Levan's questions

Is there a way to sync google calendar with unity without adding new software ??

If there isn't a way can you recommend the light weight software for this task?? that will have the ability to notify my about the alarms etc...

Thank you for your time

Is there a way to get ubuntu gnome 3.14 on ubuntu 14.04 ??

Thank you in advance

I am want to know what SDL version I have installed on my ubuntu

Is there a terminal commend I can run to find out ??

I want to compare a source png file to a compressed file.

I am using imagemagick and this command:

convert image1 image2 -compose Difference -composite \
       -colorspace gray -format '%[fx:mean*100]' info:

But what I get is a very odd number. I am looking from a number from 0-100%.

When I compared two totally different images I still get a 8.37885.

So good people of Ask Ubuntu, can you provide me with a command that will measure the difference between files properly and give me a number from 0-100?

I want to check if my software is 64 bit or 32 bit (not the OS). This software is an executable file, and when I check it, no information is given if it is 64-bit or 32-bit.

How do I check if my software is 64-bit or 32-bit?

I am wondering how to use ffmpeg to create video thumbnails something like this (taken from a VLC forum):

I know totem can do this but totem does not support the video format that I am using

This article says that ffmpeg can do it.

So I wanted to give ePsxe 1.9 a go on Ubuntu (of course, I legally own both the console and games I am planning on running). I started out by downloading ePSXe v1.9.0 for Linux from the official web site. I then extracted the binary and attempted to run it. This is what happened:

error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What is going on here? Can anyone help me with this?

I want to install the decentralized YaCy web search engine, but could not find a way to do this on Ubuntu 13.04.

Which steps do I need to perform to install YaCy?

Is there a tunnelbear alternative for ubuntu

I need a software beside web browser to access the internet with a country of my choice "US" and then disable the vpn and enable my default network on windows there is a tunnelbear but there is not a linux version of this software any ideas

Thank you in advanced

For the solution you can use this article

I want to batch process images but I have a very specific task that I want to do

1. I do not want to change image type
2. I want to make them black and white
3. I want it to create/preserve images and sub folder structure

I did this in Photoshop but it did not preserve folders and sub folder content it just threw every converted file in one directory.

My only hope is Linux :D

Thank you in advance!

You can see different discussion about this here but Basharat Sial worked for me

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2143992

I've been having trouble with this because I'm new to Linux: I would like to convert different video formats to ogv. I found some terminal commands like this: ffmpeg -i input.avi -acodec libvorbis -ac 1 -b 768k output.ogg

The problem with these type of commands is that they are intended to change bit rate, fps, or even resolution. I would like to just change the file format without changing anything else about the video.

I looked at the man pages for ffmpeg and found some useful info but I don't know how to space command-line options.

Are there any easy ways to do this? In addition, is there a command to change the bit rate so that it doesn't go over a certain rate?

How can I install themes in ubuntu 12.10 ?

For example, how can I install the following themes on ubuntu:

• GrayDay

• Elegant+Eggplant

The desktop does not show after I installed nvidia experimental drivers. I tried nvidia simple proprietary drivers, and they did not work either.

Here is how it looks. This is not cropped or any thing. This is how it looks, after the installation of the drivers the desktop resolution decreased from 1440x900 to 1024x768

The desktop only shows desh and panels when I use the open source drivers.

Is there any way to fix this so I can get better performance?

I have read about copying files with terminal but these examples will help me a lot. So here is what I want to do:

Examples:

1. I have a file in /home/levan/kdenlive untitelds.mpg and I want to copy this file to /media/sda3/SkyDrive and do not want to delete any thing in SkyDrive directory.

2. I have a file in /media/sda3/SkyDrive untitelds.mpg and I want to copy this file to /home/levan/kdenlive and do not want to delete any thing in kdenlive directory

3. I want to copy a folder from home directory to sda3 and do not want to delete any thing on sda3 directory and opposite

4. I want to cut a folder/file and copy to other place without deleting files in that directory I cut it into.

I need to install more than 100 fonts, so I was wondering if there is an easy way to do this task?

I know you can opening every single one and pressing install font, but installing more then 100 fonts this way will be very time-consuming.

In my home directory i have only .fontconfig and I do not have .Font.

In /usr/share/fonts I cannot copy files because I don't have permission

Is there an easy and fast way to do this task?

Is there a way to start system monitor app, from the console ?? I am not talking about terminal. I am talking about Ctrl + Alt + F1 mode

So this might be very silly question for users, but I am quite new to Ubuntu and want to know this. Do .deb installed apps get updates?

For example: I have Opera installed with using .deb will it get updates like software that are installed using PPA?

I would gladly accept your answers if you will explain this as well:

As you can see .deb installed Skype added it's self to software source so will it or will it not get updates?

Thank you for your time.

How do I create a 32-bit Wine prefix on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit?

I followed this tutorial to set start Thunderbird in minimized mode at startup, but it wasn't helpful.

After following the instructions, I could not even start Thunderbird. So I was forced to start TB in safe mode to delete the "FireTray Plugin" and fix this issue. After that it started to work but it deleted all my email accounts and I had to do that chore all over again .

So is there any working way to start Thunderbird minimized on start-up?

After today's update, Ubuntu asked me to replace some files and I blindly accepted. After I restarted PC after the update, I saw duplicate entries in the grub menu:

Here's the image of the grub customizer.

Apparently, Grub Customizer can not save edited information.

Is there a way to remove duplicates from Ubuntu 12.04 grub menu and set Windows 7 on first position?