Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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Reputation score increase not accounted for!
I have edited a number of posts here. I found that whenever reputation decreased by two, it was accounted for, for I checked and found that a post which I edited was deleted.
However, a number of ...
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I have got an answer to two-three questions on ask-ubuntu, should I answer all of them?
I have got a same answer to three similar questions on ask ubuntu. Should I answer all three of them (answer is the same) or should I answer one and give a link of the first answer to the other two ...
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How do I link a topic to a question?
I see many questions (e.g. this) have other relevant questions linked to them. How do I do it?
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Why is there a 20 posts limit on the review queues?
Why is there a 20 posts review limit on the review queues?
I've searched the help pages and read the corresponding privilege page, but nothing even seems to mention that there's a limit to begin with,...
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Ask Ubuntu definition [duplicate]
Is there any way that this site would/could use the possibility of defining that it is strictly Official Ubuntu and Canonical supported offshoots of Ubuntu?
I had originally thought that this site ...
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What does this new icon tell me?
In my flags overview I found a new icon "active" - what should it tell me?
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How can I add an image to the comment section?
Yesterday, I asked this question on AskUbuntu.
Couple of people replied to me. But with the last answer, I need to post an image of terminal screenshot in add comment section to get more information. ...
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What is the fastest way to earn the bounty privilege?
I have numerous questions I need answered, and it doesn't look like they will be unless I unlock the ability to have bounties. On the particular stack exchange site, I'm not very knowledgeable about ...
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How to add buttons in text? [duplicate]
How to Add a Button like Ctrl in the text?
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Some problems with pro-forma comments
I installed Pro-forma comments yesterday and it worked fine, I really like it. But today something is wrong. I can not see auto link near help. Also, when I flag question as duplicate, there does not ...
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Formatting a comment
Is it possible to format a comment, as in, include blockqoute like properties?
I've noticed that the help mentions that 'code' can be used for code, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
Either ...
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This question is not duplicate so consider re-opening it
I asked this question "The software on this computer is up to date" while upgrading 12.10 to 13.04 I have this unique error "The software on this computer is up to date" I couldn't find its ...
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Am I the first person to be privileged with 100 flags for the day?
I have been on and off the Stack Exchange network for the last couple of days and hence have not been able to raise the usual number of flags that I often raise. With last flagged post on 17th June; I ...
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How to flag an off-topic question on a non-linux OS?
The question
Since the new flags for closing (which I applaud) it is unclear to me how I can flag a question about Windows, Mac, Solaris or whatever which clearly does not belong here.
I want to flag ...
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Pic Won't Show Up on My AskUbuntu Profile After Uploading JPG File to My Profile
I took the option to change picture on my Profile, and uploaded a 9KB JPG pic; but it's just showing a white screen where my pic should be. What am I doing wrong?
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several different problems in one question
Some questions like (How can I see/stop current running crontab tasks?) have several problems in them.
I think it is better to ask them step by step. but I do not know it is legal to ask such ...
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Are Ubuntu TV questions off-topic?
The tile says it all. The questions which belong to Ubuntu TV should they be considered as off-topic?
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How can I ask for a question to be moved to Unix/Linux?
A while back I asked Why doesn't tty7 show a prompt with no display manager?. It didn't really get answered, which is OK, because it's just theoretical and not very pressing.
That said, having ...
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Unable to tag question using libvirt
I have a question asked recently here:
Unable to start libvirtd
which I am unable to tag with libvirt If I tag it, it disappears when the question is up on AU. What is going wrong here?
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Is there a way to hide something from "My Tags"?
There's some stuff in "My Tags" that I can't answer, and is therefore in the way of stuff I can answer. Is there a way to hide questions that I can't answer?
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How come my inform moderator flags just went up?
I just noticed that instead of around 10 inform moderator flags remaining, I now have around 22. Why did the number go up?
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Does it make sense to flag non-English questions?
I think that the scope of a flag is to make moderators aware of content that request their intervention. And also I think that this site really only support English. Now, some of moderators can find ...
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Posting An Answer
I been trying to answer this question discrete GPU not working after update, But when i press Post your Answer, Its posting as an comment, I have tried several times but still the same
Please have ...
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Why is there a limit to how many of my own answers I can delete?
I went through my 0-vote answers - clearly they were of a quality not worthy of the site, since they didn't attract up or down votes, so I didn't want to leave them.
Before I finished, I hit a 5/day ...
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Is there an option to remove the bar above the status bar?
There is a new bar above the "status bar" with Ubuntu/Community/Development/Ask.
This is new and I feel it is taking up valuable screen space, since I do not plan on regularly using the new links.
I ...
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How do you upload a screenshot?
I just installed Kazam, and it looks very simple to use. I want to use it here on askubuntu. I figured out how to take a screenshot, I just don't know how to upload it. Does anyone know how to do this?...
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Will removing my account remove all the posts I created while using the site?
Is it possible to delete your account and automatically remove all your posts, or when you remove your account do your questions/answers remain on the site?
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Why does SE mess with the spacing in code blocks?
Why do code blocks delete double-spaces? Double-spaces are required in some code. Code blocks should not alter the text in them at all, because code sometimes has weird formatting.
Example: compare ...
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Why did I lose 2 reputation points?
I can't see why I was at 71 points reputation a few hours ago, and am now at 69. I take my reputation seriously, and try to abide by the Stack Exchange rules. So I'm just curious as to why I lost 2 ...
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Can these two answers be merged?
With reference to What is a good text editor for developing code on?, I want to suggest that two answers, both relating to Geany be merged.
The answers are
https://askubuntu.com/a/11007/25656
and
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convert comment as answer
Hi I have gone through a Question in Ask Ubuntu main site where we have the answer as in comment format. If we can convert the comment as answer then we can close the similar Question like this and ...
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Can I migrate some questions of mine from Superuser to here?
I need to know if some questions of mine could be migrated here, if they are appropriate for this site and if by doing so I will get a chance to have them answered.
I write here after being advised ...
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Why does CTRL+Z undo all changes?
Hi many times I have observed that while doing editing to any post with multiple edits, if anywhere we have gone to the wrong edit and if we go for undo (CTRL+Z ) then all changes including the ...
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LOL..still at 98 rep and 100 rep prievileges are open to me?
Seems the system got tired of waiting in the 90's for me. I got notifications that I have been given two new prievileges (they need 100 rep), while I can see my rep never climbed above 98.
P.S - This ...
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No Vox Populi Badge awarded [duplicate]
I have expended my 40 votes today and I am unable to vote on anything else for today. But still I am not awarded the Vox Populi badge. Can someone please check?
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Deletion request: Question 287309
I figured out the problem with my question, and it was something really obvious - not important enough to keep the question around for.
Unfortunately, the JavaScript that lets me delete a question is ...
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Why where 2 of my questions deleted?
Why were my question deleted by the community?
fail2ban broken after dist upgrade
https://askubuntu.com/questions/113721/how-can-i-disable-the-php-gettext-module
I want go get a solution for that ...
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I've found a duplicate user; what should I do?
I just stumbled upon this question:
I can't install Ubuntu 13.04 on a new computer
And in the sidebar for this question I found this Related question:
I can't install Ubuntu 13.04 on a new ...
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Is that possible to have account using more than one login options?
If you login for first time, you should see alternative options for login instead registering. Is that possible that all of alternatives (OpenID, Facebook, etc) synched to one account?
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Is a problem that a single user is having "too localised"?
Sometimes a user has a problem that is almost certainly unique to him- or herself. The question is "My system is broken. Why? Here are my configuration files." and the answer is "There's a typo on ...
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Add a link to duplicate when a question is marked as a duplicate [duplicate]
This same question has been asked, left unanswered, and marked as too localized. See (question is duplicate of what, precisely? [closed])
I don't see how the original question or this one is too ...
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How to deal with super-unspecific questions?
I was about to ask for clarification to this question (like someone else already did), but the answering advice that pops up when you click the text field for the answer says to avoid that:
So if ...
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Suggest Tag-Create [tag:legacy-bios]?
Many questions relating to driver, installation and boot problems if search for "legacy"; thought it would be good to suggest create tag legacy-bios to help narrow folks search results when using tags ...
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Should gaining 200+ reputation, on one site (askubuntu) give me +100 associated site reputation bonus, on the same site. [duplicate]
Today I passed 200 reputation on this site, only to then in quick succession, without doing anything, pass 300. I looked at my reputation log and it looks like I gained 100 for "passing 200 on an ...
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Question validation error info
Just wasted my time trying to understand what 'your question does not meet our quality standards'.
The error was that i did not put a capital at the beginning of each sentence.
I suggest to either ...
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Please remove dupe status
A recent question of mine has been confused as a dupe:
How can I be sure that the updated packages are not compromised?
The 'duped' question asks about Canonical repo security in the general sense. ...
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why the color different?
We have closed a question but the names are shown in different colors. May I know the reason?
Why does Seth have a different color?
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How do I merge two accounts? [duplicate]
I logged in today with my Launch Pad ID thinking it was the correct Open ID account. Lo and behold, I created a new user by mistake. Is there any way I can merge the two?
https://askubuntu.com/users/...
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Is there some pull medium for my favorite feeds
I'm using mytags when looking for questions (as suggested by Jorge Castro). This list is sorted by votes. So new questions are hard to find. I'd like to have some RSS feed which contains new questions ...
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How to search askubuntu.com on the fly (like google search)
In Google search we can see search results on the fly while we type. How to do this in askubuntu.com ??