@UbuntuQuestionsonUL I've attempted to answer this question for the general case in Ubuntu, dividing up the possible causes of freezes or extremely slow responsiveness and detailing what one can do about them. I'd welcome feedback.
What if the user has a wireless mouse or usb mouse, don't these mice have a lower hardware priority than regular mice?
hi @RolandTaylor whats up, looks like not a lot of peopel are on right now
Do you think it's a bug, that I installed so many window managers/desktops that they go off the screen on lightDm and lightdm dosn't scroll or create a new line?
How do I return a purchase from the Ubuntu Software Centre? http://askubuntu.com/questions/145262/how-do-i-return-a-purchase-from-the-ubuntu-software-centre?atw=1 #softwarecenter
Whew!
Despite the tremendous amount of work we put into being prepared for 12.04 we still got wailed on in Answer Rate. While sitting pretty on almost 85% Answer Rate the release really hammered us. Despite our best efforts, we're now close to 80%. I've been waiting for a lull so we can catch up...
really? I thought mine did.... Although I could be just thinking of other spoofed domains I have redirect to localhost. I just remember that on my development VM I always need to remember to put /s after my domains when I use Chromium.
@GeorgeEdison is there a reason why I don't have an edit link for this question? I usually have edit privileges for questions and I see a link for the answer there, just not the question.
Dualboot 12.04/windows 7 After installation from USB reboot straight to Windows with no option to... http://askubuntu.com/questions/145335/dualboot-12-04-windows-7-after-installation-from-usb-reboot-straight-to-windows?atw=1 #installation
@jokerdino looks like one to me? do you feel otherwise? (or are you being sarcastic?) The part that's not a duplicate--aka not about libreoffice specifically--is a vague and open-ended ("why doesn't this feature work with more applications") question that probably violates the FAQ
Can you answer this? How do I remove the shutdown button only on the login screen in Ubuntu 12.04? http://askubuntu.com/questions/137336/how-do-i-remove-the-shutdown-button-only-on-the-login-screen-in-ubuntu-12-04?atw=1 #lightdm
@jokerdino (or anyone I guess) I noticed a question was duplicate after answering it. I flagged it as such, but was wondering if I should delete and move my answer to the original question or just leave it? (I think my answer is a little clearer than the existing ones on the original)
@jokerdino "how can I get of it" :P (I had an edit in progress when you made yours, IMO this title is better because the "how can i fix it" is sort of implied in most AU questions)
okay, thanks! on a related note, do we have a canonical jockey introducation/how-to somewhere? I was looking for one but couldn't find it so I just answered the guy's question.
@jokerdino Agreed^2. Slightly increased verbosity is worth it, so edited title again. @adempewolff : good work on this dupe-merge, and no problem -- great answer.
@aking1012 that I understand, but I can't find a wiki page for "additional drivers" either. There is one for restricted drivers but it only talks about graphics cards and doesn't mention the jockey interface at all.
hmm, I might just have to sign up for a wiki account
and I thought common sense meant that "info comes from the developers" doesn't mean "its downloaded from the developers' PCs whenever I look up that app in sw center"!
@adempewolff fair point. it seems like it's tied in with proprietary driver tutorials so thoroughly that there may not be a 'how to use jockey' spot since it's more likely someone will search for ati/amd/catalyst/fglrx etc ... if you've got a launchpad account the two integrate
@aking1012 I can see that reasoning but I still think there should be a basic introduction page, if not just to put the worries to rest for users coming from Windows expecting to have to install drivers manually.
@aking1012 yeah, I understood what you meant :P by "that reasoning" I was referring to the collective reasoning--not yours (silly text-based communication strips a lot of meaning....)
The reason why the paid apps has these is coz they come from apps.ubuntu.com where there is a field for such a hardware requirement IIRC. and you pretty clearly have noted that the other apps coming through the debian repo don't have this field.
so, I actually have no pointers. :(
Perhaps, make it obvious that you know what you are talking about?
i would have wanted to link to one of my answer to a similar question but I am afraid I will be criticized :P
@jokerdino Hah :( I don't mind blowback, but this alternate literal meaning of "comes from" took me by surprise. Feel free to add the link to yours at the end as an additional reference, or edit otherwise as you see fit. @aking1012: thanks :)
Usually, free software end up in software-center through Debian repository import but there are special channels to get software directly into Ubuntu repository.
The reason why some products end up with a price tag of $0.00 but have to be installed through a purchasing process is because they w...
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and have configured apache to serve from ~/public_html. I am trying to serve some directory contents over http on LAN.
When I did the following:
ln -s ../Videos/android-internals-marakana/ android-internals-marakana
I was able to see the specified directory at localh...
@Takkat right... heh (I was thinking along the lines of empathizing the difference in driver management for users coming from Windows, how Ubuntu manages drivers, but you are absolutely right...)
@jokerdino eh? Singapore isn't southern hemisphere is it? More to the point, does Singapore even have a winter? My friends who have lived there said that it is ~40 degrees year round...
the system settings graphics info bug really needs to get fixed pronto (wish I was a coder and could help...). Not seeing their card listed is scaring a lot of new users into trying to manually mess with drivers and consequently breaking their perfectly fine installations!
How I can install mysql in ubuntu 12.04(gnome 3). So that I will have my mysql installation in /usr/bin/mysql
It's library and header files in /usr/lib/mysql and /usr/include/mysql respectively.
Last time I tried sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common The mysql has been ins...
Can you answer this? PDF reader with Highlighting support and save the file http://askubuntu.com/questions/141265/pdf-reader-with-highlighting-support-and-save-the-file?atw=1 #softwarerecommendation
@AmithKK yeah it sounds more like a blame game of different opinions on bloated meta-package dependencies. but with something like this inadvertantly causing new converts to break their systems for no reasons I think they should just suck it up and install the meta-package, bloated or not
I usually find a non-fiction audiobook to be an excellent soporific in that situation (but that I'm usually sleep-deprived to a degree probably has something to do with it)
I'm completely new to this but I'll try to provide as many details as I can:
As soon as I restarted to let the updates take effect I had problems of all sorts. As soon as I finish entering my password to log back on, that overhead bar disappears along with the screen going black for a minute, fla...
Speaking of edits I just made a new personal record for time spent on an edit (~15 minutes)--the question really, really needed it.
I might have taken a little liberty with one particular edit, but I felt like it needed to be in there to avoid confusing people. Try and guess what I added "What do I do? I Like linux but the arbitrary aspect of the errors that occur without any changes to the system--other than physically removing my graphics card--scare me."
Unfortunately I think this is another casualty of a user seeing Unknown in System Settings for their graphics card and frying their system trying to fix this non-problem with a manual installation of the driver. I commented on the launchpad bug suggested considering this side-effect of the otherwise trivial bug when determining it's urgency.
@jokerdino oh lord. at the very least I'm going to need to eat before tackling that. I think an answer suggesting a clean reinstall and links to tutorials to enable java/flash/etc (although Firefox should install these automatically....) might be the best option...
Crunchbang! how to install on second HDD and have working grub http://askubuntu.com/questions/145467/crunchbang-how-to-install-on-second-hdd-and-have-working-grub?atw=1 #dualboot
You know, all these respins could become closer to on topic if they would just debianize their modifications into a PPA so you actually start from an ubuntu iso...
@jrg Anything like how I became tired of "portable eclipse with this off-the-wall plug-in is giving me problems" -- "works for me using eclipse from repo and the normal install method" and on the latter bit...that would be cool
i'm doing this not for the people who know and use a tool like juju (or chef, or even puppet), but for those who are getting started and don't want to use all these scary fancy tools
because tbh, up until a few weeks ago, puppet was this scary thing that I wasn't sure how to even get started. and then it clicked, and now I'm using it for everything, making my life easier.
It has me enthralled and considering making a bunch of business-type specific templates. This way I can proposition say...all restraunts...for if they want a mobile app
@jrg right, my mistake I didn't know the cut off, I just remembered reading the little tag that said it's to keep new users from saying "me too" etc. waiting until it's a repeating problem makes sense.
@jrg - ultimately what got me started down that track was an old conversation about how i think all apps will eventually go web-app(or at least browser integration), then the D8 talk where i found out the late Jobs agreed, then looking at iPad page compliance, then looking at packing HTML5 in to cross-platform apps with some of the neat packagers
@jokerdino - I'll get back to that packaging thing...I got sidetracked. I'm using a modified version of the .bash script (as fbuntu-config) and a complete removal of auth.py(a separate class in one of the existing source files) in order to accomplish the thing. I scrapped rewriting auth.py as part of the module
It's fine...really, you can't catch my tone in text. He's probably upset that it isn't accepted b/c he doesn't have the context. I'm not upset b/c he answered first with a mostly answer.
Usually, free software end up in software-center through Debian repository import but there are special channels to get software directly into Ubuntu repository.
The reason why some products end up with a price tag of $0.00 but have to be installed through a purchasing process is because they w...
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and have configured apache to serve from ~/public_html. I am trying to serve some directory contents over http on LAN.
When I did the following:
ln -s ../Videos/android-internals-marakana/ android-internals-marakana
I was able to see the specified directory at localh...
How I can install mysql in ubuntu 12.04(gnome 3). So that I will have my mysql installation in /usr/bin/mysql
It's library and header files in /usr/lib/mysql and /usr/include/mysql respectively.
Last time I tried sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common The mysql has been ins...
Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian. It uses the same package format.
In what ways is Ubuntu different from Debian?
