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Archive for November, 2010
Ubuntu version and names… Confusion abounds
I can never remember what the different versions of Ubuntu are called. I have recently being doing a lot of googling for fixes/updates etc and the articles will say something like “this will work for Jaunty but is not necessary for Karmic onwards.“ What the hell does that mean? I have version 10.10… Here is [...]
CTRL ALT Backspace in Ubuntu disabled
Annoying. Here is how to get it back. Go to System -> Preferences -> KeyBoard In the Layouts Tab click on “Options” Scroll down and click on “Key sequence to Kill the Xserver” Thats it. You are back to having this basic facility.
Ubuntu X freezes at Login
I shut the lid on my laptop last night and when I woke it up this morning X froze. I rebooted and it locked up half way through the ubuntu splash screen. Yikes!!!!! To cut a long story short I fixed it in about 20 minutes. Excluding the Googling here is the solution. I rebooted [...]
guake terminal application fails with guake.schemas error on ubuntu 10.10
I am surprised this one hasn’t been fixed as I can see on google mentions of this back to 2007. Anyway many google results tell you to execute this command. This also gives a file not found error. I did a quick updatedb and locate guake.schemas. Here is an updated command for Ubuntu 10.10 to [...]
Ubuntu Update – Evolution, too much bass, freeciv and Konquest
I have been using Ubuntu now for what seems like ages. There are a few niggles that have come up from regular use. First up is Evolution. There is no where to enter the outgoing port number for SMTP. I use the Submission service to avoid the spam filters on port 25 when sending. It [...]
Making Ubuntu Usable.
I wanted a quick launch panel at the bottom of the screen like I have in windows 7. I decided to look for a mac like and found avant-window-navigator (AWN) I installed this via synaptic and within 10 minutes had it looking pretty. I moved the show desktop icon, trash icon and open applications list [...]
Eclipse PDT in Ubuntu.
Very Very easy. Full instructions here with explanation I will be installomg php, mysql and apache for use with this. If everything else works ok I will have a script develop.sh which will start apache, mysql, and eclipse up. When I quit eclipse it will close down apache and mysql. I will do this to [...]
Getting the cube to work
I know this is not important but if it is easy then it bodes well for the other stuff. Install the Nvidia non free drivers. Dead easy click on icon on top right of screen and it does it all for you. Reboot. Oh yeah and Ubuntu has a restart button unlike one of the [...]
Ubuntu close, minimise and maximise back to the right
Where they belong. Run gconf-editor Go to apps -> metacity -> general Double click on edit enter this in the box. menu:minimize,maximize,close Things are back to normal now… (Well apart from the spelling)