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diff - meld shows output in unreadable alphabet (Japanese/Chinese?) - Ask Ubuntu

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i using meld visualise diff between 2 files. meld shows diff output in... japanese or chinese? any idea happen? locale issue? strange when using diff or colordiff in terminal, work perfectly! thanks! same problem here: file encoding not correctly detected. in case due meld's "detect-encodings" settings. check with: $ gsettings org.gnome.meld detect-encodings ['utf8'] only utf8 detected. to workaround issue add 'latin1' or whatever encoding file has: $ gsettings set org.gnome.meld detect-encodings "['utf8','latin1']"

remote desktop - Can I use my pen tablet as a display and tablet for another computer? - Ask Ubuntu

i have old fujitsu stylistic, portable computer display , pressure-sensitive wacom-brand pen input. use art, however, have found device old , slow handle art software use. in order solve problem, wondering: there way use tablet display , input device other computer?

keyboard - VNC: pressing Shift + Tab = Tab only - Ask Ubuntu

i'm using vnc access ubuntu 16.04 laptop (running desktop sharing) windows 10 desktop (running ultra vnc viewer). problem: keyboard combos don't travel well; example, pressing shift + ctrl + tab processed on server ctrl + tab . the problem persists when using different vnc client, example mobaxterm, issue seems on ubuntu side. how can solve this? thanks.

bash - update-rc.d wildfly defaults not working ubuntu 16.04 - Ask Ubuntu

i facing issue in ubuntu 16.04 error during setup wildfly service of link https://gesker.wordpress.com/2016/02/09/wildfly-10-on-ubuntu-15-10/ showing below exception initctl: unable connect upstart: failed connect socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: connection refused script attempting invoke has been converted upstart job, lsb-header not supported upstart jobs. insserv: warning: script haproxy missing lsb tags , overrides insserv: default-start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) script haproxy insserv: default-stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) script haproxy initctl: unable connect upstart: failed connect socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: connection refused script attempting invoke has been converted upstart job, lsb-header not supported upstart jobs. insserv: warning: script elasticsearch missing lsb tags , overrides insserv: default-start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) script elasticsearch insserv: default-stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel...

16.04 - How do I configure Simon speech recognition? - Ask Ubuntu

i installed simon (speech recognition tool) synaptic. using lubuntu xenial. have wasted night trying work , still have no clue wants me do. the first time started simon tried lead me through configuration. have never been able that. when start it, thrown straight in main dialog. i discovered have install libqt4-sql-sqlite. did that. i try setting main dialog: settings | configure simon... | speech model. set speech model. click open model | download , bunch of desktop themes displayed. type en/vf in search bar. see looks voice model [en/vf/jhtk] voxforge , click install, close. still don't options apart 'do not use voice model'. far can tell no voice model loaded. i managed download scenario [en/h4w] window management appears (it appears in list !). activating simon shows hearing me, no recognition reported , no useful activity of nature. is there 'hello world' type setup this. cannot find clear explanation of needs done. can find lot of...

dual boot - Recovering broken or deleted NTFS partitions - Ask Ubuntu

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about 2 weeks ago had problem pc brother wrote question @ pc not booting after using windows 7 auto-repair . i still haven't solved problem, pc unusable now. now think simpler re-install both win7 & ubuntu repair them, there're data on partitions. want recover data. these partitions not mountable reason. don't know why. sudo fdisk -l problematic partitions: device boot start end blocks id system /dev/sda1 2048 147912703 73955328 83 linux /dev/sdb2 206848 174079999 86936576 7 hpfs/ntfs/exfat and in gparted: and error of mount command: failed mount '/dev/sdb2': invalid argument device '/dev/sdb2' doesn't seem have valid ntfs. maybe wrong device used? or whole disk instead of partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? or other way around? and exact same message /dev/sda1 how can recover data hdds? edit i have tried specify type of drive: $ sudo mount...

iptables match multiport - need clarification : dport or dports , sport or sports - Ask Ubuntu

what best practice, mean when not using long version -destination-port or -source-port we see both on various web sites. iptables.info never speaks of --dports or --sports.... please? from man iptables-extensions : multiport module matches set of source or destination ports. 15 ports can specified. port range (port:port) counts 2 ports. can used in conjunction 1 of following protocols: tcp, udp, udplite, dccp , sctp. [!] --source-ports, --sports port[,port|,port:port]... match if source port 1 of given ports. flag --sports convenient alias option. multiple ports or port ranges separated using comma, , port range specified using colon. 53,1024:65535 therefore match ports 53 , 1024 through 65535. [!] --destination-ports, --dports port[,port|,port:port]... match if destination port 1 of given ports. flag --dports convenient alias option. [!] --ports port[...