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Wow. I found a bug.

For no good reason, my mouse cursor switched to the grabbing hand and refused to do anything.

Jorge Castro

I've seen that before

X bug

you are basically doomed unless you restart X

Nope - I was able to actually pull out of this one.

I switched to a VT and killed Firefox.

...and after running setsid unity, everything worked again.

Which was a relief because I had some unsaved changes in Gedit.

@JorgeCastro Is there a bug filed for that anywhere though?

I'll gladly click "it affects me too".

Jorge Castro

somewhere probably

Ah, here we go: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/880962

8:19 PM

@LordofTime, one can edit someone else's questions and answers? O.o It appears I knew but could not comprehend this amazing functionality! Mods quick revoke this travesty...

/dev/timewarp's away

@GeorgeEdison that happens all the time in gnome-fallback for me.

i just hit alt+tab to get a pointer back

Alt+Tab didn't work for me.

The entire display was frozen (well not exactly frozen, but unusable).

dswhite85

Just want to say I love Ubuntu 12.04! So glad I deleted Windows 7, that OS was a nightmare.

that is worse the the bug I ran into then

@dswhite85 Awesome.

We're always glad to hear when someone finds Ubuntu useful.

8:40 PM

found it

Q: Are there plans for additional multiarch libraries in 12.10?

Unconstructive?

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Multiarch came a long way in 12.04. However, the 32-bit release is still recommended for download and some 32-bit debs (Google Chrome for example) still lack dependencies. I have not been able to find any blueprints dealing with multiarch for 12.10. Are there plans for improving this feature i...

We ain't in the business of supplying "blueprints" :)

I didn't know Linux's monolithic kernel led to a "mono-user" OS:

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A: How can two people play Minecraft on one laptop with external K/V/M attached?

In your case, your Laptop has an Operating System mono-user so that limits your gameplay. You can not play any game in two different ways at the same time with one PC or laptop. i.e.: You may have two monitors, keyboards, etc. but are using one computer. That means the game is processed by one P...

and it's about the next release, so it's going to be mostly speculative.

as for the multi-user thing, it may be possible, linuxtoys.org/multiubuntu/multiubuntu.html

Q: Are there any CheckInstall side effects or should I use every time?

@mateo_salta Oh it's certainly possible, I was just poking some good-hearted fun at the level of FUD in that answer ;)

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9:00 PM

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I'm using Ubuntu at work and Slackware at home. Today at work I have downloaded some suspicious program from our company repository that was supposed to automate some repetitive tasks. I installed it with 'configure; make; make install'. Now I want to remove it, but unfortunately there is no appr...

ubuntu debian rpm make slackware

yeah, looks like someone had the same thought, and the other answer is gone.

and someone else had the same thought as you and wrote up a proper answer :)

yep, well I would want to test it with a laptop first myself...

then write up a really proper answer, with screens and specifics.

msPeachy

9:37 PM

good morning :)

10:00 PM

aking1012

i see an infinite logic loop when someone touches that thing. kind of like an idiot trap

output=input

like how windows xp let you mount a drive on your desktop, which was a folder in that drive, did it once and it made it impossible to search for files

aking1012

evidently they didn't think about a no-follow softlinks option

well mounting the drive in a folder was an advanced option... technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753321.aspx

so I don't think too many people had problems with it