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How to format a USB or external drive?
Using Ubuntu 11.10, how do I format an external or USB drive? I don't find an option to 'format' when I right click. In the new version, the drives don't come up on the desktop, but instead come on the Launcher.
Sudeep Halappa
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How to switch language keyboard combination?
I would like to type Hebrew in Ubuntu. I tried downloading the Hebrew language pack and then setting alt - shift as my layout-change shortcut in the Options section of "Keyboard Layout". However, when I actually press alt - shift , nothing happens.…
Itay Moav -Malimovka
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How do I install Ubuntu?
I would like to see a full how-to guide on how to install Ubuntu.
yehhhimanshu
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Can I see why a package is installed?
For a specific package, can I find out why it is installed? So, can I see or it's manually installed, or that it is installed as a dependency of another package? Or that it is installed as part of the distro?
Peter Smit
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Is it possible to have different DPI configurations for two different screens?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.3 with NVidia drivers (319) for my Quadro K2100M graphic card, and when I switch my main 3200x1800 laptop screen to mode 1920x1080 (using nvidia-settings ), the display goes blurry... I am using two screens: My main screen is…
Anthony O.
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Browsing the internet from the command line
How can I browse the Internet from the command line in Ubuntu?
user12025
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Why does a Ubuntu guest in VirtualBox run very, very slowly?
I'm using currently Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as a host machine, and I've virtualized three machines: a Xubuntu 12.04 guest a Windows 7 guest a Ubuntu 12.10 guest All the guests have the same VirtualBox default settings, but Ubuntu 12.10 is slower! The…
Giorgio
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How can I tell if I am running Wayland?
Wayland is the default display server for Ubuntu 17.10 " on supported systems ". But how can I tell if my platform is supported and I'm actually using Wayland?
Sumeet Deshmukh
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How to disable the "unlock your keyring" popup?
I read through all the related answers, but they do not apply to Ubuntu 14.04 . I have no .gnome2 folder and no Passwords and Encryption keys item in the system settings. I tried to crawl through every possible menu, but I could not find out how to…
Martin Drozdik
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What does "TTY" stand for?
On the Wikipedia's article (Computer terminal) under the hard copy terminals section of the article it says this "Early user terminals connected to computers were electromechanical teleprinters or teletypewriters (TeleTYpewriter, TTY)..." So does…
MathCubes
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How to get a drive formatted with exfat working?
In Ubuntu 13.04 there was an option to use the PPA by Relan in order to get ExFat functionality. Seeing that in Ubuntu this functionality is now available from the repositories without the PPA I tried this but failed to make it work. So my question…
davorao
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How can I type a Unicode character (for example, em-dash —?)
The title pretty much says it all: how can I type Unicode characters - specifically the em-dash —?
Humphrey Bogart
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Will apt-get dist-upgrade upgrade my system to a newer version?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 right now. If I use the command sudo apt-get dist-upgrade will that upgrade my Ubuntu to 12.10? Does that mean I won't be using the LTS version after that? I don't want to use Ubuntu 12.10 because I've already tried it and…
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How can I uninstall a nvidia driver completely ?
As expected, Nvidia drivers have reduced my customizations. I can't login to Unity 3D session. I can't find any content to help me to uninstall the driver and I don't know what to do as I have never uninstalled them before.
VedVals
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