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Ubuntu on laptops and workstations: GNOME quirks, drivers, hardware and everyday fixes.
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When upgrading from one ubuntu version to the next one, I like to use the opportunity to do some spring cleaning. To find from which repositories a package was installed we can use: dpkg -l | grep "ii" | awk '{print $2}' …
UPDATE: Lenovo fixed the Bios, after a bios update standby + USB 3.0 enabled work. I used the geteltorito.pl-method descriped in the thinkwiki: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/BIOS_Upgrade I was furious about a very …
I often had the problem when I wanted to watch a movie or listen to some audiofile and there was background noise I wanted to turn up the volume but it was already at 100% . I thought it should be possible to turn up the …
For some time now i have the problem with my Dell Latitude E6510 Laptop that when I plug in a USB mouse the mouse is really slow and sluggish. Usually a reboot fixes this, but this is very inconvenient. Today I tried …
After a update session of several hours from Ubuntu 11.04 over 11.10 to 12.04 LTS I wanted to start using libreoffice, but it terminated right after start: $> loimpress terminate called after throwing an instance of …
As I was looking for this really a long time I am reposting it: http://askubuntu.com/questions/66414/how-to-add-panel-applets-to-classic-gnome-panel With the new gnome and using a classic-session you have to press META + …
I needed a new wlan stick for my fixed pc, as the old one had a very weak reception, so I looked a bit in the shops and found that a realtek stick with reverse-sma port + a extra large antenna just were about 15 Euros. …
For quite some time I was trying to figure out why my installed applets like “hamster-applet” for example where not showing up in the applet list. Finally I found the solution. You have to install the gnome applet bonobo …
I had severe problems to get a mount of the ReadyNAS automatic usershare to my laptop. Everthing I was trying failed and serveral people had the same problem. The NAS had domain-authentication activated. The error was …
Installing the Citrix Client on Ubuntu x86_64_sucked a bit as the citrix client is 32bit. Get the Citrix-Client here: http://www.citrix.com/English/SS/downloads/details.asp?downloadID=3323&productID=-1#top First you have …
For quite some time I was looking for a solution to have a multi-line gnome taskbar. Under windows you can just drag your taskbar and the windowlist chooser expands to multiple lines. Now I learned: under gnome its …
