Rebel Zero

The Nautilus location bar is now defaulted to button mode in order to be more user friendly. Here’s how to change it to text mode temporarily or permanently.

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.

All of my Karmic Koala installs had missing icons. Apparently they’re defaulted to off. One check mark later and they returned.

I couldn’t upgrade my Eee PC 701 from Jaunty to Karmic without finding more drive space. I did it by borrowing space from the /home partition using a symbolic link.

Karmic introduced Gnome’s new sound setup which includes sound themes, but with no clear way of changing them. Here’s how I hacked them.

Imac: I’m trying 9.10 and after I suspended it asked for my password when went back to the computer. How do I disable that feature? Not that I would recommend it, I can understand the need to turn the password prompt off when returning from suspend. On Ubuntu 9.10, Gnome has that as a setting [...]

ShipIt has begun taking pre-orders for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala CDs.

Begone vol_id… long live blkid!

An email from Martin Pitt that went out across the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list warns about a possible failure with the new gdm 2.26 that just landed for those taking part in testing Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. “… if you upgraded to gdm 2.26 since last Friday, updating your system under GNOME will kill the upgrade [...]