GnuByExample

Python skills are an area in which I hope to develop further, so as to be able to read and understand patches to Ubuntu desktop.

Ubuntu One bugs in which I am taking a viewing interest in 2009/2010

My further reading

To bring all my Ubuntu One installations up to date:

My testing rig is an Inspiron 1525 running various Ubuntu and CentOS5.4

The Inspiron 1525 is also my travelling setup, and so I try and keep up with dongle setups in /etc/ppp/peers
I take an interest in UbuntuOne and manually initiated connections (dongle and/or tethering)

Thunar file manager - how to make default and other useful links

can be done by creating appropriate .desktop files to ~/.local/share/applications/ by using seds along the lines of s/Exec=nautilus/Exec=thunar/g The .desktop files you might create for full effect might be:

  • nautilus-folder-handler.desktop, nautilus-browser.desktop, nautilus-computer.desktop, nautilus-home.desktop, nautilus.desktop

More information at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DefaultFileManager

"Detailed List view" bug in Debian Squeeze
"Detailed List view" bug filed at XFCE project
"Detailed List view" bug in Ubuntu Lucid

Thunar and Network Shares

Reasons to love Lucid

Comes with Kernel 2.6.32 which should make Direct Rendering with ATI cards possible without requiring binary/third party garbage (hopefully) Lucid includes a simple video editor (PiTivi) which can be used to cut a video into pieces and other simple editing operations http://www.pitivi.org/

Reasons to love Karmic

Fn+Esc on my Inspiron 1525 issues S3 (Suspend to RAM) and it works flawlessly

GnuByExample (last edited 2010-04-26 21:41:47 by cpc2-birk2-0-0-cust1016)