I have to do a fair amount of writing in red and black in the same document. In MS Office I would set a keyboard shortcut to switch between colors so I don't have to take my hands off the keyboard. Something like Alt+R for red and Alt+B for black.
How can I set up something similar in LibreOffice Writer? I've poked around in Tools -> Customize -> Keyboard but I can't figure it out.
I'm attempting to learn something of snap desktop packaging by repackaging unity-tweak-tool as a snap. I am finding the docs to be less than stellar, but so far I've got a snapcraft.yaml file that looks like this:
name: unity-tweak-tool
version: 1
summary: configuration tool for the Unity desktop environment
description: |
Unity Tweak Tool is a settings manager for the Unity desktop.
It provides users with a fast, simple and easy-to-use interface
with which to access many useful and little known features and settings
of the desktop environment that one may want to configure.
apps:
unity-tweak-tool:
command: $SNAP/usr/bin/unity-tweak-tool
plugs: [unity7]
parts:
unity-tweak-tool:
plugin: python3
source: git://github.com/Seth-Johnson/unity-tweak-tool.git
source-type: git
build-packages:
- python3-distutils-extra
- python3-all
- python3-dbus
- python-dev
stage-packages:
- gir1.2-glib-2.0
- gir1.2-gtk-3.0
- python3-xdg
- python3-cairo
- unity-webapps-service
However when I run snapcraft snap setup.py always fails because several python modules are missing:
Running setup.py install for unity-tweak-tool ... error
Complete output from command /home/sethj/projects/snappy-testing/parts/unity-tweak-tool/install/usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-s6dwhgys-build/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-xxv1mi7p-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --home=/tmp/tmp2y5izah7:
ERROR: Python module values not found
ERROR: Python module apport not found
ERROR: Python module apport.hookutils not found
WARNING: syntax errors in notes/wizardry.py: Missing parentheses in call to 'print' (wizardry.py, line 9)
ERROR: Python module dbus not found
ERROR: Python module dbus.service not found
ERROR: Python module dbus.mainloop.glib not found
(full output here)
I admit I'm not 100% sure I doing this properly, but as far as I can tell it should be building the packages listed under build-packages, which satisfy the build requirements for unity-tweak-tool.
Where am I going wrong?
I recently bought a new computer that has an Atheros AR9485 wireless NIC. So far it has been working ok except this one issue: Randomly (as far as I can tell) it will completely lose the internet connection. The indicator in the top panel will still say we are connected but the machine has no internet connectivity whatsoever.
I've been able to get it working again by simply disconnecting from my wireless AP and then reconnecting, but this is annoying. Is there anything I can do to make the connection more stable?
I have tried passing the nohwcrypt=1 to the driver, but that made it impossible to connect to any AP, it just infinity attempted to connect.
sudo modprobe -rfv ath9k
sudo modprobe -v ath9k nohwcrypt=1
I've also tried upgrading my kernel to Linux 4.0 but the problem persists.
Exact chip:
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0032] (rev 01)
Driver:
$ ls /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/driver/module/drivers
pci:ath9k platform:ath9k
and lsmod:
user@host:~$ lsmod | grep -e ath -e ndis
ath3k 20480 0
bluetooth 491520 9 bnep,ath3k,btusb
ath9k 147456 0
ath9k_common 32768 1 ath9k
ath9k_hw 458752 2 ath9k_common,ath9k
ath 32768 3 ath9k_common,ath9k,ath9k_hw
mac80211 724992 1 ath9k
cfg80211 540672 4 ath,ath9k_common,ath9k,mac80211
output from wireless script: http://paste.ubuntu.com/12625978/
I'm running Ubuntu 15.04 on Linux 4.0.0-040000-generic on a Lenovo G510.
I'm wondering now if I could possibly have anything to do with my wireless mouse, which also operates on 2.4GHz..
In older versions of Ubuntu when you pressed Ctrl+Alt+L it would lock and blank the screen (start the screensaver). In 14.04 it just locks the screen.
How can I get it to lock AND blank the screen?
I've heard that apt has a new fancy colour and progress bar feature, but that I have to manually enable it.
How do I do this?
For various reasons I can no longer access my graphical desktop, and can only login via a tty (Ctrl+Alt+F1 through F6 by default).
To help diagnose and solve my problem I need to look through the logs and maybe put some of the info into my question or forum thread.
How can I get this information?
So I was randomly looking at images on my computer and I found these in /usr/share/gnome-control-center/pixmaps:
I didn't think Ubuntu had any built in fingerprint reader support. So why are these here and did I miss something? I haven't installed any fingerprint reader related packages that I know of.
I'm setting up a headless server, but I don't have ethernet access where I want to put it, so I need it to automatically connect to my WiFi network when it boots up (it has a wireless card). I can connect to an ethernet connection to set it up, but I need it to automatically connect to my access point from then on.
How can I configure this?
I would like to monitor dconf for changes so that while I tinker with settings, applications and the like I can see what keys are changed, if any.
Is there a way I can accomplish this?
I would like to temporarily (until next boot) disable a kernel module.
How can I do this?
I've heard a lot about Mir lately. It seems to be a big thing in the Ubuntu community.
What exactly is Mir and why is it so important? Will it affect me?
I have a spare Ubuntu machine lying around and I would like to install Discourse on it.
How do I do this? I'm running Ubuntu 13.04.
I've been seeing a lot of sed lately, and I find it to be a rather confusing command.
The manpages weren't particularly helpful, but I do know that it can be used for parsing the output of other commands.
What exactly is sed and what are it's uses? I'm looking for a comprehensive answer covering what sed is, what commonly it is used for, and some basic examples/syntax.
I want to change the key bindings on some of the keys on my keyboard. I want some to run commands and others to activate different keys.
What applications can I use to do this?
Index:
Default keyboard and shortcut settings (from within System Settings)
I want to download and install LibreOffice 4. How can I do this?
Is there any difference between
sudo apt-get purge <package-name>
and
sudo apt-get remove <package-name>
?
I often see people recommend one or the other.
In other words, what does apt-get purge remove that apt-get remove doesn't?
I have Gnome Shell installed, and I want to remove the Epiphany browser. But when I click uninstall in the software center its says that Gnome-core is a dependency of Epiphany, so it will be uninstalled too.
Is there anyway I can remove Epiphany without removing Gnome?
On running sudo apt-get -s remove epiphany as a commenter suggests, returns as not installed. Its still in my program list though.
I found out, the package that is installed is epiphany-browser. On running sudo apt-get -s remove epiphany-browser it still wants to remove gnome-core.
I installed kubuntu-desktop and every thing was fine. Then later when I actually logged in to Kde, I decided that I still like Unity better so I ran sudo apt-get purge kubuntu-desktop && sudo apt-get autoremove. After that bits and pieces of my Ubuntu/Unity have been Kde styled. All browsers have Kde icons and some applications show 'About Kde' in their menus, all text fields have that 'bluesh glow' around them, etc.
What is still left of Kubuntu?
Note: I saw this question and this question, but both where outdated and didn't work.
In Windows I can write a file containing commands for cmd (usually .cmd or .bat files). When I click on those files it will open cmd.exe and run them commands the file contains.
How would I do this in Ubuntu?
I'm sure this is a duplicate, but I can't find my answer.
Its similar to these questions, but they don't answer the question:
Is there a default Update Manager for Kubuntu? If there isn't can I install the Ubuntu Update Manager?
I know I can use
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
but sometimes I get something like:
0 to install 0 to remove, 0 new, 0 upgraded and 3 not upgraded
Any way to fix this?
Thanks.