Ok, been using Gnome in 18.04, but I wanted some of that good old Unity again. So, I installed Mate-desktop. It works ok until it does not work.
Sometimes when I log in, and especially after I log out and log back in I get double everything - two indicators, two menus, and two brisk-menus and two trash bins.
It is a terrible experience. How can this be prevented? I very much would like to use Mate.
Thanks!
So I have installed the GIMP snap, it works nicely. However, how do I get it to use gmic? Can I just point the plugin path to gmic, and where would that be?
I upgraded from 14.04.x to 16.04 (64 bit) over the weekend. OMGubuntu! just had a post about how notes could be installed as a snap.
Ctrl+Alt+T and then
sudo snap install notes
then enter my password..
sudo: snap: command not found
What is up? What am I missing? I don't want to miss out on this new snap fun.
Is there any open source tool for Ubuntu that could make a flash/HTML5 panoramic? I have made a few panoramas using Hugin, and I would love to be able navigate them from a browser. Pano2vr works nicely, however if there is an open source alternative I would love to use it.
Thank you for your time and answers.
I am having a little bit of trouble with one of my favourite pieces of open source software. I had installed Gscan2PDF (1.0.4) from the Software Centre on my 13.10 64bit machine (clean install from 13.04 & Back ups from Deja Dup). However, Gscan2PDF will not scan, I have to scan using simple scan then open the PDF to OCR it with Gscan2PDF. That is not ideal but not a deal breaker, the main issue for me is that when I select to OCR, Tesseract is not an option. I have made sure Tesseract-English is installed, but only GOCR & Cuneiform are the only options.
Please can anyone help me to get Gscan2PDF to working like it should?
Thank you for your time and answers.
I was wondering if it is possible to change the default size of the launcher during guest sessions? It is rather large, and a little bulky (opinion), and I was wondering if I could change it so every guest session would have a smaller (example 32px or whatever) launcher size? (Ubuntu 12.04 and newer)
Thank you for your time and ansers.
Is it possible to change the default applications that appear on the Launcher for guest sessions?
For example:
(Ubuntu 12.04 and newer).
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What kind of audio file types can the Ubuntu Touch play? I want to push some of my music over, but want to make sure it works first. Can it play .mp3 file types or would I be best converting them to .ogg?
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I could be getting a Nexus 7 soon (yay). And Tempted to take Ubuntu Unity (not touch, well later), for a spin on it. On the Ubuntu wikipage you can install 13.04 on it, which is great, but I am wondering how I could get 13.10 daily builds on the Nexus 7. If it is possible.
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Ok, so I have a digital photo frame that I have, and view my photos from a USB. Everything works fine, however, there is no way to display the pictures randomly. So, I have to watch my pictures in order, which is fine but not really what I want.
I am wondering if there is a way to have my .jpg pictures, that I view to be batch renamed, but renamed randomly? Be it adding random characters to the start of the name or replacing the characters before .jpg
Thank you for your time and answers.
Ok, just want to figure this out. I have Ubuntu 12.04.1 64 Bit, and have installed the Steam Beta which was only 32 bit. Now that is available in the software centre and now as 64 bit, I just want to find how how to get it. Will I have to remove/purge my Beta install, then install from the software centre? Or do I just do a software update and it will be updated? Figure this would be a good question to ask.
Thank you for your time and answers.
Ok... I tried GIMP 2.8, but felt more comfortable with 2.6. I removed the PPA's from Ubuntu Software Centre, removed and purged GIMP, and even rm the .gimp-2.8 folder. But when I go to install GIMP via terminal or the Software Centre I encounter this problem.
I know I should have known better, I had a VERY similar problem with 2.7. I tried those suggestions that worked for me last time, but I cannot get 2.6 back, see below for my error.
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit.
Thank you for your time and answers.
So I have tried out a couple daily builds and beta 1, and love HUD. However, currently LibreOffice does not play nice with HUD and I was wondering if there was a way to make it work with HUD. Kinda like the lo-menubar that applies the menu bar to the global menu, if there was means to get LibreOffice to work with HUD. Or might this question be too soon for an answer?
I am not clear on this. Does Zeitgeist index the contents of my document so searches are more relevant? Or is Zeitgeist only searching the name/extension of my documents?
A few months back when I buggered up my netbook and then booted into it to get information from it using a live USB. (Thinking that was 10.10)
When I was copy/pasting this to another USB at no time was I required to enter my user name or password to access this information. Why and how was that possible? Shouldn't that not be possible? This was information from the 'home' including documents, pictures, music, videos and some other locations.
This does not sound secure at all, is there any way that I can ensure this cannot happen again and that user name and password would be required to access information on my installed Ubuntu computer when booting on that computer from a live USB/CD/DVD?
I have screen saver as well. But with 11.10 the screen goes black/blank while banshee is playing (full screen now playing mode) and while watching movies in VLC. I did not have this issue in any prior ubuntu releases. how can I stop my screen from blanking out while watching movies or running banshee in now playing full screen mode?
thank you for your time and answers
Ok yesterday I tried google talk video for the first time. I am using Ubuntu 11.10, Google talk worked for me on my browser could see and hear both ways. However, when I tired google talk video on Empathy it did not. I would accept the call the new chat window would pop up but then disappear just as quick, the caller on the other end would see a message saying I ended the call. I had no chance to, and I accepted not declined. Also, when I tried to initiate the call it would not allow me to. As I understood things google talk was supported by empathy 'out of the box', any reason why empathy and google talk are not playing nice?
Thank you for your time and answers
PS. text chat works fine on empathy. and other user is using google talk via web browser
I installed epiphany 3.2 via ppa at webupd8.org to check out the webapp feature. tried it but its not for me. i removed the ppa in the software sources, and did remove --purge, but it is still there and installed. even after a log out. how can i remove epiphany 3.2 from ubuntu (11.10).
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Is it possible to "upgrade" from a 32bit to a 64bit installation?
I would like to know if it is possible to upgrade from 32 bit to 64 bit. Say currently I am using 11.04 32 bit, then come October could I upgrade to 11.10 64 bit? Not a fresh install, or separate install. It is possible? If not what would be the recommended way to go about this?
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I just found out that you can use VLC and VLVC to hold video conferences between 2-10 people, and that sounds amazing, hopefully removing the heavy lean on Skype.
Can anyone tell me how to set up VLVC for video conferencing? I can't seem to figure it out right now. I am sure it is easy, but I just seem to be stuck at the moment.