GNOME Shell doesn't have an option to hibernate in the session menu. I checked the GNOME Shell Cheat Sheet but hibernate is not mentioned there.
How can I hibernate my machine from within a GNOME Shell session?
If I go to a web address that doesn't exist such as http://testestewcsdijncijfkdmkdfkddmkmdmdsexsecsecfvrgtoejwfej.com/ I get landed on a strange Chinese page like this:
This happens for all web browsers. Why does this happen? Is this something installed on my computer (malware?) or is it something my ISP does?
Extra info in response to comments/answers:
(I don't really know much about networking so I don't know what much of this means)
/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 $COMPUTER_NAME
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
where $COMPUTER_NAME is my actual computer name.
/etc/resolv.conf:
# Generated by NetworkManager
domain 520b.com
search 520b.com
nameserver 192.168.1.1
Output of dig siadfiosjdfosjdfsifjs.co.nz:
; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> siadfiosjdfosjdfsifjs.co.nz
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
I have some audiobooks in my Audiobooks folder (~/Audiobooks). When importing them I follow this process:
- I click Audiobooks in the left hand pane.
- I right click on Audiobooks and click 'Import Media...'
- I choose to import from folders then go into my Audiobooks folder and click 'Import'
- It imports the audiobooks fine but into Music so I drag and drop them into Audiobooks - this causes them to be in both Music and Audiobooks
I delete them from Music in Banshee and from ~/Music (because I use these settings:
and Banshee is copying them to ~/Music)
I now have the audiobooks in Audiobooks in the Banshee library and stored in ~/Audiobooks but the audiobooks in Banshee don't play. It seems that Banshee thinks they are still in ~/Music.
How can I fix this problem?
I was in the middle of a large download in Chromium and the power supply to my computer failed (well I tripped over my power cord ...). I see the entry in chrome://downloads/ which says the download was cancelled.
There is a link to the file called "Retry download" but I would rather not start the download from scratch because I have limited downloads. How can I resume this download?
As I understand it, packaging recipes are a way to automate packaging into a PPA from a bzr branch. What I'm not sure of is how to go about setting one up. I have read the documentation but for some reason it still leaves me a litte confused about what to do.
- What is the step by step process of setting up a recipe? (A 'hello world' example would be useful)
- What needs to go into the branch? (eg. debian/ directory)
- What do you write in the recipe text field and what does it all mean?
When I click on a PDF link on Chromium I get a 'Missing Plug-in' page.
It used to be that it would download the PDF and then I could view it with Evince. To do this now I have to right click and click 'Save Link As...'. How can I get this to happen when I click on the link?
This is what about:plugins looks like:
I am using Ubuntu 10.10 32bit with Chromium 9.0.597.107 (75357).
There are many videos on sites such as YouTube that simply contain album art and an audio track. This is easy to do with tools such as openshot or pitivi but it is time consuming.
Is there a script or command that can be used to automate this process?
In a debian/control file, how do I specify a dependency on a package between 2 versions of that package?
For example: python 2.5 or higher but lower than python 2.7.
Depends: python ($VERSION_STRING)
What would $VERSION_STRING be?
Revenge of the Titans is one of the games from the Humble Indie Bundle. I downloaded the i386 .deb file (I'm on a 32bit installation) and tried to install it using the Software Centre. However, when it was nearly finished I got this error:
I then tried to install it using dpkg and it failed to install, giving the following error:
dpkg: error processing RevengeOfTheTitans-HIB-i386.deb (--install):
unable to create `/opt/revengeofthetitans/full_length_music/einleitung.mp3.dpkg-new' (while processing
`/opt/revengeofthetitans/full_length_music/einleitung.mp3'): No such file or directory
How can I resolve this?
I frequently run the ls command after running the cd command. How can I create an alias (like cs) for this operation?
Is it possible to query (using the command line) what device a particular file or folder is on?
All files are on some sort of storage device (eg. /dev/sda1). These storage devices are mounted at a particular point in the file system hierarchy (eg. /, /home).
I want to find out what device a file is on. For example, if /dev/sda3 is mounted on /home, given the file ~/document.odt, what command can I use to determine that the file is on /dev/sda3?
I find the man page format extremely painful to write. Is there a GUI (WYSIWYG or WYSIWYM) editor available to make this task easier? I'm hoping for an application that is to man pages as Kompozer is to web pages.
I have tried gmanedit but have found that it is basically just a text editor with some easily available snippets - it is necessary to know the man page format to use it and the editing area is just a text widget.
While I'd prefer software that is in the official Ubuntu repositories, I am OK with using unsupported methods for installation such as PPAs or installing from source.
By default Banshee rips CDs in Ogg Vorbis format. I prefer to rip my CDs in FLAC format. I can't find a setting anywhere to make Banshee rip to FLAC.
Is this possible? How do I do it?
The icons on the Unity launcher are square and contain the icon image and have a coloured background. The icons have different colours as their backgrounds (see screenshot). How does Unity decide what colour this should be?
Ctrl+Alt+← can usually be set to restart X, however I can't find the option to allow this (it is disabled by default).
I have looked in System->Preferences->Keyboard and System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts but I can't find an option to enable it.
Where can I change this setting?
I use LyX for creating documents and would like to be able to format the output of my documents so that they use the Ubuntu font.
In the LyX document settings, it appears that there are only a fixed number of fonts available.
Is it possible to add the Ubuntu font to this list?
If not, is there a way to use the Ubuntu font in LaTeX? I can export the LyX document to LaTeX, make my changes and then use pdflatex & co. to create a formatted document.
I'm trying to get the mime type of a file from the command line as a printed string (eg. application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet).
I looked up how to do this and found the xdg-mime command.
From reading the man page (man xdg-mime), it seems I should run xdg-mime query filetype FILE. However, when I run this with any file it prints nothing and exits.
Is there a way to fix this? An alternative command?
gtk-recordMyDesktop outputs .ogv files that seem perfectly fine - they work well in Totem and VLC. However, if I try to edit them in openshot or kdenlive, the editor either crashes (kdenlive) or won't show the video properly (openshot). PiTiVi appears to work but then locks up when it tries to render the video.
Using video conversion tools, such as ffmpeg outputs a video that is a jumble of colours; although it is just about possible to make out some movement.
The only way I've managed to edit the videos is to use DeVeDe to create a DVD .iso, mount the ISO and then edit the .VOB file(s).
This is a bit of a faff; does anyone know of a better way around this?
Some broadband providers impose a monthly download limit, charging extra if you go over. It is also quite easy to exceed some of the lower limits just by installing/updating packages and 'normal' browsing (which to me includes streaming TV programs and movies).
This means that you need to limit the amount you use the internet, yet it is hard to know when.
The System Monitor helps a bit with this by giving a total received/total sent in the networking section of the Resources tab. However, this is reset every reboot. It would be good if there was a way to have a monthly total received so you can know how close you are to exceeding your limit and maybe even be given warnings if it looks like you are going to exceed the limits.
Does anyone know of a way to achieve this?