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PsychoCowboy posted:I've just installed and am running xfce 4.3.99.1 on xubuntu 6.10 and none of the desktop icons are showing up, File Manger/Home and so on. What can i do to fix this? Menu > Settings > Desktop Settings > Behavior tab > Desktop Icons dropdown box Honestly, this should be the default.
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Alowishus posted:Set grabulon's home directory to /home/grabulon/photos and then enable chroot_local_user in vsftpd. But doesn't this mean that they have to login as "grabulon"? I want to create new users with access to my home directory...
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# ? Apr 1, 2007 02:50 |
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Grabulon posted:But doesn't this mean that they have to login as "grabulon"? I want to create new users with access to my home directory... Give us some more specifics about what you're trying to do and hopefully we can give you better guidance.
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# ? Apr 1, 2007 03:47 |
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Anyone know how to get multiple X servers working? Whenever I try startx -- :1 it works on Alt-Ctl-F8 but when I switch elsewhere and back I just see the startup log.
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# ? Apr 1, 2007 07:04 |
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What's the command-line way to get system temperature? I remember using a simple command that gave the temp at a few different sensors, but I can't find that command now.
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# ? Apr 1, 2007 08:03 |
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Twinxor posted:What's the command-line way to get system temperature? I remember using a simple command that gave the temp at a few different sensors, but I can't find that command now.
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# ? Apr 1, 2007 15:27 |
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richyp posted:Can anyone help me get my Panasonic HD Plasma to work nicely with xorg? Anybody got any ideas for the modeline problem?
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# ? Apr 1, 2007 18:17 |
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Alowishus posted:Oh well you could create more users who also have /home/grabulon/photos as their home directories. You'd need to make sure they had rights to the files in there, probably by making a group. Well I don't know if I can explain it any better, networking and linux are evidently not my strong sides. But what I was is to let one user (different from me) have access to one folder and its subdirs in my home directory and I want him to be able to download the contents of that folder. No write-access or anything. Now that I think about it, I actually want him to have access to two different folders. One in my home directory and one on my windows partition (so for example /media/sda1/morephotos). Ideally I'd want it to be like in DC++ when you get someone's file list and you see the folders they share.
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# ? Apr 1, 2007 22:15 |
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Well, I've been running Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) for a bit, and finally did a fresh install of Kubuntu 7.04. I have to say, this one is a big improvement on the KDE side. I wasn't too happy with previous versions of Kubuntu (nothing seemed right, system seemed sluggish) but this version really works well. I'm continually shocked on how well Ubuntu in general has been progressing, as every version just gets better and better. I was impressed enough with Dapper, then again I was impressed with Edgy. However, Feisty doesn't seem like it is as big of a leap, but as far as laptop support goes, everything is top notch. The only downfall I can see is that the new Xorg 7.2 has some issues with the i810 drivers (for integrated Intel graphics), so things like Beryl and Compiz run slower compared to what was going on in Edgy. I don't like using the 3D desktops for every day use, so it doesn't matter to me, but you might want to keep an eye out for that if you are looking into upgrading. Every six months Ubuntu really progresses, I'm interested to see where it goes next.
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# ? Apr 2, 2007 05:18 |
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I'm running Kubuntu 6.10 with KDE 3.5.5 and I was wondering if there is a way for me to lock the position on my desktop at which certain windows open. For example I would like new gaim windows to open right next to the buddy list with their bottom edges aligned. Am I able to do this or am I just being overly anal and picky? I'd go with anal and picky, but linux is made for picky guys like me so vv Edit: A buddy of mine helped me to do this. In case anybody else had the same question, you must right click on the windows title bar and select Configure Window Behavior, then you want to go to Window Specific Settings, select new, click detect and click the window you would like to modify, then go to the geometry tab and select position and you're done! ShortStack fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Apr 2, 2007 |
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Looking for a media player that can support 6000+ songs in a playlist, and can submit tracks to last.fm, as well read idv3 tags. Amarok chuggs on a playlist that's that big. Anyone have any suggestions? My experience with xmms is that it doesn't read the tags correctly.
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spfdz posted:Looking for a media player that can support 6000+ songs in a playlist, and can submit tracks to last.fm, as well read idv3 tags. I just added 7K to my mpd playlist, took about a second. No chugging here. I use a GTK2 client, but there's some Qt ones you can take a look at. There's a separate daemon client called mpdscribble that will submit info to last.fm
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sund posted:I just added 7K to my mpd playlist, took about a second. No chugging here. I use a GTK2 client, but there's some Qt ones you can take a look at. So wait, mpd = command line player? Seems the mpd website is down, I wante to check screenshots
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# ? Apr 2, 2007 18:11 |
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spfdz posted:Looking for a media player that can support 6000+ songs in a playlist, and can submit tracks to last.fm, as well read idv3 tags.
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# ? Apr 2, 2007 22:11 |
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I recently went to college orientation, and one of the big recommendations people in my major had was "learn linux". The girl giving me the tour of my future classrooms was talking about how linux was used quite a bit and it was really difficult for her trying to pick it up while the class was using it. I've been wanting to learn to use linux for awhile, but I don't have the disk space to install linux on my computer. I have an old Dreamcast kicking around in my closet, and I've read some stuff saying it's possible to install linux on it. I don't really understand the articles too well, but I think I'd be able to figure it out if I put some effort into it. My question is: 1. Is it worth the hassle? 2. Will I learn how to use linux well?
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# ? Apr 2, 2007 22:32 |
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J Corp posted:I have an old Dreamcast kicking around in my closet, and I've read some stuff saying it's possible to install linux on it. It is not possible to install Linux on a Dreamcast. It is possible to run Linux on a Dreamcast. I would not recommend it as your learning platform. Suck it up and install it big-boy style.
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# ? Apr 2, 2007 22:34 |
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You can run k/ubuntu off of the live cd, although it's slow. Really you only need about 3 or 4 gigs to install it and have some space to mess around.
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# ? Apr 2, 2007 22:35 |
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I'm running Suse 10.3 with KDE under VMware and somehow I managed to make eth0 disappear I tried starting it with ifup eth0, and ifconfig eth0 <ip> etc, and even tried Yast, which recognises the hardware but still doesn't get it up and running. My linux question is: how do I get eth0 back up in VMware? Thanks! (and yes, the device is attached and bridged in the emulation layer)
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# ? Apr 2, 2007 22:47 |
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Well, I just got a G3 Mac and I don't feel like installing OSX. Is there a distribution of Linux that will run on a G3, and is relatively simple to use (i.e. this is my first time with this)?
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Phobeste posted:Well, I just got a G3 Mac and I don't feel like installing OSX. Is there a distribution of Linux that will run on a G3, and is relatively simple to use (i.e. this is my first time with this)? Ubuntu (Edgy Eft) or Yellow Dog Linux I would start with Ubuntu for PPC.
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# ? Apr 3, 2007 00:32 |
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lilbean posted:If you configure Amarok with either the Postgresql or MySQL backend it should have no problem with that amount of files (at least I didn't with PSQL). Will it matter if it's on the local machine or should it be on a seperate machine?
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spfdz posted:So wait, mpd = command line player? Seems the mpd website is down, I wante to check screenshots It's Music Player Daemon, debug info is all you'll get on the command line. They have various clients that connect to it to provide command line, gui and web interfaces. There's quite a few clients out there, so if you don't like the look and feel of one, you can switch to another. I'm using Sonata, which is clean but pretty slick. Here's a screenshot ripped off of their webpage:
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bigperm posted:You can run k/ubuntu off of the live cd, although it's slow. Really you only need about 3 or 4 gigs to install it and have some space to mess around. I have approx 1.6 gigs of space after running defrag.
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J Corp posted:I have approx 1.6 gigs of space after running defrag. I did not have much extra space on my hard drive so I bought a second hard drive for cheap from NewEgg and put Ubuntu there. It works great, and it did not even touch my old hard drive. If you don't want to spend any money you could try DLS, but I have never used it myself. http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ Do you know which distro they are using at the University you visited? Just curious.
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^^^ Both of those are good ideas, too...J Corp posted:I recently went to college orientation, and one of the big recommendations people in my major had was "learn linux". The girl giving me the tour of my future classrooms was talking about how linux was used quite a bit and it was really difficult for her trying to pick it up while the class was using it. I'm being dead serious here, go to Goodwill or your local university and see if you can't get an old computer from the turn of the century. It doesn't really need anything beyond a few gigs of hard drive space and, if you want to use standard Ubuntu, a decent amount of RAM (I forget the specifics). I've been able to get a P3 450mhz with 256mb of RAM running nicely for demonstration purposes (just don't expect to open up 40 tabs in Firefox without stupid amounts of swapping). I even got a P1 120mhz with a 500mb hard drive(!) running Debian with a barebones X11/fluxbox setup and a few rudimentary apps. You can even just combine it with the advice above and just salvage the harddrive. For demo purposes I see more than 5-10gig superfluous.
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# ? Apr 3, 2007 01:39 |
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I am a new Linux convert, and I am having serious problems finding a graphics card driver. I am using Ubuntu, but the driver it installs doesn't support my card. In fact, my card isn't even listed on the official driver list. (For Windows OR Linux) I am using a Radeon Xpress 1100. If I am unable to find proprietary drivers, I know there are supposedly a couple choices for 3rd party/open source drivers, so which would you reccomend? Do Either support my card? Thank you for your time, as I am still unexperienced and I was unable to get any information on this on my own
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For a long time, I've always used the "swap partition should be twice the amount of RAM populated in the system" rule when defining disk partitions for a new install. I've recently put together a new machine and while it only has 2GB of RAM at the moment, I plan on upgrading it to either 4GB or 8GB in the next couple of months. Assuming that I'll eventually load it up to 8GB (motherboard's max), would it really be necessary to define a 16GB swap partition? It seems like a full 16GB of disk space for the swap partition is overkill. Am I correct in this thinking? And if so, what would be a more reasonable choice? I was thinking that 4GB sounds like a decent choice, but I'm just pulling that out of thin air. Edit: Enelysios posted:I am a new Linux convert, and I am having serious problems finding a graphics card driver. I am using Ubuntu, but the driver it installs doesn't support my card. In fact, my card isn't even listed on the official driver list. (For Windows OR Linux) I am using a Radeon Xpress 1100. If I am unable to find proprietary drivers, I know there are supposedly a couple choices for 3rd party/open source drivers, so which would you reccomend? Do Either support my card? I checked the ATI site, and as you mentioned I don't see the Radeon Xpress 1100 listed specifically. The closest match I could find was the Radeon Xpress 1250, which is listed as an on-board device. Is the 1100 also a motherboard-integrated device? Either way, I would grab the driver from http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html and download/install it. The ATI installer for Linux isn't too difficult to use, it has a GUI option and you should be able to get by with the default options without too much hassle. As for the third party/open source drivers, they most likely came with your Ubuntu installation. The name for the driver should either be "radeon" or "ati". To switch the driver, you'll need to edit your X.Org config (unless Ubuntu has some kind of a front-end for doing it -- I don't know, I've never used Ubuntu). Do the following: 1) Open a terminal. 2) run su and type your root password. (don't actually type 'run', just the stuff in bold) 3) modprobe radeon If step #3 didn't give you any error messages (such as "module not found"), then proceed. 4) cd /etc/X11/ 5) cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.backup 6) nano xorg.conf Nano will open. It's an ncurses-based text editor. It's quick, it's easy. Hit control+W to search for text. Enter vesa and press enter. It should find a line of text that looks similar to Driver "vesa" Replace the word vesa with radeon. Press control+X to exit. It'll ask you if you want to save the file, hit 'y' for yes. Run 'reboot' from the root prompt (there are ways to apply the changes without having to reboot, but for a beginner this will be the easiest way). Hope that helps you. juggalol fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Apr 3, 2007 |
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spfdz posted:Will it matter if it's on the local machine or should it be on a seperate machine? Local machine will be faster obviously but it doesn't matter.
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juggalol posted:Swap stuff well I'm on my laptop that has a gig of ram and a swap partition about 450MB in size and it (the swap) has never been touched. I'm pretty sure the old school swap rules don't apply anymore since we count RAM in gigs these days rather than just a few megs. Just set it to 512 or even 128MB and you should be fine.
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Digital Drifter posted:well I'm on my laptop that has a gig of ram and a swap partition about 450MB in size and it (the swap) has never been touched. I'm pretty sure the old school swap rules don't apply anymore since we count RAM in gigs these days rather than just a few megs. I concur. For most modern computers with 1GB+ of ram a 2GB swap file/partition will be more than sufficient and will probably hardly ever get any use. There is just no logical reason to scale up the swap size along with the memory size.
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dfn_doe posted:There is just no logical reason to scale up the swap size along with the memory size. Thanks
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Watson posted:Do you know which distro they are using at the University you visited? Just curious. Fedora.
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I have a directory that contains several hundred other directories and in each is a handful of files of the same type. What is the best way to get all the files in the child directories into the parent? I'm using ubuntu, if that matters.
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Mr. DNA posted:I have a directory that contains several hundred other directories and in each is a handful of files of the same type. What is the best way to get all the files in the child directories into the parent? I'm using ubuntu, if that matters. code:
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juggalol posted:For a long time, I've always used the "swap partition should be twice the amount of RAM populated in the system" rule when defining disk partitions for a new install. I'll grant that a 16GB swap sounds pretty pointless, but what are you getting out of that 8GB? At this time, a program that expands to fill all that space seems either really esoteric (processing huge scientific datasets?) or just badly designed. And if you are running something that really uses all that much memory, you should make sure you have enough swap space for a worst-case scenario.
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juggalol posted:I'll try the 1250 (yes, the 1100 is integrated as well) and if that doesn't work out I will follow your guide. Thanks a ton
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I am interested in learning more about linux. I know the basics of installing it, compiling, etc etc. Basically I can run a desktop for my needs. I'm wanting to learn enough that I could be a systems administrator for a small company in linux. What I want to know is what I should do for training and which certifications I should get and how to get experience. Thank you
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Twinxor posted:
That did the job beautifully. Thanks!
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# ? Apr 4, 2007 04:33 |
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I'm using a laptop with Gentoo 2.6.17 to play a game, but the harddrive won't stay spinning. The game constantly hangs while the hard drive spins down, only to spin up again a few seconds later. I've messed with everything I could in the very limited bios of the laptop with the hopes of turning off all 'power saving' features that might encourage it to kill the HD as fast as possible, but even on AC power, it doesn't seem to change. Googling this only returns people wanting to -turn off- their hard drive when not in use. My laptop is already very good at that. Is there a clever way (maybe a program already exists) to keep the hard drive spinning while the game is going, or at least a manually toggleable solution?
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ExileStrife posted:I'm using a laptop with Gentoo 2.6.17 to play a game, but the harddrive won't stay spinning. The game constantly hangs while the hard drive spins down, only to spin up again a few seconds later. hdparm -S0 /dev/hda should disable the drive spin down feature
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