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Disable NoScript from Auto Opening the Permissions Menu

NoScript’s permissions menu auto opens on mouseover. I didn’t like that so I turned it off.

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Prevent Recent Documents from displaying recent documents

Prevent the recent history of opened documents from appearing in Gnome’s Recent Documents listing with a simple hack.

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Full transparent panel with Lucid’s Ambiance and Radiance themes

Lucid’s Radiance and Ambiance themes don’t make transparent panels easy. You have to tweak them just a little bit.

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More concern (than necessary) over Lucid’s button layout

Lucid’s new button layout has caused some problems for users. Here’s how it can be changed.

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Lucid Lynx not booting, small plymouth issue

Needed to add a symbolic link for the broken plymouth package that prevented Lucid Lynx from starting up.

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Karmic: gnome-power-manager hides “Do nothing” from the GUI

A change in Gnome’s gnome-power-management package has hidden the “Do nothing” option making it difficult to run an external monitor on a laptop with the lid closed. Here’s a workaround.

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Ubuntu: Adding Shell Items To The Main Menu

I keep forgetting exactly how to do this without searching for it, so what better than to post it here for myself and others? I enjoy installing games that are either not in the official Ubuntu repositories or are newer versions than what is available. After downloading and extracting, I move them to /opt and [...]

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Backup And Restore Files To/From A LUKS Encrypted Partition Image File

Peeking inside an image backup of an encrypted partition with logical volumes was a lot easier than I thought it would.

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Making Firefox 3.0 Extensions Work With Firefox 3.5 (Revisited)

I finally figure out how to force all of my Firefox 3.0.x plugins to work with Firefox 3.5. All were enabled, but one was broken.

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Making Firefox 3.0 Extensions Work With Firefox 3.5

Here’s a short example showing how to enable Firefox 3.0 plugins to work with Firefox 3.5.

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