@fossfreedom Wasn't the best reply to the drama IMO. Essentially if you're upset with what we're doing, you don't want free software to rule the world. Both off the mark and mildly insulting to the people who live and breathe FOSS but don't agree with Canonical's last week.
I went to another place and my network(either wired or wi-fi) starts not working... For now, I have a workaround solution that every time I logged in I have to run sudo service network-manager start which give me the following information:
stop: Unknown instance:
network-manager start/running, ...
I am trying to use espeak to listen to todays date on ubuntu, by using the following command: espeak --stdin date , but it just hangs, nothing is spoken.
@jokerdino That I know, but I don't get the train of thought behind "People come to us with Mint question because the ubuntu community is dead." then ...
I believe we don't need the same discussion we've seen here for the past two days yet again. Boils down to "canonical secludes itself more and pushes decisions out of nowhere, community becomes a glorified support centre"
@jokerdino "community" means something totally different now than what it used to, that's the point there.
Now, the community is free advertisement and support. Ubuntu is no longer even remotely the "community's child" or anything like that. And the recent pushes from canonical just put that much more into plain view.
I'm a watcher, in that regard. Personally, I don't give a flying, really. I agree with various points on either side, but that doesn't mean I get involved on either side.
I have two sessions - Unity and Gnome Fallback on my laptop. I'm using unity in portable mode and gnome fallback with second display at home. And i want different wallpapers for unity and fallback sessions. Light for unity and dark for fallback. I think, i can use autostart option showonlyin=, bu...
Building upon the previous answers:
For 11.10
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP" = "Unity" ]
then
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme 'Ambiance'
gconftool-2 --set --type string /apps/metacity/general/theme 'Ambiance'
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-the...
Using this bash script, you can achieve what you want.
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP" = "Unity" ]
then
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri 'file:///usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png'
else
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri 'file:///...
When I flag a post "for moderator attention/other" I want to just type my comment and then commit the flag using only the keyboard. As I see it now I have to use the mouse to click on "flag question" because enter just inserts a break.
Additionally I have already tried CTRLenter, ALTenter and SH...
I have this line in my crontab file [ */1 * * * * espeak 'i am awesome' && date +%I:%M | espeak --stdin ] , but only half of it, first command gets executed every minute. While when I write this in the terminal it works like a charm. Is there a different way to specify 2 commands in the same crontab ?
meh, no issue, although it still should be kept around, there's been a significant rise in the number of people asking for mint support via ubuntu support.
guys guys , does anyone here have any previous experience working with cronjobs on ubuntu ? I am running 2 commands in the same line in my crontab file [ source ~/Desktop/apps/twitter_bot/twitter-bot-env/bin/activate;python ~/Desktop/apps/twitter_bot/yugdom_cron.py ]
okay i tried that way [ */1 * * * * source /home/stom/Desktop/apps/twitter_bot/twitter-bot-env/bin/activate;python /home/stom/Desktop/apps/twitter_bot/yugdom_cron.py ] , it still doesnt work,
I have noticed across SE we are getting a lot of spam, usually titled "WATCH BLAH BLAH BLAH HERE".
It is very repetitive, regularly coming in the later afternoon/early evening (pacific time) a few times a week. This is starting to become a problem (on Ask Ubuntu at least) because this spam com...
I got to a state when upgrade is not possible - old system (10.10, packages index too broken)
I dediced to reinstall.
Now I'd like to keep my /home.
Ideally, I'd like to burn a CD or ISO to USB and click Next, Next, Next.
How should I proceed?
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I installed l2tp-ipsec-vpn from ppa:werner-jaeger/ppa-werner-vpn.
Yesterday I was able to connect to my L2TP vpn account successfully.
But after restart i'm getting this on syslog:
Mar 07 21:16:44.834 xl2tpd[7179]: death_handler: Fatal signal 15 received
Mar 07 21:16:44.835 Stopping xl2tpd: ...
I need to run an infected EXE file with trojan horse for which I thought to do with my Ubuntu laptop under Wine with a dummy user -- what kind of privileges does the dummy user have?