Vivek's questions

There is no major difference in the php.ini files located at /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini and /etc/php5/cli/php.ini. But <?php phpinfo(); ?> when accessed from a browser says OpenSSL support enabled whereas php -info | grep openssl executed in a terminal gives OpenSSL support => disabled (install ext/openssl).

I have the latest versions of libssl-dev and openssl installed. How to enable OpenSSL for cli version?

I am not able to create a simple symlink here. When I tried the command

sudo ln –s /home/vivek/Downloads/drush/drush /home/vivek/Documents/

where drush is a file inside the folder named drush, I get the following error,

ln: accessing `–s': No such file or directory

Then I tried giving the filename in the target path,

sudo ln –s /home/vivek/Downloads/drush/drush /home/vivek/Documents/drush

for which I got this,

ln: target `/home/vivek/Documents/drush' is not a directory

I even tried getting into the target directory (i.e. /home/vivek/Documents) and typed the following command

sudo ln –s /home/vivek/Downloads/drush/drush

But still got the same error message as follows

ln: accessing `–s': No such file or directory

What am I doing wrong here? Why is it expecting a target directory while I am only trying to create a symlink for a file?

I have firefox version 11.0 and am running ubuntu 11.10. Firefox takes upto 850MB RAM with only six or seven tabs opened and all the tabs loaded with light weight websites only. I wonder why would a browser consume so much memory. It keeps increasing its memory consumption over time. I have 3GB RAM and most of the times firefox consumes upto 30% of my memory. How do I fix this?

EDIT:

The output of the command sudo iotop -oPa as asked by @Jippie

Is there any simple way to find the fps of a video in ubuntu? In windows I use Gspot to find out all the information about a video file. But in ubuntu I find it very difficult to find out this basic information. Any help is appreciated.

I am running ubuntu 11.10 , GNOME Shell. After some amount of memory consumption, my Ubuntu starts displaying stripes all over my desktop and also in the native application windows like empathy, nautilus etc.

My system information is as follows,

Memory: 2.9 GB
Processor: Intel Pentium Dual-core CPU E5200 @ 2.5 GHz
Graphics:  Intel® G33 x86/MMX/SSE2 

Screen shots:

Any help is appreciated.

I have Ubuntu 11.10 running gnome-shell. The font on the top panel is fuzzy as shown below.

The font displayed in applications is clear. How to have clear font in the top panel?

I am using gnome-shell in Ubuntu 11.10. I am getting annoyed when dash search lists Recent Items. I have tried many ways to prevent it like

• Deleting activity.sqlite and activity.sqlite-journal files under ~/.local/share/zeitgeist

• Adding all the possible entries in Activity Log Manager to prevent application logging

• Specifying time range in Activity Log Manager to forget my activities.

But none of the methods are working. The recent items list is still populated.

Is there any way to tell dash not to list Recent Items while searching, other than the above methods? Or is there any way to delete the recent items list?

I am running Gnome Shell and I do not like Zeitgeist indexing all my files. This makes the overview search in gnome-shell very slow. I do not want the overview to search recent files, so I installed activity log manager to prevent zeitgeist's logging activity. I configured the log manager as below.

But even after adding every folder, the files keep appearing in the overview under Recent Items. Is there any other software or tweak which will instruct zeitgeist to search only applications installed in my system and not my recent files.

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Are there Unity-like quicklists for GNOME?

I had a lot of quicklists configured in my Unity. But I do not know how to add quicklist to an application in GNOME shell.

For example, I need an "Enter Private Browsing" option under Firefox and "Enter Incognito Mode" shortcut under Chromium Browser.

Any help is appreciated.

In Unity, the Update Manager was included in the power cog menu along with log out, suspend, shut down etc. But in GNOME Shell, I do not find such an option. Is there any extension or tweak to make Update Manager appear in that menu?

I have Ubuntu 11.10 installed and am using GNOME 3.2. I am left with no other option than to restart gdm or to reboot the system, when GNOME freezes.

GNOME freezes at times when resuming from suspend and every time I search in the dashboard, inspite of having GNOME 3.2 compatible theme installed.

Is there any option to restart shell from tty? Or is there any other solution to recover from the freeze?

I have a strange problem. I installed flash and video download add-on for my firefox browser and I see a bunch of icons in my navigation toolbar. I am not able to remove those bunch of icons by customize option. I disabled the add-on and finally uninstalled it completely, but still I have the bunch of icons placed in my navigation bar. I have a screenshot of it as below.

Any suggestions on how to get it removed is appreciated.

I have Ubuntu 11.10 and Firefox 7.0.1

I have Ubuntu 11.10 and I don't see My Computer option in Nautilus. I want this option so that I can view the disk statistics.

Is there any other way to list all mounted devices and their respective free spaces within Nautilus? Because I find it very hard to go to properties every time or use a disk analyser which takes loads of time or a screenlet which takes up memory. Is there any other simple solution?

Suspend and Hibernate was not working in my Ubuntu 11.04 and I followed these instructions to fix the issue by installing uswsusp.

The commands s2ram and s2disk were working fine for me and hence I replaced the contents of hal-system-power-suspend-linux and hal-system-power-hibernate-linux as directed in the above link.

Now after my upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10, I am unable to hibernate my system. How to rectify this issue? Is there any config file which I need to change for hibernate to function properly?

I am in the process of cleaning up my system. And I see a lot of space occupied by this folder /var/cache/apt/archives (1.5GB). Is it absolutely necessary to keep all these archives?

I have installed DivX player using wine in my ubuntu. I would like to invoke the player from terminal. Is it possible? If yes, how?

Thanks in advance.

I have installed DivX Player (version 6.6) using Wine in my ubuntu 11.10. Is there any way to make it a default player to play certain video formats ?

Thanks in advance.