How can i change the default font settings in xubuntu? All i can find is the overall font settings in the appearance menu, i want to be able to set things like my monospace font for the terminal?
EDIT
On ubuntu, there is a settings menu, where you can edit fonts for individual purposes, for example, title font, window font, monospace font etc.
Im looking for a similar menu in xubuntu
My laptop seems to get very hot when running with Ubuntu. The vents aren't blocked and its got plenty of clear airflow when in use. It's noticeably hotter running Ubuntu than it is running Windows.
I haven't noticed any adverse hardware problems yet, but if it does get really hot it seems to become very slow.
It's an Acer 5740g with an i3 2310m.
To add further detail, I'm running 11.10 x64 and the fans seem to run pretty much constantly.
I've been playing with some of the settings on simple LightDM manager, and I'm not really sure I like what I've done. I've uninstalled LightDM manager but settings remains.
How can I restore LightDM settings to their defaults?
Im having problems applying a new icon theme in ubuntu 11.10 specifically with the power icon. Ive installed faenza succesfully, and the gnome tweak tool to change the icons, but the power icon doesnt seem to be updating:
No matter what i change the icon theme to now, i cant seem to get the power icon to return to the default one, let alone the faenza one. Any suggestions where im going wrong?
How can I access my hard drive from a Live CD? As far as I can tell the hard drive can only be accessed via /media/longnumberhere after its been mounted. Is there a way to access the hard drive a drive instead? (so it can be accessed by /dev/hda)
Fonts in some Wine applications (Word 2007 for example) are heavily aliased. How do I turn on anti aliasing for Wine applications?
When I open up the manual for a command (man wget for example) the manual can be many hundreds of lines long. How can I get:
I want to merge the standard Ubuntu Mono icon set and the Faenza icon set. I would like to keep the standard Ubuntu icons in the panel (including icons for the likes of Dropbox, file transfers etc.) and replace all the other application icons with the Faenza versions.
How would I go about this?
Are there any good alternatives to Nautilus? I'm looking for something lightweight, with a cleaner interface, but the ability to manually enter file paths is still important. Any suggestions?
I declined to encrypt to my home drive whilst installing ubuntu.
Is it possible to encrypt it after installation?
if so, how?
Why is the default virtual terminal in ubuntu tty7? is there any sort of precedent for this, or was that just the number that first came to mind?
I know file permissions have been covered on here before, but im struggling to get my head around the concept for my scenario.
in an attempt to fix this, i assumed that they must still be owned by the previous owner, so i ran chown -R on the directory, with my username as an argument, in order to take ownership of all of the files in the directory. It should be noted that the usernames between new and old ubuntu installations were the same.
When i attempt to run the files again, same problem: 500 error due to permissions problems. Can anyone tell me what other steps i should take?
The webroot for my apache installation is inside my home folder. If i create new files in my webroot, they also work as expected, its only the old files that are causing the problem.
I've plugged an external hdd into my usb port, and it shows up on the desktop and in nautilus. How can i access this mounted hdd via the command line?
When I play Flash videos from sites such as YouTube, the videos initially play ok. However when the videos are full screened, a number of problems arise. Usually when the full screen button is first clicked, the video will take up the full screen, but will be frozen (however the video audio can still be heard).
It can take several attempts to get the video to play in full screen. The video is also frozen if something triggers notify-osd (changing the volume, getting a new email etc.)
Any ideas what might be going wrong?
What does the 'Nice' column represent on the processes tab of the system monitor?
As a bit of a personal project im wanting to create a very lightweight desktop environment with something like fluxbox.
As a start point im wanting to use something like a lightweight version of ubuntu - Ubuntu but without the gui and only the most limited set o f applications, and then move from there. Is there anywhere i get something like this?
Or alternatively am i best just to download Debian and then add the ubuntu repositories to the sources list so i can still the best bits of ubuntu software?
** Edit **
To clear up any confusion - im looking for minimal install that contains only the bare minimum ubuntu needs to operate as a distinct distribution. I.e as few applications and auxiliary libraries as possible. From there i want to add these manually myself.
I am aware that you could argue that the applications and libraries are what make ubuntu ubuntu - to an extent i agree. What i want to do is make use of the ubuntu infrastructure and repositories, whilst still coming up with something of my own creation.
im having a few problems symlinking my /var/www/ to a new Webroot directory inside my home folder. I think these stem from my lack of understanding of linux permissions.
As far as im aware, symlinks should take the form of the directory you want to linked and the directory you want to be linked to, so in my case, i ran:
sudo ln -s ~/Webroot/* /var/www/
this has sort of worked, if i run ls on /var/www/ i can see all of the files in my Webroot directory.
Whenever i try to run a file that is in my Webroot folder, i get a 403 permission error, is this because the files in my Webroot directory are created by me, and the apache instance is being run as www-data?
if this is the case, would this mean i need to change the permissions on every file i create in order to run it?
I have previously run a local apache instance my pointing the directory root of my default vhost to the Webroot folder, in this instance i did not need to alter any permissions. Any help would be appreciated.
Having installed an experimental version of dropbox and installed in manually, i dont want the deb in synaptic to download any updates (as theyll over write the changes ive done manually i assume).
Ive found the lock version option in synaptic, im assuming this stops a particular deb from downloading any new versions of itself?
Also can i just unlock it again when the version from the deb catches up with the experimental version that i have installed?
Am i correct or does it serve another function?
Where are executables for programs stored in Ubuntu?
An application (Komodo Edit) is asking me to identify an application to be used as a web browser. I've become used to just entering the application name as a command for situations such as these, but this scenario got me thinking.
I know in Windows it would just be the relevant application folder in the 'program files' folder, but I'm assuming things are a bit different on Linux?
I thought somewhere like bin would be logical but this appears to standard Linux/Unix applications. Where would I find the binary executable for applications stored on my system?
Does anyone have any good ideas as to native MySQL GUI clients for Ubuntu?
So far I've tried MySQL Workbench, which never seemed to work properly, phpMyAdmin which I found a bit slow, and Navicat which is a windows port and runs under wine, but none of these is perfect. In an ideal world, I'm looking for something like a native version of navicat.