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Search and remove duplicate files

Posted by cviorel on October 14, 2009 No comments | This post has 629 views.

Here a small piece of code which will search for the duplicates in the path you supply. It will generate a new file which contains the commands for deleting those duplicates.
Make sure you double check the resulting file!
The script […] Continue Reading…

Karmic Koala Beta on ThinkPad T61

Posted by cviorel on October 6, 2009 No comments | This post has 571 views.

I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 Beta on my LENOVO ThinkPad T61 64608NG.
Here is what I found so far, in two days of intensive usage:

Quadro NVS 140M – 2D and 3D acceleration: tested and works.
Wireless switch: tested and works.
Sound: tested […] Continue Reading…

How to fix menu icons in GNOME 2.28

Posted by cviorel on October 5, 2009 No comments | This post has 558 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 866 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 896 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 620 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 710 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 896 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 597 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 569 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 "[]"

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