Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2013 March 25

= March 25 =

Safari Extensions
These are a useful collection of extensions on my Safari page on my computer. Can I get these on my iPad? if so I cannot see how. Any ideas please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.211.138.47 (talk) 11:07, 25 March 2013 (UTC)


 * As far as I know (or can tell) Safari extensions are not supported for iPad. --Mr.98 (talk) 20:17, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, but that is a shame.85.211.138.47 (talk) 16:30, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Where does Ubuntu store my installation files?
I've just installed The Battle for Wesnoth on my Ubuntu 12.10 32-bit PC, I do not know where the OS stores the game's music, sound effects, and saved gaming sessions. Please tell me where. Czech is Cyrillized (talk) 11:13, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't know the game specifically, but most local files on linux systems are stored in your home directory, but they start with a ., which makes them hidden in most file managers. If you're in the shell use ls -a to see the . prefixed files. Shadowjams (talk) 11:37, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I know Finlay answered already, but it's actually rare for installs to put themselves in your home directory. It's usually in /usr/share/, /usr/bin/, /etc/, and so forth. The . directories usually contain your saves and settings, which remains true in this case. --Wirbelwind( ヴィルヴェルヴィント ) 22:01, 27 March 2013 (UTC)


 * The game is installed into /usr/share/games/wesnoth/1.10/
 * Specifically:
 * Music: /usr/share/games/wesnoth/1.10/data/core/music/
 * Sounds: /usr/share/games/wesnoth/1.10/sounds/ and /usr/share/games/wesnoth/1.10/data/core/sounds/
 * Save game files are kept in ~/.local/share/wesnoth/1.10/saves/
 * -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 12:42, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Bash comman history customization
Hello, I'd like to change the behavior of the "up arrow" key at the command prompt in Bash_(Unix_shell). In MATLAB, pressing "up" show all previous commands, one-by-one, with repeated presses (this is what my Bash on Ubuntu does by default). But, in Matlab, if you start to type in a command, e.g 'cd', then pressing "up" only cycles through previous commands that started with 'cd'. So- Can I do this in Bash? Can you help me with the appropriate code for configuration scripts? Thanks! SemanticMantis (talk) 16:29, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, see here. -- BenRG (talk) 17:28, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks! However, putting those lines in my .bashrc does not make the expected change. It does do something different with the bindings/history, but less - does not return "less foo", which is the most recent command in history starting with 'less'. SemanticMantis (talk) 17:57, 25 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Nevermind, for some reason it worked in my .inputrc, but not in .bashrc. I also ended up putting in the few extra lines here:. SemanticMantis (talk) 18:05, 25 March 2013 (UTC)