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Share wireless Internet connection through ethernet
I want to share the wireless Internet connection on my desktop with my old laptop, through ethernet.
I have ticked the option "Make available to others" on both connections, on my desktop, but my laptop doesn't connect. Am I doing something wrong or…
Christos Baziotis
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How do I find out the kernel version I am running?
The path to previous driver is
usually /lib/modules//kernel/net/wireless
I need this info so I can finish updating my STA Broadcom wireless. However, I'm a noob at Ubuntu and I'm not sure how to find the kernel version or kernel.
I…
barry
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Keyboard shortcut to move windows between monitors?
I remember there used to be a setting under Compiz that set a keyboard shortcut for moving applications between physical (but combined as a single xscreen) screens, similar to moving between logical screens, like Ctrl-Alt-Shift-← / → / ↑ / ↓.
Any…
Andrew Bolster
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Where is the suspend/hibernate button in GNOME Shell?
In 17.04 I could suspend\hibernate from the power off menu button.
I can't find how to do this in Ubuntu 17.10 GNOME Shell.
Kobi T
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How do I remove 'Places' entries from the Nautilus sidebar?
I want to remove Videos and Music from the left side panel. But, I can't seem to find the option to do so. How do you do that?
jokerdino
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How to restart samba server?
Sorry this is a little embarassing but I'm trying to set up my own server for the first time. I found great tutorial online.
http://www.intac.net/build-your-own-server/
I'm stuck at the 2nd to last line of step 4. Apparently there is no samba…
user784637
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How do I get a colored bash?
How can I get the bash to look colored like this?
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What IDEs are available for Ubuntu?
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This is a…
RolandiXor
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What is the $DISPLAY environment variable?
I am new to shell scripting. I don't understand what the $DISPLAY environmental variable is.
I have Ubuntu 13.10 and I use /bin/bash shell. I have two monitors.
Questions:
Command echo $DISPLAY will print :0.0 on my machine (on both monitors). What…
Chandrayya G K
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Remove note about sudo that appears when opening the terminal
Whenever I open the terminal,
To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo ".
See "man sudo_root" for details.
appears before the terminal. How do I get that to go away?
mouche
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How to defrag an ext4 filesystem
I don't want any answer saying that there's no need, please!
user108056
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What is the command line equivalent of copying a file to clipboard?
What is the command line equivalent to pressing CTRL+C over a file in the file manager so that the file (not the filename) is copied to the clipboard?
A situation where this can be useful and fast, for example, is when you want to copy to the…
Strapakowsky
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How to fix "Package is in a very bad inconsistent state" error?
I can't update my system because it freezes while installing a third-party update (zramswap-enabler)!
Sometimes I get the following message in Update manager:
Could not initialize the package information An unresolvable problem occurred while…
Benjamin Piller
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installing pip3 (for python3) on ubuntu 16.04 LTS using a proxy
I have tried entering:
sudo apt install python3-pip
The error I get is:
$ sudo apt install python3-pip
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be…
Abisdad
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Changing from user to superuser
How do I change from user to superuser (root)? What command do I use in the Terminal to switch to root? I have tried --help but I get lost with all the listed help. I'm looking for a recent download/install so I can use it.
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