I have a netbook with Windows on the second partition and Xubuntu (/ and /home) on the third partition. I selected to encrypt my home folder during installation. The performance of the netbook is adequate for the small machine that it is, but I'm looking to improve performance. I could not find m...
I like Ubuntu and I don't use Windows except at office but I have always felt that every thing in Ubuntu/Gnome is a bit bigger than it should be i.e the fonts, desktop icons, the window borders and every thing else. This thing really annoys me when I am working in Eclipse. As a developer, desktop...
I heard someone talking about a fork bomb, I did some research and found some dreadful information about some strange looking characters people can have you type at the command line and as a result do bad things on the computer. I certainly would not issue commands I do not understand but one nev...
You can easily limit the amount of processes that can be spawned in Ubuntu and most other Linux distributions by adding this line into /etc/security/limits.conf
sudoedit /etc/security/limits.conf
Then add this line to the bottom of that file
* hard nproc 512
You can raise this to...
Why am I not able to execute an application created by Qt? Also, I am not able to give execute permissions to it.
When i click "allow executing file as program", it automatically unchecks
@MarcoCeppi anyhow that regex i pasted you, is useful when trimming URL's down to just the hostname. eg: http:// www.what-the-foo.com becomes just what-the-foo
Unable to load X Server Display Configuration page:
Failed to find display device 0x00000001 on screen 0 (on GPU-0)
while parsing metamode:
'CRT-0: NULL'
Hi all! Question: I'm seeing a dialog "unlock login keyring" every time I turn on my pc. It's a desktop and I've got autologin enabled, probably causing this. And: I'm a linux noob so the Google hits didn't help me. Can you?
Whenever Ubuntu boots up, a dialogue pops up asking me to unlock my default keyring.
Is there some way this can unlock automatically through PAM or some other magical way?
@KeesCook Yes I know I can make it go away by entering the password, but I would like it to not appear at all. Also, it appears 3 times in a row and I enter the right password every time.
I think the simplest way is to set the password for the keyring to an empty password -- you will not be prompted for a password then:
Open Applications -> Accessories -> Password and Encryption Keys
Right-click on the "login" keyring
Select "Change password"
Enter your old password and leave th...
this answer specifically then is what you want ^^^
@JorgeCastro I don't have the "Applications -> Accessories -> Password and Encryption Keys" entry, but I remember from the Google results that there was (of course) a command to use instead to start it?
I don't know the design team, so could be completely off, but in my professional capacity, most designers I know have a raging hard-on for Apple. Probably because most formal and profession design over the past two decades has revolved around Macs... I don't know... There just seems to be a lot of OSX-like design dripping through.
hello everyone! @JorgeCastro can you ask the unity guys to check if wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/InstallationGuideFromSource is still the way to compile unity from source? i believe there have been some changes, but i've been "afk" for too long :)
@badp I'm not sure I'd say completely but yes, they have problems with developers writing their applications without any thought to system-wide coherence. Even Microsoft can't seem to release more than a few applications that follow a single design concept (and then they replace it in the next version as part of the "upgrade"). They're by no means perfect.
Some apps have ribbons, others don't. Some apps have the fancy progress bars, others don't. Some apps have jump lists, others don't. Some apps have fancy graphic effects, other don't.
Whenever Ubuntu boots up, a dialogue pops up asking me to unlock my default keyring.
Is there some way this can unlock automatically through PAM or some other magical way?
Hi all, this whole stackexchange thing is a great source of information (tough a bit daunting to use at first). Didn't know it existed before yesterday, but it's very nice to see such a great community, and be part of it.
@JorgeCastro What was the hardest to do? Care to give some pointers that are not mentioned in the faqs? (there is a lot of documentation to read to use this platform)
We're in an odd situtation as "stackers" have a long-established community and so has Ubuntu. We need to ensure that we communicate best practices to the existing Ubuntu teams.
How do Ask Ubuntu and Stack Exchange work?
If you can answer a question asked on askubuntu, and can answer it with information from elsewhere. Would it be more appropriate to supply the information in the answer and link to it (which points to shesame information), or one of both?
How to access blocked websites using my Ubuntu?
You can easily limit the amount of processes that can be spawned in Ubuntu and most other Linux distributions by adding this line into /etc/security/limits.conf
sudoedit /etc/security/limits.conf
Then add this line to the bottom of that file
* hard nproc 512
You can raise this to...
Why am I not able to execute an application created by Qt? Also, I am not able to give execute permissions to it.
When i click "allow executing file as program", it automatically unchecks
Whenever Ubuntu boots up, a dialogue pops up asking me to unlock my default keyring.
Is there some way this can unlock automatically through PAM or some other magical way?
I think the simplest way is to set the password for the keyring to an empty password -- you will not be prompted for a password then:
Open Applications -> Accessories -> Password and Encryption Keys
Right-click on the "login" keyring
Select "Change password"
Enter your old password and leave th...
We're in an odd situtation as "stackers" have a long-established community and so has Ubuntu. We need to ensure that we communicate best practices to the existing Ubuntu teams.
How do Ask Ubuntu and Stack Exchange work?
