There are a lot of times when I'd like to view two programs side by side on the screen. (An example could be to view 2 instances of nautilus side by side emulating the missing twin panel view.) ...
Although we are users of the foremost distro, we don't always have the latest packages, for example OpenOffice, Warzone2100, etc. Understandably it's a big job and there aren't enough package main...
I'm from a Windows background, and have recently migrated all my home computers across to Ubuntu with varying success. All bar one. the one yet to be done is my Windows Home Server. What it does...
I think that including the Avant Window Navigator in Ubuntu straight out-of-the-box would be a really great thing for the Operating System. There are no negatives here. It looks great, it's extreme...
Personally, I use both side scroll and two finger scroll. I use side scroll for long scrolls or when I need to scroll quickly (imprecise scrolling). I use two finger scroll generally when reading l...
It's annoying to have to manually search for an icon, when i manuall enter a command. For example i added vim to my panel (not by browsing, but by typing the command gvim in the input box "Command"...
Launchpad.net is one of the many sites, wich offers OpenID login. Unfortunately are such kind of OpenID-s long and uncomfortable to type on web pages. At the moment, the OpenID as feature is not ...
For novice users, the task to add a new system to the grub menu or customize it may be difficult. Even sometimes it's hard for experienced users. From GRUB 2 it has become even more difficult to mo...
Whenever a USB flash drive is ejected, safely removed or otherwise, instead of the USB file manager currently showing the contents on the USB closing down automatically, it goes to /media. I find t...
I set up Ubuntu the way I like it, installing all the packages I use, setting OpenOffice to save in the MS Office format by default, etc, etc, but in a situation with more than one computer I have ...
By default, Kubuntu comes with Konqueror as the only browser installed. But Konqueror is a browser very problematic (even on popular sites, and the flash plugin from Adobe). Kubuntu already uses Do...
At this point most of us use multiple Desktops and laptops. On each one of these we have a username and password. When we have to change it we have to change it in a number of places. This gener...
In fact, for some netbooks or laptops, it is not always easy to know if a software, particularly a game, can be run appropriately. [7 votes] Solution #1: Checking automatically if your hardware...
The goal of this idea is to make it possible that ubuntu server acts as a domain controller, with a central user database on which ubuntu clients can authenticate. The users data (home) resides on ...
Evolution is now integrated with Ubuntu One, where the contacts are synced and stored on Ubuntu One. Many people use other email clients such as the very popular Thunderbird and as such don't have ...