Question from which this arose is here: What does it mean to mount something?
Since asking about which is "better" or which "worse" can lead to subjective and argumentative answers, I'd like to know about the technical differences between the two.
Is there a way (maybe using some script in nautilus or something) so that you can drag files with the right mouse button and when you release, you're shown the context menu?
If it can even be achieved using some modifier key + left button, I'm ok with it. But Shift + left button (lb) forces a move, Ctrl + lb forces a copy, Alt + lb does a "move window", Super + lb does... well... nothing special, I believe.
I just discovered that I couldn't add more than 4 layouts for my keyboard. Googling revealed that it was a universal limit (at least for GNU/Linux) and the only way(s) to get around it was to use some hackish way with scripts. Is there really a technical reason behind this? If yes, what is it?
A picture is worth a thousand words...
Screenshot (gVim) -
Screenshot (LibreOffice) -
The Appearance Preferences dialog -
Anyone know what causes it and how it can be fixed?
If it's relevant - the system runs on an AMD Turion and a GeForce Go 6100. I have a feeling it's got something to do with video memory. Although I could be wrong.
The anti-aliasing of my system (of GTK?) has gone weird after I did one of two things - do a system update, and install gimp 2.7 beta. See images:
Before: After:
Before: After:
Here's the current rendering comparison between Chromium, Firefox and Opera (in that order):
Does anyone know how I can get the old anti-aliasing back? As far as I can tell, I never did anything special to achieve that before. It has always been on the default settings since I installed Lucid few months ago.
Update: I have tried different settings (even though I knew they were already at the "best" settings) in appearance > fonts ( > details) but, as expected, any change there only makes things worse.
Update 2: One/some of these packages are to blame I'm sure:
libc-bin (2.11.1-0ubuntu7.6) to 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.7
libc-dev-bin (2.11.1-0ubuntu7.6) to 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.7
libc6 (2.11.1-0ubuntu7.6) to 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.7
libc6-dev (2.11.1-0ubuntu7.6) to 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.7
libc6-i686 (2.11.1-0ubuntu7.6) to 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.7
libcairo2 (1.8.10-2ubuntu1) to 1.9.6-6~mrw4
libcairo2-dev (1.8.10-2ubuntu1) to 1.9.6-6~mrw4
libgegl-0.0-0 (0.0.22-0ubuntu4) to 0.1.3-2010091001~ll
liblcms1 (1.18.dfsg-1ubuntu2) to 1.18.dfsg-1ubuntu2.10.04.1
I've often come across posts on forums or other websites where you see people joking in such a manner about running/logging in as root as if it's something awful and everyone ought to know about it. However, there isn't much that a search reveals on the matter.
It may be widely known to Linux experts, but I really don't know why. I remember always running as root when I first tried Linux years ago (Redhat and Mandrake) and don't remember running into any problems because of that.
There are actually some distros that have a bright red background with alert signs all over it as wallpaper for the root user (SuSe?). I still use the "Administrator" account for regular use on my Windows installation and haven't ever run into any problems there either.
I just noticed that HTML files with CSS transforms on elements show with the CSS transforms within the thumbnails on Nautilus. So what rendering engine does Nautilus use to generate the thumbnails for HTML files?
Is there a way you can disable or customize the notification bubbles on Lucid?
Is there a way in which I can customize (or disable) the "grow on hover" animation in Cairo dock? I have the size set to the smallest possible and would like to disable the hover animation because it's really annoying, and difficult to work with when enabled. In the least, I would like to be able to specify how many pixels it'll grow when hovered over.
Like the question states.
Is it possible to change any system settings such that when I hover over the volume control applet or slider, the current level is shown in a tooltip (the number)? Or is there at all some place from where I can view this.
Even the sound preferences dialog does not show the actual number, which is strange to say the least.
I use a wired PPPoE connection to connect to the Internet. What I need to do on Windows to connect to it is put in static IP address, gateway, subnet mask and DNS servers for my LAN card. Next I have to create a dialer for a PPPoE connection, put in my user name, the service name and the password, and "dial" this connection. And it works fine.
On Ubuntu 10.04, however, I have tried setting things up in a similar fashion - put in all static addresses for the "automatic" wired connection, then put in user name, service name, password for a "DSL" connection. It worked for a while, then stopped. I have tried putting in all the details within the DSL configuration dialog, same thing happened - it worked for a while, then stopped. I have tried deleting the ethernet connection and only keeping the DSL one with all the numbers put in place, same thing happened - it worked for a while, then stopped. Each of the times, when it connected, it connected randomly, after trying a few times, and either stopped working within a few minutes, or after I had rebooted. I have deleted and remade the connection dozens of times - even with different names, but nothing seems to be working.
I have also tried pppoeconf from the terminal, didn't work.
I have checked /var/log/kern.log, but nothing changes in the file when I try to connect. I have also checked /sbin/route, but gedit can't even open it (says it can't figure the character encoding...).
The "connection established" notification pops up from the top right corner, the same way as when the computer is actually connected to a network.
Can anyone figure what's wrong and how it can be solved?
Although there is supposed to be a monospace font in the family, the default package doesn't come with it. I tried getting ttf-ubuntu-monospace but there aren't any packages with that name. How/where can I get the monospace font?