The Unicode look of disapproval no longer displays correctly within Chrome and Firefox in Ubuntu 16.04:
As you can see, the Unicode replacement character is shown instead of the correct symbol. This was working fine in 15.04 - what do I need to do to get this fixed?
Help! Somehow my terminal looks like this:
It's nearly impossible to read the text. How can I fix it without exiting the terminal?
I would like to port Ubuntu Touch to a device that is currently not supported. What are the requirements for doing this and where do I begin?
I have an application that went completely crazy and sent (it seems like) hundreds of notifications to the notification daemon. Now I've been getting notification bubbles for the last few minutes and it is getting annoying.
How can I make them stop without logging off or rebooting?
Running sudo apt-get install <PACKAGE> will install the package, its dependencies, and any other recommended packages.
However, there does not seem to be a way to install only the dependencies of a package and exclude the package itself.
How would one go about doing this?
I installed Oneiric as a guest OS in VirtualBox using the Mini CD. I installed the ubuntu-desktop package and everything seems to work fine - well, except for a font issue with the terminal:
As you can see, some of the letters overlap and it's difficult to read. I checked the settings and it the checkbox "Use the system fixed width font" is checked with "Monospace | 12" selected underneath it.
Edit: running the commands mentioned in the comments:
$ fc-match "Monospace"
DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book"
$ gconftool --get /desktop/gnome/interface/monospace_font_name
Monospace 10
$ debsums ttf-dejavu-core
/usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/AUTHORS OK
/usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/BUGS OK
/usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/NEWS.gz OK
/usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/README OK
/usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/changelog.Debian.gz OK
/usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/copyright OK
/usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/langcover.txt.gz OK
/usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/status.txt.gz OK
/usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/unicover.txt.gz OK
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf OK
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf OK
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf OK
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf OK
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf OK
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif.ttf OK
Is there any way I can launch a new instance of Google Chrome from the command line? I'm not referring to opening a new window - I want a new instance. Here's why:
Suppose I open Chrome and navigate to a page somewhere. Then I SSH into the same account from somewhere else. When I run:
google-chrome
...all I get is a new tab in the existing window. This is absolutely useless when I'm connected via SSH.
How can I launch a separate instance of Chrome that runs in the same account, but is usable with SSH?
Is there a command I can use in Bash that will open a specific URL in the default browser?
When I run:
ls -n
I get something like:
-rwxrwxrwx 1 1000 1000 765528 2009-10-15 18:41 file1 drwxr-xr-x 10 1000 1000 4096 2010-12-07 20:50 dir1 drwxr-xr-x 3 1000 1000 4096 2010-10-24 16:57 dir2
What does the second column (the number) mean?
I have a script that I need to execute on an NTFS partition. The script's permission is set to 600.
I attempted to modify the permissions by running chmod 755 script.sh, which doesn't report a failure or anything - but it also doesn't change the permissions on the file:
$ stat script.sh
File: `script.sh'
Size: 297070 Blocks: 584 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 811h/2065d Inode: 35515 Links: 1
Access: (0600/-rw-------) Uid: ( 1000/ xxxxxx) Gid: ( 1000/ xxxxxx)
Access: 2010-09-30 14:05:16.041621000 -0700
Modify: 2010-09-30 14:05:05.070157000 -0700
Change: 2010-09-30 14:05:05.070475000 -0700
$ chmod 755 script.sh
$ stat script.sh
File: `script.sh'
Size: 297070 Blocks: 584 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 811h/2065d Inode: 35515 Links: 1
Access: (0600/-rw-------) Uid: ( 1000/ xxxxxx) Gid: ( 1000/ xxxxxx)
Access: 2010-09-30 14:05:16.041621000 -0700
Modify: 2010-09-30 14:05:05.070157000 -0700
Change: 2010-09-30 14:05:05.070475000 -0700
As you can see, it remains unchanged.
I would like to run two X server instances at the same time.
One would be an interactive session using the mouse and keyboard attached to the computer. The other would be a 'virtual' session that I could then connect to and use over a network.
In other words, I want something like telnet/ssh that allows me to log in to my Ubuntu machine from somewhere else. However, I would like at least a basic graphics display when I log in.
Is there a way to turn off the display (enter power saving mode) using a command?
For example, when the computer is inactive for a specific interval, the screen turns off to conserve energy. Is there a way to manually turn off the screen, yet keep the computer running normally?
This is a notebook, so there's no 'power-off' button on the monitor itself.
Whenever I am downloading packages using Ubuntu Software Center (or any package manager for that matter), my Internet connection slows to an absolute crawl. In fact, most requests timeout.
Is there a way to limit the bandwidth that Software Center uses when downloading packages?
I am interested in trying out the Blender 2.54 beta, but don't have the time or patience to download and install all of the dependencies for it and compile it myself.
Is there a PPA somewhere that I can use to obtain a pre-compiled package for it?
I'm thinking of having /tmp on its own partition... what would be a good filesystem to format it with?
The reason I ask is because the data being stored in /tmp is not permanent, so I don't need journaling, a fancy index, or anything.
Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian. It uses the same package format.
In what ways is Ubuntu different from Debian?
My /usr folder needs to get moved to a new partition. How can I do this without erasing the contents?
Can this be done while Ubuntu is running, or do I need to use the LiveCD for this?
I would like to set up an APT repository on a server that will provide a couple of packages.
Is there a way to set one up without installing any software on the server?
How do the files have to be organized?
Edit: I must be doing something wrong... can someone please help me? I have the repository at http://quickmediasolutions.com/apt/dists
I'm not sure where or what, but something's misconfigured. I only currently have one package and it's for all architectures.
Here's what's been added to my /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://quickmediasolutions.com/apt stable main
I would like Ubuntu to automatically synchronize my system clock with a timeserver at startup.
However, my PC isn't connected to the Internet until after I've logged in (plus 5 - 10 seconds for good measure).
How can I set it to do this?
Every time I turn on my computer, I see a message saying something like:
Your battery may be old or broken.
I am already aware that my battery is bad. How do I suppress this message?