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    [ubuntu] Re: Tomboy Notes Startup in Background

    I had this issue as well, as a quick work around you can create a script like this for example. I named it delay-tomboy.sh in my ~/bin/ directory.



    #!/bin/sh
    /bin/sleep 5
    /usr/bin/tomboy

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  2. Re: Running Kohan and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri on 9.04 64-bit

    Hmm... I didn't run into this problem myself, but looking around that error basically just means that the file is not what it expects it to be before patching it - either it's corrupt, already...
  3. HOWTO: SimCity 3000 on 9.04/9.10 (including 64-bit)

    I recently had a craving to play some of my older Loki games, but I quickly found that games made for Linux distributions from 2001 or so don't work so easily on modern distributions. Here's a quick...
  4. Re: Running Kohan and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri on 9.04 64-bit

    I'm pretty sure those games only supported 1 resolution.
  5. Re: Running Kohan and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri on 9.04 64-bit

    Interesting, what video card and driver are you using? On my Nvidia card with the proprietary drivers I play with composite enabled and compiz.
  6. Re: Running Kohan and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri on 9.04 64-bit

    This is caused by not preloading libX11.so and using the dynamic executable. Make sure that you're preloading /usr/lib/libX11.so if you're on a 32-bit system as described in the tutorial, or if...
  7. Re: Running Kohan and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri on 9.04 64-bit

    Where is the game installed? Did it get installed to /home/j/games/ and get moved or was it originally installed to /home/j/games/smac ?

    If the game is really installed in /home/j/games/smac but...
  8. Running Kohan and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri on 9.04 64-bit

    I recently had a craving to play some of my older Loki games, but I quickly found that games made for Linux distributions from 2001 or so don't work so easily on modern distributions. Here's a quick...
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    Poll: Re: HOW TO: Firefox 3 and dark themes

    Thanks aparigraha.
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    Poll: Re: HOW TO: Firefox 3 and dark themes

    Argh, this had been working beautifully until the upgrade to Firefox 3.0.11 yesterday - back to my ugly buttons. :(
  11. Workaround for a monitor that isn't detected on DVI

    Introduction

    Ok. First off this is not necessarily Ubuntu-specific, however Ubuntu is what I'm running and this particular workaround deals with specifically Linux, although it could be adapted...
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    Re: HOWTO: Bluetooth headset for Skype in Feisty

    Just a quick note for anyone experiencing the same problem of the single "beep" and no audio playing/audio apps hanging when trying to play something through their headset. I fixed it on my Jabra...
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    Re: HOWTO: Bluetooth headset for Skype in Feisty

    Ok, I actually stepped back and used the "legacy" method described on the bluetooth-alsa build page... I modprobed snd-bt-sco and ran btsco <mac address> then entered the pin in the gnome applet to...
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    Re: HOWTO: Bluetooth headset for Skype in Feisty

    Any luck getting this to work with teamspeak? I tried the aoss wrapper, but while that works for xmms, teamspeak doesn't seem able to access the audio device...
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    Re: HOWTO: Bluetooth headset for Skype in Feisty

    Just an update... I tried a friend's bluetooth usb dongle instead of mine and it works instead of doing the beeping issue... not sure why mine won't work, it's a Jabra a320s that doesn't work. The...
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    Re: HOWTO: Bluetooth headset for Skype in Feisty

    I tried this method, the headset pairs successfully (I'll post how without kde later) but when trying to play a sound, the headset simply beeps once, plays no other audio and aplay hangs... any...
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