I am using Ubuntu 14.04.
The system only recognizes multitouch tapping like 3 fingers for move window, 4 fingers for open dash, but no mutitouch-gesture that involves holding the fingers on the screen.
Is there a way to activate multitouch gestures like pinch-zoom or rotate on the touchscreen of an ASUS-Notebook?
I want to give Unity a try but still need some docklets that are provided by Docky, until Unity gets more flexible.
Is there a way to prevent Docky from managing windows without a launcher. Otherwise I have both, Unity and Docky, managing my open windows, which is a waste of space.
There has already been a question about unchecking the named option, what seems to be not possible by default: "uncheck-manage-windows-without-launcher"
The answer was an explanation, why one of the docks in Docky does have to manage windows.
I am searching for a tweak, to change that behavior. Since there is a tweak to hide the "Anchor-Icon" in Docky "Remove Anchor in Docky", maybe it is possible to hide Docky's "window-manager" as well.
is there a tool that can help me to batch edit text files in a certain folder?
I need to delete or insert snippets repeatedly in lots of html files and restructure them.
Thanks in advance!
I encounter grave problems trying to print PDF-files, no matter whether I use Evince, Okular or any other linux program. The Documents are printed extremely slowly or even completely fail to print at all. I have tried printing from various Ubuntu-Installations on different network-printers (canon and lexmark), with the same result. On the other hand the same files are printed swiftly through Windows, which is a pity, since I do not want to use Windows.
Are there any solutions?
Thanks in advance!
Is there a simple way (maybe a script), to automatically insert the current date into the filename of a newly created document either in nautilus or in Libreoffice?
A function like that would be useful for me, since I produce a lot of documents and sort them by making their names start with the date of their creation.
Is there an application for Ubuntu that can play audio faster but maintain its pitch?
This is possible in Windows using an application like PowerDVD.
How can I have my google-calendars availabe offline on my PC as well?
I have been using dropbox to sync my calendars in ics-format between different PC's instead of using google calendar. The disadvantage of google-calendar is, that I can only see my appointments when online.
Now I want to sync my calendars with my android device as well, what does not seem to be possible yet.
So I am planning to have an online copy of all my appointments on Google-Calendar, in order to sync them with my Android device. At the same time I want to be able to access my appointments offline (have an offline copy of each calendar on my PC's synced via Dropbox).
Is there a way to automatically duplicate and sync Coogle-Calendars with Ubuntu to achieve this?
This question is a follow-up, also see my related question, please: https://askubuntu.com/questions/26431/how-to-sync-calendar-with-android-without-google
How can one prevent specific or any wine applications from accessing the internet?
When using certain applications under Windows, they were trying to access the internet from time to time without any obvious reason. I was able to prevent that behaviour with a personal firewall back then. Unfortunately I did not find an application level firewall in Ubuntu up to now. This is especially annoying when I am abroad using data-roaming with my 3G modem.
Is there any program for Linux that has about the same functionality and usability as Microsoft OneNote? At the moment I am checking out Basket (for KDE), that seems to point to the right direction, but still lacks much of the functionality of OneNote and is very buggy unfortunately.
For those of you that don't know what OneNote is, here is the first paragraph from the Wikipedia entry:
Microsoft OneNote (formerly called Microsoft Office OneNote) is a computer program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It can gather user's notes (handwritten or typed), drawings, and audio commentaries and share them with other users of Microsoft OneNote over the Internet. The desktop version of OneNote is available for the Microsoft Windows platform.
I had a DVD image attached to Virtualbox via Virtual Media Manager and had it deleted from my harddrive without removing or "releasing" it from Virtual Media Manager.
Now the image is still shown in Virtual Media Manager but the remove and release options are greyed out.
Is there a way to get rid of the image shown in Virtual Media Manager?
Thanks in advance!
Is there a way of switching tabs in Chrome or Firefox by scrolling the mouse-wheel while keeping the right mouse-button pressed?
In Chrome or Firefox (with tab-wheel-scroll extension) you can switch tabs by scrolling the wheel while hovering the pointer over the tab-bar.
The Opera function is much more comfortable, since you don't have to aim at the tab-bar in order to switch.
I have already tried assigning tab-switching keyboard shortcuts to the mouse-button in combination with the mouse-wheel, but it did not work at all. It seems to me that mouse-events cannot be combined in xbindkeys. Furthermore, assigning anything to the right mouse-button in xbindkeys disabled the standard functions of the button completely.
Thanks in advance, bye YSN
is there a way to make the Docky Timer Docklet play an alarm sound, after a timer has run out?
At the moment there only seems to be visual feedback, so you need to watch the screen to know, whether time has run out or not.
Thanks YSN
is there a clock application,
(behaves pretty much like the Ubuntu notifications in that sense).
I am aware, that there are screenlets and gdesklets widget apps, but those are buggy, look outdated, and do not comply with the criteria listed above.
What I have in mind is a clock that is large, (digital), always visible (on top of all other windows), and does not disrupt your work (e.g. you can still click that scroll bar or button if it is just below the clock, since the clock fades away on hovering).
A tool called "OSD-Lyrics" that show lyrics for songs and behaves exactly the way I described above.
So it should be possible (and even easier) to do the same with a clock.
is there a tool that enables you to scroll by dragging the mouse with the right button pressed. I was using an app called "MouseImp" on Windows many years ago. The tool was quite handy, since you were able to scroll much faster than with the mouse-wheel e.g. on large pages. Moreover you were able to scroll horizontally as well.
This all was possible by just keeping the right mouse-button pressed anywhere on a window and dragging the pointer up, down etc.
The software became open-source a few years ago but AFAIK there has not been a linux port.
Best, YSN