I am using a script to automatically set up a computer. I need to assign a password to the vnc server for the user, which is normally done using the vncserver command. However, it prompts for the user to enter and re-enter their password, neither of which the script is capable of doing. So, how can I set up the VNC password without an interactive prompt?
Thanks.
I have a family member currently using Windows live mesh to sync a relatively large amount of files between computers. It is way over the Ubuntu One 5 GB limit and the Live Mesh 2 GB limit. However, Live Mesh gives him the options of syncing all the data he wants without storing it on Microsoft's servers. Does Ubuntu One have an equivalent option, performing just the sync computer-to-computer and not computer-to-server and server-to-computer? Do you have other recommendations? It does not necessarily have to be Ubuntu One, but I need it to be cross platform, working across Windows and Ubuntu. We also have computers outside of uour home network we need to sync to. This is one of the few things keeping him from switching to Ubuntu, and I'd be very grateful for any help.
I am working on developing a program and want to put it in the software center when I am finished. Do I have to upload the program to developer.ubuntu before the release of 12.04 if I want it to be in the 12.04 software center? Or can I finish after the release and have it put in the repositories at that time?
I am building a Mythbuntu media center, the display being a 42" television. I set the text and desktop icons to be extremely large so they are readable from the couch. This is good, but all of the icons align to the top of the screen, and because the icon size is so large I can't have them move down one position. I am a perfectionist a this bothers me. Does anyone know how to tell XFCE to not snap desktop icons to a grid? Any help is greatly appreciated.
I currently have Windows 7 on my computer and I want to install Ubuntu alongside Windows safely.
Could someone please provide clear instructions?
I am an Ubuntu 11.10 user with a laptop with a noisy fan. the fan runs way too frequently, blowing when all I'm doing is web browsing. I am willing to sacrifice speed for a less hot laptop, can someone please tell me how to make my fan turn on less frequently? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I have almost convinced a family member to dual-boot with Ubuntu. I've showed him wubi, and he thinks that he's ready to give Ubuntu a try and dual boot. However, he thinks that overwriting the Windows bootloader is too risky and doesn't want to. I know you can restore the Windows bootloader after installation of Ubuntu, but that's not what I mean. Is there any option in the installer that I'm missing to skip installing GRUB? Thanks for any help in advance.
I have my top panel transparent. It looks nice, except for when I browse the internet, the black bar along the top of chrome, which looks pretty against the non-transparent panel, sticks out like a sore thumb against the top panel. Here is a picture:
Is there some way I can make the top bar in chrome transparent too, so that they both look nice together? Thanks for any help in advance.
In Windows Vista Ultimate, there was a feature called DreamScapes that let you set any wmv file as your desktop background and thereby have a moving desktop. There was a program that let users of Windows 7 and other Windows OSs use dreamscapes by editing registiry values. Is there any way I can set up a moving desktop similar to a dreamscapes in Ubuntu 11.10? If so, how? If not, is there any similar feature in Ubuntu? Any help will be greatly appreciated. I am using Unity and therefore the answer here doesn't work.
Is there any easy way to track the route that an request takes in Ubuntu? For example, tell me what the DNS servers are, which servers it redirects through before reaching the final page, etc. Is there any program or command that I could do this with?
How does a journaling file system work and why does it not fragment, like NTFS?
Why hasn't Windows switched over to a journaling file system?
Could someone please explain this to me? Thanks.
I, and many other previous Windows users notice that the computer seems to get progressively slower over time. I bought a leapfrog crammer only to find it installed process that sat there waiting for me to plug the crammer in so it could run the software. It took up three percent of the CPU twenty-four seven, seven day a week! This is one of the main reasons I left Windows. But, Ubuntu doesn't seem to slow down over time at all. Does Ubuntu allow programs to install background programs like the leapfrog crammer did to sit there like a leech and suck away at resources? Could someone explain why Windows tends to get slower over time, and is Ubuntu vulnrable to this too? Thanks for any help, this is puzzling me.
As the title states, does anyone know of a dashboard alternative for Ubuntu? This is useful feature in Mac OS X, middle-clicking on the mouse brings up a customizable page where you can put anything from weather and stock reports to games. Is there any equivilent for this in Ubuntu?
To disable the touchpad on an HP Pavilion dv6, you double tap on an area in the upper left hand corner of the touchpad. Then the blue indicator light around the border of the touchpad turns red, and the touchpad is disabled.
Double tapping on this area again turns the touchpad turns back on. I do a lot of typing, and frequently bump the touchpad, messing up my work and annoying me. So, I would like to enable the ability to disable the touchpad by double-tapping on the area in the upper left hand corner. Unfortunately, there is no function key backup to disable the touchpad.
This does not work in Ubuntu. I can turn it off using touchpad-indicator, but the program must be manually started and you have to disable using the key combination. Double-tapping the area is much easier. My computer is the HP Pavilion dv6-6135dx. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I really like the Ubuntu Font Family, and frequently use it in my documents. At school, I want to be able to use the font family so my documents that make at home using Ubuntu show up correctly at school. However, we do not have permission to use Font View (which also allows you to install fonts), so I copied the .ttf files for the Ubuntu font into the /home/Library/Fonts directory. The fonts now show up in the list of available fonts.
However, when I click on Ubuntu Light, it uses the Ubuntu font, and when I click on Ubuntu, it uses the Ubuntu Light font. This is irritating because my documents that I make on my home computer show up in the opposite font at school, and documents I make at school show up in the opposite font at home. This is really irritating. My school uses Mac OSX 10.4. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Edit: This happens with Windows too, so it's something wrong with the font that Ubuntu put on the website.
The answer might be as simple no, but using Ubuntu Tweak I made the borders of my windows transparent as shown here:
However, the window buttons and window title are also transparent, making them look out of place. Can I make the close, minimise, and maximise buttons as well as the window title non-transparent?
For those who are still using blender on Ubuntu 11.04, the version in the Software Center is out of date (2.49). Yes, it does make a difference, there was a major user interface change with the release of Blender 2.5. For those using Blender in Ubuntu 11.10, the version in the Software Center is also out of date(2.57). The current release of Blender is 2.60. Who can I contact go get the versions in the two Software Centers updated? Any help is much appreciated.
I am looking to increase my computer's performance. Will upgrading my RAM by 12GB or upgrading to a 7,200 RPM Hard Drive increase my computer's performance more? I can only do one, which one will make my computer run faster? Please cite something in your answer for my own confidence. Thanks!
I have tried several formats, but my blender animation render will not have sound. In blender, it plays fine when I press the play button, but there is no sound in the render. Can someone help me with this? Thanks!
In Response to devius: According to the terminal, ffmpeg was not installed. I installed it. Now should it work? It takes a long time to render and I don't want to start it unless I know it's going to work. Update: After installing ffmpeg and restarting, there was still no sound on render. I took the exported file without audio and combined it with the audio track in OpenShot. Good workaround, problem still not fixed. I am marking Explorer' s answer as the answer, even though for me it still doesn't work.
I can't seem to get the Leapfrog Crammer study and sound system to show up as a flash drive under ubuntu so I can transfer stuff to it.
I don't want to install the leapfrog bloatware, can someone help me with this?
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