Rebel Zero

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

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

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

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

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.

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 [...]

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

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.

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

Install Firefox 3.5 onto your Ubuntu 9.04 installation