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I am looking for something similar to winamp.

I have seen other threads but I have tried some solutions and they did not work. I tried Banshee that comes with Ubuntu 11.10 but it does not open last song. I tried Rhythmbox with the remember last song plugin however it does not remember the playlist I got the song from so it would start shuffling all my music. I tried Amarok and it does the same thing as Banshee except cannot even play my playlist and starts playing all my music. I tried audacious but importing my playlist .m3u doesnt allow me to select the individual playlists and play them.

I just moved from Windows using winamp and would like a music player that can open playlists .m3u and when I open the application later that it opens the last song and playlist and I can press the play hotkey and music will start playing on startup similar to winamp. I do not care about any additional functionality or user interface.

Hello I am using Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome 3 installed. I have issues with the fan (I know that there are many threads about this but nothing has worked).

I am using Dell Studio XPS 1640 running core2duo 2.67Gz intel processor and Ati radeon hd (mobility) 4670. If you need anymore specs, please let me know.

I just installed Ubuntu again trying to get everything sorted out. I then imediately updated:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

And then I install gnome 3

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

Then I DID NOT install the proprietary drivers provided by ATI because I know that they are incredibly unstable with Gnome 3 (plus a ton of errors that I lived with on Unity for about 2 months including screen tearing, half the screen doesn't draw/update and lots of crashes).

The ui is smooth and fast with the open source ati drivers (installed when Ubuntu was installed). I then tried to reduce the fan by installing Jupiter:

sudo apt-get install jupiter

And CPU freq

sudo apt-get install indicator-cpufreq

And running sensors:

sudo apt-get install lm-sensors
sudo sensors-detect

I also read that I was suppose to run fancontrol

sudo pwmconfig
sudo fancontrol

However running pwnconfig gives me this output

/usr/sbin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed

So naturally fancontrol doesnt work.

After this, the fan is always on. I set the pc to powersaving mode and still always has the fan on. Typing sensors in terminal gives me this output

acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:        +56.0°C  (crit = +100.0°C)
temp2:        +46.0°C  (crit = +100.0°C)
temp3:        +60.0°C  (crit = +100.0°C)

coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0:       +51.0°C  (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 1:       +51.0°C  (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)

radeon-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:        +61.0°C

Which my radeon temperature is always around 60 (even cold boot). I go to my Windows 7 partition and the fan dies down quickly. I boot back to Ubuntu from shutdown and once the login screen comes up, the fan is on and loud (even if the laptop was cold from external temperatures). Also there is no option in bios to limit the fan speeds.

Furthermore, I have also done the steps listed on this webpage: http://javacolors.blogspot.com/2011/10/ubuntu-1110-ati-radeon-deal.html

Is there any other methods without installing the ati proprietary drivers to solve this fan solution?

I am trying to package a program I wrote (using Pyqt4) into a single executable for linux. I tried using Pyinstaller however it has problems with importing Gio (for settings)

from gi.repository import Gio

Running the application would give:

ImportError: cannot import name Gio

I then tried to use bbFreeze. The problem here is that after compiling and running the application, I get this error message:

TypeError: GObject.__init__() takes exactly 0 arguments (1 given)

For bbFreeze this is my script I am running to compile the code:

#!/usr/bin/env python

from bbfreeze import Freezer

includes = ["gio"]
excludes = []

bbFreeze_Class = Freezer('dist', includes=includes, excludes=excludes)

bbFreeze_Class.addScript("main.py", gui_only=True)

bbFreeze_Class.use_compression = 0
bbFreeze_Class.include_py = True
bbFreeze_Class()

I am using Ubuntu 11.10 and Python 2.7. If someone can help that would be great. This is my first time writing Python and trying to compile it (so I am not sure if there are better alternatives).

Is there a way to access the variables to edit via bash (or other libraries with bash or python)? Similar to how you can use 'gconftool-2' in bash to edit properties that would update them after edited.

For example, I would like to run a script to disable 'the file manager to handle the desktop' by terminal (bash or python) instead of opening this window each time.

I also have tried making 'show_desktop' to false in nautilus in gconf-editor but that doesn't do anything.

I am using Ubuntu 11.10 and compiz as the window manager on Gnome (2 I believe, or whatever comes with 11.10).