Posts Tagged ‘ Ubuntu

Pidgin OSD pop ups in Ubuntu Jaunty

You can remove or the pop up’s that you see from . Buddies logging on/off, and in my case, new messages. I didn’t want every new message i receive to be blasted up on the desktop . To control what you see there, Pull up your Pidgin window (buddy window, not your conversation box), then: Tools -> Plugins -> . When you have selected the libnotify pop-ups, click on “configure plug-in”. That will give you some check boxes to customize the behaviour

Ubuntu recovery console with no root password

So your Ext3 root partition is corrupted. No matter how you try to log into your system, your system asks you for . But you are a good, obedient user. And you do not have a root password set. You can press , but that just reboots. Are you boned?

No. problem. press ctrl+alt+delete. You will get a messy screen about having trouble launching your X session, but you will get a login towards the bottom of the screen. So just use your normal user login and password. after that, I use
sudo su