This tutorial will show you how to paste in plain text in Pidgin (without formatting the text). It works in my Ubuntu (with Gnome). There are few simple steps. 1st. Open the file /usr/share/themes/Default/gtk-2.0/gtkrc. NOTE: Keep in mind that if you are using different theme you should change Default with the theme name you are currently […]
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How to check the Ubuntu version
This is probably the shortest tutorial ever 🙂 It’s quite simple to check the version. Executing a single command: cat /etc/issue Good luck!
How to create xorg.conf in Ubuntu 9.10
One of the changes on the new Ubuntu 9.10 is that xorg.conf is missing. The reason for this is that the configuration to be done on user level. The file xorg.conf will be in use only if it exists. Only the time will show if this new concept is good but I personally thing it is.
Taking Ubuntu 9.04 Out For A Spin
Earlier this week, I previewed Kubuntu 9.04, so I thought it would be a logical next step to preview Ubuntu 9.04 as well. When I took a look at the upcoming version of Kubuntu, I found that nothing major had changed (so far) other than the amazing speed improvements and the inclusion of the EXT4 file system as well as KDE 4.2 and all of the improvements it brought to the table. Now, let?s take a look at the upcoming version of Ubuntu, code named ?Jaunty Jackalope? so we can get a taste of what to expect come April.
Installing Apache, MySQL and phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu Linux
Firstly we will need to open console terminal and write the following User@TheUbuntuBox ~# sudo apt-get install apache2 autoconf automake1.4 autotools-dev libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-common php5-curl php5-dev php5-gd php-pear php5-ldap php5-mhash php5-mysql php5-mysqli php5-snmp php5-sqlite php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-pspell php5-gd autoconf automake1.4 autotools-dev libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server We just installed Apache2, MySQL Server and PHP5. Now we […]
Quick package search in Debian/Ubuntu/etc.
Here is a simple command for searching for “ruby” in the Tag: fields in Debian’s package lists: # egrep -hr ‘^(Package:|Tag:.+ruby)’ /var/lib/apt/lists|grep -B1 ^Tag|grep ^Package|cut -d\ -f2-|tr \\n \||xargs -I{} echo apt-cache –names-only search ^\({}\)\$|sort|less Cool , huh 🙂Read the whole thing @ http://dontdothat.livejournal.com