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Remove Ubuntu One Nautilus Sync

Kristopher Ives — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:05:37 +0000

I got tired of Ubuntu One alerts advertisements in my nautilus, so I started looking for a way to disable them. I couldn’t find any way to hide the little message that says “Folder not synchronized”. I don’t use Ubuntu One much at all right now, but I was going to keep it around as I saw myself needing it. Since there is no way to disable this, I’ve opted to:

sudo apt-get remove ubuntuone-client

It didn’t have to be this way…

Install Fonts in Ubuntu (Video)

Kristopher Ives — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:53:28 +0000

I’ve been noticing some cool stuff in Ubuntu Maverick and in general have became interested in making high definition videos of Ubuntu running Compiz.

Check out this video of Installing Fonts in Ubuntu Maverick (1080p). It’s in 1920×1080, but YouTube also makes available lower quality video.

Launchpad is Slow

Kristopher Ives — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:01:36 +0000

As much as I love Launchpad, they are really slow. Browsing the site is usually painful, and waiting for builds on their systems gets old quick. I popped into #launchpad and asked if it was possible to get into their build cloud, but I was informed that it’s not currently possible and I didn’t get a response on if it would happen in the future. It would be nice if their cloud was easy to jump into, since most everyone has spare processing power they don’t need during some period of the day. Lauchpad is a wordwide community, we could be using our computers at night to build packages for the Australians while we sleep!

Compile Compiz 0.9.0 in Ubuntu

Kristopher Ives — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:56:28 +0000

Sam pointed me to thread that had some build directions that he had put there. I’ve had trouble in the past getting Compiz 0.9 to run, usually with gtk-window-decorator not working. Update: This is really easy now because of Soreau’s script.

Download Desktop.tar.gz which has the script with execute permissions and the source directory
Delete ~/Desktop/compiz-0.9.0 if you have it
Extract Desktop.tar.gz on your desktop (right click works) or in a terminal cd ~/Desktop && tar -xf Desktop.tgz
Open a terminal and type ./install_compiz_090.sh
After it builds it can launch CCSM, which worked for me
Run /opt/compiz/bin/compiz++ (I didn’t need pass --replace or anything)
Thank Soreau

Changes I made to the script:

It uses ~/Desktop/compiz-0.9.0 for source code and that directory is in the tar empty
It installs to /opt/compiz instead of /opt/compiz++

There also seems to be a PPA that falkTX has created. I haven’t tried it yet, but looks promising has been reported to not work and can be added by doing this in a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:falk-t-j/lucid-latest

Now you’ll either have updated versions of the packages, or renamed compiz packages (haven’t tried it yet)

Update: This got picked up by OMG! Ubuntu

Update: If you followed the guide exactly for the first few hours it was up it didn’t change directory into the build/ directory properly in the install step. Thanks to Eugeny at OMG! Ubuntu! for the tip.

Update: Much of this was replaced with Soreau’s Script, who I welcome as our Compiz overlord.

Calm In The Brainstorm

Kristopher Ives — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:48:59 +0000

Ubuntu Brainstorm idea reviewers have been dropping like flies the last few days. The idea is basically they are not participating and don’t want to add to an imaginary army of idea reviewers.

Do you like Ubuntu? It doesn’t take much. I’m notoriously horrible at reviewing ideas, but I’ve turned this into an opportunity to schedule time to look at one page of ideas on lunch time.

Error sending mail with Evolution and SURBL blacklist

Kristopher Ives — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:26:44 +0000

If you’re getting an error about not being able to send mail through Evolution because of a URL being in the SURBL blacklist, then you may waste your time as I did looking for your domain on that list in attempt to understand what is happening. Chances are your domain has and never will be on that blacklist.

The problem, for me, was that I was authenticating my incoming mail, but not my outgoing mail. I fixed the settings in the Accounts area and everything is working fine again.

My Rhythmbox PPA

Kristopher Ives — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:59:55 +0000

Ubuntu has been changing some things around with it’s notification icons and GNOME applets. Specifically the volume, power, e-mail and Rhythmbox applets. I could stand for most of that, but don’t mess with my music. My main complaint is that being part of the indicator-applet has broke some things I like, such as quickly showing/hiding or muting, since everything must be done via a menu.

Pidgin had this same problem, and they solved it by offering both indicator applet support and notification area support. After talking with the GNOME folks, and reading this bug report, it’s probably not going to get done. Because of the way Rhythmbox is developed, you must install a new package to get the old behavior back. I just made a PPA with the --enable-appindicator=no flag.

Easiest way to install is just sudo add-apt-repository lp:kris-santiance/oldrb and then grab the “update” from the update manager.

Twitter and Link Protocols

Kristopher Ives — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:22:20 +0000

Believe it or not, links aren’t just to HTTP(s) websites – they are for anything. You can link to FTP sites and file sharing services in the past have supported linking to content on their clouds, such as Magnet.

With Ubuntu you can link to a package or application for a user to install from their trusted repository. Give it a shot and install the awesome Droid font, Pidgin, nautilus-open-terminal, or all at the same time.

Twitter doesn’t support links from theses protocols, but almost all links on Twitter use URL shortening services like bit.ly or TinyURL. Right now you can use TinyURL to link to unsupported protocols on Twitter. Like I did here.

I can see that Twitter might want to protect users from these unfamiliar links. I don’t think this is making the service any more secure though, since anyone trying an exploit can easily use a redirect as I did.

Adding Twitter to Pidgin

Kristopher Ives — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:39:16 +0000

My friend Steven was raving about a plugin that adds support for the Twitter protocol to the Pidgin instant messenger. I’ve used a lot of other Twitter clients, but this is neat because it fits in with all my other instant messaging protocols.

It would be nice if there was a PPA on Launchpad that offered this, but I don’t have the time to do that, so I just grabbed the source from SVN and did a checkinstall on it for my 64-bit system. Heres the package:

libpurple-twitter-protocol_0.20-1_amd64.deb (70 kB)

Chromium vs Google Chrome

Kristopher Ives — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:30:46 +0000

Chrome hit the scene about 8 months ago (in July, 2009) and has shown quick adoption and fast usage growth. For the most part, those where windows users. In Google fashion, a beta has been released. What’s the difference between Google Chrome and Chromium?

Chromium is what you’ll find in your repositories and for the most part looks like a normal open-source package, and indeed it is FOSS. It was started by Google, and they release a version called Google Chrome. So, you can see them as two sides of the same coin. Google will continue to bring the awesome changes from the Chromium project, and you can expect Google to share their code back.

Like many Ubuntu users I started using Chromium via the chromium-daily PPA (Personal Package Archive – Usually a cutting-edge place for packages provided by a user or developer, used to get the latest features of some package) This repository contains a daily build of the Chromium project. This repository, and the project, is a lot more stable, and I use the repository now.

Google’s Chrome (beta) on Ubuntu runs well and is a simple package download, but it completely lacks updates of any kind. I removed it because I wanted a slightly newer feature – Bookmark Synchronization. It worked across Windows and Ubuntu, might I add. Future builds will probably include some system of updates, but the way it looks right now you’ll have to install a package of a later version (update) or remove the beta and install the newer version manually.

The bottom line: Go with the chromium-daily PPA until Google Chrome has some kind of update system and has bookmark sync working.