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Change Ubuntu 11 scrollbars back to the old style
I've installed Ubuntu 11.04 and the new scrollbars in Nautilus, GEdit, etc. are driving me insane! How do I go back to the old (Ubuntu 10.10 and earlier) scrollbars?
In the Natty Nautilus you can't ...
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I installed Ubuntu on my parents computer. Besides SCP, is there a lazy way to drag and drop movies from my computer to theirs?
I installed Ubuntu on my parents computer. Besides SCP, is there a lazy way to drag and drop movies from my computer to theirs?
Should I use a virtual desktop? maybe a nautilus plugin or maybe scp ...
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Prevent gnome from automatically mounting partition when clicked in nautilus
I have two partitions on a hard drive in my machine that are formatted as ntfs, but must under no circumstance be mounted by my Ubuntu installation (unless I do some preparation first). However ...
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broken nautilus
Not sure how this happened but now the "Places" menu on my Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick opens "VLC" for each of the item on this menu e.g. If I select "Home Folder", VLC opens up and no nautilus file browser ...
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mount ftp host in linux file system
I tried curlftpfs and can copy files etc., but opening media files in totem or vlc fails with read errors. Any suggestions?
I'd try to use gvfs-mount instead, but don't know how to pass an option ...
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Ubuntu 10.04: Nautilus type directory name
Up until Ubuntu 9.10, I am able to toggle between "typing" mode and "buttons" mode in the UI of nautilus, to select the directory I wish to look at. Personally, I prefer the "typing" mode, which is ...
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Hiding files of a certain extension (.pyc) from Nautilus
I would like to hide every .pyc file from Nautilus.
I use Ubuntu 10.04.
What could I do?
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How to hide file menu in ubuntu
How to hide file menu in ubuntu? like Alt in windows is there a shortcut?
Update:
Finally got it!
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/01/nautilus-simple-install-ppa-streamlined.html
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Nautilus shortcut for creating empty files
Is there any keyboard shortcut in Nautilus for creating new empty files. Like Shift-Ctrl-N does for folders. If there isn't, is there a way to add this custom shortcut somehow?
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Nautilus crashes when dragging files in Ubuntu 10.04
I'm running Gnome in Ubuntu 10.04. Nautilus used to work fine on my system but now it's doing something strange. Whenever I drag a file out of the Nautilus window to move it somewhere else, as soon as ...
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Nautilus keyboard shortcut for expanding/collapsing folders
In Nautilus' list view, is there a keyboard shortcut for expanding or collapsing a folder? I reckon this is just left and right arrow keys for MacOSX (Finder)
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make quantaplus a default editor for php files in ubuntu
In Ubuntu, how can I make Quanta Plus the default editor for PHP files?
In Windows we just use the open with context menu the first time for any new types of files and check use this application for ...
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How to add new entry in context menu in Gnome?
There is a very useful entry in gnome's context menu when clicking on any file:
Open with gedit (the first entry in the context menu).
I'd like to add similar one, for my second favourite editor.
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Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V malfunctioning
Sometimes, I select an item, hit Ctrl+C, browse to a folder, hit Ctrl+V, but no item is copied to the folder or some other item is copied to the folder (eg from a previous select + Ctrl+C).
For ...
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Ubuntu's gui "Open With" command is not memorizing the application
In Ubuntu, when we right-click a icon and use "open with", there is an option to remember that application for that file's type.
For some reason, my system is no more memorizing the application (I ...
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