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Notes on Ubuntu

I had to reinstall my Ubuntu Intrepid last week. This post is a note to myself to save me some time googling some not-so-intuitive configuration next time I happen to install Ubuntu. I’ll update the post occasionally when I figure out fixing a problem. But be aware that those are configurations to my needs and I won’t be explaining much what is what.

Brother MFC 215C

I’ve already documented this issue in a separate post last time I’ve installed Ubuntu.

VirtualBox and USB



sudo adduser $USER vboxusers # add current user to the vboxusers group

cat /etc/group | grep vboxusers # get the ID of the vboxusers group

sudo gedit /etc/fstab & # edit file system information

And append these lines:



#usbfs for virtualbox

none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=ID_of_vboxusers_group,devmode=774 0 0

First Day of the Week

I don’t get this. The KDE calendar applet offers a configurable option to select the first day of the week. Gnome’s doesn’t. Why? Anyway the locale has to be changed.



sudo gedit /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US # or whatever locale you're using

Change first_weekday 1 to first_weekday 2 to set Monday as the first day of the week.



sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Log out and than back in.

Backspace Behaviour in Firefox



about:config

browser.backspace_Action = 2

[via]

Or strangely enough, Kubuntu needs a zero!



about:config

browser.backspace_Action = 0

[via]

Google Gears and Mozilla Prism

Download latest Gears for Linux from http://dl.google.com/gears/current/gears-linux-opt.xpi;
Rename *.xpi to *.zip;
Extract the archive;
Edit install.rdf with a text editor;
Change
<em:targetApplication> <Description> <em:id>{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}</em:id> <em:minVersion>1.5</em:minVersion> <em:maxVersion>3.0.*</em:maxVersion> </Description> </em:targetApplication>

to

<em:targetApplication> <Description> <em:id>prism@developer.mozilla.org</em:id> <em:minVersion>0.1.*</em:minVersion> <em:maxVersion>10.0.*</em:maxVersion> </Description> </em:targetApplication>
Compress files;
Rename *.zip to *.xpi;
Install.

[via], copying steps here in case the other site goes down.

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One Response to “Notes on Ubuntu”

Monu says:

08 April.2009 at 12:24

Thanks, I liked this post.

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