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Enabling Compiz On Linux Mint 12 Lisa desktop (GNOME Classic).view story

http://linuxlandit.blogspot.com – This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz on a Linux Mint 12 Lisa desktop (the system must have a 3D- capable graphics card –). I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). With Compiz you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop. 1 Preliminary NoteI have tried this on a desktop computer with an NVIDIA GeForce 8200. (HowTos)

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[ubuntu] External monitor problems with laptopview story

http://ubuntuforums.org – I have a Dell Precision M6500 laptop with 2 x 24" dell monitors connected via a docking station. (Hardware)

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Mounting Google Documents in GNU/Linux is just not a (real) optionview story

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com – If you use Google Documents, you might want to be able to access your files without using a browser. So, I was all set, happy to write a good blog entry about how to mount your Google Documents folder on your Ubuntu. (This is not a very free-software thing to do, granted. But then again, if you are an Ubuntu One user, well, Ubuntu One server isn't free software either. (General)

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rc.shutdown doesn't seem to umount the filesystems correctlyview story

https://bbs.archlinux.org – The problem is that each time I shutdown/reboot, there's a message saying "Unmounting Non-API Filesystems" failed, and the next time system boots, fsck will recover journal. I looked into etc/rc.shutdown, found that it calls umount_all in etc/rc.d/functions. (HowTos)

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Compiling a Kernel. Benefits / Risks / Tips & Tricks ?view story

https://bbs.archlinux.org – You do realize, you don't have to replace the stock kernel when you compile a new one.  You can install multiple kernels and their support files are in /lib/modules in directories defined by the kernel name.My system has 3 kernels installed.  The standard Arch kernel, the -ck kernel from AUR, and (Because you can take the boy away from Gentoo, but you can't take Gentoo out of t (HowTos)

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lxdm and consolekit issueview story

https://bbs.archlinux.org – Hi,I have 2 PC's, both Archlinux, both lxdm, both Xfce.On my laptop, Xfce works fine.On my desktop, after login I do not have shutdown/reboot buttons in Xfce.On this computer, here is what ck-list-sessions says :Session1:    unix-user = '1000'    realname = '(null)'    seat = 'Seat2'    session-type = ''  &#1 (HowTos)

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Cannot boot after hard reset. begin running scripts init-bottomview story

http://askubuntu.com – Ok I'm currently running 11.10 amd64 and I have had to reformat at least 7 times in the last two weeks. Any time I have to do a hard reboot Ubuntu will no longer boot (sometimes). Other times it initially wont want to boot but after a few tries it will. (HowTos)

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#! Statler, November 2011 Updateview story

http://crunchbanglinux.org – I tried CrunchBang back in the, I think, 9.04 Ubuntu-based days. I liked it then as now.When Statler first came out, I loved it; with the recent changes to Statler, I still love it.I'm not going to comment here about the decision to remove the xfce-spin, etc. I have my opinions about these changes and that is all they are, somewhat-informed, personal opinions.I am now running #! exclusively. (HowTos)

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run script on shutdownview story

http://serverfault.com – I have the following script, how do I run it on shutdown in debian linux? (don't want to use GUI) #!/bin/bash vms=$(vmrun list | grep '/'); for vm in ${vms} do echo 'suspending ' $vm vmrun suspend $vm soft done I tried adding it to /usr/local/bin with chmod +x permissions. (HowTos)

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Fail to upgrade from10.10 to 11.04view story

http://askubuntu.com – My Ubuntu stops under Grub> after upgrading from 10.10 to 11.04 (this is reproducible: I tried the upgrade a second time with the same result after reverting to the 10.10). The state before the upgrade is that I just had upgraded (successfully) from 10.04 to 10.10. I have accepted all the proposed changes of configuration files. The machine is a VMWare VM running on a single thread of AMD Athlon (HowTos)