Technical notes, and other ideas.
To disable the Global Menu, use the following Terminal command. Once done, log out or restart your system for changes to take effect.
sudo apt-get autoremove appmenu-gtk appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-qt
This process is completely revertible and the changes can be undone by re-installing the package from the below given command. Once the package is installed, restart your computer.
sudo apt-get install appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-gtk appmenu-qt
You will need to add your username to vboxusers group
open a terminal
sudo gedit /etc/group
vboxusers:x:125:mruckman
reboot Ubuntu to make sure it picks up the new changes
You will also want to install VBoxGuestAdditions_4.1.2
mount the ISO image inside the virtual appliance
You can download various versions of the software here:
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.2/
Turn off "Enable absolute pointing device" to have better response during shutdown and reboot.
When the virtual appliance is turned off, do the following:
Settings, System, uncheck the "Enable absolute pointing device"
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!
Use [Ctrl]+L to change the icons into the actual address bar.
Overall Usage
df -h
Disk Usage in megabytes with total
du -B MB -c
Unix
du -m /prod
1. Quit Tomboy
2. Applications->Accessories->Terminal, and run:
tomboy --debug > ~/tomboy_debug.log
See the following:
Ubuntu Starter Guide - SSH
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.
You may have to delete some menu items, but all of the install is in the same place.
sudo su
rm -rf /opt/lampp
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.