When I copy/paste from a website into gnumeric (or LibreOffice Calc) from a website, I want to be able to quickly strip away all hyperlinks and leave just text.
How do I do this?
Solutions in either program will be accepted, although gnumeric is preferred.
I need to get a list of all the files that only differ in case.
I.e., if I have a folder (with sub-folders) with the files:
one.txt
ONE.txt
two.txt
three.txt
three.TXT
four.txt
five/5.txt
five/6.txt
five/6.Txt
I want some bash magic that will spit out:
one.txt
ONE.txt
three.txt
three.TXT
five/6.txt
five/6.Txt
I want to be able to automatically terminate ssh connections that are idle for more than 10 minutes.
How do I do this?
I want merge (union) output from two different commands, and pipe them to a single command.
A silly example:
Commands I want to merge the output:
cat wordlist.txt
ls ~/folder/*
into:
wc -l
In this example, if wordlist.txt contains 5 lines and 3 files, I want wc -l to return 8.
$cat wordlist.txt *[magical union thing]* ls ~/folder/* | wc -l
8
How do I do that?
I like dark background, light text layouts. However, it is still making hyperlinks dark blue, which makes them very hard to read.
Here's a screenshot. The program is Zim, but the color scheme is the same by most programs.
Is there a way to change that? Is this something that I can set in the theme? I'm using a theme called Giungla.
I use Synergy to control both of my desktops from the same keyboard and mouse. Is there a way to send Alt+Ctrl+F1 (or related combinations) to the client desktop using Synergy?
I tried using the suggestion below, but got:
$ chvt 1
Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console
Other ideas? I would still prefer a way to send the actual keystrokes over synergy, but if that's not possible, a work around that works will be accepted.
The different branches (xubuntu for example): are they released the same day as the main branch? IE will xubuntu 12.04 come out the same day as Ubuntu 12.04, or is there a lag? Is there an official policy posted somewhere?
Title pretty much says it all. I want to tell Thunderbird to edit and send emails in plain text by default.
How do I do that?
First off, I realize that what I'm hoping to get is not the expected behavior.
On my older desktop, I have the following set up: Ubuntu 10.04. Xfce running (installed after the fact). I use the Xfce4-terminal, with transparency turned on. In this set up, as expected when a terminal window is over the desktop, it shows the desktop background image. However, if I drag the terminal window on top of a window, it continues to show the background as if the window wasn't there. 
It's kind of weird that way, but I've gotten used to it.
Now, as I've set up my new desktop (11.10 w/ Xfce installed) transparency works the 'normal/correct' way, but I'd rather have it go back to leaving out windows.
So is it possible to get my new setup to do the old way?
I'm trying to use sshfs to share a folder between two of my computers.
I can ssh from the server, and see the folder I want to share. However, when I run sshfs, I get:
david@desktop2:~$sshfs desktop1:~/folder/ ~/Documents/folder/
desktop1:~/folder/: No such file or directory
Desktop2 is running 11.10. Desktop1 is running 10.04.
I ssh from desktop2 to desktop1 and view the folder, and I can use scp to copy a file from one computer to another.
What do I need to do differently for this to work?
Is there a commandline tool for viewing/opening excel (.xls) files?
So the answer works great unless the worksheets don't have a custom name.
When I try to open the file, I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/py_xls2csv", line 17, in <module>
for sheet_name, values in parse_xls(arg, 'cp1251'): # parse_xls(arg) -- default encoding
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pyExcelerator/ImportXLS.py", line 334, in parse_xls
raise Exception, 'No workbook stream in file.'
Exception: No workbook stream in file.
However, if I open up the file and rename the sheet to 'test' or something it works fine. What do I need to tweak so that it can handle the default names? (Sheet1, etc)
The file I'm trying to open at present has only 1 sheet, named Sheet1.
When I open a new tab in Chromium, it displays the 'new tab' page, which (among other things) contains the 'most visited' pages. I want to add a new webpage to that list. How do I do that?
I've tried visiting the webpage several times, and clicking the 'X' for the other choices, but it never shows up. Is there a way to manually edit what pages show up there?
I have a folder with quite a few files in it. I want to display the following:
filename_1
first line of file1
second line of file1
third line of file1
filename_2
first line of file2
second line of file2
third line of file2
filename_3
first line of file3
second line of file3
third line of file3
etc. How can I do that?
I have a poster I would like to print. It is far larger than a single sheet of paper that can fit in my printer. What is a program that I can use to print it out on separate sheets of paper (to assemble later)?
How do I create an encrypted (password protected) zip file?
I have a desktop running ubuntu 10.04 I want numlock to be turned on initially. What do I have to change to accomplish this?
~~edit~~
I checked in my BIOS. It was already set up to have the numlock turned on initially. Yet it isn't being turned on initially. I have a USB keyboard: would that break this functionality? Or, should I ask elsewhere (superuser, perhaps) about how to get that BOIS setting working properly?
I use synergy. I would like to synergy to start as soon as I turn on my computer. How do I do that?
To start synergy, the command is:
synergys --config ~/.synergy.conf
How can I manually edit the track play count for a track for Banshee?
I want to be able to have a keyboard short-cut to either start or bring to the front a program. (sqldeveloper if it matters)
I know how to run it, that leaves:
1) how do I find out if a program is already running?
2) how do I bring the program the other top of other open windows?
~~ edit ~~
Thanks for the responses so far. When I run either of those commands to get the list of running processes, I get the following:
doneill 3492 1 0 Nov16 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/sqldeveloper
doneill 3493 3492 0 Nov16 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash /opt/sqldeveloper/sqldeveloper.sh
doneill 3495 3493 0 Nov16 ? 00:00:00 bash sqldeveloper
doneill 3552 3495 1 Nov16 ? 00:25:07 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.22/bin/java -Xmx640M -Xms128M -Xverify:none -Doracle.ide.util.AddinPolicyUtils.OVERRIDE_FLAG=true -Dsun.java2d.ddoffscreen=false -Dwindows.shell.font.languages= -XX:MaxPermSize=128M -Dide.AssertTracingDisabled=true -Doracle.ide.util.AddinPolicyUtils.OVERRIDE_FLAG=true -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.conf -Dsqldev.debug=false -Dide.conf="/opt/sqldeveloper/sqldeveloper/bin/sqldeveloper.conf" -Dide.startingcwd="/opt/sqldeveloper/sqldeveloper/bin" -classpath ../../ide/lib/ide-boot.jar oracle.ide.boot.Launcher
I do launch it via the .sh script. It is a java based program. Which of those are the one I'd be interested in? I tried using the xdotool to raise it, I haven't been successful yet, although I don't have time tonight to dig into the man pages.
If I run xdotool search Orac ('Oracle SQL Developer' is the start to the title of the window), it returns a bunch of numbers. Do one of these represent what I'm interested in?
I have one of those fancy keyboards with the extra media keys. For years, I more or less ignored them. Then my work got my a MacBook, and behold, I got spoiled. Now I want them to work when I'm using my desktop, too. (ubuntu 10.04 using XFCE)
So, how do I do that? I'm most interested in the play/pause button and the volume control buttons. I know how to set them to an application, but I don't know what the command for 'turn volume up' or 'pause banshee'.
~~ edit ~~
Note: I do not use xubuntu. I tried installing it, but found that adding xfce to ubuntu worked better me than xububtu did. (This happened back in the spring, and I don't remember specifically what my issues were)