Rick's questions

I would like to know how to send or move a window from one monitor to another with a shortcut key under Ubuntu 12.04 and nvidia 8600 GT without proprietary nvidia drivers.

Now, I know I can configure keyboard shortcuts under the "system settings" and "keyboard" but move a window from one monitor to another is not one of the options. Specifically, I'm not interested in moving from one workspace to another, nor do I want to move among multiple windows of the same program. I want to take my gvim (or firefox) window and have it go from the left to right monitor (or vice versa) without having to use the mouse.

There must be a good way to do this, does anyone know?

Thank you, your help is very much appreciated!

Rick

NOTE: I'm avoiding using the proprietary (and ill-reputed) drivers for my nvidia 8600 GT. I did that under my first install of 12.04 and lost the ability to rotate the screens (I use both in portrait view) and couldn't get it back again, which forced me to reinstall 12.04. At this point I'm far enough along in setting things up nicely I don't want to have to reinstall again.

I know there is a similar post here: USB Bose speakers with ubuntu 12.04 But it hasn't been resolved/answered and I've learned a little more about the problem, so I thought I'd start a new thread on it.

I'm hoping someone can help me to get my Bose USB speakers to run through USB without crackling in Ubuntu 12.04 They are these speakers: http://www.bose.com/controller?url=/shop_online/digital_music_systems/computer_speakers/companion_5/index.jsp

Using the "sound" gui in 12.04, I have Output set to "Bose USB Audio." It often starts the subwoofer at maximum volume for some reason I don't understand.

The main problem is that playing video in Firefox or Chrome (both) eventually causes the sound to die (go completely silent). At other times, (like if I play an .avi file) the sound crackles or is garbled, but I can still make out the words people say fine.

It appears to be a pulse audio issue, but I've tried all the workarounds I've seen posted here, on ubuntuforums.org, and also on a few other sites, and nothing seems to work. I've make some followup posts but no one has responded. I can turn off my onboard sound in my system bios, but that doesn't seem to help. I've modified a .conf file, but that didn't work either (changing -2 to -1 to and deleting a couple lines so USB would load, but like I said, it's not that the sound won't work at all, it's that it seems to get overloaded and stop working).

Of particular interest, I have noticed that (a) the more tabs I open at once with video playing, the faster the sound goes silent and (b) I sometimes get sound when I move the mouse around the screen or when I scroll webpages.

Additionally, after working to solve this problem at some length, I seem to have introduced a new (though minor) issue: Now when I'm booting into ubuntu (when the splashscreen is on) I get some high pitched squealing sounds. They go away when my login comes up, but it would be nice to eventually get rid of this too.

Thank you for your help.

I posted a log file from my audio from during the problem (from working to non-working state) in the first link I copied above.

Can anyone tell me how to configure all the buttons on a Logitech MX 620 mouse under Ubuntu 12.04?

Specifically, I like to make one of them just the Ctrl key (for control clicking webpages) and another one Ctrl+W to close tabs. I also normally make the scroll wheel page down for each click (otherwise it hurts my arms to be scrolling so much). I make pushing the wheel to the left = pageback and pushing to the right = page forward.

I've searched for other answers to this and found something related here

But when I posted a followup post to solve the issue, no one responded --perhaps I made the mistake of posting to a question that had been "solved." I'm not sure how I'm supposed to reopen a question that is pertinent to my question but doesn't quite solve mine.

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Is there such a thing as a restore point in Ubuntu?

I'm new to linux (Ubuntu 12.04) and I'm finding that as I try to do new things, I end up breaking parts of my installation. It would be very useful if there is an easy way to back things up so that I can revert to a previous working version of my environment. What's the best (and simple) way to do this?

I'm thinking it must be something like a Windows Restore point, but some of my searches have found people specifically saying there's nothing like that (it is not how linux 'works').

I was trying this symbolic link approach because of the problem described here: https://askubuntu.com/a/120221/70462

After I made the symlink, the installation proceeded further than before, but it eventually asked for my password (in an extra small x-term window within the AIR installation window). When I typed in my password, it told me there was an authentication failure. I tried about 8 times total (on 3 separate install attempts), but even when I was certain I was typing my password correctly, it would tell me there was an authentication error.

Specifically the text in the x-term window was:

TITLEBAR: xdg-su: /tmp/air.x0rSdF/setup
TERM:  This application requires administrative rights to run
Please enter root Password:
su: Authentication failure
Please enter root Password:

Any ideas?