I use a USB drive to play music in my car. Unfortunately, the car does not sort the music alphabetically and relies on how the music is sorted on the FAT32 drive.
This Windows software here solves the problem. Anything comparable available for me on Ubuntu?
PS: at first I thought it was a file creation date problem askubuntu question. But although I figured out the answer to that question, it didn't solve the problem like I thought it would.
I've got a USB drive with mp3 music on it that I play in my car. My car has a USB drive port. Problem is that the car sorts the music by Creation/Modification Date (and not alphabetically). This makes it a pain to find what artist I'm looking for.
To solve this problem, I need a way to "update" the Creation/Modification Date for all folders on the USB drive every time I add a new folder of music to the USB drive. Anyone know how I can do this?
The Touch command works great, but the format touch <filename> would take forever to do on each folder on the drive. Anyway to select all folders on the drive and then touch <all folders>?
On my USB drive I have a folder for each album and the songs within each respective folder, like so: Album-1-folder Album-2-folder
I need to apply the Touch command to each of the "album" folders on the drive.
I stumbled upon a simple solution to solve this issue:touch /media/USB_Drive/*
If I use dconf-editor to change the way permissions display (how to change permissions appearance in 12.04) and then bring up the file/folder properties of something in nautilus (e.g., right-click a folder and select properties > permissions), sometimes the boxes for permissions under the Permissions-Tab have dashes in them, like so:
What do the dashes mean? I was expecting a checkmark/no-checkmark to signify enabled/disabled. But dashes?
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They also do not appear to be an instance of "Mixed States." For example, here is a screenshot of a folder that has one solitary file in it. Note the dashes under File Permissions:
Here is a screenshot of the file persmissions of that solitary file:
Why is a folder with just one file in it showing the dashes if dashes mean mixed content?
I find the default display of "Permissions" in nautilus (when viewing properties of a folder/file) difficult to use.
To solve this, I always used gconf-editor in 10.04 to change to the following:
gconf-editor: apps > nautilus > preferences > show_advanced_permissions
How can I get permissions to look like above in 12.04? The gconf-editor setting is not listed under nautilus in 12.04. Has it been moved?
Canonical Limited is shown as a licensee of H.264. I am interested in being able to play H.264 video online when using the Chrome web-browser in Ubuntu (and in the future on Firefox when Firefox supports H.264).
Is H.264 support enabled on self-installs of Ubuntu? If not, is there some way I can buy H.264 support for my Ubuntu install? Assume a scenario where I self-installed Ubuntu on a computer that came pre-installed with Windows OS. I'd like to know any and all options available to me for getting H.264 to work on Ubuntu.
The date on my computer currently displays as "Fri Feb 24" and the System Settings give no options for changing the date format.
I need the date to display as "Fri 24 Feb" followed by 24-hour-time.
Could someone help me out to configure "Fri 24 Feb" and then the time in 24-hour? Is there a way to get this time & date format to be default EVERYWHERE in Ubuntu (e.g., in Terminal & Nautilus)?
Windows 7 has a concept they call "Libraries." It's a folder that links to other folders. The "libraried" folder will display the contents of all the folders it links to. So if folder-A contains video of Jimmy's October Soccer games and folder-B contains video of Jimmy's November Soccer games, I can link folder-A and folder-B to the Library-folder and view thumbnails of all the October & November videos in one folder.
I find this useful and was wondering if it's possible to configure a similar thing in Ubuntu? It seems like I should be able to use mount to pull this off somehow but I don't know how.
Above is a screenshot showing an enabled PPA from the ayatana-scrollbar-team. There are two entries, one with a "(Source Code)" label and one without.
If installing ubuntu on a computer where the user is not very knowledgeable about computers, is there any advantage in unticking the "(Source Code)" entry? For example, will it shorten the time needed for "sudo apt-get update" to complete?
How is the "(Source Code)" repo used? Does it have a purpose on machines used by people who don't even know how to read source code? I'd like to know if I should just keep it enabled or whether I would lose/gain anything by disabling it.
I have purposely installed two plugins into Firefox: Flash Player & Gecko-mediaplayer (I installed gecko-mediaplayer solely so I could get the Windows Media Player Plug-in). Every single other plugin listed in my Firefox plugins page is unused/unneeded. Several of the plugins list "Gecko Media Player" underneath them. Yet I installed gecko-mediaplayer only to get the "Windows Media Player Plug-in". Is it possible to uninstall all of the following plugins except for "Shockwave Flash" and "Windows Media Player Plug-in"? How do I do it?
using Ubuntu Software Center in 11.10 seems to be impossible to reload. For example, when I go to Software Sources and activate the Universe repo, USC does not automatically reload and so activate the Universe Repo. And I can find no "Reload" button as exists in synaptic. But on a clean install I can't install synaptic because I can't get the Universe repo activated cause I don't know how to get USC to reload.
I wish synaptic was kept in the Main repo.
In Natty, I really enjoyed the "Blue Highlight" feature as detailed in this great askubuntu question: When do things in the new Unity Panel turn blue?
In Oneiric I notice that the upper left corner is no longer the default launch point for the launcher. Also with the absence of the BFB there is no obvious way of alerting to application notices.
I haven't noticed any "Blue" notices in Oneiric beta. I assumed the Session-Indicator would turn blue when updates are available because there is now an update link in the menu. But no joy. And the volume indicator does not turn blue when its muted and music is playing.
Is this because it's beta? I'm hoping the "blue" feature hasn't been dropped. It was great!
A star sometimes appears next to things in the Synaptic list. What is the star there for? What is it telling me?
Is there a GNOME application with a GUI that enables one to verify a PGP signature, something equivalent to Kleopatra for KDE?
In Software Sources under the Other Software tab, there is an option of enabling "Canonical Partners" repository: software packaged by Canonical for their partners.
Do I understand correctly that this repo includes third-party created applications that by arrangement are packaged and maintained by Canonical?
Does this mean Canonical can look at the source code of these third-party applications and hence ensure the security and stability of these apps in Ubuntu, making them as secure & stable as the software in the Main repo?
For security reasons I want to remove/uninstall all instances of Java from my computer and prevent it from being installed again. On Windows computers I would simply just not install the software found at this webpage: http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
But on Ubuntu I've noticed that Java seems to have gotten installed on my system without my explicitly doing it and it shows in several ways, e.g., through plugins, etc.
What Java software on ubuntu is the equivalent of having installed the software at http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp on Windows? Will uninstalling one "Java-named app" uninstall everything Java related on my computer?
How do I blacklist Java so that it isn't installed again?