farhad0011's questions

I've written two bash scripts to give read-only or read/write access to my NTFS partition:

read-only access:

sudo umount /media/Data_Drive/  
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o ro,user,auto,nls=utf8,umask=0000,uid=1000 /dev/sda2 /media/Data_Drive

read/write access:

sudo umount /media/Data_Drive/  
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o rw,user,auto,nls=utf8,umask=0000,uid=1000 /dev/sda2 /media/Data_Drive

It works perfectly if I only use terminal to work with the files. It also works with Nautilus in read-only mode but not in the read/write mode. In fact, Nautilus gives me an error when I try to copy a file to Data_Drive saying "The destination is read-only".

More funny, when I look at the permissions (by right-clicking on Data_Drive and then properties->permissions) I have all the required permissions to write a file in Data_Drive!

I am so confused why Nautilus behaves strangely. I appreciate if anybody could solve the mystery!

I know that X-system limits binding an action to a combination of mouse buttons (e.g. right click + mouse wheel up/down which I used to bind to sound volume up/down in windows but I cannot do the same thing under linux) but I was wondering if there is any way to get around this limitation?

Thanks in advance for your response

I have a problem with nomachine NX-client in Ubuntu. It seems that the keymapping has a problem. For example, the arrow keys do not work (except for up key which opens printscreen!). I searched online and found several solutions. However none of them worked for me:

solution 1)

On the server, change System->Preferences->Keyboard->Layouts to “Evdev-managed keyboard”

The server that I log into has Centos 5.7 on it and I cannot find “Evdev-managed keyboard” layout in keyboard setting. I tried several other generic keyboard layouts with no success.

solution 2)

add the following lines to /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
EndSection

I did it and my keyboard stopped working completely! I had to use the on-screen keyboard to remove this setting and get back to normal.

solution 3)

Run xmodmap -pke > localxmodmap locally

Copy the file to server as .Xmodmap

Run xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap from terminal.

which gives me a bunch of errors such as:

xmodmap:  /home/fzc23/.Xmodmap:60:  bad keysym name 'XF86Switch_VT_1' in keysym list

and doesn't work.

I do not know what else to do. I would appreciate if somebody could help me out.

BTW, the NX-client on windows connects to the same server with no keymapping problem so I believe this is a problem in Ubuntu and has nothing to do with the server side.