I've joined the Ubuntu Font Family Interest Group and I'd like to provide feedback on the mono beta font, or, at least see if other people have reported the same issue I'm seeing.
What's the best way to engage with the ubuntu font folks?
My evil plan is to serve rdp from an AWS ubuntu instance so I can have a permanent xubuntu desktop as I roam from windows computer to windows computer (or any computer really). It is as easy as running mstsc -v {aws.public.url}.
How, through, ssh, can I have the instance serve a remote desktop?
I have a Tecra A4 laptop. How can I ensure I have the latest graphics driver for it?
According to http://alatest.com/reviews/laptop-reviews/toshiba-tecra-a4-s211/po3-32484355,30/#details, I have a ATI Mobility Radeon X600/NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600
When I go to System > Administration > Additional Drivers, it does a check and says "No Proprietary Drivers are in use on this system" with a black list box and a disabled Enable button.
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Decrease GRUB timeout
I have a dual boot configuration with ubuntu 10.10 and windows. What's the best way to configure grub so that the wait time is 2 seconds instead of 10 seconds?
In maverick, I get the login sound when my computer starts up and I auto-login.
The happens despite the fact that I've turned off the "play login sound" on the administration > login screen dialog.
How can I turn off the login sound playing?
Computer: Toshiba Terca A4
OS: Ubuntu Desktop 10.10
After installing 10.10, the splash screen hangs and the mouse pointer appears.
Anyone know what I can do to fix this?
~/.xsession-errors has
(nautilus:3190): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed
btw, Safe-mode works:
I do a Ctrl-Alt-F1 into a command prompt session and run
ps aux | grep slave
then
sudo kill [id of gdm-simple-slave]
That killed the session and allowed me to login in safe-mode. Safe-mode works. Then I open a terminal and run
ps aux | grep nm-
sudo kill -9 [id of nm-applet]
nm-applet --sm-disable &
to get my internet connection up.