Link to installing restricted formats in UBUNTU

Link to installing restricted formats in UBUNTU

Pastie – handy clipboard manager indicator applet

Pastie is a small clipboard manager that uses an indicator-applet to display and give access to you clipboard history.
It boasts a modest set of configurable preferences including history size, options to set keyboard shortcuts and minor interface tweaks to the applet itself.

Download

It has its own PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hel-sheep/pastie
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install pastie

Mono-Icon
By default Pastie uses a stock GNOME icon for its indicator. FOr users of Ambiance or Radiance this looks less than ideal but is easily remedied by replacing the stock icon with mono-style equivalents created by DeviantArt user ~Ramzea.
Download, extract and pop your required icon in

• /usr/share/icons/Humanity/actions/22

Public Ubuntu Font Family PPA For Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx And 9.10 Karmic Koala

Add the PPA and install the Ubuntu Font using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/ubuntu-font-family 

sudo apt-get update 

sudo apt-get install ttf-ubuntu-font-family

HOWTO: Run MAME + GMAMEUI latest on your pc. Quick guide

Without further ado – A qiuck guide for newbies how to get MAME up and running on your Lucid Ubuntu up and running

1. get latest mame from here: http://sdlmame.wallyweek.org/download/. Choose first mame-common which is suitable for your Ubuntu ( Lucid in our case) and let synaptic package manager install it. Be sure to go with COMMON FIRST.OTHERWISE YOU WILL GET AN ERROR. Then go and install mame and mame tools the same way. I choose sdlmame( now officialy merged with mame) cos this project is alive and updated. You will find XMAME proposed as a choice more often, but this project is dead now.
2. Now we have to put GUI for your convinience This is the so-called frontend. I like best GMAMEUI. Still supported and with nice GNOME interface. Run your software manager, cearch for GMAMEUI, and install it. The shortcut will appear in Programs – Games. Well,run it. GMAMEUI will ask you where your mame app is. It is located in /usr/games. And is called mame(surprised?) Set a folder you wish for your roms folder. Be sure to remember what you've chosen
3. Some settings that can DRAMATICALLY improve your performance. Go with Options – Default Options. In video be sure that for Video mode OpenGL is selected.
   
   
4. Next, deselect filter in OpenGL :
   
   
5. AND, FINALLY CHECK PERFORMANCE. MAKE SURE AUTOMATIC FRAMESKIP IS SELECTED.( This setting changes performance dramatically for me. Games can change from barely playble to perfect performance with this setting, at least for me
   
   
   
   
   
6. That's petty much all. Go and use your ROMS now, put them in your roms folder, then : File – Audit All Games , wait for a while, and double click your rom and play it

Some tips:
TAB when game started will bring a menu, which will let you change lots of setings, game controls most notable.
F11 will show performance. Percents shown better be around 100%. Lower percents shown mean worse performance.


My PC is IBM Thinkpad x40. It is old enough, and I get nece playing experince – better than MAME run under XP. These setting work fine for me. If they dont work for you, fiddle with default options.
Hope I helped.Now lets play Pacman

Absolute to Relative Symbolic Links

absolute to relative symbolic links

Kernel Downloads

Kernel Downloads

Recover Lost Disk Space

Recover Lost Disk Space

How to edit the FSTAB file

The fstab file sets which volumes mounts and at what point.

How to enable x11 on totem

gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg should be installed through Synaptic package manager.

In terminal, run:

gstreamer-properties

Go to the video tab and change it to X Window System (No Xv)

How to install Glippy

Glippy can be installed via the following PPA. The PPA only contains Glippy so there won’t be any unexpected upgrades or installs that you weren’t seeking.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bikooo/glippy
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install glippy glippy-ubuntu-mono

Launch Glippy from the Applications > Accessories menu.

ThinkPad middle button scroll Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick



Use the middle button + trackpoint to scroll horizontally and vertically. Based on Eastwood Zhao‘s post, updated for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick.
Create /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-thinkpad.conf
sudo gedit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-thinkpad.conf
Insert the following:

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Trackpoint Wheel Emulation"
MatchProduct "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint|DualPoint Stick|Synaptics Inc. Composite TouchPad / TrackPoint"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Option  "EmulateWheel"  "true"
Option  "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
Option  "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
Option  "XAxisMapping"  "6 7"
Option  "YAxisMapping"  "4 5"
EndSection

Save the file (Control+x y Enter)
Reboot the computer

Tested on a Lenovo ThinkPad X201 and x40