Marco Ceppi's questions

With the announcement of the Ubuntu Phone OS I'd like to know what phone (and tablet) models are supported at this time.

_{Note from foss & Oli: We are making this the master question for all future "Will this work on <insert random tablet/phone/device here>?!" questions}

Note that Canonical ended development of Ubuntu Touch and any work on phones in April 2017.

I accidentally moved a pane in LibreOffice from it's nice docked position to a new window. Now I can't move back it.

As you can see, the Slide Pane is floating as it's own window and not docked like Tasks, etc.

In order to submit patches and items to certain projects as well as qualify to run as a moderator of Ask Ubuntu, I need to sign the Code of Conduct.

How do I do this?

I was reading about how to get multiple workspaces in the mutter version of Unity, however since Compiz is replacing Mutter how do I go about adding and removing workspaces in Compiz version of Unity?

I know how to disable it, circumvent it, and that it saves stuff. However, when asked "what is it for, why is it there, and how does it work" I'm at a loss for words. What's more disturbing is there doesn't seem to be much of anything content-wise for those questions on the internet.

So once and for all. What is a Keyring, why is it on my computer, and how does it work?

I frequently need to start several programs that I use every time I start my computer. How can I make it so that whenever I login the program is automatically launched?

I'm looking at different Nvidia cards and would like to know which are supported by the nouveau driver - is there a list of these available and the levels of support offered?

I hear a lot of talk about Daemons running on my Ubuntu computer - what are they?

I'm interested in finding out which PPAs have daily builds associated with them so I can be sure I'm always running the latest software available by these teams. Does such a feature exist?

I've been running Alpha releases of Ubuntu for some time now. I keep running into issues - how can I get these resolved? What should I do when I encounter these problems? And where can I find other Ubuntu+1 users to ask questions?

Occasionally I would like to either remove/disable menu entries or add launchers for programs to my Applications list- how can I do this?

Is there a way to search though LaunchPad's PPAs for a certain package name? For instance if I was looking for PPAs with Firefox packages I could search for "firefox" and retrieve a list of all the PPAs which contain a firefox package.

I want to create links to software within Software Center using the APTURL - However, I'm not sure how to find out the true "package name". What is the easiest way to discover a package's name for use with the APTURL or apt-get command?

I develop most of my code in Git repos, now that I've become slightly more active on Launchpad I've started picking up Bazaar which has two "small" difference from Git's workflow that ride against how I usually develop code. While I don't mind using Bazaar I've noticed that Launchpad has options to use multiple VSC tools

I'm curious exactly how this works with Launchpad with an emphasis on the following:

• Is the repo mirrored as a Git repo or a Bazaar repository?
• If it's a Bazaar repo - how are multiple branches in a Git repository mirrored on Launchpad?
• How are updates from users pushing to the LP branch handled
  • Are the branches from Git considered Read-only or will LP attempt to push them to the Git server?
    • If so under what methods? (Git+SSH, Git Daemon, etc)
• How often is the LP mirror updated?

I'm assisting in a project on Launchpad - however I do not have write access to that branch. How can I create a branch which I can push to and point people on the team for review?

I have noticed that many people use images in their Ask Ubuntu answers. What software are people using?

I have a burning desire to install RPMs onto my Ubuntu installation - is this possible? Can I use Yum - or another RPM Package Management tool?

I've become very accustomed to managing service startups on Redhat/RHEL platforms using chkconfig though that doesn't appear to be the Debian/Ubuntu way - How do I update runlevel information for system services on Ubuntu?

Ultimately looking for the equivalents of:

chkconfig --add <service>
chkconfig --level 345 <service> on
chkconfig --del <service>

I'm an avid developer but I never actually gotten around to setting up my own PPA - how would someone go about this? Common issues encountered? How do I get my source code to be compiled into packages on the PPA?

I've been managing server installations both on and off Ubuntu flavor for some time - I've become quite adjusted to /etc/init.d/ for restarting servcies. Now I get this message:

root@tatooine:~# /etc/init.d/mysql status
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service mysql status

Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the status(8) utility, e.g. status mysql
mysql start/running, process 14048

This seems to have been brought about in the latest LTS of Ubuntu - why? What's so bad about /etc/init.d/ and what/is there a difference between service and /etc/init.d/?