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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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)