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How to disable wireless from command line
How do you disable the wireless Internet from the command line?
I tried sudo ifconfig eth1 down but network-manager seems to ignore this and keeps trying to reactivate it. What's worse is the network-manager widget doesn't let you disable it either…
Cerin
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How to `touch` files recursively?
I need to change the timestamp of about 5000 files.
Typing touch file1.txt, touch file2.txt will take me forever.
Is there a way to do something in the lines of touch -R *?
Unamata Sanatarai
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Terminal autocomplete doesn't work properly
If I start typing a command like apt-g after hitting tab, the shell completes the command to apt-get, but for the second part of the command like install, if I enter some characters like insta, hitting tab, doesn't complete it to install.
Another…
Ravexina
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Making Ctrl+C copy text in gnome-terminal?
Is it possible for me to make Ctrl+C perform a copy command if there is highlighted text in the terminal?
Otherwise, it should retain its normal behavior.
(If there is a terminal that can do this other than gnome-terminal, that's probably fine too.)
user541686
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How to save AlsaMixer settings
Hello I have tried out the program "EarCandy", now I had/have a lot of problems.
At first I did not get any sound and now it is very low volume. PS Earcandy is now deleted from my hard disk.
When I open the Alsamixer with:
alsamixer
I see that the…
jsterr
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How can I find duplicate photos?
What can I use to find duplicate photos, including photos that have been resized?
ændrük
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How to inspect outgoing HTTP requests of a single application?
My application is sending HTTP requests to some server and I want to see the actual data that it is sending out. Some specifics I would like to see:
Request method (GET/POST/PUT, etc.)
Content-type
Body
What is the best and simple way to…
megas
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What is dconf, what is its function, and how do I use it?
Mark Shuttleworth recently blogged about the decision to include the Qt libraries in the 11.10 release, with a followup from Jono Bacon. Mark states that the biggest challenge to integrating apps written in Qt into the larger Ubuntu system is Qt's…
user2405
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How to show gnome-terminal menubar?
I accidentally unchecked View -> Show Menubar which hides the menubar for gnome-terminal, and there doesn't appear to be a keyboard shortcut to show the menubar again.
How can I make gnome-terminal show the menubar again?
Isaiah
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How to not install recommended and suggested packages?
I use Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit, I did the following: sudo gedit /etc/apt/apt.conf and added
APT::Install-Recommends "false";
APT::Install-Suggests "false";
But it did not work. When I try to install a package, it still wants to install the suggested…
user84911
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How can I remove "Show Desktop" from the Alt-Tab (application) switcher?
Is it possible to remove "Show Desktop" from the Alt+Tab application switcher?
David Dossot
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How to get coloured terminal over ssh?
When I connect over ssh to remote hosts everything is just a single font/color. I would like to have colours like I do locally e.g. green for executable and blue for symlinks etc. And such that when I run $ git diff on the ssh host it shows me diff…
Dima
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How to create an ISO image from a bunch of files on the file system?
Considering I have a bunch of files in a directory, I would like to bundle them into an ISO image file. How should I proceed to do that?
Zignd
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How to change the password of an encrypted LVM system (previously alternate Installation, now advanced feature)?
I installed Ubuntu 11.10 with the alternate CD and encrypted the whole system (except boot) with the encrypted LVM. Update 2020: Encrypted LVM can be selected at the Installation type step of the Ubuntu install, click on Advanced features and choose…
Filbuntu
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How do you resize the standard Ubuntu Desktop inside of Virtualbox?
So I've installed Ubuntu inside of Virtualbox, and I resized the window of Virtualbox to be full-size, but the Ubuntu Desktop stays the same standard size. How do I make the width of Ubuntu stretch 100% across the Virtualbox window?
willbeeler
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