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GNOME thumbnails garbled in Nautilus? Fix them.

If by chance your GNOME files are displaying thumbnails that you know aren’t part of the video file or picture they’re supposed to represent, or if Nautilus is showing both thumbnails and icons for the same t[...]


Disable automount for removable devices in Ubuntu

Say you want to disable the automounting feature of Ubuntu. You can press Alt+F2 and type polkit-gnome-authorization. Press Enter and in the new window that appears go to Storage > Mount file systems from removable d[...]


Disable the Terminal bell in Jaunty

It can be irritating sometimes. The Terminal “beep” sound. When you try to auto-complete a command with the Tab button you can hear it and you can never find enough time to set it off. Here’s how: Open [...]


Play encrypted DVDs in Ubuntu

Can’t play encrypted DVDs in Ubuntu? Launch sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh to install the CSS library. [...]