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How to span single wallpaper over dual monitors?

I have dual monitor set up in Ubuntu 11.10. I want to have a single wallpaper spanned across both monitors. How do I do this?
megabubbletea
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Any way to change the default folder icon?

I've tried 'assogiate' but contains only about the file types, no folder option is available.I don't want to install any theme or change folder icon individually. My bad, didn't include at first: I want to add icon of my choice. Any Help is…
Terminal
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Change 2 or more LibreOffice documents to have the exact same styling/formatting

Say I have a directory with about 100 .rtf files I edit with LibreOffice Writer. I desire that all files in that directory will have the exact same basic rich text styling-directives, for example: * font-family: Ubuntu # All text in all…
user423047
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How to mix page numbering on LibreOffice Writer

I'm currently preparing a 20-paged document at work and would like to mix page numbers. I would like to number the first 5 pages with Roman numerals (i–v) and start of the last 15 pages with the usual page numbers (1–15) At the end of the day,…
Mysterio
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How to get rid of the background gradient of the inline GtkToolbar?

When you run the below code, it will show an inline toolbar in a window. Notice how the inline toolbar has a stand-out backbround. Is there a way to apply CSS to get rid of it and make blend with regular window color? #!/usr/bin/python3 from…
Dima
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Google desktop logo looks bad

The Google Desktop icon in the system tray in Unity looks ugly: Any way around this?
Trufa
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How can I turn off "eye candy" and make Ubuntu run as fast as possible?

For example in Windows XP (and onwards), you can Right Click My PC -> Properties -> Advanced System Settings and disable a whole slew of features that turn off eye candy and make the computer runs blazing fast. Since I'm running Ubuntu on a Virtual…
Only Bolivian Here
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How can I make Nautilus sorting ignore the word "The" or "A" at the beginning of file and folder names?

I have a rather large library of media and it gets annoying looking for something when I forget that the "official" name of the movie, artist, song, etc begins with the words "The" or "A". So, for example, if I have a file like: The Lord of the…
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Why my Widget Style always change back to GTK+ Style automatically?

Using KDE, when changing Widget Style using Setting -> Application Appearance -> Style -> Application -> Widget style Every time I change the Widget style into Cleanlooks (or others), the style of every window that is currently open changes…
Yishu Fang
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What visual style is this and how do I install it?

You can find my question in the title. The video, where I saw that visual style is the following: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=padG62OCSXg And the only thing I am interested in, is the visual style and how I can install it. It would be really…
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GNOME terminal "use colors from system theme" not working

I am having trouble with making the GNOME terminal's color scheme follow the general GNOME color scheme with the "use colors from system theme" checked. I get a dark-themed terminal. The general theme being light. Is this the expected behavior,…
Ilya Kuleshov
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CSS classes in gnome-shell for panel's menus background and slider

I would like to change the background of panel's menu (and make it transparent) and change the color of the slider (from purple to orange). I like the default Ubuntu shell theme, so I don't want to use custom themes. I also want to change the…
antoniom96
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Cinnamon: How to position popupmenu?

I'm new to cinnamon desktop, I used gnome session fallback and mate before. What I'm trying to achieve is the following: when I right click on a window on the panel, the popupmenu should be right above the place I clicked. But for some reason the…
balping
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How Can I Change Close/Minimize/Max buttons in unity?

I am working on a Linux distro and I was wondering how I can change the images of close/minimize/max buttons. I do not want to move them. Just change the style. Thanks for your help in advanced!
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Drive information like Windows 7?

In Windows 7 the Computer area has drives sorted by Type which list the size remaining and a progress bar to represent the size currently in use. Is there a way to customize Ubuntu 11.04 to do the same? (No previous modifications made) I want to…
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