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Terminal command to set audio volume?
I have an external sound card which mostly works fine, except that when its first plugged in, or when I turn on my laptop, the volume gets set to 100%. That is, the overall system volume, as shown in the sound indicator.
What I'm looking for is a…
Marius
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How can I rotate a video?
Is there a way to change the rotation angle of a video file?
I have a couple of videos in the wrong direction so all I wanted is to correct it.
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Unable to delete USB Drive partitions (Block size error)
I have been unable to format/delete the partitions on my Sandisk Cruzer Force 32 GB USB Drive. I get the following error when deleting any of the partitions on it.
`Error deleting partition /dev/sdd2: Command-line `parted --script "/dev/sdd" "rm 2"'…
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How do I set focus follows mouse?
Is there a way to set up "focus follows mouse" behavior in Unity?
dharmatech
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How to make read-only file system writable?
At some point, the filesystem on my digital audio player has become read-only. I cannot copy files into it or remove files on it.
Are there some possible reasons for the player's file system to change permissions in this way?
I tried using chmod:
$…
Tim
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Difference between vim-gtk and vim-gnome
How are the packages vim-gtk and vim-gnome different from each other? I've tried both and the resulting Gvim feels the same (to me). If there is no difference, why are both packages maintained?
Owais Lone
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What is the purpose of the 'nobody' user?
After I read List all human users I noticed that there is a user account named 'nobody' in my Ubuntu system.
Also I noticed that I can login in this account from terminal using the following command and my password:
sudo su nobody
It doesn't mind…
Radu Rădeanu
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How can I keep recent files from appearing in Unity?
I sometimes browse erotic media files but I would like to avoid having them appear in files & folders / recent. How can I do that?
The old "making .recently-used.xbel a folder" trick from 10.10 and older doesn't work any more.
Plus I'd prefer to…
mr.pig
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How to set keyboard repeat delay and speed in Ubuntu Gnome 16.10?
In previous versions I could tweak the keyboard repeat delay and speed by going to Settings → Keyboard → Typing. Now in Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 (with GNOME 3.20.2) that panel seems to be missing.
How can I configure those settings in this version?
Loque
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How to install a LibreOffice Language Tools (Spelling Check, Thesaurus...)
What are the steps to install the Spelling Check and other language supports for LibreOffice. For example spanish, french, italian, etc..
Luis Alvarado
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How do I install the latest version of Git with apt?
I read about a security flaw in Git, which was fixed in version 2.2.1. I currently have Git 2.1.0 on my system (Ubuntu 14.10), and tried to reinstall it with apt. However, apt told me that I currently have the latest version.
The Git website does…
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Give user write access to folder
How do i give the user 'testuser' write privileges on the folder: /var/www/test/public_html
RSM
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How to clean /tmp?
rizhas@rizhas-laptop:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 67G 58G 5,2G 92% /
none 4,0K 0 4,0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 1,5G 12K 1,5G 1% /dev
tmpfs 303M 1,2M 302M …
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Migrate from a virtual machine (VM) to a physical system
Aka: How can I convert a .vdi or .vmdk to a real installation on a physical disk?
Is it possible/feasible to migrate a Virtual Machine installation of Ubuntu onto a physical machine? If possible, how difficult would this be to accomplish and what…
dting
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How to change history size for ever?
The default size of history in Ubuntu is 1000 but it's too small. I want to change it to 10000, So I append
export HISTSIZE=10000
export HISTFILESIZE=10000
to '~/.profile'
and 'source' it
source .profile
then I run
echo $HISTSIZE
echo…
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