[ubuntu-in] How to "remember" gnome terminal window size and position?

[Vishal Rao]

Hi,

Is there a way to get the gnome terminal window (and other apps' windows) to
remember its size and position so that the next time I open it should be
restored that way?

At home I use compizfusion's window placement plugin to set this up but at work
I don't have or want compiz running so am looking for another way to
do this in gnome.

Found some links while drafting this email:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5623408
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3654/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1442/

(Voted for the brainstorm ideas and using "--geometry 150x50+50+50" for the
terminal as a workaround - its a fixed position but doesnt remember
the last position.)

Is there any way we can currently do this (remember settings) for any
app window in
general with Ubuntu Hardy (gnome) without compiz?

Thanks!
- Vishal

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[ubuntu-in] Recovering files from lost+found

[Kartik Singhal]

HI all,
Yesterday, after transferring a lot of linux ISOs from my NTFS partitions to
my home partition on ext3 file system (both types of FSs on same harddisk)
and restarting my Ubuntu 8.04.1 system, I received an error saying that I
have to run "fsck" manually in the maintenance mode as my root partition
encountered some problems in the automatic (routine) file system check. I
ran it and answered yes (the default option) to all questions.

After the check, I logged into the system and was shocked to see that the
ISOs I just transferred were not there in the home directory. There were
some other problems such as all my bookmarks (in Places) were gone and I
also received an error saying that TomBoy couldn't load.

I searched around and finally found some files starting with "#" in the
lost+found folder of /home. I found out about their sizes and was relieved
to see that some of them were around 700 MB in size (which means my lost
ISOs). But there were only 3 files with this big size and I had more ISOs
than 3. Apart from ISOs I have lost many of my configuration file which are
present in home folder (most importantly those of vmware, so that I am
unable to use it.)

I want to know how can I recover my files from lost+found and also those
that are not present in that directory but lost. Please help. I am a newbie
in linux and have never encountered data loss problems in linux (I thought
they were windows things).

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[ubuntu-in] Over Quoting and Non-Trimming

[Parthan SR]

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Re: [ubuntu-in] Software freedom day

[Madhava K R]

Hi,

Thanks all, the Install CD customization on help.ubuntu.com look
promising, we'll try that out.

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Re: [ubuntu-in] Software freedom day

[mallikarjun arjun]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Sameep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm a student at NITK, Surathkal. We're planning to celebrate software
> > freedom day with a few talks and demonstrations, as well as releasing
> > a custom ubuntu flavour that is specific to our college.
> >
> > I wanted to know how feasible it is and maybe a pointer in the right
> > direction to customize ubuntu to our specifications, i.e. installing
> > custom packages and having custom configuration files rather than the
> > default ones, network settings and things like that.
> >
> > Also, would it be possible to get any speakers from Canonical or the
> > ubuntu/linux community in general to come give talks here?
> >
> > --
>
>
> You can start with a new installation of ubutu , Customize it as per your
> needs , i.e. add or remove any packages , change splash screens etc . Then
> you can use remastersys to make a custom live cd.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Sameep
>
>
>
>
> I feel remaster is not safe method. I was bugged by it for 2 times. Dont
know whether it is problem of my system or not.
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Re: [ubuntu-in] Dell and ubuntu!

[mallikarjun arjun]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Prakash Advani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> I hyave confirmed from Dell India that these two models are available with
> Ubuntu.
>
> Vostro A840 NB details:
>
> http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-vostro-a840?c=in&cs=inbsd1&l=en&s=bsd&~ck=anavml
> Vostro A860 NB details:
>
> http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-vostro-a860?c=in&cs=inbsd1&l=en&s=bsd&~ck=anavml
>
> Ask the Dell sales rep when you call the toll free number.
>
> Do let me know if you face any difficulties.
>
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But i had called them on 03/09, they told that no information is available
as of that time

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[ubuntu-in] Dell and Ubuntu!

[Biswajit Dutta Baruah]

It is futile to argue about something that is out in the open. I admit
that dell is offering support for ubuntu hardy but in those early days,
there was no support available for gutsy. Anyways no point in talking
about the past. Even now, the dell linux wiki comes with a disclaimer
about no technical support being available.

Last but not the least, my dear Onkar, I am running ubuntu hardy on a
Dell Inspiron 1420. And maybe thats one of the reasons why I fell for a
Dell.

My objection is to the fact that all laptop users are being forced to
buy windows vista, and that I think is a major impedance to widespread
adoption of ubuntu, and linux. I went with Dell because they had the
courage to go against the norm.

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Re: [ubuntu-in] Request for kn subdomain for translation of Ubuntu-in web to Kannada

[Omshivaprakash H L]

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Hi sriranga,

Already some of my friends are working on this. I'm forwarding you to
the list in which this is being discussed.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]


74yrs old wrote:
> Dear Omshivaprakash, I am assisting to develop tesseractocr for
> Kannada. In this connection, corpus of Kannada or Dictionary
> required to generate word-dawg, user-words datafiles. and also as
> spell checker . Will you help me in this regard?. With Regards,
> -sriranga(75yrsold)
>
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Omshivaprakash H L
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>
>
> Hi Team,
>
> I would like to engage myself with translation of Ubuntu-In web to
> Kannada. It would be great if you guys can create different
> subdomains like kn.ubuntu-in.info  (For
> Kannada) for different language teams who involve themselves in
> translations. This can add local flavor to Ubuntu-In web presence.
>
>
>
>
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> शिवप्रकाश् एच्. एल्
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Re: [ubuntu-in] Dell and ubuntu!

[Prakash Advani]

I hyave confirmed from Dell India that these two models are available with 
Ubuntu.

Vostro A840 NB details:
http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-vostro-a840?c=in&cs=inbsd1&l=en&s=bsd&~ck=anavml
Vostro A860 NB details:
http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-vostro-a860?c=in&cs=inbsd1&l=en&s=bsd&~ck=anavml

Ask the Dell sales rep when you call the toll free number.

Do let me know if you face any difficulties.

Biswajit Dutta Baruah wrote:
> Friends,
>
> Hope this is not too late to chip in.
>
> I have an Inspiron 1420 that i bought in Dec 2007. Have been running
> ubuntu on the same. Had a few issues with sound and video in gutsy but
> hardy is fine ...no issues at all. Not crashed even once and am using it
> full time. Have vista on a partition but haven't been there for a long
> time now. 
>
> I've installed ubuntu on XPS as well for a few friends and it has worked
> well.
>
> Dell India is not selling any laptops with ubuntu pre loaded. Don't even
> ask the guys, they don't have any clue about what ubuntu is. I tried
> hard for them to sell me one without vista so that I don't have to pay
> for the vista. But they refused, however i got a 5000 discount after
> some hard bargaining.
>
> At that time Dell was selling laptops online only but now they are in
> the shops. And introductory offers are usually with a discount, so go
> for it. If you buy online, they will come from Sriperumbudur(near
> chennai) and not Malaysia, like mine did. 
>
> If you are getting one from the US be sure to buy a global warranty  so
> that in case of needing service you can have it done locally and not
> send it back to the US. I can have mine serviced in the Asia_pacific
> region and not elsewhere, but that suit me well and I'm happy.
>
> orthodoc.
>
>
>   

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