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Suddenly, I Can't login with correct password (greeter & tty)
This might be a duplicate of other password related questions but it's somehow eccentric.
I have 3 accounts in my Ubuntu 12.10 system (one standard and two administrators). One of the administrator ...
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Is it possible to have my desktop loaded before login? [closed]
I am connecting to the system with Putty (this is Windows SSH client) then running some service in interactive personal mode.
For example this is a script to run freeswitch:
dims@nebulla:~$ cat ...
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Unity problems & Searching for a good WM [closed]
I am a front-end developer doing primarily HTML/CSS and JavaScript. My past Unix experience was on FreeBSD. I used it for a year or so, and was quite satisfied about its stability and the lack of any ...
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relation between unity on ubuntu and unity game engine?
I am just curious to know if there is any kind of relation between Unity(the latest shell interface for gnome in ubuntu) and the Unity game engine, apart from having the same name ?
I'm no expert in ...
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On a dual head system, how can I force the placement of a window to a certain desktop?
The relevant output of my xrandr configuration:
xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2304 x 1024, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y ...
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Auto running bash script on login
I wanted to make a script which ran automatically on login so I put it into the file ~/bash.profile, but it didnt run. When I put it in bashrc, it ran on opening a terminal.
What I was doing in the ...
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Remove notifications icon or make notifications fade after a while
Just installed Ubuntu 11.10, along with Gnome 3 to replace Unity. I'm using the classic Gnome look rather than the new one which is way too much like Unity for my tastes. Seems like everything is ...
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Unity: Stop Dock Repopulation at Restart
Unity is currently the default window manager on my system, a window manager that's available for many Linux distributions, meaning this question isn't Ubuntu-specific. I have disabled the dock's ...
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Can I set a gnome keyboard shortcut to be a prefix key, like in emacs, tmux or screen?
I would like to setup some Gnome keyboard shortcuts to be a prefix-key, so that I can add several shortcuts with the same prefix. Eg. I'd like to be able to have Super+x be a prefix key, with the ...
