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roobal

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    RE: How do I make terminal thumbnails on desktop?
    [b]Hogwarts_Champion wrote:[/b] [quote]I figured it out, I guess its part of the Gnome GUI. When I move my cursor to the upper right corner it turns all the windows I have open into Thumbnails. Very cool. Thanks for the help one the less.[/quote] So, you use Compiz and that is a Scale plugin ;)
    Link to this post 17 Jan 11

    Hogwarts_Champion wrote:

    I figured it out, I guess its part of the Gnome GUI. When I move my cursor to the upper right corner it turns all the windows I have open into Thumbnails. Very cool. Thanks for the help one the less.

    So, you use Compiz and that is a Scale plugin ;)

  • roobal
    RE: Disk Defragmentation
    [b]Chronos wrote:[/b] [quote]IDoes this need to be done in Linux? If so, how? If not, why not?[/quote] No it's not necessary, because this issue affects mainly Microsoft's filesystems like FAT or Ntfs. Linux filesystems can also fragment but fragmentation is very low ;)
    Link to this post 17 Jan 11

    Chronos wrote:

    IDoes this need to be done in Linux? If so, how? If not, why not?

    No it's not necessary, because this issue affects mainly Microsoft's filesystems like FAT or Ntfs. Linux filesystems can also fragment but fragmentation is very low ;)

  • roobal
    RE: Installation issue with Ubuntu
    I frequently meet the issue like this one on Asus motherboards. [b]saqman2060 wrote:[/b] [quote]Are you using the GRUB bootloader or windows 7 bootloader to boot your system?[/quote] Wubi makes image of Grub and put it on C:\ drive, next add this image to Windows bootloader list, but when you choose Linux from list of Windows bootloader, then runs Grub and you can run Ubuntu. [b]Goineasy9 wrote:[/b] [quote]I'm not familiar with wubi, so, I'll wait till someone more experienced can explain what is going on.[/quote] Wubi makes file is a pseudo-partition for Linux, but Linux works on native filesystem like ext4.
    Link to this post 16 Jan 11

    I frequently meet the issue like this one on Asus motherboards.

    saqman2060 wrote:

    Are you using the GRUB bootloader or windows 7 bootloader to boot your system?

    Wubi makes image of Grub and put it on C:\ drive, next add this image to Windows bootloader list, but when you choose Linux from list of Windows bootloader, then runs Grub and you can run Ubuntu.

    Goineasy9 wrote:

    I'm not familiar with wubi, so, I'll wait till someone more experienced can explain what is going on.

    Wubi makes file is a pseudo-partition for Linux, but Linux works on native filesystem like ext4.

  • roobal
    RE: Having Trouble With Sudoer List...
    In Fedora, you can use su command to log in as root.
    Link to this post 16 Jan 11

    In Fedora, you can use su command to log in as root.

  • roobal
    RE: How do I make terminal thumbnails on desktop?
    Do you use Compiz?
    Link to this post 16 Jan 11

    Do you use Compiz?

  • roobal
    RE: Linux Distributions
    Debian is a good choice but you must be aware that Debian does not have any graphical configurators and wizards like Ubuntu or Mint.
    Link to this post 01 Sep 10

    Debian is a good choice but you must be aware that Debian does not have any graphical configurators and wizards like Ubuntu or Mint.

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