Entries for the ‘HowTo’ Category
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.
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.
More concern (than necessary) over Lucid’s button layout
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.
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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