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Broken Arrow Keys during an Ubuntu 9.04 install on Vmware Server 1.X

Background

Recently I was trying to create a Ubuntu 9.04 vmware image using Vmware Server 1.08, but I was doing it remotely from my Fedora 10 laptop which was running Vmware Server 1.06. This can normally be done by using Vmware Server’s ability to remotely connect to other Vmware Servers.

VMware Server Console

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[one-liner]: Getting Remote Desktop Sharing & Compiz to play nice under Ubuntu 9.04 with GNOME

Background

This one threw me for a bit but I finally realized that when I had Compiz enabled on an Ubuntu 9.04 system, I couldn’t use VNC to connect via Remote Desktop Sharing in GNOME (aka. Vino, aka. VNC Server). Apparently this has been an issue going back since 2007 8-(, when Compiz is enabled. Since [...] Continue reading

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Use the same GTK theme for applications started as root

If you start a GTK GUI with root permissions and you notice that it uses the old GTK theme, you can make all applications started as root to use your current theme by doing this:
sudo ln -s ~/.themes /root/.themessudo ln -s ~/.icons /root/.iconssudo ln -s ~/.fonts /root/.fontsThis will basically create symlinks to your icons, fonts [...] Continue reading

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Disable NTP sync during USplash in Ubuntu Linux

NTP sometimes greatly slows down your Ubuntu’s boot time. To disable it just do a simple
sudo apt-get remove ntpdate

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Make applications remember their last state in Ubuntu

If you want your most-used applications already opened when you boot up into your Ubuntu box, all you have to do is go to System > Preferences > Startup Applications and in the Options tab check the box next to “Automatically remember running applications when logging out“.

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Install KDE 4.3 in Ubuntu Jaunty

Here’s how to install the newly-release KDE 4.3 in Ubuntu Jaunty.Open up your sources.list file:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
add the following line at the bottom of the file:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu jaunty main
Save the file and do a
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

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