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Comment on Remove Karmic (Ubuntu 9.10) login screen sound by Sam

Sam — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:26:45 +0000

This is crazy. No solution for every GDM. And only geek-type solutions.
Can Ubuntu aim at beeing user friendly with such kind of annoyances?
Always a new trick to shutdown the “login sound” - HA HA - this at each new release.
It must be someone realy mean setting things like this.

Comment on Moebius (Möbius) strip in art and culture by chio

chio — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:20:28 +0000

hiya,
im a fashion student at liverpool john moores univercity.Im in my final year and my collection is focusing on mobius! is there any info help advice books leaflets pics samples you could send me? i would be greatful.
many thanks
chio
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Comment on Remove Karmic (Ubuntu 9.10) login screen sound by Frank

Frank — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:16:56 +0000

I found the command line method someplace else as well. I tried it and it didn’t work. Then it dawned on me to restart gdm - that killed the little drum sound.

$ sudo service gdm restart

Comment on Remove Karmic (Ubuntu 9.10) login screen sound by Limey

Limey — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:32:08 +0000

Ah, I see the problem is with your site. It’s changed the double dash (-) before ’set’ and ‘type’ to a big single one.

@Limey

Comment on Remove Karmic (Ubuntu 9.10) login screen sound by Limey

Limey — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:30:22 +0000

When I copy and pasted the above it didn’t work because some of the characters were not correct. Here is what worked…

sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 –set /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds –type bool false

I tried Conisant’s way as well, but the gconf-editor that came up was empty. Probably something to do with all the errors that also came up about a TCP problem with ORBit.

Comment on Installing Google Chrome in Karmic (Ubuntu 9.10) by Andrew Jones

Andrew Jones — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:39:10 +0000

Or, just download the .deb from http://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel and double click. It will then install Chrome and add itself to sources.list so you will stay updated.

Comment on WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED by Sophie

Sophie — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:08:04 +0000

Huh, I didn’t know of that. I’ve always edited ~/.ssh/known_hosts myself and removed the line number that it says. This should be easier though.

(here via your link in your sig at Slashdot)

Comment on Remove Karmic (Ubuntu 9.10) login screen sound by Conisant

Conisant — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:33:33 +0000

Hey,

a nice way to configure GDM is to start the gconf-editor as gdm.
To do so you have to be logged out (in the gdm login screen), change to a tty (ctrl + alt + F1) and then run the following commands:
$ export DISPLAY=:0.0
$ sudo -u gdm gconf-editor

Then change back to the xserver on tty7 (ctrl + alt + F7).
You will see the gconf-editor on the gdm screen and may configure what ever you want.
There you will be able to browse to the key /desktop/gnome/sounds.
Then you can uncheck the event_sounds value.

For me the commandline didn’t work out but the gconf-editor does the job.
Kinda strange, cause it should do the same…

Greetings from Germany, Conisant

Comment on Linux ain’t virus-free no more by Linux Aren't Virus Free Anymore! - Raymond.CC Forum

Linux Aren't Virus Free Anymore! - Raymond.CC Forum — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:04:50 +0000

[...] sense of security is worse than no security

Comment on Saved a baby tortoise at Oak Mountain by slash_boot

slash_boot — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:30:54 +0000

A 1999 Honda Passport. Its a 2WD, so its not as much a guzzler as 4WD.

Comment on Saved a baby tortoise at Oak Mountain by Bryant

Bryant — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:38:24 +0000

What type of SUV do you have?

Comment on Kernel 2.6.30-10: Green Screen Of Death by slash_boot

slash_boot — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:44:39 +0000

When Grub loads, don’t select kernel 2.6.30-10, select 2.6.30-9 (or earlier one if you have the option) instead. Once you have successfully booted with the older kernel you can fire up your Update Manager and apply the new updates. The updates fixed the problem for me. Now I can boot with the newer kernel just fine.

Comment on Kernel 2.6.30-10: Green Screen Of Death by Tony Pirog

Tony Pirog — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:37:44 +0000

Same thing happened to me. Is there a way to apply 2.6.30-10 from the terminal? (I am not tach savvy enough with Linux to figger that one out by myself.)

Comment on Posters of: Pi, e, and EM spectrum by Mike

Mike — Sat, 23 May 2009 21:18:33 +0000

Hi, nice posts there thank’s for the interesting information

Comment on Atheros 5007EG now works in Jaunty Jackalope by pedromagnus

pedromagnus — Sun, 03 May 2009 05:32:50 +0000

Hi, this ’solution’ doesn’t work for me.
I’ve got a dv6815nr with the Atheros AR242x and I’ve already tried every solution I read. I made it work a couple of times, but when restarted the machine the wifi stopped working, maybe by an update or something…
Actually I have a corrupt upgrade session (’partial upgrade’ message appears), I’ll see if fixing this enable me to activate the f***ing wifi (I’m very frustrated, you can tell).
If you know how to solve it, or have another solution that can feets my machine I’ll apretiate it.
Greetings