I am running Wine 1.6.2 for use with Evernote. Some of my notes have links in them and by default they are launched using the Wine version of IE. I'd rather use my native browser(s) Firefox or Chrome. How does one change it so that links are opened instead by my local browsers?
I have a couple of premade Win2k3 VMs that I need to use for some application testing that need to be run at the same time on the same machine. I'm running 13.04 Desktop and do this often with VirtualBox, whereby I run multiple instances at the same time.
I assumed that I could do the same with VMWare Player (I have version 6), but quickly noticed that by default it only allows me to run one instance.
Is there a way to run multiple guests at the same time from Player? I do have an eSXI server that I normally might use, but I need to be portable and it would be preferable to just have these run at the same time...
Am running Chromium on 13.04. For the last few days every morning I get a notification that says "Failure to download extra data files." The dialog box specifically indicates pepflashplugin-installer and has a prompt "run this action now."
If I run the action, no complaints. At some point, the dialog will return. If I run the the installer from the CLI, my system tells me that I already have the latest version.
I read elsewhere to try this:
sudo rm -f /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/flashplugin-installer.failed
This doesn't stop the notification from reappearing.
I've also tried, but the notification immediately reappears:
sudo apt-get --reinstall install flashplugin-installer
I want to create a Public folder that has full RW access. The problem with my configuration is that Windows users have no issues as guests (they can RW and Delete), my Ubuntu client can't do the same. We can only write and read, but not create or delete.
Here is the my smb.conf from my server:
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = FILESERVER
server string = TurnKey FileServer
os level = 20
security = user
map to guest = Bad Password
passdb backend = tdbsam
null passwords = yes
admin users = root
encrypt passwords = true
obey pam restrictions = yes
pam password change = yes
unix password sync = yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m '%u' -g users -G users
delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r '%u'
add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd '%g'
delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel '%g'
add user to group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -G '%g' '%u'
guest account = nobody
syslog = 0
log file = /var/log/samba/samba.log
max log size = 1000
wins support = yes
dns proxy = no
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
[homes]
comment = Home Directory
browseable = no
read only = no
valid users = %S
[storage]
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
browseable = yes
comment = Public Share
writeable = yes
public = yes
path = /srv/storage
The following FSTAB entry doesn't yield full R/W access to the share.
//192.168.0.5/storage /media/myname/TK-Public/ cifs rw 0 0
This doesn't work either
//192.168.0.5/storage /media/myname/TK-Public/ cifs rw,guest,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,noperm 0 0
Using the following location in Nemo/Nautilus w/o the Share being mounted does work:
smb://192.168.0.5/storage/
Extra info. I just noticed that if I copy a file to the share after mounting, my Ubuntu client immediately make "nobody" be the owner, and the group "no group" has read and write, with everyone else as read-only.
What am I doing wrong?
I'm looking for a GUI-based text/log viewer that will allow to only display lines that contain particular phrases/words/characters. The logs may not necessarily by OS related but from 3rd party applications.
I am running Firefox 15 on Ubuntu 12.04.
If I go to a website with a .deb link, Firefox downloads the file, then tries to open it with gedit. If I use Nautilus to open the .deb file, it runs it in either gdebi or Ubuntu Software Center (I've experimented with both).
Oddly, no matter what I've done I can't seem to get Firefox to believe that debs should not be opened by gedit. See below from my mimeapps.list. Also, there are no references to my .deb files in /usr/share/applications/defaults.list
My current 12.04 install is on a 750GiB SATA drive and I would like to smaller 480GiB SSD. I only have about 250GiB in use right now, along with an 8 GiB swap partition.
I regularly use Clonezilla, but understand that I would need to shrink my current drive first before cloning. I started down the road of doing this in gParted, but wasn't sure what to do about the swap partition, as as soon as I went to shrink the main partition, it left a huge hole in the drive.
What's simplest and safest way to do this? BTW, I have a recent clone of the whole drive done using the device to device Clonezilla method.
Am about to upgrade to new SSD and thinking through partition migration process. Will I need SWAP with an SSD? I have 8GB RAM and an i5 processor.
I am using a cloned hard drive in attempts to restore some old files.
The cloned drive has 2 users, one with an encrypted home drive, one without. Both are administrators. When I couldn't get into the main user (with the encrypted home directory), I logged in as the 2nd user and changed the password.
It seems that I somehow broke the relationship between the encryption passphrase and the user. I'm pretty sure I have the passphrase. Is there a way to get to the data?
Need to run Webex Audio/Video. Am running the Sun version of Java, but apparently the Webex plugins will not work on 64 bit. Another member posted info on how to use 32 bit plugin, but I'd rather not muck with my good working install. I'd be OK with running a different browser ONLY when I need Webex. I am currently using Firefox 11 (64 bit) and Chromium 17.0 (64 bit).
Can anyone point me towards how I would install Firefox 32 alongside 64, or Chrome (32 bit) alongside Chromium (64 bit)... or some other 32-bit browser variant that would allonw Webex audio/video to work alongside my current setup..
I was about to use the encryptfs procedure to migrate my existing home folder and discovered that the process needs 2.5x the size of home to complete. I have 258GB in my home, but only 430GB free. Is there a way that I can encrypt home without reinstalling?
Simple Scan works very well for basic day to day scanning; however, my scans are a bit washed out. Am wondering if there's way to adjust the contrast?
Clean install of 11.10. Tried Unity and really struggled and have switched to Gnome-shell. I have set up Skype as a startup application. It starts up properly, but not sure what to do without without keeping it fully open. If I close it, the application completely closes. In 10.10 I was able to close it, and it appeared in the top panel notification area.
I have installed the gnome-shell-classic-systray extension. Also SkypeNotificationExtension but these appear to do nothing.
If I close Skype, Skype will still run but there is no way to get to it interface wise. If I kill all instances, then restart Skype manually. It does appear in the panel properly.
I suppose this maybe a timing issue, but I don't know how to automatically delay Skype until everything else completes.
Could not launch 'Ubuntu One' Just upgraded from 10.04-->10.10 64-bit. When I try to launch Ubuntu One, I get a dialog that says:
Could Not Launch 'Ubuntu One"
Failed to execute child process "ubuntuone" (No such file or directory)
I uninstalled, and reinstalled. I also followed a process outlined here to completely purge. Still doesn't work.
Not sure how to trouble shoot this...
I have logged in via the website and added my computer.
I need a cross platform screen sharing solution for a presentation. Users might have Windows, Mac or Linux... I've successfully hosted before with Yugma, but after upgrading to 10.10 I can't get it to work on my main box. I would potentially use TeamViewer, but the "Presentation" mode doesn't work with Ubuntu as the host. Anyone have other suggestions?
I can't seem to get a straight answer on this. I would like to add a 3rd display onto my laptop + external monitor setup. While my current setup (Thinkpad X201) has an open VGA port (am using the laptop's display + displayport with external monitor) it appears that I can't drive 3 monitors natively.
I would like to explore what my alternatives are to get another display into the mix. I've found lots of references to displaylink but nothing absolutely confirmed to work.
I just built a new machine and installing Acrobat was last step in process. Am running Thinkpad X210 with 10.10 64-bit. I've always been able to reliably open PDFs inline from the web; however, when I launch a PDF, the main Firefox panel goes either white, completely black, or white with black diaganol streaks.
Perhaps this is video related... Here's what I have chipset wise
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
I'm certainly not wed to Acrobat, but I do want to have Firefox with inline PDFs from web.
I just upgraded to 10.10 and installed Acrobat via Adobe's website. I can't seem to get the Firefox plugin. I updated my software sources to include mediabuntu, but when I enter sudo apt-get install mozilla-acroread I get "Unable to locate package mozilla-acroread"
I am about to move to a new Lenovo X201 from current X61. Current setup has separate \home, separate swap file, also separate \Data partition. Am currently running 10.04 32 bit. Am considering running 64 bit on new machine because I will now have 8 GB of RAM. And would like to also move to 10.10.
Ideally I would like preserve as much of my current setup as possible...
New machine has Win7 on it, but will blow that away, as I've made a clonezilla copy of it, and will use VirtualBox for when I need Windows.
Can someone suggest a good step by step for me? I'm networked to a NAS and also have plenty of external USB storage in case I need intermediary steps.
So do I set up new machine first with 64bit 10.10, with partition scheme I want? then rsnyc over \home from old machine (over write target home)?
Do I need to upgrade the X61 first to 10.10?
I use a commercial Asterisk-based SIP provider for my business. I'm going through the process of acquiring hearing aids, and it may be smartest for me to stream telephone audio from my provider directly to my aids via bluetooth and a softphone (I spent a lot of time on the phone). I could conceivably use my Android handset, but it seems k,ind of clunky. I used to use X-Lite under Windows, but the Linux version is very rough comparatively. I've also tried Xoiper, but find the interface pretty rough. I want something that's close to a phone dialing and usage wise.
Counterpath makes Bria and Eyebeam, which are more contemporary then X-Lite, but there is apparently no way to try them out (I would be open to buying one if that made sense).
Any recommendations are appreciated.