Listen to Audible audiobooks

1. install Audible manager and Audible download manager with Wine. These programs can be found in software section on Audible sites.
2. Download audible download script, which originally posted at Ubuntu forum by mndzmyst. Open the file with text editor, and change the home folder to your user name.
3. After select the file type on Audible site, download a download bait file, which has .pl extension. Open the .pl download bait file with the script. Download will be started, after it's done, you can listen to the file with Audible manager.

enjoy DOS games with DOSbox

1. Install dosbox with aptitude
2. Open /home/username/.dosbox/dosbox-0.73.conf and add under [autoexec] (which is at the end)
mount c /where/dosgames/folder
c:
3. browse to the game folder in dosbox. play and enjoy.

- In case of an error-message saying ,you need csdpmi*b.zip, download cwsdpmi.zip and extract it in the game folder.
- For [mixer], this setting I found good:
nosound=false
rate=48000
blocksize=256
prebuffer=50
- For DOS games like Ultima series, abandonia is a very good site.

LaTeX with JabRef and use Havard bibliography style (and where to put those TeX .bst files and .sty files)

1. Go to the JabRef database folder and put .bib extension after the database filename, in case there is no extension designated.
2. Make a symbolic link for the bibliography database file.
ln -s ~/foldname/of/JabRef-database-folder/ bib
Then, put the symbolic link in /home/username/texmf
3. Extract harvard bibliography style zip file, which is downloadable at CTAN page. Put all the .bst(bibliography style) files in /home/username/texmf/bibtex/bst and .sty files in /home/username/texmf/tex/latex/my_styles
4. In preambule, put \usepackage{harvard} and \bibliographystyle{agsm} right after \begin{document}.
5. Put, before \end{document},
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Reference}
\bibliography{/home/username/texmf/bib/filename-without-.bib-extension}

We're done. Compile! latex-bibtex-latex-latex.

Sync iPhone, iPod Touch with Rhythmbox on Ubuntu

Original reference at seadao's comment on Ubuntu Forum.

1: Jailbreak your device install OpenSSH from cydia
2: Change the value of the key 'DBVersion' in /System/Library/Lockdown/Checkpoint.xml (make a backup first!) to 2 (original instruction)
3: Find (/var/mobile/media) itunes_control, and delete it along with all the sym links ex: ipod_control .... if they exist (note an empty itunes_control will be created by firmware, it's a good idea to reboot the device after this)
4: use itunes in windows (i used virtual box NOT OSE, you need usb support), upload 1 mp3 file to the ipod, this will create the new DB
5: install libimobiledevice from ppa:pmcenery/ppa
6: use make install(NOT CHECKINSTALL cmake in not debian rules) to compile usbmuxd from git

git clone git://git.marcansoft.com/usbmuxd.git
cd usbmuxd
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

7: reboot, ipod will mount and ask if you want to start a music app

Just to add, I jailbroke my iphone 3gs, ios 4.1 with redsn0w for the access to root. Banshee didn't even show iphone connected, while rhythmbox showed it. Rhythmbox gave an error when I attempted to copy a song into iphone. I was sshed into the iphone at that time, so I disconnected. I exited rhythmbox, and ran it again; retried; it worked flawlessly.

Make wine program as a default program

This instruction is taken from Ubuntu Wine documentation. I use this to link PDF files to PDF-XChange (,which work flawlessly with PDFs to highlight, comment, bookmark, etc). Note that portable version didn't work with this method.

Creating file associations
If you want certain files to open in a windows application by clicking on them, the best way is to create a script. For example I want Adobe Flash project files (*.fla) to open in Adobe's Flash editor if I double click it.
You can for example create a file using this terminal command.
gedit ~/.wine/Flash\ 8
Now paste the following example script in it, save and close gedit.
Example script:

#!/bin/sh

QUICKPARLOCATION="c:\\Program Files\\Macromedia\\Flash 8\\Flash.exe"
PARAM=`winepath -w "$*"`
wine "$QUICKPARLOCATION" "$PARAM"
exit 0

Make sure the file is executable with this command.
chmod +x ~/.wine/Flash\ 8
After you completed this go to an *.fla file right click it, properties, go to the “open with” pane, click add, add this line into your terminal and select the radio button.
'/home//.wine/Flash 8'
Now if everything went ok, you can doubleclick the file and it will be openend in Flash 8.

VirtualBox harddrive file (.vdi) seems never shrink, whatever I do in the guest windows. We can fix this. Following is taken from http://kakku.wordpress.com.
For the reference, disk space can be also managed by turning off indexing, logging, restoring, and virtual memory. Also windows have a one stop cleaning center, which can be accessed by right clicking on the disk drive in the explorer.exe.

We’ll need the following tools:
1. http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/nullfile-1.02.exe : This tool zeroes out free space, which our next tool compresses. For Linux based OS, search for a file, zerospace.c, which you’ll have to compile yourself.
2. VBoxManage : This tool is the command line management tool that ships with VirtualBox. Whatever you can do with the GUI, can be done by this. + A lot more

Ok now.

1. First boot into your VM. Defragment your drive atleast 2 times.
2. Copy the tool, nullfile mentioned above to the VM and run it. A simple double click should do it.
3. Now shutdown the guest. Open a terminal in the VM image directory. Most probably /home/_user_name_/.VirtualBox/VDI
4. Run our final command, We would be done after this.
VBoxManage modifyvdi _file_path_ compact
e.g. in my case I ran: VBoxManage modifyvdi /media/Blockk/VDI/NewHardDisk1.vdi compact

Uninstalled some program? Afraid of remaining dependencies? Clean them!

- To uninstall, check with 'completely uninstall' in Synaptic. You can review if anything undesired will be deleted.
- After uninstall, run sudo apt-get autoremove
- Then run sudo apt-get clean.
Cleaned!

Check out this article to better understand.

Connect with iPhone over WiFi

1. You need a jailbroken iPhone, OpenSSH installed.
2. Get ipod-convenience from here, and install it. You will be prompted to enter iPhone's IP address and the desired mount point.
3. In Users and Groups under Ubuntu's administrations section, make sure you are a member of "fuse" group.
4. Connect your iPhone with USB cable. This is needed only once.
5. run iphone-mount. Check the file manager if it is mounted. To unmount, iphone-umount.
6. Rebooting is highly recommended.

Check out Lifehacker's guide!

Make a slideshow wallpaper (background) easily

It can be annoying to manipulate a xml file to make a slideshow background. Here is a hassle-free solution: XML animated background creator. Just put xmlback file in the archive in /home/username/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts. Now gather images to make a slideshow background in a folder, and open the folder in Nautilus, and run the script from the context menu. Tada~ It's done!

Transform your Linux XWindow into Windows 7 look

OK, I am still a Mac guy and if I can transform my xwindow into Mac OS X look super simply like I can do with Win2-7 Pack 6.0 Multilang Aero!, I will do it. I tried several theme packs for Mac OS X look, they are either very ugly or too complicated. Interestingly, it seems people are more interested in Windows 7 look. It is quite pleasant to see, I agree, and I think it should be so as Microsoft must invest a lot of money to develop the look. So here I go, I gave a try, and it actually looks better to my eyes than many Linux themes out there. Given the simplicity of the installation process (and update or uninstallation process, even though I haven't tried), they must made a lot of effort in the project. I appreciate it!!!

When Baldur's Gate II stuck in the splash screen, in the middle of the game, so on

I find Baldur's Gate II under Wine have a slight problem with my soundcard sometimes.
I tried killall pulseaudio and most of time problem solved.

How to get rid of (or put) desktop, trash can, home folder icons from Desktop

*This can also be done with Ubuntu Tweak application.

I got this from here.

we need to get it one on the desktop. For this, we will be using the Configuration Editor. Open the Run Application window (Alt+F2) and enter gconf-editor. Click Run.

Using the Gnome Configuration Editor

To me, the gconf-editor looks a bit like the registry editor under Windows. In the left pane, click the arrow in front of apps to drop down the hidden options. A listing of applications on your system will appear. The one we are interested in is nautilus. Click the arrow in from of nautilus to show the options there and you should see one labeled desktop. Click desktop.

In the right pane, you will see options for adding the trash can icon to the desktop. Also available are the icons for the computer, home folder and network. Placing a check mark for the icon_visible option for any of these items will place the icon on the desktop. Additionally, you can name these items anything you desire. As a side note, you can always rename the icons directly from the desktop by right clicking the item and choosing Rename...

When you are done making your choices in the Configuration Editor, close the window. That is all there is to getting those icons you have grown to love on the desktop.

How to show all the USB devices dimmed in grey in VirtualBox

Grabbed this from here.
Basically, with setting up correct user group, all the dimmed devices come back to be ready. No.2 concerns iPhone and iPod Touch because it has a problem in connection in recovery mode.
For making VirtualBox work with iTunes, see this page.

1. Setup correct user group
Try this:
1. In the host (10.04 Lucid), System->Administration->Users and Groups
2. Click Manage Groups.
3. In the Groups settings List Box, navigate down to vboxusers
4. With vboxusers high lighted, click properties
5. Click the check box next to your user name to indicate you want you to be a member of the vboxusers group.
reboot the host.

2. Created a USB filter in VBOX, cleared all of the fields except for the "Vendor ID" field.

A driver and GUI for Nike+ Sportband

ps2.
Interesting enough, I tried VirtualBox with USB setting, and it works just fine. But the information was as comsport suggested, so there might be some relation anyway? I wonder, if I need the driver at all, and I think I can just put the information in VirtualBox usb setting by myself.

ps1.
I just found it doesn't run correctly. The error message:
username$ comsport -h
*** stack smashing detected ***: comsport terminated
Segmentation fault

Googled the error message, but I don't know what to do! Can this be a problem caused by checkinstall???
I found a candidate for the solution here:
"I have been dealing with the stack smashing issue for a while with nvclock. I finally was able to compile a version of nvclock 0.8b2 with the "-fno-stack-protector" cflag that works for me every time. I did this by running the configure script and then manually editing all of the Makefile's in the tree and adding "-fno-stack-protector" (without the quotes) to all of the CC= lines."
I haven't dealt with this kind of thing. I'll wait some time to do this. This is quite tiring...
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Nike+ Sportband is a good device for tracking jogging, but unfortunately, Nike seems not interested to make a Linux driver. But we have an alternative user made driver, you can grab the driver, comsport, here. Besides I had to install a dependency, i encountered following error for another dependency:

"Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix." I really don't know what was the problem, but I googled the error message and found the problem was not for the program which designated by the error but the developer package for the program (the name of the package will be "theprogramname-dev").

Following instruction is taken from here. (I recommend to use aptitude than apt-get, and checkinstall than make install.)

The best way to solve your problem is:
sudo -s
apt-get update
apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install libusb++-dev
apt-get install libusb-dev
tar -xzf file.tar.gz
./configure
make
make install
now copy file 90-sportband.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/
restart udev or reinit your pc.
now you have installed your driver.
The GUI needs Java Runtime, do:
apt-get install sun-java6-jre
You can run de GUI doing: java -jar file.jar

Actually it is great to watch BBC iPlayer on Linux

Yes, with get-iplayer, it is now easy to watch BBC shows hosted in iPlayer. This is a quick how-to.

1) Install get-iplayer.
2) Go to iPlayer webpage and find out what you want to watch.
3) Open a terminal window, type get-iplayer "title of the show", it will give you its PID.
4) get-iplayer --proxy=http://(proxy.address.if.you.use.any) --verbose --get (PID) --output "(/download/folder/)"
*without parenthesis
5) It will download the show. For me, if I use the same proxy server, which is free and slow, on iPlayer site, it takes forever to download. But with get-iplayer, it's a breeze!

More detailed explanation can be consulted using get-iplayer --help or visit get-iplayer page.

Record sound playing on the computer

Such a perfect timing, I was exactly looking for how to record sound playing on the computer. I tried gnome-sound-recorder, but it didn't show sound input drop-down, so all I can record was from the internal mic. Not anymore! I found the information at Ubuntu Weekly Recipe 技術評論社: "第137回　PulseAudioを活用する". The solution is using PulseAudio.

Steps:
1. Install pavucontrol. (aptitude or synaptics) This is GUI PulseAudio volume control frontend.
2. Run gnome-sound-recorder.
3. Push the record button. Now go to pavucontrol, and see the Playback tab. You will see "Record stream from". Choose "Monitor from analog stereo" from the drop-down menu on the right.
4. Good to go!

PulseAudio Volume ControlでのRecording tab (image from the same page)

Install Epson GT-S620 scanner driver

from Ubuntu Weekly Recipe：第125回　Simple ScanとXournalで電子書類を扱う｜gihyo.jp … 技術評論社: "GT-S620を接続する":

SANEプロジェクトのページを見るとわかるように，GT-S620はAVASYSが公開しているドライバを別途インストールしておく必要があります。しかし，GT-S620は一般ユーザ権限でデバイスを使用することができません。これはAVASYSのドライバがサポートしているスキャナが接続された場合に，/lib/udev/rules.d/40-iscan.rulesの中で，以下の設定がなされることに起因します。

ENV{iscan_matched}="yes"

通常のlibsaneがサポートしているスキャナであれば，/lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rulesの中で以下の設定がなされます。

ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

iscan_matchedとlibsane_matchedの違いがどこに影響するかというと，/lib/udev/rules.d/70-acl.rulesの中の以下の部分です。

# USB scanners
ENV{libsane_matched}=="yes", ENV{ACL_MANAGE}="1"

このように，libsane_matchedがyesになっていればACL_MANAGEが1になり，結果として /dev 以下に作成されるキャラクタスペシャルファイルに一般ユーザでアクセスができるのですが，AVASYSのドライバによって認識されたスキャナはこの部分にマッチしないため，一般ユーザでの使用ができなくなっています。そこで上記該当部分に

ENV{iscan_matched}=="yes", ENV{ACL_MANAGE}="1"

などと追記することで，一般ユーザ権限でAVASYSのドライバを経由したスキャンが可能になります。

Upgrade / Downgrade your Dell Bios On Ubuntu by bigbrovar

A very simple guide to Dell laptop Bios upgrade from:
Upgrade / Downgrade your Dell Bios On Ubuntu by bigbrovar

Updating or Downgrading your Bios is pretty straight forward on Ubuntu. Ok maybe not as straight forward as double clinking to install. But not that difficult all the same.

for this guide we will be using the commandline. But that should not scare you, i have tried to make the guide as easy as possible. first we open Terminal/Application/Accessories/Terminal
Now since we will be running every command as root(as administrator), we sould need to become an admin. so that we wont need to been adding sudo infront of every command. so first copy and paste this in terminal

sudo bash

hit enter and give your passwd.

you will see your prompts change from
this :~$ to :~#

Then we need to install Libsmbios a linux package in the Ubuntu repositories.

apt-get install libsmbios-bin

once installed we need to get the system ID to get hat run this in terminal
getSystemId

you should get an output that looks like this

System ID: 0x0209
Service Tag: 4MV9HH1
Express Service Code: 10089895861
Product Name: XPS M1330
BIOS Version: A14
Vendor: Dell Inc.
Is Dell: 1

from the above output my system ID is 0×0209. Armed with this information you now need to get the BIOS version want to upgrade / downgrade. you can get it from here.http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bios-hdrs
Scroll down the list to find a directory matching the System ID from the previous step. and look for the bios version that you want to upgrade/downgrade to In my case my directory is named: system_bios_ven_0x1028_dev_0x0209_version_a14/ my system ID IS0×0209 and the version of bios i wanted was A14.
Go into this directory and download the file, “bios.hdr” and save it in your desktop.

Now we load the load the dell_rbu driver

modprobe dell_rbu

For Updating

now to update the bios we move into the directory were we saved the bios.hdr file. if you saved it in your desktop. just do this

cd $HOME/Desktop

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR SYSTEM IS PLUGGED TO A POWER SOURCE AND NOT ON BATTERY.

Then we run the update command.

dellBiosUpdate -u -f ./bios.hdr

if all goes well you would see the following feedback

Supported RBU type for this system: (MONOLITHIC)
Using RBU v2 driver. Initializing Driver.
Setting RBU type in v2 driver to: MONOLITHIC
Prep driver for data load.
Writing RBU data (4096bytes/dot): ............................
..............................................................
.......................
Notify driver data is finished.
Activate CMOS bit to notify BIOS that update is ready on next boot.
Update staged sucessfully. BIOS update will occur on next reboot.

I also found this on linux.dell.com troubleshooting page:

make sure to do a soft reboot (not a power-cycle) after the update (shutdown -r 0)

Also, in my case, the upgrading message was very simple. It worked just fine anyway. (from A12 to A17)




If you are Downgrading

for downgrading to a previous BIOS version.

your downgrade command would be

dellBiosUpdate --override_bios_version -u -f ./bios.hdr

Now that you are done updating /downgrading

we would need to tell the system to do a cold reboot which is what is needed after doing a bios update.

to do this we would need to edit the kernel line in your menu.lst

run this in terminal

gksu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
look for the kernel line

title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-9-generic
uuid f5e0a891-61ec-434a-b935-78bc25b1542e
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-9-generic root=UUID=f5e0a891-61ec-434a-b935-78bc25b1542e ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-9-generic

and add reboot=bios to the end of the kernel line to look like this

title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-9-generic
uuid f5e0a891-61ec-434a-b935-78bc25b1542e
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-9-generic root=UUID=f5e0a891-61ec-434a-b935-78bc25b1542e ro quietreboot=bios splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-9-generic

save and close the text editor

now you can reboot your machine

once the system restart it would display a white screen which some messages displaying what its doing. and your bios boot splash might take a while. but that is fine.

once restarted. be sure to remove the “reboot=bios” from your kernel line.

I haven't yet tried downgrading.

Mount and Unmount ISO images

In the basic setting, ubuntu can browse iso files, but it doesn't mount them under /media. This can be a problem when install softwares, especially under wine. The following is quoted:

I am taking this tip from here first you need to download two scripts for mount iso images download from here for unmount iso images download from here

Once you have these two scripts you need to change the permissions using the following commands

sudo chmod +x /home/username/mount.sh

sudo chmod +x /home/username/unmount.sh

Now you need to copy them nautilus scripts

sudo mv /home/username/mount.sh ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/

sudo mv /home/username/unmount.sh ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/

That’s it now you are ready for mounting and unmounting your ISO images.

from Debian Admin

Then use script context menu in nautilus. If you have an error message, check your file name and folder names where your file is set. Make sure there is no space in the names!

On/Offline dictionary for Linux:GoldenDict

Even though there is a dictionary application for Linux, it only works online for default. It is possible to make it work offline with "dictd", but still its use is limited, as it can't show a pop-up window in other application.

I recommend GoldenDict. It works with many other dictionary formats. Moreover, it has a "snap windows function", which calls a pop-up windows with the definition. It can be used with many dictionary data files, and also with online dictionaries and wikipedia.

Disable auto launching, make VirtualBox work with iTunes 9.2

Disable applications from launching automatically:

On Ubuntu 10.04, this setting can be changed in the preference window of Nautilus. See the Media tab.

Make VirtualBox work with iTunes 9.2:

ps. How to show all the USB devices dimmed in grey

Enable VT-x/AMD-v in settings of Virtual Machine. Reboot, enter the BIOS, find Virtualization tab, enable Virtualization extension. Then it will Boot Then, TURN OFF the PC - Turn on again. (Don't reboot, turn the PC off. I don't know what is exactly different, but rebooting doesn't seem like turn on the virtualization function.)

Now launch VirtualBox and run the virtual machine. Go to /home/user_name/.VirtualBox/Machines/virtual_machine_name/Logs, then open VBox.log file. Search the word "VT-x". See if it reads as activated. If it is successfully enabled, you're good to go with iTunes 9.2!
If you don't have virtualization function in your BIOS, then it seems worth to install VMWare. But it seemed quite complicated to install it on Linux.

information from Ubuntu forum

Finding Files using text command on Linux

Added: Well, for a general search, "Search for files..." applet works like a charm, moreover it's super fast.


As I use more a text command, I clearly feel that it's faster than using GUI. For example, to find files, with Nautilus (it's like explorer on Windows or finder on Mac), not only it takes a lot of time, but it won't also show me full path that I need.

With 'find' command on Terminal, there's no such a hassle any more, and needless to say, it's much more powerful.

quote from Community Ubuntu Documentation:

The Unix command "find" is quite powerful, and if you know how to use it you can find pretty well anything. The basic syntax is "find ". Options include criteria for your search, actions to take on files found, etc. I'll give you a couple of examples then point you to the man page for detailed usage and more interesting examples.

You want to find every file in ~/mydir and all its subdirectories, recursively, with a file extension of .htm (or .HTM or .Htm...) and delete it. I've seen a lot of attempts like rm -rf ~/mydir/*.htm which really don't come close. The correct solution is

find ~/mydir -iname '*.htm' -exec rm {} \;

"-iname" says that you want to do a case-insensitive search on the filename. '*.htm' is in single quotes to prevent bash from expanding the *, which will produce unexpected results. The rest of the command says to remove any file matching the query. The "{}" will be replaced by the filename (with path) returned by the search, and "\;" will separate one rm command from the next. Nearly every -exec option should be terminated with a "\;".

Now you want to fix permissions. For some reason, there seem to be directories in your home directory that you don't have permission to enter. You know that the operative bit for directories is the execute bit. You know that "chmod -R +x ~" will add the execute bit to every file and directory in ~ (or $HOME), but you only want to operate on directories - BritneySpearsOopsIDidItAgain.avi doesn't need to be executable. This is solved with:

find ~ -type d -exec chmod +x {} \;

where "-type d" of course means directories.

Finally, you want to make a playlist out of all the mp3 and ogg files in your home directory.

find ~ -type f \( -iname '*.mp3' -o -iname '*.ogg' \) > mynewplaylist.m3u

We group the -iname parameters in parentheses and separate them with -o (the "OR" operator) to say that any match must be a file, AND it must be named .mp3 OR .ogg (case-insensitive) to be returned. We redirect the output to a new file called mynewplaylist.m3u, and presto! We have a playlist.

Use "checkinstall" instead of "make install" to make uninstall easy.

Sometimes, some application is not ready as a package. In this case, many site just recommend to use:

./configure

sudo make

sudo make install

In some case, it is possible to uninstall with

sudo make uninstall

but, many cases, it comes back with error. According to Mr. C,
"Many makefiles created with autoconf create dummy rules such as:

uninstall: uninstall-recursive

where no uninstall-recursive target is defined. They are no-ops."

As a result, to uninstall, it is necessary to delete folders made from "make install". That's why it is better to use "checkinstall". Install checkinstall with aptitude, then,

./configure

sudo make

sudo checkinstall

The application will be installed, and a .deb file will be made. Now uninstall is easy!

Mplayer, non-free-codecs, and libdvdcss2, and more codecs for Chromium

Since they days I used to use Mac, I have thought the default setting of mplayer shows better video quality than that of VLC. But I normally use both of them in case that one of them can't play a video. VLC is easy to install, just find it in Ubuntu Software Center or in Synaptics. I thought maybe I would go for only with VLC this time, but I wanted SMplayer's better UI, so I decided to install mplayer again since I deleted it.

I also wanted to install more codecs for such as wmv, ra, and etc. So I installed "non-free-codecs", then I installed for encrypted DVD playback, installed "libdvdcss2". These are in medibuntu repository, so make sure to add medibuntu repository before trying to install them.

Mmm, yes, SMPlayer's UI pleases me more than that of VLC.

***
I like Last.fm, for their big song data and being free to listen to songs. Right after I installed Chromium, a web browser on which Google Chrome is based, I installed Last.fm music player extension. But it didn't play songs, not even on a Last.fm page, so I thought there must be missing codecs. I installed "chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra" and all work fine.

Minitube: YouTube client without flash

*Too bad, there are a lot of videos which doesn't have mp4 file. As a result, minitube doesn't show a lot of videos.

Mnitube seems a cool app which let view Youtube videos. It doesn't use flash thus low memory usage required. Anyway I don't like flash, so I thought give a try. Unfortunately, even though I intalled it from Ubuntu Software Center (it seems like the same thing with Synaptics), it didn't show me videos. Googled, I found I need Qt framework network version.

On a terminal, type:

sudo apt-get install libqt4-network phonon-backend-gstreamer gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad

After rebooting, it worked perfectly! As I enjoy comments on Youtube, it would be great if the developer implements a view-comments function, but as he's working on the app to make it simple, maybe it's already good as it is.

Keyboard Shortcuts in Ubuntu 10.04

Workspaces

• Ctrl + Alt + Left/Right/Up/Down arrow – move to the workspace in the given direction
• Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Left/Right arrow – move the current window to the workspace in the given direction
• Super + E - “expo” effect, shows all workspaces (move windows with left mouse button, zoom to a workspace with right mouse button)

Window Management

• Super + W – “scale” effect, shows all windows in current workspace (left click selects window, middle click closes window, right click zooms window)
• Super + A – “scale” effect, shows all windows
• Alt + F10 – toggle maximize current window
• Alt + F9 – minimize current window
• Ctrl + Alt + D – toggle show desktop
• Alt + Middle mouse button – resize window
• Alt + Left mouse button – move window
• Alt + Right mouse button – window menu
• Alt + F7 – move current window (without holding down mouse button)
• Alt + F8 – resize current window (without holding down mouse button)
• Alt + Tab – switch windows on current workspace
• Ctrl + Alt + Tab – switch windows on all workspaces
• Alt-F1 – launch applications menu
• Ctrl-L – shortcut for opening locations (in Nautilus)
• F9 – Toggle side pane in Nautilus

Accessibility

• Super + Mouse wheel scroll – zoom screen
• Super + Middle mouse button – draw rectangle to zoom to
• Super + N – invert colours of current window
• Super + M – invert colours of screen (Compiz is configured for this shortcut, but the messaging indicator seems to have taken it over so it doesn’t work)

from Tombuntu

Linux Web Magazine, Repositories, Ubuntu themes

I was looking for a free linux magazine, and found full circle Linux magazine. So far they published 39 magazines, and I want to definitely try the magazine, as it seems like they have a consistency.

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I got familiar with the concept of the repository with iPhone jailbreaking. It is basically register a pool (server) to your host, so that it can find and install applications from it. So after I installed Ubuntu, I wanted to register decent repositories. I googled a little bit, and it seemed like getdeb.net and medibuntu repositories are quite important.

For getdeb, quote:
Go to System-Administration-Software Sources, Third-Party Software tab, Add:
deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu lucid-getdeb apps Add the repository GPG key, open a terminal window and type:
wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

and for medibuntu, add

deb http://mirrors.ucr.ac.cr/medibuntu/ lucid free non-free
deb-src http://mirrors.ucr.ac.cr/medibuntu/ lucid free non-free
I'm not sure if I need deb-src repo, so i didn't install it. There's one more thing to do before finish, type on Terminal to authentificate the medibuntu repo (from Ubuntu Geek):
sudo apt-get --yes -q --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring

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For themes, check Bisigi project.
add repository: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bisigi && sudo aptitude update
install: sudo aptitude install bisigi-themes
Or, install each theme separately. 

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I read aptitude is better than apt-get, as it checks out dependency of the application, and remember it, but I still find a lot of people use apt-get and want to know why. Also I wonder the exact happenings during the installation, and its meaning. As soon as I understand them, i will post it here.

How to uninstall applications on Linux

quote:
It depends on which distribution you are using.

1) For (*.rpm) based distributions like Redhat, Fedora Core, SUSE, Madrake, etc, use this to get the exact program name first because, the program name is not exactly same as the the rpm file name.

rpm -qa | grep programname

Then use this to remove it.

rpm -e programname

2) For (*.deb) based distributins like Debian, Ubuntu, Mepis, etc,  to remove the program but, keep the configuration files for the program, use this

dpkg -r programname

To remove everything including configuration files, use this

dpkg -P programname

3) For (*.tgz) based distribtion like Slackware, use

pkgtool

and select the package which you wish to remove. There are more options available for Slackware which I don't remember right now. Hope this helps.

Firefox does not start after upgrade

quote:
1) Hmm.

Any firefoxes running, maybe as zombie after a crash.

What does:

ps aux | grep firefox

2) sudo dpkg-reconfigure firefox

3) In case if you still face problems starting firefox, you can remove the firefox lock file & start fireox. The lock file should be located at /home/username/.mozilla/firefox/

Under here there should be a folder with random characters. Default like for example o6yxa08d.default in my case. You should find the file "lock". Removing it and starting firefox will work.

Asian language input Ubuntu 10.04

The easiest way of typing Asian language might be using iBus.
1) Run Language Support under System - Administration
2) Change Keyboard Input Method System to ibus
3) Add languages preferred in IBus Preference under System - Preference

But I prefer SCIM, because it has better Japanese keyboard support: you can use Zenkaku/Hankaku key to change Japanese and English.
1) Install SCIM Input Method Setup at Ubuntu Software Center or Synaptics
2) Install Hangul Input Method Engine for SCIM
3) Install SCIM IMEngine module for Anthy
4) Change Keyboard Input Method System to SCIM-bridge in Language Support

When it doesn't work refer to below. from,
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1473443 , post #3

quote:
I just wanted to add an alternative solution to fix a broken scim where the toolbar refuses to appear, even though the daemon is running.

As zaphod777 has suggested, first get the language/locale settings sorted out.

Then create or edit the following file:-
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/74custom-scim_startup
Code:

export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"
export XIM_PROGRAM="scim -d"
export QT_IM_MODULE="scim"

and sudo chmod 644 that file.

At least, the above worked for me.

Cheers.
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It worked like a charm for me.