If you decide to incorporate the alias and launcher links into your answer, I can delete mine. I suppose it's better to just have one answer with everything in it
You can define a function to do this. Put this line of bash in your .bashrc or .bash_aliases file:
set-title(){ echo -ne "\033]0;${1}\007"; }
Then you'll always be able to do
set-title "Hello World"
# If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1"
;;
*)
;;
esac
^ see?
the \[ and \] are to tell bash that the things between those two delimiters don't take up space in the prompt
I have remove Ubuntuone, empathy, evolution and gwibber completely from my system ?
In synaptic, these are shown as recommended, so I am worried if I will be having any problem to upgrade to Natty due to this ?
I've already setup an Amazon EC2 instance running 10.10 and am able to connect to it using the ssh command provided by Amazon. I noticed there is a 'Terminal Server Client' and a 'Remote Desktop Viewer' included with Ubuntu, and I was wondering if it's possible to use either of these to connect t...
I understand from Jono Bacon's blog that Ubuntu will be switching to Unity as the default desktop in the upcoming 11.04.
What's not clear is "Why?".
Could someone explain the benefits of Unity over GNOME 2.x or indeed GNOME 3.x so that people can be informed about this decision?
Either one of this:
I need an option to use desktop UI instead of Unity while installing Ubuntu Netbook 10.10.
I need an application to remove Unity after the Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 is installed, without doing it manually.
Is there no any easy way to do that? I did try manually but had problem...
Gui is one of the most important things in dealing with computers. I love the terminal because i understand it but there are milliards of possible users who don't understand it.
Gnome or KDE desktop environments[others also] are okay but in my opinion are not very natural.
Is there any serious g...
@MarcoCeppi How do you deal with duplicate questions? In this case scenario: The original question has a poor answer/no answer/comment/obsolete answer & the duplicate has an awesome-sauce-dipped-in-rainbow answer.
I am not able to log in to Ubuntu. When I start my laptop and select Ubuntu, the screen with the Ubuntu logo and progress bar dots is shown. I wait for some time but it doesn't show me the login screen. I have tried to restart it but the same problem is there.
I am new to Ubuntu.
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Although the question has the word "marriage" in the title, it is really about any most important relationship in a founder's life, be it husband/wife, fiancee, boyfriend/girlfriend, partner or significant other.
During my first start-up, there were times when I thought the pressures of the busi...
Hi,
Many a time and oft, crontab scripts are not executed as expected. There are numerous reasons for that, for example: wrong crontab notation, permissions, environment variables and many more.
This community wiki aims to aggregate the top reasons for crotnab scripts not being executed as expe...
offlineimap
is a popular solution for this.
Enable IMAP in GMail
(Google's instructions)
Sign in to Gmail.
Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page.
Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
Select Enable IMAP.
Configure your IMAP client and click Save Changes.
Setup offlineimap
After you instal...
so I could use some help on the cron section if someone is looking for something to do! :)
@Sid I wouldn't call it "Fast Food" more like specialized restaurant. Fries are all fresh cut that day, beef is hand formed, all decent raw ingredients.
What little tips and tricks do you use to try and be as productive as possible each week plus be as motivated as possible? Here are a few I use:
I will schedule meetings that normally would be an automatic one hour for just 45 minutes and then stick to that. Rarely do I feel like there's any im...
Why have Community Wiki posts?
One of the goals of the website is to be a continually evolving source of good information. Community Wiki posts help enhance the wiki aspect of the site.
How do Community Wiki posts work?
Community Wiki posts work by transferring ownership of the post from the ...
I have a netbook, a flash drive (512MB), and an SD card (512MB) and the Ubuntu netbook edition is 696MB, is there any way I can put half of the installation on the flash drive and the other half on the SD card, and get it installed?
Gentleman I'm using vmware player to run Linux. Everything went okay until I fiddled with cpio command and it froze up. I restarted virtual machine and I get Grub loader. I can't exit it, can't quit, and don't know the Kernel path . Is there a way to skip that? thanks
So how's askubuntu doing these days, stat-wise? Looks like from odata things are going well, but I've only been here two weeks. (And I guess the unix site has just started really.)
@jorge Yeah, I notice a lot of hard questions with hardware/software specificity. And historically the hardware stuff even linux forums have never been good at answering.
You can define a function to do this. Put this line of bash in your .bashrc or .bash_aliases file:
set-title(){ echo -ne "\033]0;${1}\007"; }
Then you'll always be able to do
set-title "Hello World"
I have remove Ubuntuone, empathy, evolution and gwibber completely from my system ?
In synaptic, these are shown as recommended, so I am worried if I will be having any problem to upgrade to Natty due to this ?
I understand from Jono Bacon's blog that Ubuntu will be switching to Unity as the default desktop in the upcoming 11.04.
What's not clear is "Why?".
Could someone explain the benefits of Unity over GNOME 2.x or indeed GNOME 3.x so that people can be informed about this decision?
Hi,
Many a time and oft, crontab scripts are not executed as expected. There are numerous reasons for that, for example: wrong crontab notation, permissions, environment variables and many more.
This community wiki aims to aggregate the top reasons for crotnab scripts not being executed as expe...
Why have Community Wiki posts?
One of the goals of the website is to be a continually evolving source of good information. Community Wiki posts help enhance the wiki aspect of the site.
How do Community Wiki posts work?
Community Wiki posts work by transferring ownership of the post from the ...
I have a netbook, a flash drive (512MB), and an SD card (512MB) and the Ubuntu netbook edition is 696MB, is there any way I can put half of the installation on the flash drive and the other half on the SD card, and get it installed?
