30 15:45:28 owais-laptop kernel: [ 3131.517057] scsi 44:0:0:0: CD-ROM HUAWEI Mass Storage 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
Sep 30 15:45:28 owais-laptop kernel: [ 3131.519980] scsi 44:0:0:1: Direct-Access HUAWEI SD Storage 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Sep 30 15:45:28 owais-laptop usb_modeswitch: switched to 12d1:140b (HUAÿWEI TECHNOLOGIES: HUAWEI Mobile)
Sep 30 15:45:28 owais-laptop kernel: [ 3131.548883] sr1: scsi-1 drive
Sep 30 15:45:28 owais-laptop kernel: [ 3131.549148] sr 44:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5
Sep 30 15:45:28 owais-laptop kernel: [ 3131.550627] sd 44:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
Sep 30 15:45:28 owais-laptop kernel: [ 3131.591897] sd 44:0:0:1: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
Sep 30 15:47:31 owais-laptop pppd[22151]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0
Sep 30 15:47:31 owais-laptop pppd[22151]: Using interface ppp0
Sep 30 15:47:31 owais-laptop pppd[22151]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyUSB0
Sep 30 15:48:01 owais-laptop pppd[22151]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Sep 30 15:48:01 owais-laptop pppd[22151]: Connection terminated.
Sep 30 15:48:01 owais-laptop pppd[22151]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean:
Sep 30 15:48:01 owais-laptop pppd[22151]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
Sep 30 15:48:01 owais-laptop pppd[22151]: Modem hangup
Sep 30 15:48:01 owais-laptop pppd[22151]: Exit.
Is this a network problem or device problem?
My terminal is all black and white. :P No colours. Terminal output is highlighted by different colours to represent data. Like if we do ls, folder and files have separate colour but my terminal shows only one colour.
I'm on Ubuntu 10.10 using gnome-terminal
Installed Ubuntu on my friends laptop. Notifications are showing in the old style, the stock gnome support. notify-osd is installed.
Any help?
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How to troubleshoot Ubuntu One in Maverick beta?
Ubuntu One does not sync my files. It always keeps saying that I'm out of space. Well, I have no files, 1 contact and 8 notes on the server. Nothing Else.
I'm facing a weird problem. My mouse automatically focuses on menu items.
I'm unable to navigate menus with keyboard if the cursor rests on a menu item as it keeps stealing focus. I can live with this behaviour in regular apps but it won't let me play any full-screen games as the cursor remains locked in a fixed position.
I tried turning off compiz and removing all the dotfiles but it didn't help.
Here is a video my mouse stealing focus: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/275756/mouse.ogv
I was trying to resize my EXT4 partition and something went wrong. I lost it. The space in once consumed is now being represented as Unallocated. How do I recover the partition?
at college we use Microsoft .NET for developing applications. I recently switched to Ubuntu and would like to know similar tools for making apps on/for ubuntu.