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How to fix menu icons in GNOME 2.28

Posted by cviorel on October 5, 2009 No comments | This post has 525 views.

In the latest release of GNOME, they decided to turn off icons in menus by default. This is ugly and if you ask me, not practical at all.
However, you can get those icons back by going to System → […] Continue Reading…

Remove all settings for Evolution

Posted by cviorel on September 28, 2009 No comments | This post has 827 views.

Here is a small script to remove all your Evolution settings:

#!/bin/bash
evolution --force-shutdown
rm -rf $HOME/.evolution
rm -rf $HOME/.gconf/apps/evolution
rm -rf $HOME/.gnome2_private/Evolution
kill -9 `pidof gconfd-2`

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#!/bin/bash

evolution --force-shutdown

rm -rf $HOME/.evolution

rm -rf $HOME/.gconf/apps/evolution

rm -rf $HOME/.gnome2_private/Evolution

kill -9 `pidof gconfd-2`

Next time you open Evolution, you will be prompted to add a new account.

Fix Google Earth 5.0 user interface font on Linux

Posted by cviorel on September 2, 2009 3 comments | This post has 861 views.

I installed Google Earth 5.0 and the ugly UI font from the beta is still here.
Based on the comments from Google Earth Help page from here I’ve created the following script wich will fix the user interface font issue.

#!/bin/bash

sudo aptitude -y install libqt4-webkit
ge=`which googleearth`

if [ -n "$ge" ]; then
    ## get the path and check if it is a symlink
    if [ -h "$ge" ]; then
        real_path=`readlink -e $ge`
        dir_path=`dirname $real_path`
    else
        real_path=`dirname $ge`
    fi

    ## backup original Qt4 libraries
    for i in `ls $dir_path | grep libQt`; do
		sudo mv -v $dir_path/$i $dir_path/$i"_backup"
    done

	## backup original Qt4 plugins
    for j in `ls $dir_path/plugins/imageformats | grep libq`; do
		sudo mv -v $dir_path/plugins/imageformats/$j $dir_path/plugins/imageformats/$j"_backup"
    done

	## create a new qt.conf file
cat > $HOME/qt.conf << "EOF"
[Paths]
Documentation=/usr/share/doc
Libraries=/usr/lib
Plugins=/usr/lib/qt4/plugins
Translations=/usr/lib/qt4/translations
EOF

	sudo mv -v $dir_path/qt.conf $dir_path/qt.conf_backup
	sudo mv -v $HOME/qt.conf $dir_path
	
elif [ -z "$ge" ]; then
		echo -e "You don't have Google Earth installed!\n"
		exit
fi

exit 0

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#!/bin/bash

sudo aptitude -y install libqt4-webkit

ge=`which googleearth`

if [ -n "$ge" ]; then

## get the path and check if it is a symlink

if [ -h "$ge" ]; then

real_path=`readlink -e $ge`

dir_path=`dirname $real_path`

else

real_path=`dirname $ge`

fi

## backup original Qt4 libraries

for i in `ls $dir_path | grep libQt`; do

sudo mv -v $dir_path/$i $dir_path/$i"_backup"

done

## backup original Qt4 plugins

for j in `ls $dir_path/plugins/imageformats | grep libq`; do

sudo mv -v $dir_path/plugins/imageformats/$j $dir_path/plugins/imageformats/$j"_backup"

done

## create a new qt.conf file

cat > $HOME/qt.conf << "EOF"

[Paths]

Documentation=/usr/share/doc

Libraries=/usr/lib

Plugins=/usr/lib/qt4/plugins

Translations=/usr/lib/qt4/translations

EOF

sudo mv -v $dir_path/qt.conf $dir_path/qt.conf_backup

sudo mv -v $HOME/qt.conf $dir_path

elif [ -z "$ge" ]; then

echo -e "You don't have Google Earth installed!\n"

exit

fi

exit 0

HOWTO Force fsck on the Next Reboot

Posted by cviorel on August 19, 2009 No comments | This post has 586 views.

fsck is used to check and optionally repair one or more Linux file systems.
By creating /forcefsck file you will force the Linux system (or rc scripts) to perform a full file system check.
Create a file called forcefsck:

sudo touch /forcefsck

1	sudo touch /forcefsck

View Config Files Without Comments

Posted by cviorel on August 10, 2009 No comments | This post has 673 views.

Use this grep invocation to trim comments out of config files. Comments are great but can get in your way if you just want to see the currently running configuration. I’ve found files hundreds of lines long which had […] Continue Reading…

Thinkpad HDAPS in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

Posted by cviorel on July 29, 2009 No comments | This post has 865 views.

One of the cool features in a Thinkpad is IBM Active Protection System.
The system consist of two parts. The driver that enables reading the acceleration data and some sort of userspace software that does the actual parking of the […] Continue Reading…

Launchpad is now open source

Posted by cviorel on July 22, 2009 No comments | This post has 561 views.

Launchpad is now open source.
Canonical public announcement is here: http://blog.canonical.com/?p=192
The Canonical launchpad developers will be on IRC in #launchpad-dev on irc.freenode.net.
For real time development discussion, that’s the place to go; for usage questions, #launchpad is still the channel, as […] Continue Reading…

Clear ALT+F2 history in Gnome

Posted by cviorel on June 18, 2009 No comments | This post has 537 views.

Use this command in your terminal to clear the “Run Program” dialogue box invoked by ALT+F2 in Gnome:

gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome-settings/gnome-panel/history-gnome-run --type list --list-type string "[]"

1	gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome-settings/gnome-panel/history-gnome-run --type list --list-type string "[]"

Android applications running on Ubuntu

Posted by cviorel on May 27, 2009 No comments | This post has 481 views.

Canonical will develop an environment wich will allow Andoid applications to run on Ubuntu. Source.
Also, HP considers dropping Windows for Android in netbooks. Source.

Random crash of the X server in Jaunty

Posted by cviorel on May 21, 2009 No comments | This post has 559 views.

I experienced a lot of random X server crashes using the proprietary driver for the NVIDIA graphic card on my Thinkpad T61 running Ubuntu 9.04 x86 with Compiz activated.
I managed to fix the problem by installing the lastest NVIDIA […] Continue Reading…

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