I just found out about gconf-editor and have been crawling through here customizing my gnome desktop to my exact specifications – this program lets you do just about anything you can think of to the gnome environment. This evening I just wanted my shortcut keys working again.
Hit <Alt>F2 then type gconf-editor and hit <enter>
Click Apps [...]
Gotta love reinstalling… a friend just sent me a Youtube link and I completely forgot that I didn’t have flash.
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
killall firefox
Started Firefox back up again and was able to click the link he sent me – viewed just fine. Love how easy it is in this version of Ubuntu.
Occasionally it’s fun to waste some time shooting your friends and unfortunately Ubuntu just isn’t up to speed when it comes to gaming – so I dual boot into a stripped Vista installation. I’d like to make switching back and forth as quick as possible.
First thing I did was go and get Bootchart, “a tool [...]
x64 instructions:
sudo apt-get install xchat
wget http://mircryption.sourceforge.net/Downloads/mircryption_xchatsrc.zip
wget http://voobar.follvalsch.de/files/mcps_xchat_0.4.0-alpha.tar.bz2
unzip mircryption_xchatsrc.zip
tar -xvf mcps_xchat_0.4.0-alpha.tar.bz2 -C /src
cd /src/mcps_xchat_0.4.0-alpha
mv Makefile ../ && mv dh1080 ../ && mv mircryption.cpp ../
cd ..
Ran into this error on install and realized I hadn’t installed a compiler since reinstallation. There actually is no readme.txt and no .so file was created.
Trying to install mircryption.so into ~/.xchat2 [...]
Step by step:
cp /etc/apt/sources.list sources.list.bak
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Paste the following at the bottom of the file (for 8.04 change intrepid to hardy):
deb http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu intrepid main
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox
killall nautilus
For Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
* (cp /etc/apt/sources.list sources.list.bak ; cat sources.list.bak ; echo “deb http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu intrepid main” ; echo “deb-src http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu intrepid [...]