Amey Jah's questions

I have Dell laptop on which I have installed Windows 8.1. It is not pre-installed setup but I have later upgraded my windows to 8.1 version from 7->8->8.1.

I was able to install Ubuntu 12.04 using Wubi (because I don't have that secure boot or UEFI stuff) and it is working great.

But now I want to install Ubuntu 14.04, however upon trying to install, it did not show me the menu and directly went to this page (window).

How can I force it to install with 14.04 because I know it works perfectly atleast on my computer.

I do not want to use libreoffice and not able to find lightweight alternative for excel and ppt viewers.

So could you please tell me how can trick nautilus to open these files directly into google docs/drive using my default browser.

nautilus-gdoc seems to add this functionality, but it can not open it seemlessly. i.e. double clicking does not take me to browser and open the document.

I recently upgraded to 12.10 (fresh install). I am a facing weird problem:

When I boot, I get a message notifying me of low graphics. For now, I have been switching to console using Alt+F1 and then rebooting.

Upon reboot, I select recovery mode, allow system to boot and then again reboot.

Now I select normal mode and my graphics load smoothly.

Could you please tell me what could be the issue? I have a Dell Inspiron 5230 with Intel 4000 onboard graphics.

I use mplayer to view my videos. However, in 12.04, after installing mplayer, I do not see open with option in preference dialog. Could you please tell me how to add mplayer to the list.

I am pasting screenshot of my menus. Please let me know If I am missing any thing.

Note: In second image, video option contains single Movie player entry.

I am using 11.04. I have two users. (User1 and User2).

Could you please tell if it is possible to run Firefox or any other browser with another User's profile.

Let say, I am using User2 to access my office network via browser. So while working on User1, I want to access office network and dont want to switch from User1. So will it be possible to change few permissions so as to make firefox open only using User2's profile.

So scene would be something like this. 1) User1 clicks on firefox launcher 2) OS asks for User2's password 3) User1 enters User2's password 4) Firefox is launched with User2's profile. (It loads all configurations from ~/home/user2/.firefox)

I am on 11.10 64bit and I have installed flash from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/.

I had downloaded install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz and moved libflashplayer.so to ~/.mozilla and ~/.mozilla/plugins

I also have OSS installed because alsa does not work for me. I generally follow steps mentioned at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenSound and everything works fine.

But for 11.10, flash has no sound. I am not sure if that is OSS problem.

I generally watch lot of lengthy videos on YouTube. I always experience a problem because the screensaver is activated every 5 minutes.

I would like to know how to disable the screensaver while watching flash videos. I know, that I can change the screensaver timer or completely disable the screensaver. But I don't want to do that. I just want to disable it while I am watching full screen videos on my browser.

Update: I am using google chrome.

I am using natty unity. I am facing 1 intermittent problem. Sometimes, my application windows does not open completely. For example, please refer following image.

You may observe that my google chrome has opened two tabs whereas my firefox (Facebook tab) is running behind in the background. In such case, I am not able to operate on chrome. I have to minimize all open windows and then reopen google chrome. Please refer following image.

Any pointers to solve the problem.

I am on ubuntu natty unity. I am facing a problem regarding indicator-weather indicator applet. Sometimes, it does not work correctly and turns gray. Please see following image

If I click on refresh option then it works fine for 10-20 seconds and then again turns gray. For example, after refresh it will work for 10 seconds as shown in following image.

I am using "Weather Indicator 11.05.31 'Cloudy 8'" version of indicator-weather and I am using https://launchpad.net/weather-indicator PPA to install this software. Any pointers to solve this problem?

I am using Natty. I want to download or sync all of my picasa web photos on my disk. I know that using picasa I can do the same. But I do not want to use old (non - updated) version of picasa. (plus its 30Mb and requires another 60mb of downloading when installing via ubuntu software center).

Could you please tell me, how can I sync the photos using shotwell or any other light weight photo viewer/manager.

I am using Ubuntu 11.04. I want to run a script which checks for a running process and shuts down the system when that process ends. To do this, the user requires shutdown access so that the script may be executed without requiring a password.

I referred to this page and added the text in my sudoers file. However, it's still asking me the password whenever I execute sudo shutdown -h now. Also, I get an error saying root privileges are required, when I execute shutdown without sudo.

My sudoers file looks something like this.

# Cmnd alias specification
Cmnd_Alias      SHUTDOWN = /sbin/shutdown

# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
myusername    ALL = NOPASSWD: SHUTDOWN

How can I give permission to a user to execute the shutdown command without having to manually enter the password?

Thanks.

I am in a need of software which can track login and logoff timings on user basis. If possible, software should be cross platform. If you know such software, please share.

Well, I have accidentally deleted my Ubuntu drive. I just want to recover all the contents of /home.

Is there a way to do it? I referred to foremost, where I need to specify the extensions of files. And in my case, I don't know actual extensions. So, is there any utility which can let me recover my /home folder alone?

I have not even formatted that drive or touched it at all. So no write has been done on that drive.

If you have suggestions on how to recover, please tell me.

I was putty user. Putty allows you to select the text which gets copied to clipboard. Now on ubuntu, I am using Terminal to connect host.

I want to sync clipboard and terminal primary selection. So I want some thing like this

1. Mouse selection of text in Terminal updates clipboard and primary selection (Right now,it just updates primary selection)
2. Any text copy (Via Ctrl + C) outside terminal (some other program) should sync both. Right now it just updates clipboard. e.g. text in gedit

I found various programs like parcellite, Glippy, Pastie, Diodon, Clipit. All this programs are excellent but they have 1 annoying feature (atlest for me). These programs updates both primary and clipboard even if I select any text outside terminal via Mouse. I do not want this feature and I am not able to find any means to turn them off.

For example

1. I select text in terminal via mouse
2. I select text in firefox via mouse <- this will update both clipboard and primary
3. I press Shift + Insert in terminal <- this will paste text from firefox where as I do not want this. Mouse selected text outside terminal should not be reflected in clipboard

Friends do you have any pointers for me. How can I achieve this.I do not want to use Putty in ubuntu as it has very bad UI.

I am facing a weird problem. I am connecting to my dsl modem via ethernet.

After booting, sometimes Ubuntu 10.10 does not detect the eth0 card properly or does not connect to the modem.

I have made the following observations:

1. My modem is fully on. All indicators are on except ethernet, which is blinking continuously.
2. My network indicator applet informs me that I am connected to modem, but I am not able to browse as it has not established connection with modem.
3. I need to power off and on (restart) the modem several times OR disconnect/connect (via network applet) several times, before the system can establish a connection with the modem.
4. Once it establishes the connection, the ethernet LED (on modem) stops blinking and glows continuously.

However, I do not see this problem every time I reboot or start my computer. 3/5 time, it connects to the modem in a single attempt.

Friends, I am not able to understand root cause of this problem. Plus I do not know what kind of logs should be attached. If you want any logs please give me command to run, and I will paste the result for you.

Note: I ran system testing when above problem happened. Follow this link to download result.