Ubuntu: How to add second adapter to guest OS in VirtualBox?

Question: I have Ubuntu 13.10 Desktop as host and Ubuntu 12.04.3 Server as guest. On guest OS VirtualBox setting I have setup 3 adap...

Ubuntu: How to restart Gnome-shell, after it became unresponsive/freeze?

Question: Sometimes, my gnome-shell freezes. I can see (hear) background processes working (playing music), but I can't do anyth...

Ubuntu: How to get pixel length of a Button text string in QML?

Question: I need to know Button text length in pixels. How to do that ? Solution:1 Look at the following code snippet: impo...

Ubuntu: unable to compile ndiswrapper

Question: I'm trying to install ndiswrapper to get my wireless Netgear to work. I did the following: apt-get install ndiswrapp...

Ubuntu: How can I lock AND blank the screen from the keyboard in 14.04?

Question: In older versions of Ubuntu when you pressed Ctrl + Alt + L it would lock and blank the screen (start the screensaver). I...

Ubuntu: Is my kernel safe to use?

Question: I am running Ubuntu server 12.04 and my fresh installation is using the 3.2.0-60-generic kernel, however when I go to htt...

Ubuntu: Open VMX file in VMWare

Question: I have Ubuntu-12.4 installed on VMWare and I want to edit .vmx file to enable KVM Virtualization I have seen a tutori...

Ubuntu: ubuntu 12.04 LTS nVidia driver mirrors second monitor

Question: I have installed ubuntu 12.04,without nvidia driver I can use my Laptop screen and a second screen over the HDMI port of m...

Ubuntu: Set primary IPv6 address

Question: I've got a /64 of IPv6 addresses available to one of my servers (Ubuntu 12.04). I'm binding them like this: auto ...

Ubuntu: How do I remove the Ubuntu option from the Windows 7 boot manager?

Question: I have Windows 7 as base operating system, and I have installed Ubuntu 13.10 on it. A few days later, my Windows 7 becam...

Ubuntu: Help with the installation of Ubuntu 13.10 [duplicate]

Question: This question already has an answer here: How can I install Ubuntu without removing Windows? ...

Ubuntu: Is it possible to run Windows 8 apps in Ubuntu?

Question: I read that new apps in Windows 8 will mainly be developed in HTML5 and Java-script. Those two languages are already suppo...

Ubuntu: Installing Windows alongside Ubuntu on last partition

Question: I have ubuntu 12.04 installed on my system.I wish to resize my /home (extended) partition and install Windows 7 in the fre...

Ubuntu: Create a .desktop file that opens and execute a command in a terminal

Question: I would like to know how to write the Exec command of a .desktop file to open a new terminal and execute a shell script i...

Ubuntu: Remmina remoteapp over RDP - Toontricks

Using Remmina remoteapp on a Windows Machine I was wondering how to use remmina to open applications on a Windows machine over RDP usi...

Ubuntu: Why are large packages dependent on specific icon themes?

Question: I use the Breeze icon theme and want to uninstall the others. However, when I try, there are loads of other dependencies b...

How to remove inactive icon from installing software?

Question: A very simple question, but for which for some reasons I do not seem to be able to find a solution yet: I have re-install a...

Relocate mount point from new install

Question: Rookie here! Just re-installed Ubuntu 12.03 server on my boot drive and it found my raid five array and assigned the follo...

Ubuntu:Need help with this shell script getting output as zero

Question: Seeing FINAL_TIME = 0 , please help me set START_TIME = 1475614806 set END_TIME = $(date +%s) set FINAL_TIME = $((END_TI...

Ubuntu:Bash scripting - how to concatenate the following strings?

Question: Here is the part of the bash script doing cpuid discovery in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora): /usr/bin/cpuid > id.txt CPUI...