I have the opposite problem of Numlock always off. Numlock is turned on (engages) when the screensaver is first activated. The option is indeed turned off in the lightdm greeter. nwayno@bart:/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d$ cat 50-xubuntu-numlock.conf [Seat:*] greeter-setup-script=xubuntu-numlockx off That status shows numlock status as off. nwayno@bart:~$ numlockx status Numlock is off nwayno@bart:~$ In addition I added sleep […]
23
May
Numlock engages when screensaver activated for Ubuntu 18.04
Posted by Wayno Published in debugging, Misc. other devices/things, Xfce15
Apr
Ubuntu to go: Installing Linux onto a usb flash drive
Posted by Wayno Published in howto, Skill Level: MediumAnother lost article, originally from May 4, 2009 Putting Ubuntu on a flash drive, can seem a daunting task. But if you follow these steps, you’ will have a portable secure operating system. Here’s what you”ll need: A computer with: USB Ports 256 meg of ram cdrom USB flash drive (at least 4 G) 32 […]
11
Feb
Getting apc’s gapcmon to work under Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic koala)
Posted by Wayno Published in Skill Level: Medium, upsBug located Here Viable work around cd /usr/share/icons/gapcmon # change to directory where the icons are stored sudo cp * /usr/share/pixmaps/. # copy them to this location Now go into System/Preferences/Startup Applications and add /usr/bin/gapcmon logout/login — Viola — it works! Dumb-@$$ work around – but makes programme functional! Wayno
19
May
Getting Amarok to work under gnome
Posted by Wayno Published in Audio, gnome, Music, Skill Level: Medium1. Okay the first thing we want to do, if not done so all ready is to install the “ubuntu-restricted-extras” using the synaptic package manager. (System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manger) 2. Once that is done, go to terminal mode and type: (this is so we can download from the experimental amarok site) sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver […]
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