I have a whole folder of photos I want to look at as thumbnails, and I'd like to do it by calling one of GNOME's native thumbnailers individually, namely totem-video-thumbnailer or evince-thumbnailer, and piping them through a backend (I hear gstreamer is possible, but anything that allows me to manually call forth a whole foldersworth of thumbnails from the command line will do).
Whenever I am typing in Arabic, the cursor skips to the beginning of the line because if it were written from left to right, that would be where I last typed.
How can I fix that?
Whenever you want to open a file with a program that's not in the right-click shortlist, you click 'use a custom command.' However, the way that's worded led me to believe that it may be possible to treat the file as if it were $@, command line input.
What I want to be able to do is add the custom command 'cp (clickedfile) /my/directory'...
However, the custom command 'cp $@ /my/directory' did not work.
I just want to copy and paste the bit of text that describes the panel in my other user account. Which textfile can I paste that into?
Basically, I want the new user to have only a few permissions -- can't read the normal users' home directories, can only read or write files to one directory (can only read or write /home/user/... can not read or write /home/me/ or read or write /home/someoneelse/. That's a common setup for schools and universities which run Windows networks. It seems like it should be simple in Ubuntu.
I tend to download lots of articles as PDFs, and I find that when I browse a directory of these Nautilus takes 1 minute to load the directory. I assume that's because it's generating previews of their front pages. That feature is useless to me, alas.
I'd like to tell it not to do that.
I have two related questions, both probably (but not necessarily preferentially) accepting the same answer :
I use Universe with kubuntu but have Debian Lenny running with gnome installed separately, so anything on kde or gnome would work
I occasionally clobber whatever I had already copied to the clipboard. It would rock to just be able to keep all of my clipboard history right in front of me.