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Thread: How to get mouse wheel up roll up active window?
Post: How to get mouse wheel up roll up active window?
| Hi.
See other Linux distros the default behaviour when mouse pointer hover over window title and user roll the mouse wheel up, is that the current window rolls up (I beleive it is also called windows... |
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Desktop Customization
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12-26-2017, 08:18 PM |
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Thread: Which tool to encrypt existing PDF file [solved]
Post: Which tool to encrypt existing PDF file [solved]
| Hi.
Does anyone know a tool to put encrypt/putting passwords on existing PDF files? Both gui tool and non-gui tool work for me.
Normally my PDF files is generated either by the built-in pdf printer in... |
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Off Topic
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07-16-2019, 02:59 PM |
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Thread: Export file / save as : Dialog box tend to not respond
Post: Re: Export file / save as : Dialog box tend to not...
| Another new update. I beleive I have just done something stupid and that is the reason why it sometimes hang.
I do work in a directory that supposedly both users should have access to, but I start th... |
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Other
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05-02-2018, 07:50 PM |
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Thread: file copy from fat/ntfs - only copy newer files
Post: Re: file copy from fat/ntfs - only copy newer file...
| Hi. No I'm not looking for a way to sync files.
Btw - I asked in Ubuntu forum, and a possible solution seems to use a tool named fatatr (haven't tried yet)
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2... |
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Other
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01-10-2018, 09:18 PM |
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Thread: Cannot seem to edit PDF's. Any advice for how to fill out PDF forms?
Post: Re: Cannot seem to edit PDF's. Any advice for how ...
| Editing PDF's really comes down to what program the pdf file is opened with.
Seems that the PDF reader that ships with LL can't save any changes to pdf forms (I just tested with a pdf with forms crea... |
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Other
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05-02-2018, 08:17 PM |
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Thread: How to install Linux Lite without BIOS
Post: Re: How to install Linux Lite without BIOS
| If you got the computer from school or work, you need to ask the previous owner for the bios password. |
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Sprintrdriver |
Installing Linux Lite
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10-07-2019, 11:49 PM |
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Thread: First try to install a program by compile from a .tar.gz file
Post: First try to install a program by compile from a ....
| Hi.
I'm hoping to be able to get qDirStat installed, but I'm stuck now and need help to get further.
This is what I have done so farHave downloaded the file qdirstat-1.4.tar.gz from https://github.c... |
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Sprintrdriver |
Installing Software
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01-10-2018, 10:03 PM |
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Thread: Which tool to encrypt existing PDF file [solved]
Post: Re: Which tool to encrypt existing PDF file [solve...
| Thank you for answering.
I see that I haven't being specific in my question, so I need to elaborate.
This PDF files I mentioned, I opt to send them by mail to other people that only do windows. Also I... |
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07-16-2019, 09:59 PM |
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Thread: First try to install a program by compile from a .tar.gz file
Post: Re: First try to install a program by compile from...
| Thanks a lot :)
Then I can try learning how to compile another day.
Btw - just before i Saw your post I found this web page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo
But under "Step 3: R... |
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Sprintrdriver |
Installing Software
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01-10-2018, 10:18 PM |
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Thread: Two users access to common folder
Post: Two users access to common folder
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I have this situation where I have two users on the computer. I have tried to read up on users and groups to understand, but is still very new to this (most of what I have done so far is by... |
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Sprintrdriver |
Hard Drives and SSDs
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05-02-2018, 09:12 PM |
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Thread: What was your first Linux Distro ?
Post: Re: What was your first Linux Distro ?
| I think the first distro I installed on bare metal must have being Mint Debian edition, around 2014.
I had installed Ubuntu on Virtualbox before that, and I also have used Gparted live-cd way before ... |
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Off Topic
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08-15-2019, 06:27 PM |
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Thread: First try to install a program by compile from a .tar.gz file
Post: Re: First try to install a program by compile from...
| Yes, I must obviously misread it as I didn't see that earlier. Thanks again. |
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Sprintrdriver |
Installing Software
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01-11-2018, 12:36 AM |
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Thread: How to easilly lose a lot of data
Post: Re: How to easilly lose a lot of data
| Step 5: Just don't take backup. Sooner or later the disk will die.
Step 6: If using a rotating disk connected to a usb-sata adapter : Make the disk read or write something, lift the disk up with your ... |
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09-01-2019, 07:15 PM |
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Thread: GSmartControl - any means to get smart data using terminal command
Post: GSmartControl - any means to get smart data using ...
| Hi.
I have installed the program GSmartControl 1.1.3 so that I can extract health data from any harddrives connected to the computer.
After I installed the program, the procedure to get HDD smart data... |
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Off Topic
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09-01-2019, 07:22 PM |
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Thread: Which tool to encrypt existing PDF file [solved]
Post: Re: Which tool to encrypt existing PDF file [solve...
| Thank you very much for this lesson - I didn't know Libre Office was able to actually open PDF files. This solves the problem for me now. At least I have tested a very simple PDF file that was exporte... |
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07-17-2019, 04:36 PM |
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Thread: Trying to install Gimp 2.10.8 - but get 2.8.22
Post: Trying to install Gimp 2.10.8 - but get 2.8.22
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I already had Gimp version 2.10.8 installed.
So I decided to install the newest version:
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sudo apt-get autoremove gimp gimp-plugin-registry
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/... |
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Sprintrdriver |
Installing Software
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11-23-2018, 12:46 AM |
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Thread: LL for kids' laptop for homeschool - will this work with Dropbox/Adobe Connect?
Post: Re: LL for kids' laptop for homeschool - will this...
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Linux does take som time and effort to learn to use because it is so fundamental different from what you're used to in windows. I know because back in the XP days I considered myself a "power use... |
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Sprintrdriver |
Introductions
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07-19-2019, 11:37 PM |
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Thread: please help, cant download a 4.4 GB ISO file
Post: Re: please help, cant download a 4.4 GB ISO file
| Also when I know you're using Firefox I would have choosed to use the addon DownThemall. Thing about that one is if a download halts, you can resume download again.
Haven't tried the download manager... |
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Other
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05-03-2018, 10:09 PM |
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Thread: Two users access to common folder
Post: Re: Two users access to common folder
| Thanks for answers.
First off - just an addition to my first post: What I does is I tries to use two separate users (both is actually me as I'm the only physical user of the laptop) where user2 is th... |
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Sprintrdriver |
Hard Drives and SSDs
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05-03-2018, 10:28 PM |
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Thread: Worth upgrading to 64bit?
Post: Re: Worth upgrading to 64bit?
| Glad I found this post, because I have a question that might be relevant.
So I installed LL onto a really old laptop that does not have a cpu with PAE. By searching on the web I quickly found out fir... |
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On Topic
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06-06-2017, 09:14 PM |
