Archive for the ‘Applications’ Category.
Collecting bits and pieces over the past year, I’ve come up with the perfect solution for email on the command line. Enjoy.
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Recently covered how to sync Tomboy notes across the Ubuntu One network, but many out there prefer file sharing in the cloud to be a bit less “beta” and use Dropbox instead. Luckily syncing Tomboy notes isn’t too terribly difficult this way either.
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Chromium is an open-source and webkit based browser project . The Chromium codebase is the basis for Google’s Chrome browser. Getting this installed in Ubuntu isn’t too much hassle.
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Seems in Tomboy 1.0 the location of the .note files has changed, so if you’re looking to share between versions or have updated from Ubuntu Jaunty to Karmic, there is no longer a ~/.tomboy folder.
There is a ~/.config/tomboy folder for the application add-ins and the manifest.xml file.
and there is a ~/.local/share/tomboy folder where the *.note files reside.
Latest version of Gnome Nautilus come by defaut with the “spatial mode”, and i hate the fact it open another window for every click. Though it is not too hard to disable nautilus spatial: use gconf-editor and set /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser to true.
Or
gconftool-2 –type bool –set /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser true
Ubuntu Jaunty introduced the new annoying notification system, and by default made pidgin hook into it. So every non-focused IM you get appears in the upper right hand corner of the screen, completely missing the point of being minimized.
This “annoyance” can be easily fixed by disabling the libnotify plugin within the Pidgin plugins manager. To disable this system go to Tools > Plugins and untick the checkbox next to “Libnotify Popups”.
Also, if you’d prefer, you can try to customize the pop-up behavior by selecting the “Configure Plugin” button.
vim /etc/sofficerc and edit the line Logo=1 to Logo=0
If you want an easy way to keep commands out of your ~/.bash_history, do the following:
put this in your .bashrc:
export HISTCONTROL=ignorespace
then in a new bash session when you type in a command, if you put a space before it, it doesn’t appear in your history.
$echo hello #in history
$ echo hello #not in history
A co-worker of mine did this and shared with me, so i thought I’d continue spreading it around. If you have multiple gnu screen sessions going at once, wouldn’t it be nice to visually tell them apart without spending time to read the session name of each or trying to see what was going on within each?
The best way would be to color code the caption and hardlinestatus lines and be able to easily select a “color” per screen session and that’s what he and I did. Using C-g, we/you can easily cycle through various “themes”. This could also be useful if you wanted to cycle through mutiple hardstatus lines that displayed different information too if that’s the route you’d like to go. Anyways here it goes.
When you use a socks proxy with firefox (with SSH for instance) the dns lookups are done via your default gateway. Which makes the whole thing pointless if you’re trying to be private. This setting makes the dns lookups go out over the tunnel where they can’t be sniffed.
1. go to about:config
2. search for network.proxy.socks_remote_dns
3. Set to true, which will have the proxy server perform DNS lookups.
