So ARandR is great for setting up my monitor layout in Lubuntu 12.10 but even if I save the layout to the
~/.screenlayout
it doesn't seem to save that layout no matter what I call the file.
So I am running Lubuntu 12.10 and I just switched my windows manager to xfwm4 following the instructions here:
Is there a lightweight way to snap windows in Lubuntu?
I was wondering, how do I add xfwm4-settings to the preferences panel?
I found this page: http://www.h-bomb.nl/2012/08/10/xfwm4-window-manager-lubuntu/
that showed how to add the Windows Manager Tweaks preference box but I'm still not sure how to add the settings preference.
The Temperature Monitor in lxpanel (I'm using Lubuntu 12.10) is automatically detecting one of my sensors but I would like to give it an alternate one.
Here is the output of sensors:
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +26.8°C (crit = +100.0°C)
temp2: +0.0°C (crit = +100.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +58.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +90.0°C)
Core 2: +55.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +90.0°C)
It looks like the Temperature Monitor is picking up temp1 automatically but I would like to set it to Core 0 or Core 2. It has a string for "Sensor" but I'm not sure what that would be.
I've tried "Core 0", "coretemp-isa-0000" and "/sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/temp2_input" but none seem to work.
Any thoughts?
On Ubuntu 12.04 I've noticed that aptd sometimes uses 100% of a CPU and tends to slow down my whole laptop. I wasn't installing any packages so I'm assuming that this is the automatic update check.
Is there a way to schedule aptd to only check for updates at certain times?
I checked the crontab for root but down't see anything in there.
Thanks in advance.
So for some strange reason today anything I print in OpenOffice Calc comes out in Landscape mode.
I have tried the following:
- Set the print job from OO Calc to portrait (prints out in landscape)
- Tried opening a brand new file which by default is set to portrait (prints out in landscape)
- Setting the default printer job orientation to portrait (prints out in landscape)
- Print from gedit in portrait mode (prints out in portrait)
Not sure what else to try. Any ideas?
So I have a Logitech Webcam Pro 9000 under 10.04 and I am trying to get it to work with Motion.
Here is the lsbusb output:
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 046d:0809 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 15a9:0004
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 058f:6362 Alcor Micro Corp. Hi-Speed 21-in-1 Flash Card Reader/Writer (Internal/External)
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1058:0910 Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
When I run Motion as user "motion" it doesn't work and I keep getting a Failed to open video device /dev/video0 error. However, when I run it as root, there is no problem and everything works fine.
I have a laptop running the same setup for motion and everything seems to work fine e.g. all the permissions on the files and the device are the same.
Any thoughts?
So I just installed Skype and I'm using the Ambiance theme that comes with Ubuntu 10.10.
It looks like the font color for the text in the Skype panel is the same as the background color for panels in the Ambiance theme.
Is there any way to change the font color in the panel JUST for Skype?
I did a:
find . -name "skype"
and checked some of the conf files but didn't see anything related to text color.
So my kern.log and syslog files filled up with tons of the below messages:
[514971.000109] phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for offset 0x30c4 with error -108
I was curious as to the steps to take, commands to run, places to look to help diagnose this issue (and curious as to what caused it)?
I'm guessing it's something USB elated. I had some issues with my printer earlier today so this might be related.
I have an external USB HDD IDE enclosure that I use to back up and then wipe old hard drives.
My questions is:
How do I prevent Ubuntu Server from auto mounting these drives?
Most of the instructions I've seen online refer to turning off auto mounting for Desktop installs.
EDIT:
To clarify, I am plugging in the usb enclosure AFTER the machine is running. I don't want it to auto mount when I plug in and turn on the power to the external enclosure.
Here is my issue:
I have an old 1.6 GB hard drive that has been sitting in the basement for a while. It actually booted up with Windows 95/98 and the when I explored the hard drive it looked like data was still there.
I took out the hard drive and put it in an external hd enclosure and hooked it up to my laptop running 10.04. If I do a:
sudo fdisk -l
The drive doesn't show up. I checked in the Disk Utility and the drive is there but it says it has no partition. I'm pretty sure that it does (as I could see the data when it was still in the pc downstairs).
Any thoughts suggestions on how to get the drive to mount correctly? All I really need is to get some files off of the drive.
UPDATE:
So I'm trying out TestDisk. It appears that there is a read error on just about every cylinder that it's testing though.
I recently purchased one of the Kodak Playsport cameras which takes 720p video @ 60 frames per second.
The video quality is great but the files are rather large for uploading to Youtube (about 150 Megs per minute of video). The files are output as Quicktime MOV files.
My question is:
Is there a command-line tool that allows me to shrink the video down to a lower resolution/size for quicker uploading? I'm thinking something like ImageMagick's convert but for video.