A weird question, I know. Here's the script:
echo $USER
Here's the command I use to run it:
sudo ./myscript.sh
Right now it prints "root" but I want it to print jon, my username. Is there a way to do that by changing the script, and not the command?
Having just played around with Arch a little bit, the thing about it that impresses me the most about it is the AUR. With a tool like Yaourt, you can really easily install bleeding-edge software, some of which is from git, and it automatically compiles and installs it for you. Is there something like this for Ubuntu? I know about PPAs, but I don't really think they're an equivalent.
Edit: here's why I don't really think PPAs are the same as the AUR:
something-git will usually give you the latest package straight from GitHub. PPAs aren't updated dynamically like this, and so packages there are typically very out-of-date.
Multitouch seems to be working fine on Chromium out of the box, but not on Firefox. On Chromium, dragging a finger up or down the screen scrolls the screen as expected, but on Firefox, that gesture seems to be highlighting text. How can I get Firefox to play nice with multitouch gestures?
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 on a Lenovo Yoga 2 11" convertible laptop.
Edit: I read the page here which says that touch capability is present but disabled in FF. But enabling them and restarting doesn't seem to have any effect--dragging one's finger across the screen still only selects text.
The breakindent feature is the greatest thing ever, but it's in 7.4.338. The latest version in the Ubuntu repos is just 7.4, I think. I notice Arch has a package for it, but I can't seem to find one for Ubuntu yet. I'm hopeless with compiling things, otherwise I'd compile it myself.
If I'm debugging my graphics driver, I rely on the commandlines I can access by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1-F6. However, after installing the latest NVIDIA drivers, the screen goes black when I switch to those TTYs. How can I get the TTYs to work with the NVIDIA drivers?
I tried some of the proposals from other questions, like the "closed as too localized" question here: How do I get my blacked out ttys back? and the very involved suggestion here: Can't view output in tty. (Ctrl+alt+f1 to f6 don't work, and display a black screen).
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 with all the latest updates. Here's some system information:
└─>lspci | grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition] (rev a1)
└─>lsmod
Module Size Used by
pci_stub 12622 1
vboxpci 23194 0
vboxnetadp 25670 0
vboxnetflt 27613 0
vboxdrv 409768 3 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt,vboxpci
bnep 19624 2
rfcomm 69160 12
nls_iso8859_1 12713 1
arc4 12608 2
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 46254 1
btusb 32412 0
bluetooth 391196 22 bnep,btusb,rfcomm
uvcvideo 80885 0
videobuf2_vmalloc 13216 1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops 13362 1 videobuf2_vmalloc
videobuf2_core 40664 1 uvcvideo
videodev 134688 2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core
b43 387371 0
snd_hda_codec_cirrus 18855 1
mac80211 630653 1 b43
cfg80211 484040 2 b43,mac80211
ssb 62379 1 b43
snd_hda_intel 52355 5
snd_hda_codec 192906 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_cirrus
snd_hwdep 13602 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 102099 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_page_alloc 18710 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_midi 13324 0
snd_seq_midi_event 14899 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_rawmidi 30144 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 61560 2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
intel_rapl 18773 0
x86_pkg_temp_thermal 14205 0
intel_powerclamp 14705 0
coretemp 13435 0
snd_seq_device 14497 3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
kvm_intel 143060 0
snd_timer 29482 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
kvm 451511 1 kvm_intel
crct10dif_pclmul 14289 0
crc32_pclmul 13113 0
snd 69238 21 snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_cirrus,snd_seq_midi
ghash_clmulni_intel 13216 0
applesmc 19308 0
input_polldev 13896 1 applesmc
aesni_intel 55624 0
aes_x86_64 17131 1 aesni_intel
lrw 13286 1 aesni_intel
gf128mul 14951 1 lrw
glue_helper 13990 1 aesni_intel
ablk_helper 13597 1 aesni_intel
cryptd 20359 3 ghash_clmulni_intel,aesni_intel,ablk_helper
parport_pc 32701 0
ppdev 17671 0
lpc_ich 21080 0
lp 17759 0
bcma 52096 1 b43
parport 42348 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
nvidia 10527448 31
soundcore 12680 1 snd
drm 303102 2 nvidia
video 19476 0
mac_hid 13205 0
apple_bl 13993 0
mei_me 18627 0
mei 82276 1 mei_me
hid_apple 13386 0
hid_generic 12548 0
tg3 166442 0
sdhci_pci 23172 0
sdhci 43015 1 sdhci_pci
ptp 18933 1 tg3
pps_core 19382 1 ptp
ahci 25819 4
usbhid 52570 0
libahci 32560 1 ahci
hid 106148 3 hid_generic,usbhid,hid_apple
uvesafb 28686 0
Edit: I'm using the package nvidia-340 from the xorg-edgers PPA:
└─>apt-cache policy nvidia-340
nvidia-340:
Installed: 340.24-0ubuntu1~xedgers14.04.1
Candidate: 340.24-0ubuntu1~xedgers14.04.1
Version table:
*** 340.24-0ubuntu1~xedgers14.04.1 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
I also tried disabling the framebuffer as described here: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=168108#p864284. Still no luck.
Edit: I'm now using the package nvidia-343 from the xorg-edgers PPA:
└─>apt-cache policy nvidia-343
nvidia-343:
Installed: 343.13-0ubuntu1~xedgers14.04.1
Still no luck.
I have an Apple Magic Mouse, and it's almost unusable since the sensitivity is too high. Yet in the Mouse/Touchpad settings, the pointer speed is set to the slowest possible setting. Is there a way to manually change this setting so that it's much slower than the slowest setting?
I installed Django with this command:
sudo apt-get install python-django
And it installed version 1.5.4-1ubuntu1. The Django docs say that as of version 1.5, Django supports Python 3. Yet when I run the python 3 interpreter and try importing Django, it says there's no such module. I tried looking for a python3 version of Django, but no such package exists. How can I get django working on python3? I'd prefer to use ubuntu packages instead of installing things manually.
Every time I download a torrent file (.torrent), Firefox thinks I should open it with a text editor. How can I get it to open with Transmission? In Edit -> Preferences -> Applications, there's no setting for torrent files, and no apparent way to add a new filetype.
According to the jekyll site, this is how you make a new website with jekyll:
~ $ gem install jekyll
~ $ jekyll new myblog
~ $ cd myblog
~/myblog $ jekyll serve
gem install jekyll didn't work, nor did sudo gem install jekyll:
└─>gem install jekyll
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES)
Permission denied - /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/fast-stemmer-1.0.2/LICENSE
┌─[Sat Jun 08][jon@jon-MacMini:~/Web]
└─>sudo !!
sudo gem install jekyll
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing jekyll:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 extconf.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot load such file -- mkmf (LoadError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
from extconf.rb:1:in `<main>'
Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/fast-stemmer-1.0.2 for inspection.
Results logged to /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/fast-stemmer-1.0.2/ext/gem_make.out
I also tried following the answer here, but that doesn't help. sudo apt-get install jekyll works. Even then, though, running jekyll new myblog returns this error:
└─>jekyll new myblog
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': iconv will be deprecated in the future, use String#encode instead.
WARNING: Could not read configuration. Using defaults (and options).
No such file or directory - new/_config.yml
Building site: new -> myblog
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/jekyll/site.rb:126:in `chdir': No such file or directory - /home/jon/Web/new/ (Errno::ENOENT)
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/jekyll/site.rb:126:in `read_directories'
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/jekyll/site.rb:98:in `read'
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/jekyll/site.rb:38:in `process'
from /usr/bin/jekyll:250:in `<main>'
Anyone know what's causing this?
I've been trying to get vim with the breakindent patch applied, but it's only available through Quantal, and I'm running Raring. Is there a way to force-install a PPA from a previous release? I tried manually downloading all the packages and running sudo dpkg -i but I get lots of errors about dependencies, some of which don't look like they can be resolved. Am I stuck with having to compile vim myself?
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Permissions mystify me. I'm worried about compromising the security of my folder, too, since it's public.
It used to be gnome-power-manager or something of that sort, but now I can't seem to find it. When I run gnome-session from within awesome, it loads all the applets, i.e. nm-applet and the keyboard layout switcher, yet it doesn't load the battery applet, and so I'd like to launch it with a command.
The Apple Magic Mouse appears to work with Ubuntu so far, but only a couple multitouch functions seem to work. With the trackpad, there are lots of other functions with utouch. What I'd really like to do is map two-finger swipes to back/forward in a browser.
I just upgraded to 12.04. When I press the super key to open the dash, there's a lag of 1-3 seconds before it displays, with no other programs running. (This is similar, but not identical, to the issue described in Dash application search unresponsive at startup about 11.10.) At login time, this lag is up to 10 seconds, and sometimes the dash doesn't respond at all to the super key.
In contrast, the launcher Kupfer immediately responds to its hotkey, in milliseconds, and responds to my typing an application name also in fractions of a second.
Is there a way to load the dash in memory or a RAM disk of some sort to make it more responsive?
I'd love to be able to set different backgrounds for different tabs in Awesome WM. Is there a way to do this?
I've been reading as much as I can online, but none of it seems to work (i.e. changing ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua).
I've installed awesome window manager from the repos, and I log into it via GDM, and now I'd like to get it to start a few applications every time I log into the session.
I've tried going to Region and Language and adding a layout, even making it the default layout, but for some reason I'm stuck with my original layout and I can't seem to change it. In GNOME 2 and in Unity, there's a panel applet that allows you to quickly change between keyboard layouts, but there doesn't seem to be one in Gnome Shell. Does anyone know a way to get that applet in the panel (loading it manually?) or at the very least change the keyboard layout via the terminal?
Many of the Drupal distributions I've seen are made for earlier versions of Ubuntu: drubuntu only works in 10.10; the Acquia .debs are for <10.x, and I've been told the versions in the repos are out-of-date. What's the easiest way to set up a local testing server for Drupal?
I'm testing Natty, and Compiz keeps crashing on me. However, it doesn't always give me the option to restart Compiz, and for some reason doesn't have a fallback window manager(WM) configured.
Without a WM, all my programs are still running, but they're not accepting input from the keyboard, and I can't switch between them.
I can, however, press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and get a terminal, and I can killall Xorg to reset everything; but, I'd rather just reset Compiz, if possible.
If I try typing compiz --replace in the TTY, it complains "fatal--couldn't open display." Is there a way to have TTY1 restart Compiz? Like compiz --replace --display=something?
Additionally, is there a way to configure a fallback window manager so that there's an easier way to recover from Compiz crashing?
So I'm messing around with Natty a little, and I noticed that all the apps that would normally use the system tray (or "notification area"?) aren't displaying there. Is that a bug, or is that the way it's going to be? I heard something about Ubuntu getting rid of that feature entirely. Is there a way to add it back? I mean, I didn't really like it, either, especially when there were apps that used it unnecessarily, but I can't use CryptKeeper at all now, or easycrypt, and I don't know whether Dropbox has synced without opening Nautilus.