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Q Just dual booted Ubuntu yesterday alongside my Windows 10. In Windows all my keys on the keyboard are working fine but, when I switch to Ubuntu, whenever I press @ it comes across as “. How do I correct it? A (Thanks to steeldriver in the Ubuntu Forums) It sounds like you choose the wrong keyboard layout (e.g. US versus UK) during installation. You should be able to select the right layout via Settings –> Keyboard –> Text Entry Q I'm using a lot of text boxes in a long document in Writer, latest version. Basically, I want them to look like post-it notes. How do I set the text box defaults to have a certain font, background color, etc, so I have to do that only once instead of repeating the formatting every time? A (Thanks to RGB-es at ask.libreoffice.org) With text boxes, it's not possible, but you can use frames instead: Insert > Frame > Frame will give you a sort of “floating small page within a page”. There are frame styles where you can define colour background, line border, etc, and inside those frames you can use everything Writer has to offer, like paragraph styles.
Q Hier, j'ai mis Ubuntu en double amorçage à côté de Windows 10. Sous Windows, toutes les touches du clavier fonctionne comme il faut, mais, quand je bascule sous Ubuntu, chaque fois que j'appuie sur @, ça donne ”.
Comment le corriger ?
R (Remerciements à steeldriver sur les forums Ubuntu) J'ai l'impression que vous ayez mal configuré le clavier pendant l'installation (c-à-d US au lieu d'UK).
Vous devriez pouvoir choisir le bon clavier avec Paramètres –> Clavier –>
Q J'utilise beaucoup de fenêtres de texte dans un long document dans la dernière version de Writer. Essentiellement, je voudrais qu'elles ressemble à des notes sur Post-It. Comment configurer les défauts des fenêtres de texte pour avoir une police, une couleur de fond, etc., précises pour ne le faire qu'une fois au lieu de devoir refaire le paramétrage à chaque coup ?
R (Merci à RGB-es sur ask.libreoffice.org) Ce n'est pas possible avec des fenêtres de texte, mais vous pouvez vous servir
Q Is there a list of codes that one can type when writing a document, like MS Word has (Alt+…), that allows one to highlight, insert shapes, etc?
A (Thanks to librebel at ask.libreoffice.org) For a complete list of Keyboard Shortcut codes for LibreOffice Writer (version 5.4), please see: Shortcut Keys for LibreOffice Writer
Q Just installed the latest Kodi libreelec build and have been really impressed until I tried playing some DVDs, all original. When I pop the DVD in the drive, it runs OK, I can hear the music but the DVD navigation menu and the video remain blank. I'm running on an Intel Core2 Duo with 4 GB RAM and have an Intel HTPC motherboard with onboard Intel HDMI chipset.
A (Thanks to craiguk in the Kodi forums) The fix for me was to set the MPEG2 hardware decoding option to OFF in the video playback settings. Obviously an issue with my Intel HDMI chipset and the Linux driver support.
Q I am currently making a Scribus document that I first set to “landscape.” After doing a few things, I realized I needed to make it “portrait.” However, it's not changing.
A (Thanks to utnik in forums.scribus.net) Document setup is the right place to change those settings. but you need to tell Scribus what parts of the document should be affected. (Check the boxes to 'apply changes to all pages' and/or '…to all master pages'…).
Q Right now, I use ARGUS TV to schedule TV recording from my USB TV Card that has a CA-Modul. Now I'm curious if there is any good software for Ubuntu that can do the same thing for me.
A Have a look at Mythbuntu.
Q Is there any other program like cryptkeeper for Ubuntu that actually works?
A Search for SiriKali. I'm not sure if it is available for all variants of Ubuntu, but it works for me under Xubuntu 17.04 and 17.10.
Q When I update pulseaudio using the terminal, I get version 8 but I notice there is a version 11.1 that has been issued.
A There are often occasions when the Ubuntu team has not confirmed that a new version of an application is secure and works.
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Topic Expansion
I was considering killing the Q&A column, or passing it on. One big factor is the slowdown of activity in the Ubuntu Forums. When I started, it usually took 16 hours to fill 10 pages of new messages in the Forums. Now, 24 hours often fills just four pages. I might log on and write half a dozen messages, but none of it is new, just answering questions which have been asked before.
After discussion with the Full Circle team, another option came up, to expand the coverage to popular applications which run under Linux. At this point, I'm thinking of LibreOffice, Kodi, Gimp, Scribus and Apache. Each of them has a forum, where I might find interesting questions and their answers.
There's just one gotcha: I have to avoid solutions that are specific to Windows or MacOS.
What do you think?