I want to have Conky display the time using words and not numbers.
What I want to do is more or less how the Pebble Watch looks (Red watch).
Like in the image, even if only the time and not the date can be shown.
Is this possible?
I'm trying to import some settings unto a new machine, I've edit the Menus and removed some categories and removed some entries but I don't know where does Alacarte stores the file which contains all of that information.
How can I find this file (if it exists)? or How can I Import my custom menu settings?
What is the correct way of converting one or more .png files to .icns files?.
I've installed icnsutils but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to work with png2icns.
I have a Kingston DataTraveler SE6 8GB USB stick which I use as a liveusb medium. The liveusb was created with UNetbootin and was working fine, I also enabled persistance in it.
Today I connected the USB into another computer but it was not being mounted anywhere. I opened a terminal window and issued lsusb and it gets detected:
Bus 001 Device 016: ID 0951:1664 Kingston Technology
And opening the Discs application shows this:
It says it's located in /dev/sdd however that location is non existant, this is what I get from blkid:
/dev/sda: LABEL="Backup 2" UUID="6C5D28267DB27322" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="Reservado para el sistema" UUID="4C4C42384C421CD8" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb2: UUID="D8E444D2E444B512" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="Backup" UUID="6ECB255D7EC7EAD4" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdc2: UUID="c7a99999-898f-4452-afc2-05525c6b20f2" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdc3: UUID="A5EC-08D2" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sdc4: UUID="00b3c665-7957-4884-8244-e7f94b2a12b5" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdc5: UUID="efe13c6c-c69d-4b91-9a7d-a33c21ec3fb0" UUID_SUB="478d3690-c14c-4dec-ac7c-06a7daad021d" TYPE="btrfs"
/dev/sdc6: UUID="79e19479-3d06-4e0f-a8a5-352a0dc71deb" UUID_SUB="5dc9e118-a6e2-4e1f-bb08-d103608d6afc" TYPE="btrfs"
Since the USB stick is getting detected I'm hoping there's still something I can do to format it and keep using it, How can I forcefully mount it and format it to FAT?
If I attempt to mount it it gives me this:
sudo mkdir /media/usbdrive
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdd /media/usbdrive
mount: special device /dev/sdd does not exist
If I try to use the command dd this happens:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd bs=512 count=1
dd: opening `/dev/sdd': No medium found
If I try to use mkfs.vfat this happens:
sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdd
mkfs.vfat 3.0.13 (30 Jun 2012)
/dev/sdd: No medium found
It is worth mentioning that, in both Ubuntu and Windows the USB is detected but can't be mounted. Windows makes a sound notifying that a device has been inserted and Ubuntu does as described above. Under Windows the device is assigned a drive letter in my case E: however it doesn't show up in the Explorer sidebar but does show up under the Device Manager.
I have these SVGS and I'd like to export them to PNG images, I could export them with Inkscape but that would mean open each file and export that file to PNG which is not efficient (I have hundreds of them).
How can I do this?
I wish to convert my current /home partition to BTRFS (or other file systems) without losing data if possible, what steps should I take for this? is it safe?
I'm kinda bored of how they look and the fact that there's only 3 themes to choose from is even worse, so I was wondering if there is a way to theme the notification bubbles of XFCE?.
I have an HP Photosmart B210 this is a e-print printer capable of printing via wifi, I'm using this printer in Google cloud print, however there is a downside, the software that comes with it is only for Windows, so to print anything I'm using my Android device.
Transferring the file to my phone, then with HP's app or Cloud print app send the job to the printer which honestly is not that hard but I feel like I'm doing more steps than necessary.
So, is there a way to set up the printer in Ubuntu or is there a 3rd party app in which i could just import/drag and drop the jobs into Google's service and print them?.
In order to get the latest version of Inkscape, one has to use BZR.
How can I install inkscape using BZR and properly install it on my System?.
Detailed step by step guide would be preferable.
This is possible in Microsoft Office via File->Page Setup, but in Impress no such option is available?.
Is it possible to at all? If so how?
I've had this issue with Chrome and Chromium for some time, thinking it was due to the fact that iconset I'm using is missing some Icons , but I've tried with many different sets and apparently none have the the correct Icon.
Is it Chrome/Chromium that is expecting another icon? (and what would it's name be?) or the sets i have just don't have that Icon?.
I've read about VDPAU and how it enables mplayer to have Hardware acceleration. But i also read that it's only for Nvidia cards
How can i enable it on a non Nvidia card (mine it's a AMD but i would like to enable this in an Intel netbook too)? and will this work for other video players?
My Motherboard's chipset supports this feature IOMMU, i've read (but not really understand) that it improves the VM performance by letting the VM make use of the actual physical hardware instead of the Virtual hardware.
Does this really bring a performance improvement in the VM? and if it does how can I make Virtualbox benefit from that?.
I recently have upgraded my PC, my new Motherboard (ASUS M5A99X EVO) uses UEFi instead of the regular MBR option.
I have a Ubuntu 11.10 installation that I did when I had my previous hardware (MSI MS 7267) , Ubuntu alone boots fine, and so does Windows 7, however Windows 7 is using UEFI (GPT) boot whereas Ubuntu is using MBR.
I have my OSs in separate drives, so that GRUB2 wont' get replaced by the Windows Bootloader and viceversa, as I said both OSs boot fine on their own, but to do that I have to disconnect one drive in this case the Ubuntu drive as it prevents Windows from loading.
Now my question is, How can I change/convert Ubuntu's drive so that instead of using MBR it uses GPT and allow Windows to boot?.
Preferably without reinstalling the whole system or lose any data.
And if I were to wipe the drive, How can I install Ubuntu in GPT, UEFI, whatever it is mode?.
I have used gdisk to convert from MBR to GPT, but now Ubuntu can't boot seems like grub just doesn't start.
I have re installed the OS, and the drive is GPT now by default however grup-pc is still being used instead of grub-efi.
How can i make Ubuntu boot from EFI?.
I'm confused,how can I change the sound output in LXDE? There's not even a single option anywhere unlike other environments.
I've tried doing anything with alsamixerbut still nothing, the output device is the HDMI audio of a Radeon HD card.
Edit: As it Turns out i was able to change the ouput device, but i had to use Gnome for that and its Gnome Sound applet, that is log out and log in once in Gnome change the device, log out and log back in LXDE.
Now the question becomes Why can't i do this in LXDE?
I've seen an article describing how to use VLC as a live wallpaper for the desktop, however the options mentioned there only refer to Windows.
What would I need to do to achieve the same result?
I have 87.2 GB left as shown by PCMANFM, but Nautilus shows only 81.3 GB, why is that, i've been using SHIFT+DEL to remove files so, i don't know why is this happening.
OK, so for the past 2 days my Ubuntu Install (10.10) has been acting in a very strange manner.
Just after the login process is done, and the desktop is loading everything seems to be fine, it is fast and smooth like always, but then some 5 mins. later, it gets all choppy and slow, the mouse pointer it's slow,the apps won't respond to anything,and every aspect of the system is slow,even turning it off it's slow.
Some 2 days ago, i asked a question here, about Ubuntu giving me an error, the person who answer my question, said that the filesystem might be corrupt and told me to do a check with a live cd,and so i did, i ran the fsck command and it actually fixed something.
However, this Problem, the sluggish performance just won't go away, i don't have any idea as to why this happened, but i'd like to know if there is a permanent fix, or if im gonna have to install Ubuntu all over again.
Can i use Network Manager to connect to multiple networks so they can share the load?
Im Curious about the usage of the controller to play any games, like... does it even work in linux?,if so do i need a driver of some sorts?