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Saving monitor settings?

Is there a way to save my monitor settings? I have an external monitor at work, but each morning i have to plug it in, rearrange the windows from being side by side to being on top of each other. Can I just save this?

Can't open Orca settings on Ubuntu 13.04

I use Ubuntu 13.04. I found out Orca could be enabled in Universal Access, but I cannot find its GUI based settings manager.

I can't even start its settings manager via the command orca --setup or with the key combination Insert+Space.

It's very convenient/needed for a blind user to change the general settings like speaking rate, pitch and many other things. It's a lot less accessible if one has to run orca --text-setup every time or edit a configuration file.

How can I open the Orca settings manager?

How can I reset all Rhythmbox preferences and library information?

Background: I cannot figure out how to make Rhythmbox scan ONLY the folder with my music in it. I want to delete all of its settings and start over.

What do I have to do to make Rhythmbox think it's never been run before?

How to stop reordering of the same kind multiple preview windows in task switching?

When using task switching in the default graphical mode of Ubuntu 12.04, if they are multiple windows of the same kind, eg. multiple Terminal windows, you can see them all together and select which one you want.

My problem is that the order of these windows is constantly changed. It follows the "last used" order. I want them in a fix order always; how can I do it?

Where does one set the extent of the Desktop in Ubuntu?

I would like to control the dimensions of my Ubuntu Desktop. Currently the files I download onto the Desktop do not seem visible, as the Desktop extends well below what's displayed on the screen. I have attached a screenshot where the filename of the bottom-most file (and several files under that) is cut off.

Is there a setting which I can change?

xrandr output:

How can I open Java's Control Panel?

How can I open Java's Control Panel to change the security settings?

How can I set my system to suspend when inactive to a longer amount of time

I run Mythtv on some Ubuntu 11.10 based machines.

In the power settings, I can choose from a list of time periods from 5 minutes up to 1 hour for the the machine to suspend when inactive. I would like to set the suspend to occur at a longer interval, like 2 hours or 4.

Previously with Gnome, I would think that I could go into the gconf editor and find the key there, I am not sure with Unity where to override a setting like this.

Any suggestions?

How to print using only the color cartridge?

My printer ran out of black ink, but the color cartridge still has a lot of ink. I want to print using only ink from the color cartridge. I used to be able to do this using advanced printer settings of the printer driver in Windows 7. I was wondering if and how it can be done using Ubuntu. I'm also new to Ubuntu,so I have no idea how to fiddle around with advanced settings.

My printer is a Canon iP2770 inkjet.

Is it possible to close vlc to system tray?

I have recently installed vlc remote in my phone and I can't use it unless vlc is opened so I was wondering if it is possible to always keep VLC opened like skype and utorrent in windows,
Thanks in advance,

How do I disable touchpad's Copy & Paste & Right-click functionality?

On ubuntu 11.10, with Unity desktop:

tapping top-right corner of the touchpad triggers 'Paste'
tapping top-left corner => 'Copy'
tapping bottom-right corner => 'Right-click'

(I've discovered this through experiments).

Obviously, that's intentional. There must be settings for that. I've looked through Settings->Mouse & Compiz Settings Manager but failed.

How do I disable these triggers?

How do I change the cursor and its size?

I have recently created an Ubuntu 12.04 partition on my Windows 7 laptop. When installing it, I switched to "high contrast" mode, which has rather large cursors (by large I mean about twice as large and thick as they should normally are).

Now I have successfully installed the partition, the large cursors have stuck around even after exiting this high contrast mode, but only when I am hovering over stuff e.g. hovering over text inputs, links, and when resizing windows. All of these cursors are too large. They cursor is only normally sized when the computer should be displaying the normal mouse pointer.

Does anyone know how I might go about fixing this?

Firefox: open downloaded files with system default application

When I download a file with firefox, it always asks me with what program I want to open it with, even when that type of file is recognized by the system, and I can double click on it in Nautilus and have it open properly.

This is an example with a deb file, which opens with Ubuntu Software center (as it should) when I double click on it in Nautilus.

I do not want to look for the required program in /usr/bin or whatever in the Firefox dialog, I want Firefox to recognize my system preferences. What I resort to doing now is choose "Download", open Nautilus and double click on the file...

Why can't Firefox recognize my system settings, and how do I get it to?

Thanks!

Resetting CompizConfig Settings Manager settings

I was running 11.04 before upgrading to 11.10 recently and now I am not able to access my account. When I try to login, the console flashes up with some messages on it, then the NVidia logo pops up and then it takes me back to the login screen. I have a Latitude E6500.

I believe the issue stems from here: when using 11.04 I tried to get the cube working on Compiz against others recommendations. Eventually I hosed my CCSM settings and was not able to login to the account anymore without changing to Ubuntu Classic on the login menu. Now that Ubuntu classic is gone in 11.10 I'm only able to login through the guest account (to see a desktop at least, terminal is still fine).

I believe if I can reset my CCSM settings back to default through the terminal while logged into my main account that would fix it. Any ideas?

How can I make my windows "burn" when I close them?

I have CompizConfig Settings Manager installed, but I don't know how to make windows burn when I close them. How can I make this so?

Which programs use the new "Online Accounts"?

In Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 it's possible to configure a Google Online Account. I'm able to configure this program to get access to Mail, Contacts, Calendar and Chat.

But which programs use this data? There is no information about that.

After I configured my Google Account, I supposed that I will be able to use Google Chat with Empathy, or that I will be able to access my Contacts and Calendar in Thunderbird.

But none of this is true. So, how does Ubuntu use the configured Google Accounts?