stwissel's questions

I'm using a Lenovo W530 with (soon to be upgraded) 12.10. Whenever I plug-in an external moitor screen resolution discovery is accurate and I can use dual screen mode happily.

However the situation is different when plug-in a external projector. Using a modern projector with the supplied display cable, detection works well, however with older projectors or when there is a (long) cable extension between laptop and projector (as it is common in conference rooms and hotels), resolution discovery fails and the only option is 640x480.

This bug has been reported.

How can I improve the resolution discovery (or change the resolution manually)?

I need to configure a set of new machines. They all need a set of common WLAN connections I currently have on my machine. I know how to manually retrieve the settings including the passwords using the network-manager GUI.

What I'm looking for are 2 scripts: one to extract all wireless settings (at least SSID and security type/password) into a text format file (XML would be fine), so I can edit and polish it. The other one (unsurprisingly) to write them back (on a new machine).

Any pointers are welcome!

Clarification: I don't want to snoop out passwords in the wireless world, just to ease the process of documenting and distributing what is stored on one machine already.

When I hold down a key on a regular keyboard, the key gets repeated over and over. I do see the advantages of that for an electrical typewriter. On Android (and other glass pecking devices) when I hold down a key it shows me letter variations like u ü û ů.

Is there such functions for Ubuntu? Show the variations with a number next to it (left, right, top, below) like double byte input and insert on number or click?

Update: Mac OS/X does exactly that. If that's part of Darwin (??) it could be ported?

Currently I'm using EncFS to encrypt my directory "confidential" to ".encconfidential" and sync that encrypted directory using an online service (e.g. Dropbox, UbuntuOne etc). However my entire disk is already LUKS encrypted, so the double encryption takes a toll on performance.

I wonder is there an "inverted" EncFS option? An unencrypted directory gets mounted and in the mounted directory you only see encrypted files. So I could work with the unencrypted documents while the sync tool sees and read/writes the encrypted files only.

Clarification: My primary use case is sync not backup. I want to be able to securely keep machines in sync without the double encryption penalty when operating local (I have to wait when I hit save, compared to transmission time an encrypted operation is a minimal increment in time - and it is background time, not user time)

That's part 2 of a question asked earlier (to be able to give credit to the answers individually).

When I type into the Dash applications show up with their title (also when hovering over the launcher), how can I find the associated desktop file. When I look into the usual suspect locations (/usr/share/applications and ~/.local/share/applications) with Nautilus I see the titles, but not the file names (not even in properties which sucks). When I look from the command line I see the file names but not the titles (a switch would be nice).

How can I get a listing (a custom column?) that shows them next to each other?

I know the desktop files live in /usr/share/applications and ~/.local/share/applications. I'm looking for 2 information:

1. Where can I see the desktop items that show in my launcher (I would love to have right-click properties on the launcher)

Update: Moved this part of my question to another entry to be able to give credit:

"When I type into the Dash applications show up with their title, how can I find the associated desktop file (again right click is missing)"

To use Ubuntu to upload FitBit data you need libfitbit which is available as ppa now. However I couldn't find configuration instructions. I also wonder if cuttlefish could help to get the same functionality as on OS/X: stick the stick in and get the upload going?

I need to create a script that returns the default app to be used for a given file extension (including the path). I had a look at the file command which can return the mime type and xdg-open which would open a file. But what I'd like to get is

myscript doc

/usr/bin/libreoffice

.or.

myscript fun

/opt/acme/roadrunner/meepmeep

How do I do that?

Using a bluetooth headset that does Stereo (out only), mono (in / out) and speakers. Switching between the 3 is a lot of clicks. What I want to do: - run Stereo either on Speaker or headset - when I make or accept a voip call (Skype, gTalk etc): switch to thr Bluetooth profile with input enabled - switch back after the call

.or. Have a simple menu (indicator?) that allows me to switch between preset combinations of in/out

How do I do that?

I know how to list all packages installed on my system.

But how could I get a list of all repositories and PPA's into a script that I can run on a new machine to replicate the repository setup including the keys?

I know I can look into /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d, but I'm looking for a way to generate a script that executes all apt-add-repository commands on a new system (that sorts out getting all keys).

Any ideas?

I created a key pair to connect to a Synology disk from 12.04. Deployed, edit ~/.ssh/config to automatically use it. Tested:

ssh user@remotesynology

-> works like a charm. Tested on a second remote machine (running Ubuntu server) -> works.

Now tested:

sshfs user@theubuntuserver: /home/user/ubuntuserver

-> works

Finally:

sshfs user@remotesynology: /home/user/remotesynology

-> error:

read: Connection reset by peer

I had a look at this issue, but that doesn't seem to apply (I have the user in the fuse group, and it works for the other machine) and I don't get a permission denied error.

What do I miss?

When I do

xdg-open demo.odt

Libre Office opens - as it should. When I do

xdg-open http://askubuntu.com

my browser opens - as it should. But now I'd like to have a command where I do

mime-based-xdg-open http://www.someserver/demo.odt

and Libre Office would open with the URL on the command line. Is there a way to figure out what xdg-open would use for a specific extension or mime-type? Then I could construct a script that does the rest.