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I just installed Ubuntu MATE 16.04, and I've noticed that when I hover my cursor over a window button in the window list at the bottom of the screen, a little preview of the window will appear. I'd like to get rid of that preview, if at all possible.

I've noticed that this preview only appears when I'm using Compiz, but I cannot find any option to disable the preview anywhere in the CompizConfig Settings Manager, MATE Tweak, or the applet settings itself. I'm completely stumped here. How do I get rid of this window preview?

I have a NAS device on my network. I can access the device by clicking the Network button on the left sidebar of Nautilus and selecting the device and share folder from there. I can also bookmark the share folder and access it directly from the Unity bar by right clicking the Nautilus icon and clicking the share.

That's all well and good, but I would like the network share to appear in the Unity bar as an icon, just like physically connected (HDDs, USB drives, CD/DVDs, etc.) devices do. Is there any way to do this on Ubuntu 16.04?

To preface my question, I already know about this question, but it doesn't have any answers (plus it's for an older version), so I'm opening this one, because this is becoming a pretty big issue for me.

I have 2 applications on Ubuntu MATE 15.04 that I want to remove; Firefox and apport. However, when I issue sudo apt-get remove firefox or sudo apt-get remove apport, I get the following:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  apport apport-gtk ubuntu-mate-desktop
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 994 kB disk space will be freed.

Of course, I don't want to remove ubuntu-mate-desktop, no matter how small it is, but I want to get rid of both apport and Firefox. It's possible that this is an issue with other software that I just haven't seen yet, but these two are the culprits I've seen.

My question boils down to this: how do I get rid of Firefox and apport without getting rid of ubuntu-mate-desktop? Thanks.

I have an application that requires the Java JRE. I decided to go ahead and install the JRE from the repositories. Normally, the only issue I would have with this is it taking forever and a day to download. However, this time, I get this...

ben@ben-Aspire-5250:~$ sudo apt-get install default-jre
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 default-jre : Depends: default-jre-headless (= 2:1.7-51) but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: openjdk-7-jre (>= 7~u3-2.1.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

When trying to install openjdk-7-jre-headless directly, I get this:

ben@ben-Aspire-5250:~$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-headless
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 openjdk-7-jre-headless : Depends: tzdata-java but it is not going to be installed
                          Depends: libnss3-1d (>= 3.12.9+ckbi-1.82-0ubuntu4) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I looked in Synaptic and tried to "fix broken packages", but Synaptic found nothing to do. When I try sudo apt-get -f install, I just get:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

What could be going wrong here?

It's worth noting that I changed all instances of us.archive.ubuntu.com to just archive.ubuntu.com, because the US servers were unstable when I installed. I haven't had any other troubles up until now.

I recently had to reinstall Xubuntu 14.04 after Windows wiped it out. After a mildly painful (mostly caused by the installer seeming a lot more confused than usual) installation process, I was up and running. Everything was doing just fine until I rebooted my computer. Now, my indicator applet looks like this:

I didn't change anything before this happened, other than install a few pieces of unrelated software (Chrome, Skype, Kdenlive, Komodo Edit and Hotot). I've had problems with the indicator applet before, but never to this extreme. Anyone have any advice?

Note: I've seen this question, but the answer did not help me.

I just upgraded to Kubuntu 14.04, and when I went to reconfigure KDM (because I'm not a fan of the current theme), I realized that there was no way to add more themes, and there were only two there. How can I install themes for KDM?

I've been using Ubuntu 13.10 for about a month now. I decided to give KDE a test run. Unfortunately, it installed the KDE login screen with it. I couldn't stand it, so I spent about half an hour trying to restore the original one.

Nothing worked, until I went in through Synaptic and removed most KDE packages installed. Bad idea. Now, when I boot the computer, I am greeted with a black screen. And by that, I mean the screen has turned off completely. I am able to navigate to a virtual terminal using CTRL+ALT+F1. Here's the interesting thing; When I go to TTY7, Plymouth is still running. I go to TTY8, and my screen turns off again.

Is there a way I can fix this and get the old login screen back, or is it time to start the preparations for a re-installation? Thanks!

I'm looking for a way to open a .py file with Python in a terminal every time a file is double-clicked in a GUI file manager, like in Windows. How would I go about doing this?

For Ubuntu 13.10

I'm looking for a way to stream to YouTube Live on my computer. I know there are various tools available for Windows, but I haven't found anything for Linux. I prefer not to use G+ Hangouts, but go right to actual streaming. Does anybody know of any tools for Linux that will stream to YouTube Live, or is there a Windows tool that works without any issues under WINE?

I have a question (duh, but anyways).

On my computer, I have 3 OSes installed; Windows 7, Ubuntu 12.10 and CrunchBang 11 (based on Debian). I've been having some trouble with CrunchBang, and frankly, I'm done messing around with distributions that don't work properly.

Originally, I had installed Zorin OS 6 (based off Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) alongside my Windows installation, with 2 GB swap. I later installed Ubuntu 12.10 alongside all three of those, on a 15 GB partition, for testing purposes. As time went on, I started liking Ubuntu 12.10 more and more, but my disk space was limiting me.

The way Ubuntu installed itself was kind of weird. Instead of tacking itself on the end of the hard drive, it was put in the middle, right in between Windows and Zorin OS.

Recently, I replaced Zorin OS with CrunchBang, having thought that it was a great OS based on my experiences with the Live USB, but I've had a lot of problems with it freezing and crashing a lot, and it's getting a bit old having to reboot multiple times just to get CrunchBang to work.

So what I want to do is expand my Ubuntu installation into CrunchBang's partition, essentially erasing CrunchBang and merging the two partitions. Can I do this without reinstalling Ubuntu or without a lot of rebooting, and would it be as simple as removing the CrunchBang partition and just expanding Ubuntu? Here's how my hard drive is laid out:

/dev/sda1 (Diagnostics, NTFS, 15.00 GB) is Windows recovery.

/dev/sda2 (Bootable, NTFS, 100 MB) is GRUB (I think?).

/dev/sda3 (NTFS, 198.56 GB) is Windows 7.

/dev/sda4 (Extended, covering a total of 84.43 GB) is the parent of the following Linux partitions:

/dev/sda7 (EXT4, 14.48 GB) is Ubuntu.

/dev/sda5 (EXT4, 68.22 GB) is CrunchBang.

/dev/sda6 (linux-swap, 1.73 GB) is swap space.

So to make my question a little more technical, can I just erase sda5 and resize sda7 to take up the space sda5 previously occupied?

Also, GRUB is currently controlled by CrunchBang. What would be the commands to transfer control of GRUB back over to Ubuntu?

Thanks in advance, Sil