No sound in Flash videos
If you have no sound in Flash videos but in all other programs, there are two possibilities: Bug report is #396558.
Tag Archives: linux
apt-cacher(-ng)
apt-cacher and apt-cacher-ng both act as a proxy between apt-get or aptitude and the Debian repositories. It stores the packages upon first request and loads them from cache on further ones. If you have 2 or more Ubuntu PCs in your network, you can save a massive amount of bandwidth with it. Installation That was… Read More: apt-cacher(-ng) »
Colourful make and gcc
Install the packages colormake and colorgcc. Then create the following alias: Also add this environment variable: And you should be set.
Swapfile instead of partition
If you don’t want to create a designated swap partition (e.g. if you plan to downsize it later) and don’t want to play around with GPartEd, you can create a swapfile instead. To create a 512 MiB swapfile, do the following: To automatically add the swapfile upon boot, add this line to the /etc/fstab: You… Read More: Swapfile instead of partition »
Gajim and Notify-OSD
gajim doesn’t support the new (since Jaunty) libnotify-osd library of Ubuntu and instead shows a dialog box. There’s a patch available at archlinux.org which enables support for libnotify-osd.
jabberd2
The setup of jabberd2 is mostly straight-forward. Just install the package and all needed transports. The change the config files in /etc/jabberd2 to your needs, esp. the name/jid of the admin. pyMSNt Update The most recent version is in a Mercurial repository at https://sharesource.org/hg/pymsnt/summary. There you can download the trunk revision and replace the files… Read More: jabberd2 »
Midnight Commander (mc)
Open drop-down box To open a drop-down box (like those on the FTP link… dialog), press Alt+H. ZIP contents not shown The later versions of unzip have a slightly different output format but the uzip-module still expects the old one. To fix this, edit the file /usr/share/mc/extfs/uzip (as root) and change the line to Highlighter… Read More: Midnight Commander (mc) »
Automounting
To automount FUSE mounts, there’s a nice tool called afuse.
mail-notification
Keyring error If you get the following error message: The password of IMAP/POP3 mailbox xxxxx could not be saved to the keyring. Check whether gnome-keyring-daemon runs. If not, just run it once and the mail-notification should work again.
Mixed Locales
I personally like English language operating systems. So I have set my Ubuntu to English language. But I still want German curency, decimals and time. With most applications, you can define the formats to use inside the application. But I stumbled at Evolution which lets you define 12/24-hour setting for the calendar, but doesn’t use… Read More: Mixed Locales »