Questions tagged [xubuntu]
Xubuntu is a version of the Ubuntu Linux operating system based on the Xfce desktop environment.
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Notebook doesn't detect boot devices [duplicate]
I want to install Xubuntu on my laptop (Asus U44SG) but it's BIOS doesn't seem to detect any device besides the hard drive.
I've tried to burn the ISO on my USB with different softwares:
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I have compiled the 3.8.2 kernel and the fan doesn't stop after resume from suspend
Kernel config for HP 6730b notebook
I can't figure out what I did that's causing this issue.
This is xubuntu latest version 12.04.02 LTS
Link for kernel config: http://pastebin.com/AuYWdNDR
Any ...
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Autostarting Python Script Can't Open txt File, DoubleClicking it Works Fine
So I have a Python 2.7 script and I'm running xubuntu. When I run the script by double clicking it, everything works fine. However, I recently added it to the autostart menu and it runs but once it's ...
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Change brightness automatically on Sony Vaio laptop running Xubuntu
Currently my Sony Vaio doesn't let Xubuntu work with its Fn+F5/F6 brightness hotkeys. So I am using a manual script to change brightness every time I log in. It is:
echo 700 | sudo tee /sys/class/...
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virtualbox - dhcp issue with xubuntu guest on win7 host
I'm running VirtualBox 4.2.4 on a Windows 7 x64 host. I installed a Xubuntu guest system. The VM has network access through NAT. VirtualBox is configured to act as DHCP server (setup by default) and ...
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Exchange 2010 and Evolution - Calendar Meetings crash Outlook
Starting to annoy my colleagues by using Evolution, so could really use some advice here!
I'm using Evolution 3.2.3 on Xubuntu 12.04 with both the MAPI and Groupware plugins installed, and all mail ...
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XFCE - Integrate application finder in application menu
Is there any way the application finder can be integrated into the menu?
I think it would be more user friendly and would increase the navigation speed. You just hit the superkey, the menu is opened ...
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GRUB: ELF sectors outside core
I just recently installed Xubuntu 12.04. Instantly after installing it I updated all my packages, however one package, grub-pc, failed to install. I'm not sure what caused it to fail, but here is the ...
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Xubuntu 11.10 login issues
This is the second time this has happened to me this week. The first time was on my netbook, the second on a VM on my desktop. Whenever I try to log in to my account through the GUI the screen flashes ...
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How to change scrollwheelspeed in Xubuntu
Two things I hate about Xubuntu: Mouse is crazy fast in the slowest setting, and the scrollwheel is crazy-slow, scrolling only 2 lines of text per scroll, and this cannot be changed at all.
For the ...
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How to browse other Xubuntu installation files
my hard disk has two xubuntu 9.04 installation.
one installation in partition /dev/sda1
and another installation in partition /dev/sda5
if I running xubuntu installation in partition /dev/sda5, how ...
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Xubuntu 10.04, I pressed the little door in the upper right of the screen
I just installed Xubuntu 10.04 and pressed the little door in the upper right corner of the screen. Now the GUI has disappeared.
The only thing I get is the blue background with the Trees and birds.
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How do I usb tether my Cyanogen modded G1's internet connection to my Toshiba Tecra 8000 running Xubuntu?
I have usb-tethering enabled in my phone. It works fine with Vista. When I plug my phone into my Tecra 8000 laptop running Xubuntu, dmesg shows: "usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd ...
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Can't Login to xubuntu: prompt reappears
I can't login to my xubuntu. After I enter my login details at the prompt it just shows the prompt again!
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Lost menu bars on xubuntu
I have no menu bars at top or bottom, not sure how to get them back!
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Gigolo under fedora 12 xfce
I installed fedora 12 xfce
and when i run Gigolo to mount windows partitions i get Authentication is required.
In fedora 11 xfce there was a tool that change the system permission to allow any
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xubuntu in hyper-v freezes keyboard and mouse clicks after some idle time
Usually I'm using virutalbox, but as there are supposedly some performance issues if one runs virtualbox together with WSL2 I decided to try out Hyper-V.
I have virtually no experience, so perhaps ...
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Asus Eee PC 1101HA - YouTube super slow
A friend wants me to fix her laptop and make it usable. I know it's very old, but maybe it can handle web browsing at least :) I gave up on installing Windows 7 patches because it looked like it will ...
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Screen resolution only displaying 800x600 in Xubuntu
I am running Sun VirtualBox on a Windows 7 64-bit machine.
I have installed Xubuntu 10.4 as a virtual machine but cannot seem to find an easy way of altering the screen resolution. Any ideas?
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Restore XP on Acer Aspire One netbook
I have an Acer Aspire One D250 netbook which came with Windows XP (but no CD) on which I have since installed Xubuntu 9.10. Now I am trying to sell it, but I cannot find a way to recover XP.
I have ...
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How can I be confident that no new firmware exists for my SSD?
I'm trying to check if there is any new firmware for my 981 Samsung SSD, specifically a model MZVLB512HAJQ, that I installed in my Lenovo S340. This SSD was on the manufacture's comptatable parts list,...
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What could be the source of a bus error in multiple applications?
I am running Xubuntu on a MacBook Pro with fluxbox as my window manager. Yesterday when I attempted to launch firefox I received a bus error and the application did not launch. I corrected the ...
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How to find proper codec for Xubuntu?
I have just installed the Xubuntu. And I feel that to use it play a mp3 is like kill myself twice.
I try to play it with Exaile, the boxed player with Xbuntu. But it says I need to install some mpeg ...
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Terminal window opens when Xubuntu starts...?
Whenever I start up my laptop with Xubuntu on it, a Terminal window opens and just sits in the taskbar - as though I opened it myself.
Anyone know if there's some sort of list of applications which ...
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How do I burn Xubuntu Live CD
I downloaded the 600+ MB Xubunto ISO. Burnt it to a DVD using Nero Burning Rom, as a Bootable DVD. My bootup sequence won't detect XUbuntu and still only detects windows on my Hard Drive even after ...
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What does Mousepad's "Open files in: new tabs in a new window" do?
Mousepad's preferences menu has an 'Open files in:' dropdown menu. One of its items is 'new tabs in a new window'. How does this differ from 'new tabs' and 'new window'? I've experimented but see no ...
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How to debug a failure to communicate (via SSH) for just the root account
I have a host (named giggles) whose root account does not accept incoming SSH connections. It has a user (kevin) account that does. Moreover the two accounts have exactly the same credentials for ...
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How do I get my system to install updates again?
I have been running Xubuntu 20.04.5 LTS since it came out. I was going to upgrade to the next LTS, but I'm stymied by the requirement that I upgrade all existing apps first. I cannot.
After making ...
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Cannot properly mount music CDs under Xubuntu Linux
I have three systems running Xubuntu:
Dell E5440 running 18.04
ThinkPad T420 running 20.04
Dell PowerEdge T110 (headless server) running 20.04
I am trying to mount the optical drive and I cannot do ...
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How to enable library in ffmpeg without build ffmpeg from source (linux)?
I have the xubuntu 18.04. I installed ffmpeg from ubuntu repository and built libaom. So, how to enable libaom in ffmpeg without reinstall ffmpeg from source (ffmpeg compilation guide or ffmpeg ...
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What patterns can be used in Thunar's Select By Pattern?
In Thunar, Select By Pattern - the option brought up by ctrl+s - lets you search through the files in a directory by patterns. For example, searching "?.jpg" will select all jpgs. What is ...
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Thunar shows me icons from Wine, but I don't have Wine installed. How can I make it forget about Wine?
I've tried the many methods from here and therefore I'm confident that I no longer have Wine installed on my Xubuntu 20.04 machine. However, the default icon for opening .dll and similar Windows files ...
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how do I diagnose this issue where sshing to another machine causes my display to shut off
Yeah this is weird.
I have an xubuntu 18.04 machine, I have a xfce4 terminal running gnu screen.
In a screen I ssh to this one other xubuntu 18.04 machine, and the ssh connection goes through, but my ...
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How to disable inactive window shadowing in XFCE?
In Xubuntu inactive windows are being shadowed, like on this example:
But I don't really like this behavior. How do I disable shadowing, so inactive windows would look like active ones?
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Is it possible do display (.ico) files as thumbnails in Thunar file manager?
Thunar displays thumbnails (almost) normally for image files, but for (*.ico) files only display a standard thumbnail. Is there some setting or plugin to solve this issue ? Or should I convert ico ...
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Linux un-allocate socket?
I'm writing a network application, and have been running into a slight nuisance. I have to wait a period in-between tests, because my server program, even after closing still has the port I'm using "...
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Cannot install afpfs-ng
On Xubuntu 16.04LTS amd64, I cannot install afpfs-ng. This is a HUGE problem for me since my school uses macs and an afp file server, and I only have a PC running Linux and I need a file for the ...
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How to find my drives on Xubuntu 10 live mode
I loaded Xubuntu 10 from USB because I want to repair my boot.ini file(Windows XP).
But I can't see my Hard drive in the file manager.
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How to recover files stored in a virtual machine running linux in windows 7
I was running XUBUNTU in VMware workstation 10. Once when I was updating the virtual machine, it got stuck. I killed the process and after that when I was going to power on it again, it doesn't boot. ...
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Dropbox install in VirtualBox Xubuntu
I'm a Linux newbie that's having a fair bit of trouble getting Dropbox to run in Xubuntu 13.10 (which is in VirtualBox – Windows 8.1 host).
Everything seems to install correctly, but when it ...
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mouse click not working in Ubuntu and Xubuntu
I have been using Xubuntu and Ubuntu on our older home PC for almost 2 years without much trouble until today when the mouse seemed to not work properly.
I can move the pointer around and click but ...
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Xubuntu 13.10 - Sound indicator missing
This topic refers not (!) to the already known bug.
I can't add the sound indicator to my xfce4 bar. There is no such item in the items list.
And also - I have no icon for sound management in my ...
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Looking for Xubuntu 10.10
I am trying to find a 64 bit ISO of Xubuntu 10.10 .. .according to their site (http://xubuntu.org/news/10-10-release/) it should be released however, I am unable to find anywhere one iso..
Do you ...
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Typing Break in Xubuntu 12.04
I installed Ubuntu 12.04, and loathe the new interface so much I've switched to Xubuntu with sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop.
Very happy with that so far. But the typing break I always used to ...
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Changing the default windows manager in xfce
I'm running a copy of xubuntu with xfce as my desktop environment and compiz ad my windows manager. I'd like to make compiz the default over xfwm4, but I'm having trouble locating the configuration to ...
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See AMD Catalyst driver versions via command line
Using the command line in Xubuntu 11.04, how can I see which version of the AMD Catalyst driver are currently installed?
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Can't open Catalyst with administrative privileges on Xubuntu 11.10
For some reason I can't open Catalyst with administrative privileges on Xubuntu 11.10. The regular Catalyst Control Center works fine, but it doesn't allow me to make necessary changes to my multiple ...
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Make xubuntu open programs maximized
How do I make xubuntu open programs maximised? I'm using the newest version of xubuntu.
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Switched to Xubuntu but Unity theme won't go away
I got fed up with Unity and decided to switch to Xubuntu, following the instructions on this thread. Almost everything went well, and I'm much happier with the system. However the window borders from ...
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installed Xubuntu 10.10 and now I can't start WIndows XP
I just installed Xubuntu 10.10 using wubi.exe on the install disk.
It didn't say anything about repartitioning hard disks or anything, but now Xubuntu runs, and WinXP doesn't. When I try to run ...
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