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Should there be a preference in the answers to using 'Text Editor' instead of gedit and 'File Manager' instead of nautilus, I noticed how Ubuntu is preferring these names to be displayed.
@Cas I think it probably depends on the context. If you're handing people commands and you reference the program in the content of the post, I'd use its proper name. If you're just dealing in generics, I wouldn't mention any specifically (eg: "Edit this file", "Find your Downloads directory in your home folder", etc).
@Cas For command line edits, just use your favourite editor. For command line sudo-edits, use the sudoedit command instead of sudo gedit or sudo vi, etc
@Hello71 Why use sudoedit? Just makes things a bit less intense on users who don't share the same editor-beliefs as the answerer
Fewer commands to edit.
I mean, it's not a rule and I certainly wouldn't justify editing just to swap sudo nano for sudoedit - it's just nice to show you're mindful that people might not share your love for ed or emacs
@JorgeCastro "The editor specified by the SUDO_EDITOR, VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables is run to edit the temporary files. If none of SUDO_EDITOR, VISUAL or EDITOR are set, the first program listed in the editor sudoers variable is used."
It is common to see in instructions, the terminal command to edit a file:
sudo gedit
but this will be deemed inadvisable by experienced users, who instead suggest:
gksudo gedit
The question is, why the distinction and is there any harm using sudo with a graphical applicaton?
@JorgeCastro so, it looks like with this in my sources.list deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt lucid main restricted universe multiverse i don't need all the other lines containing links to universe from archive.ubuntu.com, etc?
@JorgeCastro don't get me wrong, I love how unity feels cleaner, but being able to see things at a glance without having to hit a key, wait for a window to raise on this horrid laptop...
Think there's scope for something to replace gnome-panel that does a similar job with a tighter grip on its display logic. Something with the standard window lists, with a built in Notification Area, build in Indicator Applet-area... Something like AWN/Docky/Cairo-Dock that isn't aiming to look like an OSX dock.
@Oli my last flag is weird, I referred the gksu/sudo question to kees and he's pretty positive there are a bunch of dupes but he's slammed so I just got lazy and flagged you.
There's nothing wrong with PPAs as long as you know what you're in for. But I'm generally against the blog posts that advertise "The latest and greatest version of Application X" that instruct people to blindly install random repositories and install packages.
Everything I read said that the GNOME 3 PPA for Natty would be very experimental, cause sudden death, etc until April 28th. Well, today is April 28th, so if I start using GNOME 3 from the PPA will it work entirely correctly now?
You will need to boot into recovery mode, then issue apt-get remove --purge nvidia-current on the root terminal, followed by apt-get install nvidia-current - to rebuild the nvidia driver for the new kernel. I had this problem as well when I upgraded.
Please do not install the drivers from nVidia...
@Oli I'm not 100% certain, but I'm guessing it's either a matter of a gnome-panel update being needed, a reinstall needed, or a gconf_not_being_read problem
Shortcut keys do not work
CTRL + ALT + T
ALT + TAB
It is common to see in instructions, the terminal command to edit a file:
sudo gedit
but this will be deemed inadvisable by experienced users, who instead suggest:
gksudo gedit
The question is, why the distinction and is there any harm using sudo with a graphical applicaton?
Everything I read said that the GNOME 3 PPA for Natty would be very experimental, cause sudden death, etc until April 28th. Well, today is April 28th, so if I start using GNOME 3 from the PPA will it work entirely correctly now?
