Ubuntu Linux - Tips & Tricks & Customization

Mounting Stuff

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:33:04 +0100

I guess this is kinda a newbie question, and i briefly looked around, but didn't get a good answer so i thought i would ask. I have ubuntu for 3 days, i love it.so, about mounting drives. I, like most new people are run windows XP on the side. I love ubuntu over windows but i have had some small problems.I have a drive i wish to unmount... simply because i havent been able to so, and i want to get a feel for the command. The drive is a windows drive i do have access to (browse, read/write) ... but it says i don't have permissions... i did a little diggin up and learned a little about chmod. So...can CHMOD change the permission for me to unmount the device... if so how?I also read an article on manually mounting drives and i tried to do it with a flash drive, but it didn't work correct... it said my disk was already mounted (after i unmounted it from the desktop) or my folder was busy... I don't see why that would be.

Changing standard encoding

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:44:18 +0100

I am using KDE under Ubuntu. I would like to change the standard UTF-8 encoding to ISO-8859-1, but I did not find how to do it so that all my applications (Firefox, emacs, ...) know about it, and I have to set it for every file I manipulate.Any hints?-- tsf

Ubuntu Software Similar to Adobe suite

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:49:01 +0100

Hi, Which applications are very similar to those that are used in the adobe suite for Ubuntu?

Finding drivers for PCI wireless adapters

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:20:30 +0100

I recently bought a Dell inspiron 530 desktop unit with Ubuntu 7.04 loaded. Through what I charitably will call a misunderstanding, the unit came without a wireless adapter built--in. I asked Dell to recommend an adapter, and they did: buy the Netgear WG311, they said! I did: I got the WG311v3.Guess what? It does not work. However, before I send it back to Dell, it was suggested to me by Netgear that I check the forums.So does anyone out there know how to obtain a driver that will make this adapter work? Failing that, I would like recommendations as to which adapter to get. Preferably a USB... Last, some advice of my own: stay away from Dell and their Ubuntu division; the folks are very polite and eager to please, but they are poorly informed.

Migrating from WAMP to LAMP on Ubuntu 7.04

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:19:00 +0200

Hello! Perhaps someone out there is kind enough to help me out? I recently installed the WAMP suite applications on my Windows 2000 computer. Then, I partitioned and installed Ubuntu 7.04 on the same computer. My question is the following: how do I migrate the programs installed in my Windows 2000 computer onto Ubuntu? In other words how do I go from WAMP to LAMP, or would I need to install Apache, MySQL and PHP5 on Ubuntu all over again? If anyone can provide a step-by-step on how to do this, including Shell/Terminal commands in Ubuntu, I would be most grateful! Thank you, .:Rene

Panel distortion.

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:23:49 +0200

I did a lot of customizing to Gnome desktop, now the date/time area and the "applications/loctions/system" titles in the panel are distorted. I tried changing the width, color, background color of the upper panel, but no help!Any ideas? :)

Lost Nautilus

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:17:39 +0200

Newbie needs help! I accidently (old Indian word for "stupidly") deleted Nautilus. How can I get it back?

Need help

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:06:40 +0200

hi this is my maiden question... i need help... i saw a screenshot that indicated you can customise the interface to look like apple and act like it can anybody please tell me how to do this....thanks for your great care

Changing start screen

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:24:01 +0100

Hy,Starting boot screen, when pc turns on, shows a baltix distributor (ubuntu for baltic countries) logo. I wanna to change it, but havo no ideas, how to do it. Can you help?Thanks a lot.

Backgrounds

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:10:04 +0100

Does anyone know where to find info for creating backgrounds and themes for ubuntu?

Blubuntu

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:44:44 +0200

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Shockwave Player - Ubuntu / Linux

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 04:14:57 +0200

I have discovered a way to get Shockwave working under Linux. I am using Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake), Wine 0.99.22, Firefox 1.5.0.7, and Shockwave 10.1.4.020.

Install Wine. For those who don't know, this is a program which will allow you to run Windows-based programs from within Linux. Wine will automatically associate .exe files with itself. More information on Wine is available at http://www.winehq.com .
Download the Windows version of Firefox and install. Wine will ensure the installer functions correctly.
Install the Windows version of Shockwave for Mozilla. I downloaded and installed it manually (slim install).

After these steps, I had a working Shockwave player from within Firefox. Note that to use the Shockwave player, you must start the Windows version of Firefox, which will be running under Wine support.

How to get XGL and Compiz working

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 21:18:32 +0100

Complete tutorials are to be found on ubuntuforums.org and I do not think it is necessary to repeat it here. But only for one simple remark.

The original tutorial on ubuntuforum.org makes compiz work without the opacity plugin. If you do it this way it will work.

First of all follow this howto: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=131267 and play around with it.

If you then download the packages from this page http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=139265 and install the packages using dpkg -i.

After this all is well.... ;) See my screenshot http://www.ubuntux.org/my-desktop-running-xgl

Podcasting with Ubuntu

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:26:10 +0200

Podcasting is a method of publishing audio and video programs via the Internet that lets users subscribe to a feed of new files (usually MP3s). It became popular in late 2004, largely due to automatic downloading of audio onto portable players or personal computers.

You can easily run a podcast with Ubuntu. I've found an interesting article how to do that: Podcasting from Linux

How to change the root password in Ubuntu

Thu, 01 Sep 2005 20:02:47 +0200

As default Ubuntu has no password set for the root user. To gain root access you have to type in your own user password. This is the password you set for the first user while installing Ubuntu.

To manually set a password for the root user, type in the following in the shell:
sudo passwd

After that you are asked to type in the new root password twice. Finally, your root user has its own password.