One of the features of Ubuntu that I really like is the one that suggests packages to install if you try to run a program that isn't installed, like this:
$ nmap
The program 'nmap' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install nmap
Is that a fancy feature of Bash? An extra daemon that hides in the background? How does it do that?
I'm using 10.04 behind a KVM switch. The KVM is old and doesn't pass DDC through, so when the box boots up it just assumes I can't handle anything beyond 800x600. Apparently the xorg.conf is ignored, so I can't just hack monitor data directly into that. Is there a way to tell the box what my monitor is that will persist across reboots?