Jay's questions

I'm looking for a GNOME Shell extension that will make it so that there are different applications showing up in the Dash depending on which workspace I'm on. Essentially, I want favorites segmented by workspace.

For example:

• Workspace 1 Dash (Personal): Thunderbird, Firefox, accounting app
• Workspace 2 Dash (Work): Gmail, Slack, Citrix

There is a "Workspace Isolated Dash" extension, which gets part way there by only showing favorites + applications with open windows on that workspace in Dash. But this doesn't segment favorites by workspace.

Any extensions that could do this? Or other ways to customize the GNOME Shell in this way?

My current laptop won't power on at all. It's not just the battery, pretty sure the motherboard is fried. (Assume it's irreparable.)

The hard drive on the laptop (SSD, in case that matters) was encrypted when I installed Ubuntu 16.04. Unfortunately for me, my external hard drive died about a month ago and I had yet to set up a new backup external when this laptop bit the dust. So at present I'm missing about a month of work.

How can I retrieve the data off of the dead laptop's encrypted hard drive and transfer it to a new laptop? (Assume the hard drive is intact and there are no problems there.)

I need OpenGL 4.0+ to play a game.

I have an Intel i7-4770S. According to the manufacturer page for my driver + integrated graphics, it supports up to OpenGL 4.3.

However, when I run

glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version"

I get:

OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3

I understand that Ubuntu 16.04 includes OpenGL 4, but I'm trying to avoid having to upgrade for the time being. (The auto upgrader wouldn't work because of unsupported packages and I don't want to do a full reinstall at the moment.)

So, is there a way that I can get to OpenGL 4 while still on 14.04? (And if not, is it certain that I'll have OpenGL 4 support for my processor in 16.04?)

Thanks!

On the Ubuntu certification website (http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/) laptops are only certified through 14.04; it doesn't look like any laptops have been certified with 16.04. Does anyone know when those certifications will be out? Looking to buy a new laptop to run Ubuntu and I'd like it to be certified.

I'm in the process of doing a system re-install. I've seen: How to backup settings and list of installed packages

There are a couple of specific apps I want to double check that all their data/metadata will be saved if I copy my home directory (with hidden directories). So I wanted to ask where Banshee stores the metadata about podcast subscriptions, old vs new podcasts, and playlists, etc.

I'm trying to create a live wallpaper slideshow that will display a specific image for every day of the year. Effectively a live desktop calendar.

I've seen the question How do I create a desktop wallpaper slideshow? , but I want to ask something more specific: How can I specify displaying a specific image on a specific date? For instance, is there an "isdate" boolean operator I can use here? Or Is there some way I could hack the <starttime> section to make it display a specific image by date? Or is there a better way to do this?

I've seen this question: Home network printer recommendations but I think I'm asking something more basic. I'm not really familiar with networked printers or how they work or what they do really. What I'd like is to have a printer that is accessible to anyone connected to my home network, without having to plug into the printer itself.

An alternative setup might to be to have a printer that is always hooked up to one computer, like a desktop, that is almost always on and allows other computers connected on the network to print to it as well.

I believe the first option is called a networked printer and the second is printer sharing. But again I'm new to this so I don't really know the details or if I'm using the correct terminology. I was wondering if someone might be able to shed some light on this and let me know what is needed for either of these setup. Thanks.

A friend of mine just upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04 and the icons for the indicator applets all appear cut off on both the bottom and the top. See picture above. Note that the icons in the old systray/notification area on my friend's panel all still display correctly, so it's a problem with indicator clearly. My question: How can this be fixed? (I have a 10.04 system that I did a fresh install on, and I don't have this issue, so I'm guessing it's an issue with upgrading. Thanks.

I'm looking for a simple countdown timer application, something similar to timer-applet, which appears to be deprecated. (It's in the repositories but when I tried to install it there were dependency issues with gnome-audio and it hosed my system.)

My ideal app would have the following features:

• is lightweight and fast (starts up fast and doesn't use a lot of system resources)
• has functionality for user-defined presets for commonly used times (like for using the 10+2 work method)
• plays a sound and displays a notification when the time set is reached.
• is a native GNOME app & not a webapp
• is an indicator applet

Note: I am looking for a countdown timer app, not a timetracking app.

I have the Bindwood extension for Firefox bookmark syncing through UbuntuOne installed on two of my computers and none of the bookmarks have synced between them. The UbuntuOne wiki has instructions for what to do in this situation: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/FAQ/WhyArentBookmarksSyncing

I'm worried that those instructions might break my existing UbuntuOne configuration. (It was hard enough to get regular file syncing working properly, so I'd rather not risk breaking anything.) But deleting the password entries for CouchDB and removing ~/.config/desktop-couch/desktop-couchdb.ini has me worried.

Syncing Thunderbird contacts with UbuntuOne previously relied on the Funambol sync client, which used UbuntuOne's beta phone sync feature to basically treat Thunderbird as a phone. With the introduction of paid syncing for phones, it doesn't seem like there is anyway to sync Thunderbird contacts with UbuntuOne without paying for a phone plan. Since that seems a little steep to just get that single piece of functionality, I was wondering if there are any other ways to sync Thunderbird contacts with UbuntuOne - either through couchDB or perhaps mirroring Thunderbird contacts to Evolution?

(There is a question on this general topic already: UbuntuOne contact synching for Thunderbird? , however, this is from before the plan and pricing restructuring was done and the answer provided is to use Funambol in UbuntuOne, so I thought it better to open a new question)