Trufa's questions

I rebooted, then closed every program I could think of and I still hear repeating after around 15 seconds:

Here's what it sounds like. (Minus the static, that's just the recording)

Is there any way of knowing which program is doing which sounds, or any sound at all? How do I start debugging this?

I am having trouble with some wifi connections. Some questions I’ve read seem to blame the Broadcom drivers.

I ran the following:

sudo apt-get remove  broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source bcmwl-kernel-source

After reboot, it seemed that no driver was installed.

My wireless card is the BCM4313, and according to Ubuntu’s guide for the Broadcom BCM43xx, I would need the brcmsmac driver. This seems correct according to kernal.org Broadcom documentation.

The thing is, I don't know whether I have to install it, or how. Apparently it should be there by default, but when I run:

sudo insmod brcm80211

I get

insmod: ERROR: could not load module brcm80211: No such file or directory

• How can I go about trying other drivers to see if any work?
• How do I install brcmsmac?

How can I search through Klipper's saved clipboard history?

There doesn't seem to be any option available.

I want to be able to always make the terminal window pop-up with focus with the same keyboard shortcut.

I've found so far that if I right-click the window and go to More Actions > Window Shortcuts, it does exactly what I want.

The problem is, the shortcut doesn't survive the window close. I would like to find a way to make this permanent, even after reboot.

Please note that I'm not asking for a global keyboard shortcut to open the window, that is already correctly configured, I only want to give the focus to the window as the window shortcut does.

I was going through list (the first post)...

I changed some of the settings and some other things in the system menu, but somewhere for some reason, the font of most applications changed, and now they seem thinner and don't seem to render correctly:

I went through what I think was all the options I changed and can't seem to bring back the correct/better rendering.

I didn't change anything in the font management.

In the application appearance > style > Fine tuning I now have it set to high resolution high cpu, but it doesn't help.

In the dektop effects > All effects menu, there doesn't seem to be anything related.

Workspace appearance is untouched.

I'm not sure what could it be.

The dialog that appears when I press Alt+F2 froze (what is it called? minicli?), I then proceeded to kill it by clicking it after running the command xkill, this was the message:

xkill: killing creator of resource 0x240017b

I then tried restarting plasma-desktop:

killall plasma-desktop
plasma-desktop

Thought this seemed to correctly restart the desktop, it didn't solve the problem since Alt+F2 doesn't launch the launcher.

Sometimes when I run a command I don't notice that I needed to run it as super user to have enough permission.

Is there a way to run the same command again but as a super user?

I have the following directory structure:

webiste/
    locale/
        en/
             LC_MESSAGES/
                     translation.po
        de/
            LC_MESSAGES/
                     translation.po
        fr/
            LC_MESSAGES/
                     translation.po

I am using the find command to get to all the .po files and apply the msgfmt command to them.

So when I run this command:

find . -name \*.po

The output is

./locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/translation.po
./locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/translation.po
./locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/translation.po

Just as expected but now I when I add this:

find . -name \*.po -exec msgfmt "{}" \;

It outputs nothing and it does not create the .mo files it is supposed to (If I do it to each file individually the msgfmt command works as expected).

This is weird since if I change the command to this:

find . -name *.po -exec echo "{}" \;

It outputs the names of the files correctly.

I've sort of solved it like this:

find . -name \*.po -exec msgfmt "{}" -o {}.mo \;

But it outputs a translation.po.mo

How can this be done?

I am using ubuntu 11.10, with gnome3.

I installed gnome-tweak-tool, in the windows menu, I selected windowos focus mode: Sloppy.

I had never heard of it before but according to wikipedia sloppy focus means:

The sloppyfocus model is a variant of the followfocus model. It allows input to continue to be collected by the last focused window when the mouse pointer is moved away from any window, such as over a menubar or desktop area.

I activated it, and I can't see no clear difference with the mouse focus mode, even when I'm typing on a text-box, it seems to completly grab focus of the other window?

My questions are:

• Did I understand what the sloppy mode should do? Should I be able to continue writing even when the mouse is on another window?
• Why is it not working and how do I solve it?

Thanks in advance.

I would like to achieve what I was able to do in Ubuntu.

I've now switched to KDE and would like to have the buttons on the left hand side.

I have already set it for the "native" windows and they look like this:

I would like to have this:

On the other side (left).

Thanks in advance!

I am quite puzzled by this feature since it just seems off.

When I press Ctrl + }* and I'm not in a text box.

*(basically the key below the +, left of Enter)

I get this:

A huge address bar where I can type (in this case I had typed google.com - it's not by default). The with Enter it goes to that address.

I does not have all the extra omnibar functionalities.

I am very intrigued as to why this feature is there, it seems useless (specially having Ctrl + l), it doesn't "fit" the design either.

So if anyone has any ideas as to why that is there, I would like to hear it.

Thank in advance!

I want the same effect as with Super + W but for only the selected windows.

Is this possible to achieve this?

Related: Google desktop logo looks bad

In my previous question I was helped to solve this appearance problem, thought this is solved:

I still don't really like how it looks since the white contrasts too much.

Is it possible to change this image, so that it looks like this:

_{Thanks @desgua for the artwork}

I do clarify that I just want in working for this () background color.

Thanks in advance!

The Google Desktop icon in the system tray in Unity looks ugly:

Any way around this?