Just to clarify, I am  not trying to change the size of the launcher icons but the icons on the desktop. I realize there is bunch of posts related to smaller desktop icons but the suggested solutions didn't work for the version that I am currently using.
How to change the size of desktop icons? I tried gconf-editor as given at  .  I am not getting the option for changing size at app &gt; nautilus &gt; icon_view.  I am using Ubuntu 11.10. Kindly help me in changing default icon size.   I want to make them small.
What's with those who ask a question, but don't ever seem to come back to add requested info? On stackoverflow, there seem to be quite a few programmers who ask a question, usually with one line like:  "How do I release memory after memory warning? My app crashes. Thanks and welcome for reply."   And a bunch of us will ask questions like   what platform? give us some more detail about the crash.   Weeks will go by and the original poster never adds any more details.  In the meantime, some respondents go ahead and answer the question thoroughly, covering possible platforms/scenarios, etc.  Of course no answer is ever selected by the OP.  Then the OP shows up again, and asks another question, sometimes its the same question asked differently, sometimes not.    What is going on here?  Do they have one chance every so often to get a query out on the Internet and they get through and they post and then they can't get back?  Or are they forgetful, since they are posting the same question to tens or hundreds of sites?    I'm just curious.  Seems like they shoot themselves in the foot when they have a captive audience waiting for more details of their problem, yet they never provide those details. Do not delete good duplicates! I had Ubuntu 12.04 Beta installed on my computer. When 12.04 was finally released, I made a bootable USB Flash Drive using Startup Disk Creator.  Then I decided to check if this drive works properly and to reinstall the system on my desktop. I must add, my desktop behaves a bit strange when it comes to bootable USB's, it recognizes them as HDD.  In BIOS I changed priority of boot so USB Flash Drive (recognized as HDD) was first. Successfully booted, I installed Ubuntu. Everything worked fine, but...  Now I cannot boot from my real HDD. Every time I want to boot, I put the USB Flash Drive into my computer, boot, safely remove it and everything works.  What do I need to do to repair boot? Adding coordinate system to layout in QGIS composer? How do I store phone numbers in PostgreSQL? Disappointed to see that the 18.04 installer no longer offers the option to encrypt the home directory. According to  bug report referenced in the installer, the recommended method for encryption these days is full-disk with LUKS, or fscrypt for directories. Full-disk encryption seems a bit overkill for my needs, and all the bugs and caveats mentioned on the  don't make it a very attractive option. All I really want is to protect my home directory from someone accessing my documents, photos, etc. if my laptop were to get stolen, making fscrypt the option for me.  The  has some examples on how to set it up, but I can't find any documentation aimed at encrypting the home directory on Ubuntu. The old ecryptfs tool is still available, but after setting it up Ubuntu would sometimes freeze at the login screen.  So my question is: How do I setup fscrypt to encrypt my /home directory and decrypt when I log in? I also liked how ecryptfs allowed decrypting the folder manually (eg. from disk images).  (A similar question was posted  and was unfortunately closed for being an "off-topic" bug report. To clarify, this is not a bug report. The fact that the encrypt home directory option was removed from the installer was intentional. All I'm asking here is how to setup fscrypt.) This is the command I entered in the command block: testfor @p {Inventory:[{id:minecraft:diamond,Count:10}]}  But it doesn't seem to work. What am I doing wrong? How to get the ASCII value of a character How do I get the  value of a character as an int in ? Check if partition is encrypted $X$ is a topological space with no special properties.  If a space $X$ has no isolated points, then show the same for any dense subset of   $X$.  Thanks a lot. I'm sorry if this is a broad question but can someone explain to me how to interpret these regression diagnostic plots? I understand the Normal Q-Q show's how normal the spread of the data is, but the other three I am confused by. For the Residuals vs Leverage, what does it mean for a point to be outside of the bounds? What does it mean if the red lines are parabolic and curved like in the first two? Why do we care about residuals, and what do they tell us? I've searched the web multiple times for some guide to interpret these and I can't get any straight forward answers. Any help is appreciated, thank you. Turn a string into a valid filename? I have a string that I want to use as a filename, so I want to remove all characters that wouldn't be allowed in filenames, using Python.  I'd rather be strict than otherwise, so let's say I want to retain only letters, digits, and a small set of other characters like "_-.() ". What's the most elegant solution?  The filename needs to be valid on multiple operating systems (Windows, Linux and Mac OS) - it's an MP3 file in my library with the song title as the filename, and is shared and backed up between 3 machines. What to do with cross-site duplicates? What's the right course of action for cross-site duplicates?  There are two flavors:   A question is posted which belongs on another site and ends up already having been asked there. I can't find an example right now, but it's bound to happen soon if it hasn't already. The same question is posted in two places at the same time. Take  for example, which is a duplicate of , posted within a half hour of each other by the same user.   Possible actions:   Move it to the proper site and close it once it gets there as a duplicate. Provide a way to close it right away as a cross-site duplicate, without moving it first. Flag it and let a moderator merge them. Close it as "no longer relevant" or something else.   Additionally, flavor 2 is a bit of a special case; perhaps the question really spans both sites in terms of content and intended audience. Should multiple-postings in this case be allowed? If so, should they somehow be linked to each other? If not, how do we avoid a migration war? Diagnostics for logistic regression? How is the system call in Linux implemented? When I invoke a system call in user mode,how did the call get processed in OS?  Does it invoke some some executable binary or some standard library?  If yes,what kind of thing it needs to complete the call? Japan is a volcanically active country which means it has a plethora of onsen (hot springs) all around the country.  Visiting these onsen is supposed to be a popular vacation destination for the work-weary Japanese.    I've been told that, as with other things in Japan, there is a rather strict etiquette surrounding the use of the onsen.  In particular, the two things I've read about so far are   Swimming Suits are not allowed. It is very important that one bathe immediately before entering the onsen.   Are these true?  Are there any other taboos that a naive American should be aware of? Can Minecraft Pocket Edition play with a desktop Minecraft? Note: I cannot specificly tell which version of which of the two conflicting packages fixed the issue, but as of 2016 mathpec and polyglossia no longer show the issue.   Basically, I have encountered the same error as  and the workaround suggested by Andrey Vihrov reenables me to compile the document. The problem now is, that any shorthand defined by the ngerman-package (most notably the non-breaking hypen "~) has now been disabled, and I see combinations of american style closing quotes followed by a non-break space where a non-breaking hyphen should be.  Is there any way possible of keeping the shorthand definition, or redefining it to something else (something like \nbhy pops up to mind)?  I am using XeLaTeX as supplied by TeXLive. I read it as a paperback book somewhere in the mid-90s, I think. The protagonist lived in an apartment building. He's out on the balcony when a birdlike (but humanoid) alien swooped down and attacked him. The presence of the aliens was commonly known and was a known danger. He kills it with his watering can and is rewarded by either the aliens or the humans for it with money. Other than that, all I remember was that the chapters were started with an internet-like news report which I think chronicled things getting worse and more violent. One of the updates involved the bombing of a bridge with the casualties raised by having two slow-moving trucks moving side by side obstructing traffic and ensuring a full bridge.  The internet system was pretty ubiquitous as I recall. I think that he looked up his watering can shortly after the incident with the aliens, but decided to keep this one, even if it leaks a bit. I want to say that it was by Piers Anthony, but none of the book titles look familiar. I think the cover I had showed the man being attacked by the bird-man, which looked kind of like the illustrations on the cover of The Stand. Difference between "did save" and "saved" What is the difference between the two following sentences?     1) Where did you save that file?   And      2) Where you saved that file ?