Luiz Rodrigo's questions

Tomorrow I'm going to do a clean install of Ubuntu 12.10, since I've been playing with some internals and now my system is quite messy. Everything is prepared, my files backed up and I've already made a list with the programs I'm going to need, etc. But there's still one thing missing: my torrents.

I use Transmission and, like everyone should, I like to keep my seeding my files after download. I've set Transmission to delete the .torrent files after I start to download. I actually don't know if the torrents' data is stored at the home directory or not.

1) Is it stored on the home folder? (If it is, it's not going to be a problem since I use a separate partition for the home folder)

2) If it's not, is there a way to backup the torrents' info, so I can continue seeding after my clean install?

There's a time I'm wanting to enable MSN with empathy (as you can see on my other question Connecting Empathy to Windows Live) but I always get problems with dependencies while installing packages. For instance, I want to install the package telepathy-haze, but it depends on the package libpurple0. Ok, but when I try to sudo apt-get install libpurple0 it says I got unmet dependencies: it depends upon libgstfarsight0.10-0 (>= 0.0.3), libperl5.12 (>= 5.12.4), and perlapi-5.12.4, all of them cannot be installed. When I search for these packages at http://packages.ubuntu.com, I can only find them as Oneiric packages, not as Precise. How can I install packages from older releases, such as Oneiric, and solve this kind of problem?

I've just upgraded to 12.04 (coming from 11.10). In 11.10 Windows Live accounts worked perfectly (I suppose Empathy was 3.2.*), but now in 12.04, it's 3.4.1 and the account I had was lost. It doesn't seem to have an option to add new Windows Live accounts, though. Here's what Empathy's option window looks like:

So, did I forget to install anything, or do I need some kind of workaround? Or even, how can I downgrade back to Empathy 3.2.* if it's the only way to make this work?

Is it possible to change the colors in the command prompt for the user@computer, as well as the the current directory and command parts of the prompt display?

I've already seen something like this done by OSX users, but I don't know how to do the same thing in gnome terminal (I can only change foreground and background colors).

It'd be very useful when, for example, trying to compile programs that have errors, since long, unformatted messages make it hard to distinguish which lines are commands and which are output.

Not much time after I installed my ubuntu, I installed ubuntu tweak and added shortcut keys for the applications I used most.

However, I wanted to remove a shortcut key and was not able to (the last one). At least, I couldn't figure out a way to do that. I want to reconfigure them using ubuntu's keyboard tool, so I don't mind if I have to delete all shortcut keys from ubuntu tweak. Does anyone know how to do that?

I use Ubuntu 11.10 and have three partitions, one ext4 for the root directory, one ext4 for the /home and one for swap.

I need to release disk space so I can increase swap space, and create a new partition for a Windows installation (meh, but it's a need for work stuff like visual studio).

So I was thinking about resizing the /home partition (taking off 50Gbs of about 60Gb free it has) but I'm kinda afraid of things going wrong and losing /home data in this operation.

So, what things should I do to increase safety? (I'm not in conditions to make a proper backup right now).

I've downloaded some updates for Ubuntu 11.10 and, after I restarted my computer to the changes take effect, I've realized that the Unity interface was not working properly. The left panel (where the apps stay), and the top bar was also not appearing. I've restarted my computer again but the things stood the way they were.

Well, then I tried to force Unity to run via terminal, but when I try unityor unity --reset, the first message that appears is "unity-panel-service: process not found". When I type unity-panel-service on terminal, it also says it is not found.

Then I searched about it on the web and got this page (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/oneiric/man1/unity-panel-service.1.html) which says that unity panel service is the process responsible for loading the panels that are missing.

So, my question is, how can I re-download or reinstall it so unity can work again? Or, of course, if I'm wrong and the reason unity is not working is not that, please tell me :)