I have a 64 bit desk top that has ebuntu installed on it for some reason my passord is no longer workikng so I cannot even access my computer . I have a windows 7 software boot disk but I do not know how to actually use it to boot ? also how to reset my password would be very useful lol thankyou....
@RolandiXor The sad thing is, with the amount of randomly appearing and disappearing DEs and derivatives, an actual ebuntu existing didn't seem too far off.
it was a while back before app showdown. was one of his ideas i think. like gpod except with a phone-side app that could communicate what was listened to back to the desktop.
Today I tried to play with LXDE. After installing I go to login screen and try to select LXDE from list of avaible DE, but I can't select OK after that.
. I know this is bug, but maybe somebody can help me with finding temporary solution.
PS. This in in Launchpad bugs, but it looks abbadoned.
PS2...
@Seth you are SURE it's fixed in 13.04? maybe link to a source on that and the bug and tell him to request a backport of the fix to LTS on launchpad? i'ld upvote that answer
I have seen suggestions proffered as answers. My concern in when such "answers" don't emphasize, or even hint, that the suggestion is just that and not based on the answerer actually having tried out the suggestion to see if it really works.
Other than just downvoting such an answer, is there so...
I've been fixing tag wiki plagiarism lately. Recently I've been getting a lot of "reject" reviews (though only a very small number of actual rejections--accepts are still largely cancelling them out). I think it's time for me to explain what I've been doing and get input from the community.
We h...
A couple weeks ago when I logged into this "ask ubuntu" website, all my past questions and activity (and points/score) vanished.
I have enjoyed "ask ubuntu" for a year or so, and don't understand what happened, or how to fix this. My user/login name is still the same as always (honestann). Doe...
While reviewing a suggested edit, I encountered something weird: a title is deleted and no title is inserted in the diff as can be seen below.
When I press the "improve" button, I see exactly the same (unmodified) title. This happens both when I use the review tool and when I go to the question...
Here the OP's goal is to make a bootable USB flash drive out of a Windows installation ISO, using Ubuntu. I seem to recall we had a question for that. Does anyone know?
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 few days ago to test it on my computer using wubi.
Unfortunately I had a problem with my video card driver as I could not install it due to FGLRX issues.
I followed the how-to on installation very closely but it still didn't work. The result was poor graphics.
I wan...
@srikanthchandrasekaran Whether or not you make a deb package, you can install for all users. What are you trying to install? Have you read those or similar guides?
@srikanthchandrasekaran Well, Google is a useful place. Why ask for a 'new' answer when one already exists? Would you ask a mathematic stackexchange how to use algebra? No, because thousands of people already have answers on the internet ready for you to use - accessible via Google.
@srikanthchandrasekaran When you have a tar archive, including tar.gz, usually the method you use to unpack, configure, built, optionally test, and install are very similar. You should be able to use the methods explained in the two sources I link. They are better explanations than I could give without building the software myself. The archive will contain instructions also, though those may be more technical.
@Mochan What are you planning on using the machine for? Have you thought of any reasons why you might or might not want to use LVM? LVM is a bit more complicated, so a bit more involved to recover or repair. But it's very versatile, you can in effect grow and shrink partitions at will, even extend them seamlessly to other drives, including drives not present at the time of installation.
@srikanthchandrasekaran Oh, also, did you read this? It's a little outdated, but the way it works shouldn't have changed that much. Option B in particular.
@Mochan Tbh, unless you excessively use various partitions that need to be changed on the fly, there's barely any need for it. It's nice to have, but it's more often than not just kernel clutter.
@JourneymanGeek Kubuntu is worth a happy dance or two, I feel. I might have a pure Kubuntu install on a VM or something (when I finally iron out the idiotic problem si have with it)
compiz keep crashing....that's one thing that drives me nuts. :D
I might just go back to gnome-fallback.......not very stylish...but at least it worked in 11.10....dunno if it work with 12.04
journeyman....do you know how to make workspaces stationary? I mean if I click on the icon of, for example, google....I dont want it to take me to the workspace where it is...but to open a new window of google
@Elysium Yeah, the iATKOS website says that to download the .dmg image. I don't know if it's possible to download from another related site with another format. Anyway, thanks for the help, I'll see what I can do.
@Elysium: lets see. I had two different errors including a segfault on my liveusb, the partitioner threw a cryptic error until I created a partition with fdisk on the installed drive ....
One of the things that has kept me away from gnome until now is the lack of a common, central place for configuration. This was bad in the old days, but after the advent of compiz, mutter and dconf, and the inofficial tweak utils (gnome-tweak, ubuntu tweak, unsettings, etc.), it's even more confu...
I have a BASH scripting question. I'd like the mention that I am new to BASH scripting; however, I am now new to programming. I am developing a simple BASH script to watch a given compass project. My script is shown below.
I would like to allow a user to optionally enter in a custom path or use ...
I recently purchased a desktop computer. I installed xp used it to connect to the internet and download my dream OS, UBUNTU 12.04lts. I then installed the OS to a usb drive. So then with great anticipation I proceeded to boot into my unity dash. No problems at all, although it does take some time...
@Seth I was not talking about me - but I don't want to tell someone who found an answer to his own question and gave it in a comment to "make an answer" when he cannot do that yet.
I downloaded Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to my Dell Dimension 4600 with Windows XP installed. I now have a neat dual-boot system, but I want to get rid of the XP OS and keep Ubuntu as my only OS. How do I do this?