August 29th, 2010 at 6:32pm
Some packages (for instance xubuntu default configuration, gdm and theme packages) have a hidden dependency on ubuntu-netbook-default-settings, however since this is not an actual package dependency the following error may be displayed every time you try to install or update your system:
No such file or directory: '/usr/share/gconf/defaults/20_une-gconf-default'
The solution is as simple as satisfying the missing dependency:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-netbook-default-settings
Tags: fix
August 19th, 2010 at 12:30am
In order to verify that two copies of a directory are equivalent there are different options:
1) diff – the easiest way
diff -qr dir1 dir2
reports any differences in file contents in a similar way to md5sum.
For more methods read on here:
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August 7th, 2010 at 5:26pm
Mirrored from: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=813945 Credit goes to drs305.
Here is how to change the gnome calendar first day of the week to Monday:
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August 5th, 2010 at 10:32am
August 5th, 2010 at 12:04am
Recently it has been implemented in Ubuntu linux KDE and GNOME (partial) desktop environments a kind of folder metadata labeling with special metadata.desktop files.
These files display a content (eg a name) which is not the actual file name. They also may contain other useful information for classifying the related folder. Here is their structure:
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August 3rd, 2010 at 11:23pm
M$ Windows is well known for expanding quickly in size on the hard disk (as a virus someone would say) and requiring a full format and reinstall every 16 months or so since there is no way to clearly determine what the junk is (M$ Windows itself someone would say…).
This is not the case with linux, however in case of need some more space on the hard disk can be easily recovered. Here is how.
August 3rd, 2010 at 10:30pm
In this post we would learn how to automatically maximise any new windows and how to remove titlebars from them in order to save real estate on small screens.
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June 17th, 2010 at 7:27pm
"There was a problem with the command for this terminal:
Text was empty (or contained only whitespace)"
Today I tried Gnome Conduit synchronizer and the result was f*up my gnome-terminal profile.
If you get this error you have to close the error window and then click on
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Tags: fix
June 17th, 2010 at 11:40am
It’s been some time Zeroconf and Avahi have been implemented into linux, however most of the people (and tutorial out there) still deal with IP numbers, which is a pain when they often change.
The following tasks may be a trivial however, having to manually seek the new local IP each time you connect the computers and edit the configuration files is a terrible burden and time wasting effort:
- a) keeping in sync two local computers with unison or rsync.
- b) automatically mounting a shared folder
- c) any other network interaction
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June 12th, 2010 at 4:11pm
Parcellite crash on icon click, Zim does not load after recent update of libgtk2.0-0 from Ubuntu Netbook PPA.
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Tags: fix
