And a bonus default browser issue with Lubuntu Even before my ancient Acer C720 Chromebook reached “End of Life” – i.e. no more updates from Mr. Google – I had installed GalliumOS to be able to run my Linux programs side by side with ChromeOS. Only change I had to make was to put in […]
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First off, I’m 65 and an acoustic musician who grew up playing classical music and who specializes in music of the 17th and 18th century on copies of instruments from that period. So I’m not some young super geek who’s all about modern technology. In other words – if I could do this, you can,
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Sometimes you run into a problem and do a Google search and up pops a solution that instantly solves your problem. This is what happened when I realized that I didn’t know how to switch my sound input and output from the computer microphone and attached speakers to a USB headset that I wanted to
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I hate “tap to click” on a laptop touchpad. In many installations it seems to be enabled by default. Some have a control panel for the mouse/touchpad set-up but in my current installation of Lubuntu 12.04 on my laptop there is no control panel setting. This article gives instructions for changing settings. However, it may
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Irritating behavior – trying to open the Dropbox folder from the tray icon lists the files in the browser rather than file manager. This answer worked for me on Lubuntu 12.04. Install libfile-mimeinfo-perl from the repository Run (in terminal) mimeopen -d ~/Desktop (any folder can be used) mimeopen should prompt you to pick something to
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