ugh, it's 2 in the morning, and there's an episode of House that needs watching and a piece of lasagne that needs warming up. I best combine the two for maximum efficiency.
The Launchpad page for the desktop-oriented version of Unity lists the following features separating it from the netbook version:
A floating Unity Dash that can be moved to all edges of the screen
Floating, overlapping windows with their title bars and controls on them, not on the top panel
The...
I am trying to install Ubuntu alongside windows. What I boot off the install media and run the installer I get to the patition selection window and it tells me that there are no other operating systems on the computer. I know there are, as I can restart and it will boot into windows also I can mo...
@TheX You might do best to manually shrink the Windows partition and then load up the installer and install into the free space. You'll have some fun and games when it comes to configuring GRUB (because it won't know to add an entry for Windows) and even then you might have to hit Windows with a hammer to get it booting. Just make sure you have some sort of boot CD for Windows too so you can rescue its boot sector if that gets knackered.
I make it sound worse than it'll probably be. Resizing is simple. Telling GRUB what to do will be editing one file and running one command... It's only if it all goes wrong is when things get interesting :)
Bounty offered: How do I always show the launcher (i.e. disable the auto-hide functionality)? http://askubuntu.com/questions/64858/how-do-i-always-show-the-launcher-i-e-disable-the-auto-hide-functionality #unity
@TheX I wrote you an answer based on what I was saying earlier about doing it yourself. I'm sure there's a way to get os-prober to work but I don't know it.
@Shazzner Looking at its site, you might "just" need to update paprefs. The latest version 0.9.10 suggest it works better with any-old-version of PA, making previous versions sound brittle.
It's a shame we can't blacklist phrases (eg write something as an unregistered/new user and it bans your IP for 24+ hours). That would deal with this in about 10 minutes.
And it's not like watches and WoW gold are ever on-topic so it's never going to hurt a real user.
Plus a most of today's spam has come from one IP. I don't understand when there's this many issues with one IP, it isn't automagically blocked. I've written to the powers that be. Hopefully they'll respond with something helpful.
Our answered rate is plummeting more and more obviously. I had trouble coming up with explanation, until I discovered in extended stats one metric that seems to correlate with it - how many new active users had appeared on site in last two weeks.
We seem to be terrible at this. Closest site in...
Bounty offered: How do I get and install more themes, icons, pointers for Ubuntu? http://askubuntu.com/questions/116/how-do-i-get-and-install-more-themes-icons-pointers-for-ubuntu #themes
You have to manually launch "unity" from Terminal EVERY SINGLE TIME.
I checked the Unity_compatibility tool, it says everything is supported
(Intel MHD4500)
Then I switched to my Radeon HD3650. The driver install fails from "Restricted drivers". Both of them. I tried to install it manually from ATI. That failed too. :(
Bounty offered: How to prevent launcher from influencing window placement? http://askubuntu.com/questions/66069/how-to-prevent-launcher-from-influencing-window-placement #unity
@Shiki It can still be edited and yes, all they have to do is improve the question and then flag it or contact a moderator and we'll open it back up. By closing incomplete questions it stops people guessing and bumping an otherwise pointless question.
Still can't give an error like this:
vaio@SONY-VAIO:~$ sudo rm
/var/cache/apt/archives/clamav-base_0.97.2+dfsg-1ubuntu2_all.deb rm:
cannot remove
`/var/cache/apt/archives/clamav-base_0.97.2+dfsg-1ubuntu2_all.deb': No
such file or directory