I’ve had this issue where my sound messes up. It seems to happen mostly when I have the Android emulator open. As you see below, I only have the option of using the headset plugged in through my docking station. The laptop speakers are not in the list. If I were to unplug the docking station, I would get “Dummy Output” in the list.
Category: Ubuntu
Fixing CDRecord
I’ve been trying to back up my computer, and I have a virtual machine that is rather large. I am using a Samsung Blu-Ray burner, and I am having trouble. Brasero just bombed out at the beginning of the burn. So, I went back to K3b. That did the trick mostly, but I ran into issues at the end of every disk. So, I found a nice article on Ubuntu Forums.
Here are my notes on implementing the fix…
Installing MenuLibre 2.0
I just discovered MenuLibre with this last time that I installed Ubuntu 13.10. Tom pointed out on that post that a new 2.0 version is available. It’s not in the Ubuntu 13.10 repositories, but it was easy enough to install (or, at least should have been) …
Here’s the easy way
First, you need to install two prerequisites.
sudo apt-get install python3-distutils-extra sudo apt-get install python3-psutil
Now download the latest version from the Project Page.
Finally, extract and install like this:
tar -xzvf menulibre-2.0.1.tar.gz cd menulibre-2.0.1 python3 setup.py install --user
Run it like this (or, from the menu):
$ ~/.local/bin/menulibre
LibreOffice 4.2 in Ubuntu 13.10
I ran across the articles on WebUpd8 and OMGUbuntu about the latest version of LibreOffice. I decided to give it a try. New features are always great.
Here’s all I did:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Ubuntu 13.10: System Tools And Settings
This part of my Ubuntu 13.10 installation series. I took a few notes on the tools I installed and settings that I tweaked.
Ubuntu 13.10 Bugs: Gnome-Settings-Daemon Crash
Originally, when I would first boot up, I would get numerous errors about the Gnome-Settings-Daemon crashing. Here’s my research into fixing those.
A note on Ask Ubuntu mentioned installing libgnome-desktop 3.8.4….
I used Synaptic Package Manager to see that “libgnome-desktop-3-7” was already at 3.8.4-ubuntu1.1. Just as a guess, I tried installing “libgnome-desktop-2-17“.
That actually fixed the error messages on boot up! I also noticed that it fixed some of the programs that didn’t look quite right. The theme was broken for some reason, and this fixed it.
Note: I think that some of this might be related to installing Nvidia Prime.
Update: I used Synaptic to uninstall the “libgnome-desktop-2-17” package, and my problems didn’t come back. So, that must not have been the exact problem. Maybe some dependency to that package was the problem or it was something that didn’t completely uninstall.
Resources
- Ubuntu Forums: Gnome-settings-daemon Crashing
- Ubuntu Bugs: [xrandr]: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with signal 5 in _XReply() (nvidia binary drivers?)
- Ubuntu Bugs: xrandr Xerrors with the nvidia binary drivers (optimus)
- Ask Ubuntu: kernel 3.12 with nvidia 331 and nvidia-prime does not load Unity properly in Ubuntu 13.10 [on hold]
Ubuntu 13.10: Programming/Editors
This post is part of my install notes for my Ubuntu 13.10 setup.
These are the steps that I took to set up my programming environment. Since I dabble in a myriad of different little projects, I need a myriad of different tools.
Ubuntu 13.10 VirtualBox
Here are my notes for getting VirtualBox up and going on my Ubuntu 13.10 installation.
Ubuntu 13.10: Internet-Related Setup
This is my second post in setting up my Ubuntu 13.10 install. I am working to reinstall my laptop from scratch, and I have grouped all of my notes for my Internet-related programs in this post: email, browsers, VPN, etc.
