A ton of users are dissatisfied with the decision to change the buttons on the title bar, however, it’s incredibly easy to change back and forth between the old (Karmic) look, and the new (Lucid Alpha) look. You do not have to be on Lucid to test out the new look. These commands work fine [...]
If you have currently installed Firefox 3.6 your older extensions (like adblockplus) might not be compatible with the newer version. There is an easy way to make all your extensions work properly. To do this: Type about:config in your address bar, Click I will be Careful button.Right-click anywhere on the screen, choose: New -> Bolean [...]
You can do it simply from your terminal window. sudo shutdown now to shutdown your machine NOW.sudo shutdown hh:mm where hh:mm is the time on 24hr clock to shutdown at 7:50 you need to type sudo shutdown 7:50.sudo shutdown +m where m is the minutes. If you type sudo shutdown +120 the machine will shutdown [...]
After considerable searching, head-scratching and digging, I finally found that it is accessible via a Gnome configuration setting. There are two ways to do it one by terminal and the other by gconf editor Method 1: Simply enter the command below in your terminal window gconftool-2 -s ‘/apps/indicator-session/suppress_logout_restart_shutdown’ –type bool true Method 2: Press Alt-F2, enter [...]
For some users, sound in Linux is nothing short of a nightmare. Even once beyond the initial setup of your hardware (a task that is usually handled automatically at install) some still have trouble trying to figure out where and how to manage their sound. Read more about managing your sound HERE
Firefox 3.6 was realeased recently with support for Personas, improvements to the open video support, improved JavaScript performance and start-up time, support for the new DOM and HTML5 specs and also is 20% faster than the previous versions. To install the latest Firefox 3.5 (final) or Firefox 3.6 in Ubuntu, open a terminal and type: [...]
