How to stop KDEwallet from asking you for a wireless password at login

I've always hated to effectively login TWICE just so's I can connect to my encrypted wireless network at home.

It means I can't leave my browser open when I shutdown, as when the desktop restarts along with my browser, it can't access the network until I've authenticated with the default wallet.

BUT I've found a way around that particular problem

What you need to is :

- bring up the KDE Wallet Configuration window (right click on the wallet icon in the systray)

- enable the Different wallet for local passwords option and create a new wallet for local passwords (kdeconfig1)

- Then click on the access control tab and delete any networkmanager entries from the list (walletconfig2) and click ok

- Then you need to left click on the wallet icon in systray to bring up the wallet manager

- click your default wallet (ie not the one you just created for locals) to view the password folders

- Then right on the network management folder and select the delete folder option

...

- Log out and back in again and when your desktop starts, network manager will ask you to open your wallet for local passwords at which time you'll click on the 'allow always' button and thereafter ... voila! you will be automatically connected to your wireless network. (at least it worked for me)




The password of the newly created Wallet should be left blank!!!

NB: You still need to enter a password to access the other encrypted passwords in your default wallet, but at least you don't have to worry about network access.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Enable Suspend and Hibernate via keyboard shortcuts in KDE 4.6/ Kubuntu

The commands are

dbus-send --print-reply --dest='org.freedesktop.PowerManagement' /org/freedesktop/PowerManagement org.freedesktop.PowerManagement.Suspend 

for SUSPEND

dbus-send --print-reply --dest='org.freedesktop.PowerManagement' /org/freedesktop/PowerManagement org.freedesktop.PowerManagement.Hibernate

for HIBERNATE

I assign these commands to keyboard shordcuts  - Shortcut and Gestures>Custom Shortcuts>Edit>New>Global Shortcut>Command/Url :)

How to wake up your Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xbuntu Maverick from USB port

This is a "how-to" , describing how to enable USB wake up from suspend/sleep on a Ubuntu 10.10 system. It worked for me on Lucid 10.04 with Maverick and Natty kernels applied.
I got and old Thinkpad x40 laptop, which I use for a multimedia machine with Xubuntu 10.04 and XBMC installed. I tried this method on Kubuntu 10.10, so I suppose it should be working on Ubuntu, too.
So , first lets find out the id of the device which will be used for waking up the system - in my case, a Logitech USB mouse(Everything published in Courier are terminal commands)

lsusb 

This is the terminal output:


Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c521 Logitech, Inc. Cordless Mouse Receiver
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub



So, the ID of the device is:
c521

Second command(change the device ID with yours):
grep c521 /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/idProduct

Here is the output:



/sys/bus/usb/devices/3-1/idProduct:c521

You should get the number after the devices/, in my case 3-1. This should be used later.

Now, run this

cat /proc/acpi/wakeup

This will populate all methods from waking your PC from sleep and hibernate, and if it is enabled or not. My list is

Device S-state Status Sysfs node
LID S3 *enabled
SLPB S3 *enabled
PCI0 S3 *disabled no-bus:pci0000:00
PCI1 S4 *disabled pci:0000:00:1e.0
DOCK S4 *disabled
USB0 S3 *disabled pci:0000:00:1d.0
USB1 S3 *disabled pci:0000:00:1d.1
USB2 S3 *disabled pci:0000:00:1d.2
AC9M S4 *disabled pci:0000:00:1f.6


I know I have to use USB0 in my case. I dont know a way to tell which USB port uses my mouse in the moment, besides the trial and error method. It is disabled at  the moment. Or, you can enable all.

sudo -s  (enter password when prompted)
echo "USB0" > /proc/acpi/wakeup
echo enabled > /sys/bus/usb/devices/3-1/power/wakeup

Then run

cat /proc/acpi/wakeup


to verify the port is enabled. You can try this now.

If something goes wrong, try creating /etc/rc.d/local.
look here:
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1376177

Lets make this run on startup


sudo gedit /etc/rc.local

and paste at the end of the file:


echo "USB0" > /proc/acpi/wakeup

echo enabled > /sys/bus/usb/devices/3-1/power/wakeup

That should do it :) 

KDE/Kubuntu Gnome apps will not accept the correct passwortd

I installed Gparted and the login sudo screen will not accept the correct password - it is actually gksu/sudo problem. To solve it, in terminal:

gksu-properties
Try that, set it to "sudo" and "enable"

Install Sopcast on Ubuntu 10.04.02 if you run VLC 1.1.x

I run Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop, due to some hardware incompatibilities of 10.10 with my hardware, but I use the newest versions of vlc. So, I had to add some extra commands to run Sopcast on my laptop.
First, the PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/sopcast
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sopcast-player


Then, the fix



sudo apt-get install unzip
cd && wget http://www.mattrudge.net/files/sopcast-player_vlc1.1x-fix.zip
unzip sopcast-player_vlc1.1x-fix.zip
sudo mv vlc.py /usr/share/sopcast-player/lib/
sudo mv VLCWidget.py /usr/share/sopcast-player/lib/


You might have to download libstdc++ manually because this package is not included in the Ubuntu repositories. Don't worry, you can use these .deb files:

• 32-bit
• 64-bit 

Resources:

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/05/install-linux-sopcast-player-040-in.html

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10/install-fixed-sopcast-player-in-ubuntu.html 

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10/new-sopcast-player-ppa-comes-with-fixed.html 

 

Useful Ubuntu Indicators

Useful Ubuntu Indicators

Dropbox Monochrome Icons As A .deb Or PPA

T. Scott Barnes maintains a package in his PPA called "monochrome-icons-extra" which comes with monochrome Ubuntu-mono, Humanity, and Elementary icons for Dropbox, along with a few other mono icons.

To add the PPA, use the following commands in a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tsbarnes/misc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install monochrome-icons-extra

Alternatively simply download this DEB file (but you won't receive any updates).

The icons no longer have to be manually copied into the ~/.dropbox-dist folder so if you upgrade Dropbox you will no longer lose the mono icons.

Important: the icons only work with the latest Dropbox experimental build which you can download from the Dropbox forum. To install the latest experimental Dropbox, run the following commands in a terminal:

32bit:

dropbox stop
cd
wget http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86-0.8.107.tar.gz
tar -xvf dropbox-lnx.x86-0.8.107.tar.gz

64bit:

dropbox stop
cd
wget http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-0.8.107.tar.gz
tar -xvf dropbox-lnx.x86_64-0.8.107.tar.gz

The above URLs will change when a new Dropbox version will be released on the forum so check out the latest version on the forum. There is also an update script which automatically installs all the new Dropbox versions.