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Getting Ubuntu SSH Server running, allows nomachine to work too

No SSH - No No Machine

I've been using No Machine to remote into machines for quite a while now and all I can say is that I'll never go back to VNC.

I recently completely reinstalled my fileserver with Ubuntu 8.10 and installed the no machine server in the recommended way. I fired up the client and got a "connection refused on port 22".

It had been so long since I did a fresh installation of Ubuntu that I'd forgotten that Ubuntu ships with a SSH client but not the server. I found some useful info here.

To get your system up to speed all you need to do is:
sudo apt-get install openssh-server openssh-client

You can test it with:
ssh your_user@localhost

Now your system can frolic in its No Machine goodness!

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How To Remove Bogus Tomboy Template

Scenario: Synchronizing with Ubuntu One and Tomboy and all of a sudden extra templates start showing up within Tomboy. Perhaps I created them by accident but once they are there it is impossible to delete them from the current Tomboy interface.

Solution:

1. Close Tomboy
2. edit /home/mruckman/.config/tomboy/manifest.xml

3. use advance find the following folder and look for "template" as your search string:
/home/mruckman/.local/share/tomboy

4. You will now need to identify each file name you wish to delete and create entries in the manifest.xml, you will need to open each file to get the exact title. Use the following template:


5. You will also need to move the offending file into the /home/mruckman/.local/share/tomboybackup folder

6. Save the manifest.xml file and open Tomboy and synchronizing, the offending files should now be deleted from your repository.

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Move Window Buttons Back to the Right in Ubuntu 10.04 / 10.10

Press Alt+F2 to bring up the Run Application dialog box, enter "gconf-editor" in the text field and click on Run

The Configuration Editor should pop up.

The key that we want to edit is in the apps/metacity/general.

Click on the + button next to the "apps" folder, then beside "metacity" in the list of folders expanded for apps, and then click on the "general" folder.

The button layout can be changed by changing the "button_layout" key. Double-click button_layout to edit it.

Change the text in the Value text field to:
menu:minimize,maximize,close

Click OK and the change will occur immediately, changing the location of the window buttons in the Configuration Editor.

Note that this ordering of the window buttons is slightly different than the typical order; in previous versions of Ubuntu and in Windows, the minimize button is to the left of the maximize button.

You can change the button_layout string to reflect that ordering, but using the default Ubuntu 10.04 theme, it looks a bit strange.

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Startup-Manager

Ubuntu 11.10 has broken the Startup-Manager, here are steps to make Windows always boot first

If you change boot order manually in /etc/default/grub or via startup-manager, you will discover that each time a new kernel is delivered, Windows is moved in another place in menu. You need to force grub to put Windows at top position each time it rebuild its configuration.

For this use the following commands:

cd /etc/grub.d
sudo mv 30_os-prober 09_os-prober
sudo update-grub

and reboot.

Older Notes:

Ubuntu has started using Grub2 and the menu.lst is now gone. Install the "Startup-Manager" to change default boot item.

It's installed under "System, Administration, Startup-Manager

Common Tasks, review and add here directly:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1302743

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Move Window Buttons Back to the Right in Ubuntu 10.04 / 10.10

Press Alt+F2 to bring up the Run Application dialog box, enter "gconf-editor" in the text field and click on Run

The Configuration Editor should pop up.

The key that we want to edit is in the apps/metacity/general.

Click on the + button next to the "apps" folder, then beside "metacity" in the list of folders expanded for apps, and then click on the "general" folder.

The button layout can be changed by changing the "button_layout" key. Double-clicke button_layout to edit it.

Change the text in the Value text field to:
menu:maximize,minimize,close

Click OK and the change will occur immediately, changing the location of the window buttons in the Configuration Editor.

Note that this ordering of the window buttons is slightly different than the typical order; in previous versions of Ubuntu and in Windows, the minimize button is to the left of the maximize button.

You can change the button_layout string to reflect that ordering, but using the default Ubuntu 10.04 theme, it looks a bit strange.