Is it possible to switch between headphones and speakers by software control? I'm disabled, and plugging and unplugging my headphones is rather difficult for me. I'd rather just press a button and find sound output switched to another output device, is this possible?
Is it possible to get Ubuntu to lock and unlock itself, if a particular USB stick is attached?
For example; I sit down at my laptop; I plug the USB stick in and the system unlocks and presents itself.
I take the USB stick out, and the system locks and cannot be unlocked without that particular USB stick.
Is there any way to do this, my friends?
In Windows; you have the C:\ drive. This is the primary drive upon which Windows is installed.
However, Linux uses a different naming scheme: sda, sdb[1-4], etc. Can anyone give me a brief outline of it so I might actually understand it instead of being confused by it?
I know that editing the boot options line and adding 'nomodeset' solves the problem of my laptop during LiveCD mode, what I don't know is how to set it at boot up through Grub2 after I've installed Ubuntu.
So, my question is; how do I set nomodeset before I boot into Ubuntu?
My laptop hates Nouveau, and to save me the bother of upgrading from 10.04 to 11.04 (as I did with 10.10) I was wondering if there was a way to modify an Ubuntu ISO to run on the nVidia drivers instead of having t to install them afterwards.
I don't really want to switch to Mint, as I do love Unity.
So, is there a way for me to get/create an ISO with the nVidia drivers already installed and active?
EDIT: LiveCD system won't boot with Nouveau, and installing through alternate or any other method results in Nouveau being activated after installation, leaving me with a black screen, aside from the cursor. Hence why I'm asking about getting the NVIDIA drivers up and running.
After seeing an article on Cheese 3.0 and it's new effects some months back, it was going to be one of the major highlights of 11.04 to me.
Sadly, I find 3.0 is not in the repo; it has been released, just not soon enough before the freeze.
So how do I install Cheese 3.0 in Ubuntu 11.04?
Since I upgraded from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04, my internet connection is as slow as hell. I have tested my other 10.10 machine and it is just as quick as the first one was.
What has happened? Why is the maximum download speed now 30kb/s instead of the 2.5mb/s I used to have?
I've got almost 20 processes for google chrome (whilst only having 4 tabs open, all with barebones HTML) , all hogging memory and either saying futex_wait_queue_me or poll_schedule_timeout.
My fan is going wild by all this and one of the processess is eating up my entire CPU, what is happening?
(Happens to Chromium too)
Just wondering; how do I bind .sh files to run when I press a particular key combination? (like Alt+S)
Thanks,
Dante
I recently got a backlit keyboard, and I LOVE to write late at night.
But I cannot for the life of me figure out how to light it up...It lights up when first plugged in, but nothing happens after that....
It is an 'XtremeIT' keyboard. There is a video of someone on Ubuntu who managed to activate it...
Just curious, because Google isn't coming up with anything and Ubuntu.com is hardly descriptive; but what is the difference between Ubuntu CD .iso and the DVD .iso? What's on the DVD that isn't on the CD?
Is it possible to have a USB drive function as a login token?
IE: I turn on my computer, plug the USB drive into my system and the system recognises it and logs me in? Likewise, logs me out should the drive be removed?
Thanks in advance :)
A while ago Spotify (the streaming music service) came out with a preview for Linux of their client.
So what should I do?
I'm a student right now, and later in life I'd like to get really involved in the Linux ecosystem. However I recognize the need to put bread on the table, so my question is:
How can I make money from Ubuntu/Linux?
The situation right now is that my College can offer me Windows Certification, or Apple Engineer certification; both of these do not enthrall me as I'd like to stick mostly to Linux.
What job types normally deal with it, what training/certification should I be looking for?
I'm a hobbyist musician; for quite a while, I used a program for Mac's called 'Logic Pro', apparently this is the industry standard application for music creation. (Indeed, at my College if you don't have it at home you can't do any music courses)
So, is there anything like it for Ubuntu?
Please please PLEASE don't say "Audacity"; Logic Pro does so much more then edit audio (for example, I can quite easily create entire songs, minus the lyrics, by selecting instruments and their notes.) and Audacity is...well...laughable in comparison.
Just wondering, are there any projects like WINE, but for Mac software? That is, can we use a program that acts like a compatibility layer to run Mac apps?
In Ubuntu, formatting drives is a simple process: simply select it and tell Ubuntu what you want done with it.
My question is; is there any tool as easy as that for Kubuntu?
Is there any simple (IE: right click in Nautilus) way to password protect a particular folder/file in Ubuntu? I've got a few files containing sensitive info and I'd much prefer that if/when I leave my computer alone, they aren't accidentally accessed by someone else.
The secruty does not have to be extremely tight. My only concern is that when family/friends come over, I don't really like the idea of them looking at my bank details, accounts or, you guessed it, porn collection.
A simple, effective way to let me put my machine in the hands of someone else knowing that said machine can not cause me embarresment is the sole reason why I'd like to see this in Ubuntu.
Whilst I like the MeMenu, one thing has always bothered me about it; rather then use my actual name, it uses my username.
So, is there anyway to change this?
I have an upstairs and downstairs computer; I'd love to know how to create a shared folder between the two (through a wireless network)
I'd also love to know if there is any way to get my upstairs computer to send a file to my downstairs computer (which has the printer) and get it to print, through a wireless network.