piedro's questions

On Ubuntu 12.10 64bit I additionally installed kubuntu-desktop. I installed dropbox in Unity to use it there with nautilus. In Kde this is not the wanted behavior so I installed the dropboxd - Daemon and enabled it to autostart in KDE. But the nautilus-dropbox applet is always started in addition to the daemon.

How can I make sure that there is ONLY the dropboxd running and NOT the nautilus-dropbox when I use KDE and When using Gnome I llike to use nautilus-dropbox?

plz note that there is no setting for nautilus-dropbox in KDE autostart applications!

Maybe there is a way to install two versions and make sure only the right one is started with each desktop environment?

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How can I configure Unity?

Now I updated to 12.10 and would like to adjust the desktop, well unity, appearance.

• I know there is the theme setting, but I cannot adjust the symbol theme or windows decoration with the systemsettings.
• I used to use the tool "unsettings" but it doesn't work with 12.10 anymore.
• Ubuntu Tweak used to be an option but at this point many features are broken and a lot of settings seem to mess up my system or they don't change anything at all (I understand that there has been a design settings change - gsettings, dconf, something ...)
• myunity has some options to change stuff but I couldn't find it for 12.10 ...
• not to forget "gnome-tweak-tool" which seems to work for most settings but not for all, e.g. it doesn't change the mouse cursor and the windows decorations do not show some decorations I'd like to use and I am also afraid of messing things up because it is supposed to be used in gnomeshell ... actually as I found out right now it really messes things up: fonts get inverted, suddenly high contrast accessibility setings are used in some windows, nautilus has white fonts on white background and even the login manager is a mess now ...

So: How can I adjust the theme, symbol, decorations, fonts for the normal user and for the desktop and for the applications including the applications started as sudo user?

I should mention that I upgraded from 12.04 and that some applications like synaptic completely ignore any settings ... sadly it is a mess, there was a time when gnome theming was really well done and very adjustable, I wonder what happened ...

Just now I read that further development of Ubuntu Tweak has been stopped. The developer announced that he won't go any further with the software and the online services ... That is sad and destroys my hope for easy appearance editing just by waiting ... has been such a nice tool for 12.04 ... r.i.p.

I like to use the Ubuntu Software Center, but I cannot adjust the font size of the entries. So most of the entries' fonts are so ridiculously small for me that, I can't read them!

I tried by changing system fonts, but that didn't help.

How can I adjust the fonts of the contents in Ubuntu Software Center in Ubuntu 12.04?

Since about two years now I am trying to find a way to convert high quality mp3 files to m4a or aac files with a fixed bitrate 192k. Please don't suggest using another format - i thought this through as far as it goes.

The problem here is:

• ffmpeg obvioulsy can't convert to a higher bitrate than 152k. Even when it says it does so the resulting files still have 152k instead of 192k.

• ffmpeg also has/had a bug not writing the bitrate into the audio file tags which means when testing you have to calculate the bitrate manually by dividing the filesize by the length of the audio in seconds (resulting in 152k - see above)

• choosing faac as converter gets me the same results

• other programs don't work reliably (see this thread Howto convert audio files to *.m4a?)

I know that this is not an original new problem but I am wondering if there is still no way to convert with ubuntu/kubuntu 12.04 after a lot time passed and I can't find some of the bug issues mentioned in the other thread anymore.

So: Is there a solution after all?

When I install wine in a fresh 12.04 ubuntu the installer , synaptic in my case, insists on installing both versions: i386 and amd64 ...

Why? I don't get this - and it seems to get me into trouble when installing stuff via wine on my 64bit system wine looks for gnomekeyring libs in the directory for i386 libs!

When I am running a 64bit system there should be no need for wine i386, should there?

I have two monitors on a NVIDIA card. KDE combines the second monitor with TWinView to all my virtual desktops. While this is nice I'd rather had an additional virtual desktop (let's say desktop #5) fixed to my second monitor while switching beetween desktop #1 to #4 on my first monitor.

Can this been done? (KDE 4.8, Ubuntu 11.10)

At the monent I can only use the following workaround: drag an application to the second monitor on desktop #1 and apply "fix to all desktops" on the window in question. Then when switching desktops the window shows on all of them but is fixed to a position on the second monitor. While this works it'd be more convenient if I could have an independent desktop on my second monitor with it's own activities; panels and stuff. And when starting an application there it should stay there also ...

I also tried to configure the second monitor as individual X-Server-Dislpay. But then still I can't send running applications over to the second screen ...

It appears that I am unable to change the browser view in banshee via the GUI.

But surely it's possible to set the "artist list" column to something like "album-artist list" or "Year of publication list", isn't it?

Please tell me which file to edit.

Since I upgraded to Oneiric apt-get seems to ignore my architecture and gets the sources for both, amd64 AND i386, files from the repositoreis. this leads to constant "duplicate source entries" errors.

What to do?

**EDIT: Information provided by dizzy

Here is the requested file (since I'm not allowed to post more than two URLs I've modified the URLs not to be recognized (to std url / http:// to ..):

deb *std url* oneiric main restricted

deb *std url* oneiric-updates main restricted

deb *std url* oneiric universe
deb *std url* oneiric-updates universe

deb *std url* oneiric multiverse
deb *std url* oneiric-updates multiverse

deb ..archive.canonical.com/ubuntu oneiric partner

deb *std url* oneiric-security main restricted
deb *std url* oneiric-security universe
deb *std url* oneiric-security multiverse

deb ..download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian oneiric contrib # disabled on upgrade to oneiric

deb ..extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric main #Third party developers repository

I don't understand the hype for transparency. From a usability standpoint I see no argument whatsoever that transparency should enhance your productivity or improve your workflow. Any element on top of another one is inevitabily more ditracting and takes longer to grasp than a single clean and well designed element. True, it's much more complex to design consistent and meaningful elements, panels, symbols and windows without any transparency.

Still I want to remove transparency from KDE 4.7 without disabling desktop effects alltogether. Since I don't find an opaque theme I would like to use (hints are welcome!) I want to disable the transparency within existing themes. How to do that?

thx for reading, p.

First when I decided to install kubuntu-desktop on the same machine as my standard ubuntu-desktop, I tried to integrate those two in a way that I use some of the same applications on either desktop. I failed doing that because of integration issues (I'm not talking about the look!).

Now I like to try a different approach: I want to separate those two to the max. But I find that either desktop seems to load a lot of programs that have no place nor function in the other one. E.g. Tracker starts alongside with the Strig/nepomuk stuff, Dropbox seems to load half of gnome into KDE and kwallet starts in gnome even when no application tries to access it. Gnome keyring on the other side starts with KDE for a good reason, but I can't set it up to use my login password as authentication without entering it again to start the keyring.

What are the right settings to separate the two desktops to the maximum possible extent? Where are the files controlling this? For example I tried to use LightDM to have no gdm or kdm running but it seems to mess up some things like keyboard bindings ...

Is there a tutorial out there that I couldn't find while googling? Any comprehensive information should help!

Every time I start an application that is using fullscreen mode in KDE my gnome desktop background is loaded before starting the program. This is aesthetically diturbing and I suspect there is a waste of ressources when the gnome system is somehow started in the background.

Affected are:

• wine applications using fullscreen (started via playonlinux)
• virtualbox using fullscreen or scaled modus
• firefox flash plugin

What I did (inspired by some hints in various forums): replaced gdm with lightdm (flash plugin seems to be fixed now) used "killall nautilus" - but this had no effect at all.

How can I make sure KDE doesn't use any gnome programs or settings in the background without removing gnome (as gnome is used as an alternative login for testing purposes!)?

p.s.: I am using 11.04 Ubuntu with kubuntu desktop installed, 64bit, newest nvidia drivers

Here's the output of "ps aex | tee" as suggested: http://paste.ubuntu.com/678832/

When I use ffmpeg to convert an audiofile with the option

-acodec libfaac -ab 192k 

and use

ffmpeg -i 

on that file afterwards to get the audio file information, it tells me

bitrate: 152 kb/s

Why ist this? Do I miss something here? If I want to convert a file with a bitrate of 192kb it should give me 192 kbit after the conversion, shouldn't it?

Or: How do I get the 192 kbit rate then?

I want to convert a lot of *.flac and some high bitrate *.mp3 files to *.m4a files. I want to use a fixed bitrate of 192kb (stereo) and want to keep the audiotags (except of, obviously, the tag "bitrate" - this sshould nbe set to the correct 192kb.).

I'm using 64-bit Maverick.

I tried about every program I could find.

Including

• Sound Converter

• soundKonverter (KDE)

• WinFF

• Arista Transcoder, Handbrake, Transmageddon (fails, seems only video works)

• ffmpeg (tried "-acodec libfaac -ab 192k -map_meta_data outfile.m4a:infile.mp3")

But either they don't transfer the tags or they don't offer any way to set the bitrate to fixed 192kb or the resulting file doesn't show the new bitrate in any audio program (for example: nautilus saying "bitrate" n.a.")!

There seems to be no configuration dialog for the Places menu in the panel.
Yes, I know how to add, remove or change the order of the bookmarks in nautilus.

But I want to use folders and subfolders for the bookmarks. With more than 20 entries the nautilus bookmarks and the places menu become inconvenient.

• any editor for this?
• any configuration file that does the job?
• any other tool than the standard places menue?
• any extension for nautilus to extend the bookmark organization?

I wanted to setup a few Arcade Games on my Maverick box (for the children, you know, ... :-)). I really like Frozen Bubble but I can't set the graphics preferences, choosing the graphics tab in the game just gives me a little bumping indicator telling me it's working, but nothing happens?

How to set the resolution (maybe even fullscreen?) on this game?

Is there any application to change the complete look of KDE like a theme in gnome? Without changing the colors, icons, styles, backgrounds, decorators and so forth individually but in one process instead?

Something like a theme manager?

I would like to create a complete KDE Desktop look & style and then share it with friends without setting up 8 sets of settings with all kinds of importing files and setups.

Can I remove evolution from gnome to replace it with Kontact?

Meaning:

• Make all apps use kmail as Mailer.

• Make Openoffice use kaddressbook

• get korganizer to show up in the indiciator calendar

• start akonadi at gnome start

• make tracker index kontact documents

can this be done?

In relation to this question: What screenshot tools are available?

Is it advisable to deinstall or deactivate gnome-screenshot when installing and using shutter? Or doesn't it make any difference (e.g. is there two daemons running now?)?

Activating shutter works perfectly, I'm just wondering whether the system gets bloated when installing a second tool to override the first one.

I can't find any information that's more recent than 2 years on how to setup packetwriting for my DVD-RAM drive. I like DVD-RAMs for reliable backups and hope to set it up correctly. I tried with some outdated how-tos which resulted in messing up a lot because there was no udev back then! How can I achieve this setup in the latest Ubuntu?

Rhythmbox offers (as it should by now!) the metatag "albumartist" in addition to "artist". But I don't see any way to browse by this property.

The offered views are: Browse by "artist - album", "genres - artist", "genre - artist - album".

How can another view like "genre - albumartist - album" be added? (this is the way itunes sorts, makes a lot of sense if you have about 220 compilation albums with a lot of "one hit wonder"-artists!)

Can't be that difficult, can it?

In case it's impossible, - is it possible to completely replace rhythmbox with another application that's able to do the above (which one?)?

thx for reading, piedro