Posts tagged ‘Ubuntu’
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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The next Ubuntu release (9.04, “Jaunty Jackalope”) will see the first set of changes introduced by Canonical’s Desktop Experience Team: The much-discussed notify-osd notification system, and the indicator applet.
The idea came up to allow both developers and users to be able to choose between the “Ubuntuized” and a more “upstream-like” GNOME experience. Martin Pitt (maintainer) has called that “stracciatella GNOME session”, after the favourite kind of ice cream which is mostly vanilla (GNOME), but with some brown chocolate chips (Ubuntu modifications) in it.
To enable this feature simply run the following:
apt-get install gnome-stracciatella-session
and select the “GNOME (without Ubuntu specific components)” session in gdm.
In Jaunty or Karmic, this will suppress the messaging indicator and flip back to the classical GNOME notification-daemon again. Martin Pitt plans to keep stracciatella-session up to date with new developments in future Ubuntu releases as well.
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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Ubuntu 9.04 introduces a change to the handling of package updates, launching update-manager directly instead of displaying a notification icon in the GNOME panel. Users will still be notified of security updates on a daily basis, but for updates that are not security-related, users will only be prompted once a week.Users who wish to continue receiving update notifications in the previous manner can restore the earlier behavior using the following command:
gconftool -s –type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false
For those who use Ubuntu’s inclusion of Tomboy notes, the easiest way to synchronize and share your notes automatically with all your Ubuntu computers is by using your Ubuntu One account rather than WebDAV or SSH. Ubuntu One is a Dropbox type of service by Canonical.
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.
rxvt-unicode (commonly called urxvt) already has 88 color support, and for most things, this is fine. But sometimes you just want a tad more, maybe for vim color themes.
So here’s my build log of compiling rxvt-unicode with the 256 color patch on Ubuntu Hardy, and debianizing (packaging) it.
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If you want to use the old update manager behaviour, open a terminal and paste this:
gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false
Just a quick post here. I recently recompiled screen with vertical split support on Ubuntu 8.04. Here’s how you do it:
Install dependencies to build screen
sudo apt-get build-dep screen
# Create an area to hold the source
cd ~/debian-src
mkdir screen
cd screen# Get the source
apt-get source screen# Apply vertical split patch
cd screen-4.0.3/
wget http://vsp4sdl.yuggoth.org/wrp_vertical_split_0.3_4.0.2.diff.bz2
bunzip2 wrp_vertical_split_0.3_4.0.2.diff.bz2
patch -p1 < wrp_vertical_split_0.3_4.0.2.diff# Build it!
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot
cd ..# Install it!
sudo dpkg -i screen_4.0.3-0.4ubuntu2_amd64.deb
By default Ubuntu 8.10 comes with Pulse Audio and most users start complaining about pulse audio so if you don’t want to use Pulse Audio you can remove using the following procedure.
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