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Hi.
I want to run some commands every time a user of an ubuntu 9.10 machine logs out or shuts down. What is the best way to do this? Every user uses gnome if that helps.
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I have Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome 3 (no Unity), gnome-screen-saver has been removed and replaced with xscreensaver. The screensaver stuff all works fine -- no complaints there. When I close my laptop lid, even for a second, the screen locks (and the dialog box asking for my password is xscreensaver's)…
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I have researched the solution...
gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/gnome-power-manager/buttons/lid_ac "nothing"
does not fix it. I have two external monitors and when I close my lid the settings are reset and the laptop's monitor is set to the default.
Thanks!
gsettings list-recursively…
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I'm trying to install Gnome on my Ubuntu 12.04 P.Pangolin and getting the following errors:
root@***:~# sudo apt-get install gnome-core gnome-session-fallback
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gnome-core is already the newest version…
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nm-applet seems to have disappeared from my system. I am running 12.10. Here's what I get when I check my package manager logs:
? ~ grep network-manager /var/log/dpkg.log
2012-10-06 10:37:08 upgrade network-manager-gnome:amd64 0.9.6.2-0ubuntu5 0.9.6.2-0ubuntu6
2012-10-06 10:37:08…
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When I boot ubuntu I get a bunch of windows saying "The panel encountered a problem while loading: OAFIID:GNOME_ShowDesktopApplet", with a bunch of others(5) besides ShowDesktopApplet. I am able to launch a terminal, and I do have the taskbar at the top, although the bar at the bottom that holds the…
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I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10 from the iso 'ubuntu-11.10-desktop-amd64.iso'. I installed this in VMWare Fusion 4.1.1 running on OSX 10.7.3. When setting up the VM, I allowed easy install to take care of creating my user and installing VMWare tools. No problems during installation, everything…
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When I type in 'sudo apt-get update' I get this
mohd-arafat-hossain@TUD:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for mohd-arafat-hossain:
Ign http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise InRelease
Ign http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates InRelease
Ign http://bd.archive.ubuntu…
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Whats common among Skype, Opera, OpenOffice in Ubuntu ? Whenever I open these applications I get logged off and shows back me the login screen. This started happening since the 10.10 upgrade.
Forgot to mention :
Yes, its x64.Each time I open these applications, the UI shows and then crashes.
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I have a warning triangle that my update information is outdated, the last update was 12 days ago. I use Ubuntu 11.10. A run of sudo apt-get update produces the following output:
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric InRelease
Ign http://de.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric InRelease …
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Hi all,
I'm trying to run apt-get update on ubuntu 9.10
I've configured my proxy server and I can access the internet without any problem:
/etc/apt# wget "http://www.google.com"
Resolving (...)
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 292 [text/html]
Saving to: `index.html'
100%[=================================================================================================================================>]…
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