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 [...]

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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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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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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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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 [...]

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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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“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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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 [...]

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Parcellite crash on icon click, Zim does not load after recent update of libgtk2.0-0 from Ubuntu Netbook PPA.

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