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Re: Digital Ambulation

chrismarget — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 09:27:21 -0000

I came here for the 'baz' syntax. Thank you very much!

Re: Using Nautilus in Xubuntu 11.10

alinoe13 — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 19:12:51 -0000

edit

to have Nautilus managing the desktop
install Xfce 4.10:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.10
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

then reboot

Re: Using Nautilus in Xubuntu 11.10

alinoe13 — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:06:30 -0000

Thanks a lot Alan for this clear how to,

works just fine on xubuntu 12.04 (64bits)

I've been using Xubuntu for a while
and always missed
the multi-tab in Nautilus

it is is too useful

Re: Using Nautilus in Xubuntu 11.10

Alan Briolat — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:16:32 -0000

I view Nautilus and Thunar as being fundamental components of their respective desktop environments - it's expected to encounter a little friction trying to get applications so closely tied to their expected environment to work outside of them. I did this as an experiment to see if Nautilus worked any better for me than Thunar, and in the process thought it was worth documenting how to get things to work, but I actually ended up sticking with Thunar in the end.

Re: Using Nautilus in Xubuntu 11.10

Jazzy J Man — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:17:55 -0000

The deal with Nautilus controlling the desktop/background/screensaver is just broken with respect to Gnome. In some versions it's hell trying to control something simple like when the screen gets blanked. So now we have Thunar which is obviously created with total contempt for how people actually work instead of fixing Nautilus. At least people that know what they're doing.

This is exactly why we picked Ubuntu and the like over Windoze. I refuse to be Microshafted; my ego identity is not tied up with (X)ubuntu. It doesn't deliver on the promise any more; time to dump it.

Just take a step back and look at this article (informative and spot on as it is) and tell me honestly that this isn't exactly the same kind of crap that you'd have laughed at a Windoze user from putting up with when you got your first version of Linux.

Re: Using Nautilus in Xubuntu 11.10

goldcds — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:11:00 -0000

I will have to try this because I really do not like Thunar but do like just about everything else about Xubuntu. I switched from Ubuntu for the same reason many people did and that is Unity is really horrible.

Re: Enable Bitmap Fonts on Ubuntu Jaunty

Alan Briolat — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:53:18 -0000

Hmm, I guess you could try replacing the file with a symlink to /dev/null - updates don't usually clobber existing things in /etc. I haven't had this problem, because I've been using the ~/.fonts.conf method instead of /etc/fonts for a while now.

Re: Enable Bitmap Fonts on Ubuntu Jaunty

Campbell Barton — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 01:53:54 -0000

This works fine, but after an update, this file gets created again, Is there some way to make sure bitmap fonts _stay_ disabled?
(experienced this on both my ubuntu 12.04 systems)

Re: Using Nautilus in Xubuntu 11.10

Miroslav Kanovsky — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:44:15 -0000

thanks bro!

Re: Using Nautilus in Xubuntu 11.10

Maxcel — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:34:36 -0000

Most helpful, it solves the problem of nautilus taking over the desktop.
A couple of interesting points, first the ability to use nautilus already exists in the right-click 'Applications' drop-down menu under 'File Manger' which open nautilus. Second, if a URL link is created by right-clicking on the desktop and entering the address of a mounted folder such as '/media/my-server', it is automatically opened in the default file manager, e.g. nautilus.

Re: Using Nautilus in Xubuntu 11.10

Dean Coffey — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:45:53 -0000

Thanks for this info, it is *most* helpful. I've recently moved from Ubuntu 10.10 to Xubuntu 11.10 and this takes care of one of the few things I was *really* missing. :)

Re: Tpl – A tiny PHP template engine

Alan Briolat — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:21:09 -0000

A comparison of PHP template engines in terms of performance is interesting idea, but in order to benchmark so many engines the feature set tested is disappointingly small. In the case of Tpl, there is very little that it does beyond what PHP itself is capable of, and the most important feature is not part of the benchmark.

Re: Enable Bitmap Fonts on Ubuntu Jaunty

Asafyat — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:09:14 -0000

works for Ubuntu 11.04

Re: Tpl – A tiny PHP template engine

Niar — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:24:28 -0000

Django syntax is nice, Twig is definitely the best Django for PHP, but also the Smarty syntax is very nice, the best are RainTPL, Dwoo and obviosly Smarty, here a good benchmark with all together:
http://www.phpcomparison.net/

you can also download the benchmark and test your template engine, you might be faster than that ;)

Re: Remapping Mouse Buttons on Ubuntu Lucid

Alan Briolat — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:44:56 -0000

Mine isn't so minimal - it's generated by the AMD Catalyst tool - but it has nothing referring to any input devices. There are however other files in /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/ that do contain Driver "evdev", but as far as I'm aware they're there by default...

Re: Remapping Mouse Buttons on Ubuntu Lucid

givrix — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:53:09 -0000

I really wonder why you don't need the driver line, do you already have a mouse section in your xorg.conf ? Mine is really minimal.
I'm also perplex about this matching as the keyboard goes with exactly the same name than the mouse...
There's this option too : MatchIsPointer "on"
it may be useful for some others...

Re: Remapping Mouse Buttons on Ubuntu Lucid

Alan Briolat — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:18:57 -0000

Strange that we should have different results with the same method on the same version of Xorg, but your solution is more explicit and probably more correct.

Re: Remapping Mouse Buttons on Ubuntu Lucid

givrix — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:59:02 -0000

That's a coincidence, I just bought the same mouse, coming in the bundle cordless wave pro, and after a few days I started to be pissed off with the middle click that often drives into scrollwheel actions...
So I had the very similar idea that the "hidden button" under the thumb should do quite the trick. But I was suspicious about this solution as it'd been told hal and udev were cleaner solutions. So my forums digs conducted me to this xorg snippet thing that is the last hope for Lucid xorg tweaks... kind of a regression !
So I post here my solution as yours totally disabled all my inputs... arguing a driver is missing

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Logitech MX1100 button remap"
MatchProduct "Logitech USB Receiver"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2"
EndSection

Re: Enable Bitmap Fonts on Ubuntu Jaunty

Andreas L. — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:06:40 -0000

This is of course just fine on self-administered systems.

I'm just curious whether there'd also be a way for users to enable bitmap-fonts (for their X11-clients) without root privileges.

Re: MPD + PulseAudio + Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10)

Paul — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:19:05 -0000

On Ubuntu 9.04, I had to add:

default-server = /var/run/pulse/native

to /etc/pulse/client.conf.

Re: VDB 0.1.0 (alpha) Released

Alan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:00:22 -0000

The download link is on the project page, but development has stopped indefinitely for now.

Re: Tpl – A tiny PHP template engine

Candy Harris — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:36:02 -0000

Thanks for the article. I am new at development and this is a big help.

Re: MPD + PulseAudio + Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10)

MrTUTu — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:13:54 -0000

Perfect !!!!

Re: VDB 0.1.0 (alpha) Released

Clement Guggemos — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:21:37 -0000

when does this get released?

Re: Enable Bitmap Fonts on Ubuntu Jaunty

falen — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:17:11 -0000

Man...I still can't believe how easy it was. I spent hours yesterday looking for a solution on how to install that damn fonts and all it took was removing one file. Your solution puts all those so called HOW TOs to shame. Cheers, buddy.