Ubuntu Mate: Get rid of F12 drop-down terminal

Problem:

Keyboard layout reverting to US on (every) reboot

Cause:

I found the same problem, but only on my wife's account. I'd set her keyboard layout to UK through Gnome preferences and every time the US layout would reappear and be selected...

When you drag a file from a Nautilus window into a terminal window, the file's path will be pasted into the terminal. This also works with multiple files.

You can use fold:

fold -sw 60

You can now paste your texts. fold will echo them back, word-wrapped after 60 columns. Exit with Ctrl+C or Ctrl+D.

You can also use files for input and output:

fold -sw 60 input.txt > output.txt

If you're experiencing problems with your Google Chrome installation after an update, it might help downgrading Chrome to check if the problem disappears. Keep in mind though that running outdated software, especially web browsers, is in most case...

Under XFCE keys like tilde are dead by default, which is impractical for programming and terminal work. To get rid of dead keys, open your Settings Manager and go to Keyboard. Under the Layout tab you can keyboard layouts like "German (elimi...

If you worked with a system Ruby before switching to RVM, this system Ruby will be in your way when you switch between projects with/without RVM.

It's hard to get rid of your system Ruby entirely, but you can tell RVM to just use a given Ruby by ...

Open the configuration file:

gksudo gedit /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm

Find a line like this:

:co#80:it#8:li#24:\

Change the first and last number to your desired columns and rows:

:co#160:it#8:li#40:\

Save your changes and c...

If you get this warning on your local machine one of these steps might help:

Rebuilt the gem with the newer library

gem install --no-rdoc --no-ri nokogiri -- --with-xml2-include=/opt/local/include/libxml2 --with-xml2-lib=/opt/local/lib

...

After a new system installation, Ubuntu One starts automatically and seems to try to sync your complete home directory. This slows down the Nautilus File Manager extremely. To prevent this, uncheck Ubuntu One from your start programs and restart t...

TLDR: sass >= 1.35.0 has the option quietDeps to silence deprecation warnings from dependencies.

quietDeps: If true, the compiler must not print deprecation warnings
for stylesheets that are transitively loaded through an import pat...