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Just for future reference: this xfce4 itself is a meta-package that will install a default configured xfce desktop environment. In most cases the base files that comes with xfce4 are: xfconf, xfce4-utils, xfwm4, xfce4-session, thunar, xfdesktop4, exo-utils So you can do sudo apt-get purge xfconf xfc...

I do appreciate the replies but this is WAY TOO MUCH TROUBLE! After another day of re-installations I still have yet to have a basic desktop operating with a wireless keyboard/mouse/printer. I guess this is where the average PC user wanting to try Linux gives up and goes back to Windows. Linux is s...

Short script that does what you ask for: #!/bin/bash rm -f result.txt while read i do if [[ ${i} =~ "Category" ]] then TEMP=${i} elif [[ ${i} =~ "Question" ]] then TEMP=`echo ${TEMP} : "${i}"| sed s!\*!!` elif [[ ${i} =~ "Answer" ]] then ANSWER=`echo ${i}| awk -F ":" '{ print $NF }'` TEMP=`echo "${T...

randall@randall-FQ582AA-ABA-SR5710F ~ $ sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq tvpvrd_3.3.5-1 [sudo] password for randall: dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching tvpvrd_3.3.5-1 Try sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq 'tvpvrd_3.3.5-1~getdeb1_amd64' If that doesn't work, us...

Xubuntu and Puppy are good options, along with Crunchbang. The latter uses OpenBox, but as it's based on Debian as well, XFCE is really easily installed.

Regards,

Anakin

Slowpokevtx and Recondra, Can you still use sudo su - or sudo -i ? If so, use that and run the command passwd so you can change the password to root. The reply by oobetimer was not much help as I'm not that familiar with what to do with the instructions. I already had to reinstall once due to poor i...

I use XFCE on my work-laptop, and the generic desktop config only works well with auto-detection which has its quircks. So I have created the following script to hook it up to beamers or monitors: #!/bin/bash function buildmenu() { ## First we define variables. ## Do not use Spaces in parameters for...

Hya Wires,

Have a look here.

There's 3 things I use most often:

Ctrl+C - Cancel the current command
Ctrl+D - Finish the current entry (works with data-entry commands like cat, sort and mail)
Ctrl+Z - Suspend the current command

Regards,

Anakin

I'm just taking a guess here, but I assume you mean your applications-menu? Which Session are you in? Gnome2? Right click on the panel, choose Add to Panel... and then add Menu Bar. For the time being: Is Alt-F2 working? If so, start your programmes by hand. Shutting down or rebooting can be done bu...

Fair points Vincent and mph

Will alter the script in the upcoming days, as I've made a number of changes to it myself as well.

Regards,

Anakin

since this forum software works so great... Mate, enough with the remarks already. The forum-software is performing as it's intended but, rightfully so, limits the input to xx characters per post, most likely a couple thousand. If we were allowed to input unlimited data, we would be able to either ...

Hi, I got an answer from Stefano. Unixstickers went through some difficulties and they lost a lot of time. In addition to this they had to change suppliers and seek a new one, so even more time was wasted. I'm sorry this happened and I'd like to apologize, although indirectly, to everyone here who ...

Roken,

It's Dutch indeed, it says "smoking is lethal".

About my nickname.... You may guess once...

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Anakin

Apparently it's a bug: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6418 ... b-complete

Direct link to launchpad.

Maybe you can downgrade to an older version.

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Anakin

I cant post my syslog for whatever reason... the forum software says 'too few characters' then deletes my post in the input box.... just super! Any clues from the above stuff though? Thanks! Please post your output between [ code] and [ /code] minus the spaces, or put it up on http://pastebin.com/ ...

First of all: Great effort!! It only took me a few moments to catch your intentions, and I also learned a couple new tricks (the ":<< COMMENT" and "basename" were new to me)! :) I did however notice some stuff which was obsolete, didn't make sense or just not tidy (couldn't find a better term), quit...

so I have to install win7 again virtually is tehre no possibility to switch OS somehow easier? The problem is that Win 7 during teh installation is very agressive to Linux or any other OS already installed. If you read my first post, you will see that it is actually possible (at least with XP, used...

This should get you on your way, for wallpapers at least.

Sorry, cannot answer the question about the desktop.

Regards,

Anakin

edit: Sorry, misread desktop for wallpapers.

Sorry Russ, but it is

Never tried it before myself, but according to this it is actually possible (with windows XP in that example anyway).

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Anakin

Good to read posts like this!