Ubuntu as home server with remote access
I have a PC connected to my TV in the living room.
Its on all the time doing random things like sharing files on the network.
We also use it to watch TV shows and movies.
I want to be able to log into to the server from another computer on
the network so I ...
Suppress all windows XP dialog boxes
I have a Windows XP box (Pro... I think) that is used for NOTHING more then a photo frame. The great part it attached to a large screen. ;)
Since it's a photo frame there is no keyboard or mouse. Everynow and then I get a dialog box that pops up requiring me to at...
How to change the font in SmartSVN?
Using SmartSVN on my Windows machine, it is not honoring my Windows font preferences (neither font size or font face). They should be doing something like:
void GetIconTitleFont(ref string fontName, ref int fontHeight)
{
if (SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETICONTITL...
NX session closes immediately after launching
I am trying to setup NX for "jailed" users. I followed these instructions, however still I am not able to establish NX connection. It closes immediately after launching (it shows the NX logo in the middle of the bl...
Is there any GUI editor for MetaFont?
Is there any WYSIWYG GUI editor for MetaFont (.mf files)? I have google-ed but didn't get any useful information.
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Disabling X buttons for Chrome tabs
Is there any way to make Chrome not display an X button for each tab?
I have two reasons for this:
When I have many tabs open, the X buttons take a lot of screen real estate and make the tab titles shorter.
Sometimes I try to move to a differ...
How to prevent stacking of windows in the Windows 7 taskbar?
Is there a way to get Windows 7 to show two separate icons in the taskbar when I have two instances of the app running instead of having them stacked on top of each other?
Windows XP had similar behavior, but the TweakUI tool allowed to specify the number of windows that could b...
Taskbar doesn't show at startup at Ubuntu 10.04
Hey guys, i recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 in a rather old computer, a Compaq Presario 5300. Everything went fine, the OS had no problem in the process. But when i started the computer again, the taskbar didn't show up. I restarted it again and again, but the problem kept on going. I've used gco...
Emacs: What features or benefits are unique to either GUI or terminal interface?
Emacs can be launched in it's own GUI window or within a terminal (using the -nw flag).
What features or work-flow benefits are only available in one mode or the other? I.e. If a user habitually uses one mode, what are they missing out on?
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What GUI Linux programs are there for finding files based upon their contents?
What GUI Linux programs are there for finding files based upon their contents?
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Ubuntu loading/shutdown visual problems
I am using a partition created from Wubi, and this is only because Windows is needed for activities like gaming and watching movies on certain websites that require the Silverlight plugin. All of the partitions I have created in the past have worked fine. This new install, however, has a problem....
how to start apps with scheduled task before logging on or logging on automatically
Ok, so there are a lot of questions around the theme of running scheduled tasks while logged on / off. I don't think that the specifics of my question re recovering the GUI have been asked. Please point out if so.
I'm basically trying to run a GUI app (Outlook 2003 as it happens...
Problem with see-through windows in XP
After my PC has been on for a bit (15mins?) some of my windows start displaying see-through properties and other bizarre characteristics (like being able to draw on each other with by dragging the windows over other windows).
Now, this PC is a Core2Quad, 4GB system with Windows XP...
How do I tell a GUI application to open itself on a particular X11 display port?
I have a second X11 display port which is created by VNCServer on startup (vncserver :1 -geometry 1280x800); and I would like to start a GUI-only application on this second display at startup also.
How can I do this?
(the application in question is PS3MediaServer F...
Annoying unison.log on Mac OS X home
Unison GUI for OS X keeps creating a "unison.log" file in my home directory.
That's retarded, it should either hide the file (".unison.log"), or place it in a proper place, not in my home directory.
Do you know any way to prevent it from doing so? (without having t...
VLC user interface is very laggy
I'm running Windows 7 x64, with version 1.1.3 (though this started to happen a couple of versions ago). My problem is that when I'm watching a video (this doesn't happen with audio), the UI responds extremely slowly. The buttons don't turn blue when I hover over them, and clicking them only takes...
How can I remove the gnu logo from emacs?
How can I remove the gnu logo from emacs? I am on a windows system and the green area keeps flickering, which I find distracting.
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Are there any GUI SVN file management software for Windows?
Excluding TortoiseSVN, I was looking for software with a similar interface to Versions, for OSX.
The only requirement is that the SVN software runs independently of Windows Explorer, preferably with its own window (ala Versions)...
Script to use sudo in a terminal, gksudo otherwise?
I'd like to write a script that does an administration task, and I would like to be able to run it either from a terminal or not. If it runs in a terminal, even a graphical one, I'd like it to ask for the password using sudo. If it is run in some other way (for example Alt+F2 dialog), it should u...
Repair tar.gz files with a GUI
I have been downloading back ups from my web hosts cpanel on a weekly basis.
The back ups are in tar.gz format.
However, when I try to extract them, I get an error message stating that they are corrupt. Some of the files are over 2GB in size, so I am guessing that...