Here is a small script to remove all your Evolution settings:
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#!/bin/bash evolution --force-shutdown rm -rf $HOME/.evolution rm -rf $HOME/.gconf/apps/evolution rm -rf $HOME/.gnome2_private/Evolution kill -9 `pidof gconfd-2` |
Next time you open Evolution, you will be prompted to add a new account.
I installed Google Earth 5.0 and the ugly UI font from the beta is still here.
Based on the comments from Google Earth Help page from here I’ve created the following script wich will fix the user interface font issue.
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#!/bin/bash sudo aptitude -y install libqt4-webkit ge=`which googleearth` if [ -n "$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 |
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:
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sudo touch /forcefsck |
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…
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.
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…
Use this command in your terminal to clear the “Run Program” dialogue box invoked by ALT+F2 in Gnome:
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gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome-settings/gnome-panel/history-gnome-run --type list --list-type string "[]" |
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.
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…
Recently I made a clean install of Ubuntu 9.04 on my Thinkpad T61.
I configured the figerprint, the accelerometer is reporting correct values.
I did not like the default resolution at boot. So I created a custom usplash.conf file:
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sudo joe /etc/usplash.conf |
I should contain […] Continue Reading…