Zignd's questions

The scripts linked at /etc/rc0...6.d/ have numbers at the begining right after the letter S/K, so the question is what is order of execution? From the lower to higher or higher to lower? I also would like to know if there is any rules on these number, can I create a script with number 1, 2, ..., 97, 98, or only some specific numbers are allowed?

I'd like to run a script after the system boot and before the system shutdown, but as those scripts needs internet connection to perform its tasks at which runlevel folder should I place it?

I'd like to know if there is any alternative to Deep Freeze for Linux that still under development, because I've read some things on the internet and looks like the same company which developed Deep Freeze had a Linux version of it, but the project was discontinued.

After installing Gnome 3 on my Ubuntu 13.04 (Unity) the "notification dialog theme" (screenshot below) changed. I'd like to know if is possible to return to the Unity default notification dialog theme without needing to uninstall Gnome 3.

Thanks in advance.

For example there is a lot of text editors, media players, text editors, mail clients, etc, but only one of each group is selected to be delivered as pre-installed in the next version of Ubuntu. So, I'd like to know how are those applications rated to become a pre-installed application?

Do it need to be not that great so that applications other developers have written have the chance to be installed by the user? For example, let's say that the application AAA is the best of its group, but if this application is used as default/pre-installed, other applications from the same group will probably not be installed by the users because they will know that AAA is the best.

I'm planning to write a media player for Ubuntu to present in fair in the place I study. And I'd like to use GStreamer and GTK+ with Python, but I could not find a good documentation about the GStreamer binding on Python and I'd like to see some code examples. So I'd like to request (please) a list with some media players available in the Ubuntu repositories uses GStreamer, GTK+ and were written in Python? If possible in Python 3, but this may be asking too much.

Note: I tried to look for some on Launchpad but is pretty hard to find something in general there because there is no filters for searching something like media players.

Thanks.

David Planella wrote in his answer to a question I posted that:

...the recommended way to develop apps for Ubuntu is the Ubuntu SDK.

So I installed it, but looks like the supported programming language is C++. Does it mean I will need to know C++ to develop a new application for Ubuntu? Is C++ the recommended programming language for Ubuntu application now?

What about Python, I started learning it hoping to develop applications for Ubuntu.

Looks like they removed every content that is not related with development for desktop. For example when you click in "Get Started" tab there is only information about the Ubuntu Touch and its SDK, when you click on "Resources" tab and then on "Programming languages" you only see C++, JavaScript and QML (no Python, Java, Mono, etc). You also can't find any information about Quickly, try clicking on "Quicky" at "Resources" in the website bottom and you will see a "Page not found" error.

Is the site under maintenance or something else?

I'd like to know the Python version used on Quickly. I could not find the version on the Wiki.

I need an application that monitor how much time the computer is turned on. For example if I start the system at 12:03 AM and shut it down it at 3:16 PM and then in the same day I turn it on at 4:54 PM and shut it down at 7:47 PM, it would save this data so it could be reviewed later.

Do you know any application that perform such task?

I'd like to create a Windows bootable USB stick, but I don't have a Windows machine with me at the moment to do so. How could I achieve the same using Ubuntu?

After installing Ubuntu 13.04 (not upgrading to it, I did a "clean install" removing the older one), I'm not been able to shutdown the system.

After clicking the Shut Down button the desktop environment is terminated and the Ubuntu splash screen blink on the screen and a error in a black sceen (without the DE) just says the following:

acpid: exiting
speech-dispatcher disabled; edit /etc/default/speech-dispatcher

If there is something that I'm really addicted is in pushing the Backspace key every time I want to return to the previous directory in the old file manager (Nautilus), but now with Files I can't do it.

So I'd like to know how to do it on Files, or if there is any plugin that fits my purpose?

After removing the old version of Netbeans and installing the new version, I've being getting the problem. Looks like the Netbeans uninstaller removed everything related with it, except the link/shortcut, and now after I've installed the new version I always get two results in the Dash when I look for Netbeans (it also happens when I'm looking for it with the Applications Lens).

So, I'd like to know how to remove the "blank link" (that takes me nowhere when I click it).

Here is a printscreen/screenshot of the problem:

(Just click on it for the full resolution version)

Thanks.

I'm building an application and it's very important to me to know how to get this information. In LXDE, there is /usr/share/lubuntu/openbox/menu.xml that lists all the programs that can be executed from the LXDE menu.

For that reason, I'd like to know if there is some .xml file that is responsible for the organization of the Ubuntu Dash Home like the one in LXDE?

I'd like to know if there is any alternative to QJoyPad, I've tried to install it, but it's only available from the source and is not possible to compile it, because of some errors. Anyway, you can't install it from a deb package, because it was packed into deb for the last time in 2004-09-19 according to its official web-page in Source Forge.

So I'm here asking for a software recomendation or an alternative to QJoyPad.

What's QJoyPad:

A QT-Based program that takes input from joystick/gamepad devices and produces keyboard or mouse activity in XWindows. Great for games with no or mediocre joystick support as well as for emulation. Easy to set up. Supports any number of devices. From: Source Forge

Edit:

The error message is the following:

Error: you will need libxtst to compile this program

And this compiler (I think) ins't available in the repository, just it's libxtst-doc.

As you can see on this screenshot of Mik's Guake he has a startup message of ASCII art when he opens it, and that's what I'd like to do, can someone help me?

So guys, I'm answering some question from a school test (saved in .pdf) and I would like to do it like I did once on Okular, using a cursor-pen to mark the alternatives. Like on this screenshot from Okular official website. As you can see, he traced the title with a cursor-pen, this is what I want to do. And I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 not Kubuntu.

So, I want to install some packages/programs to get better graphics and performance while playing a game on Ubuntu 11.10. What packages/programs you guys recommend to me?

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How to know my root password?

I'd like to define a password for root so that I can use su directly, without having to prepend it with sudo. And because I'd like to log in as root as well.

So how to set a password for the root user?

Considering I have a bunch of files in a directory, I would like to bundle them into an ISO image file. How should I proceed to do that?