If your netbook is slow because it uses swap space extensively, you can lower the swappiness by changing the vm.swappiness value in /etc/sysctl.conf to ten:
vm.swappiness = 10
(add the line if it does not exist)
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After upgrading from Ubuntu 10.04 to Ubuntu 11.04 (via 10.10), the indicator applet from Dropbox disappeared. Got it fixed with:
dropbox stop rm -r ~/.dropbox-dist dropbox start -i
from here.
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The ubuntu way:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
Found here.
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If you are like me using Gmail as your default mail reader, this is for you:
sudo apt-get install desktop-webmail
By changing System->Preferences->Preferred Applications near Mail Reader to use Desktop Webmail and setting System->Preferences->Desktop Webmail to Gmail you are done.
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Download the ISO and mount it by typing:
sudo mkdir /media/texlive sudo mount -o loop Downloads/texlive2010.iso /media/texlive/
navigate to the mount point and run the installation script
cd /media/texlive sudo ./install-tl
The following things have to be changed during the setup followed by the “Enter” key:
C to change collectionsA to deselect “GNU Texinfo”R to return to the main menuL to change the installed languages and set them as you need itR to return to the main menuO to change the optionsL to enable symlinks hit 3 times “Enter” to keep default settingsR to return to the main menuI to start the installationAfter finishing the installation we have to install four additional Ubuntu packages:
sudo apt-get install tex-common texinfo lmodern perl-tk
Now it is time to tell ubuntu, where we have installed TeX Live 2010 by adding the following lines to etc/profile
export PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/i386-linux:$PATH
Important: If you are running 64bit ubuntu, use x86_64-linux instead of i386_linux.
If you use Emacs in combination with AUCTeX you want to install both Emacs and AUCTeX. The problem is, that the Ubuntu auctex package does not know, that we already installed TeX Live 2010 and wants to install TeX Live 2009 from the repos. So we have to cheat a bit and build some dummy packages like this:
sudo apt-get install equivs mkdir /tmp/tl-equivs && cd /tmp/tl-equivs equivs-control texlive-local # edit texlive-local (see below) equivs-build texlive-local sudo dpkg -i texlive-local_2010-1~1_all.deb
the file texlive-local must look like this
Section: misc Priority: optional Standards-Version: 3.6.2 Package: texlive-local Version: 2010-1~1 Maintainer: you Provides: biblatex, biblatex-dw, cm-super, cm-super-minimal, context, dvipng, feynmf, fragmaster, lacheck, latex-beamer, latex-cjk-all, latex-cjk-chinese, latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-bkai00mp, latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-bsmi00lp, latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gbsn00lp, latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gkai00mp, latex-cjk-common, latex-cjk-japanese, latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab, latex-cjk-korean, latex-cjk-thai, latex-cjk-xcjk, latexmk, latex-sanskrit, latex-xcolor, lcdf-typetools, lmodern, luatex, musixlyr, musixtex, pgf, preview-latex-style, prosper, ps2eps, psutils, purifyeps, t1utils, tex4ht, tex4ht-common, tex-gyre, texlive, texlive-base, texlive-base-bin, texlive-base-bin-doc, texlive-bibtex-extra, texlive-binaries, texlive-common, texlive-doc-base, texlive-doc-bg, texlive-doc-cs+sk, texlive-doc-de, texlive-doc-el, texlive-doc-en, texlive-doc-es, texlive-doc-fi, texlive-doc-fr, texlive-doc-it, texlive-doc-ja, texlive-doc-ko, texlive-doc-mn, texlive-doc-nl, texlive-doc-pl, texlive-doc-pt, texlive-doc-ru, texlive-doc-si, texlive-doc-th, texlive-doc-tr, texlive-doc-uk, texlive-doc-vi, texlive-doc-zh, texlive-extra-utils, texlive-fonts-extra, texlive-fonts-extra-doc, texlive-fonts-recommended, texlive-fonts-recommended-doc, texlive-font-utils, texlive-formats-extra, texlive-games, texlive-generic-extra, texlive-generic-recommended, texlive-humanities, texlive-humanities-doc, texlive-lang-african, texlive-lang-all, texlive-lang-arab, texlive-lang-arabic, texlive-lang-armenian, texlive-lang-croatian, texlive-lang-cyrillic, texlive-lang-czechslovak, texlive-lang-danish, texlive-lang-dutch, texlive-lang-finnish, texlive-lang-french, texlive-lang-german, texlive-lang-greek, texlive-lang-hebrew, texlive-lang-hungarian, texlive-lang-indic, texlive-lang-italian, texlive-lang-latin, texlive-lang-latvian, texlive-lang-lithuanian, texlive-lang-manju, texlive-lang-mongolian, texlive-lang-norwegian, texlive-lang-other, texlive-lang-polish, texlive-lang-portuguese, texlive-lang-spanish, texlive-lang-swedish, texlive-lang-tibetan, texlive-lang-ukenglish, texlive-lang-vietnamese, texlive-latex3, texlive-latex-base, texlive-latex-base-doc, texlive-latex-extra, texlive-latex-extra-doc, texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-latex-recommended-doc, texlive-luatex, texlive-math-extra, texlive-metapost, texlive-metapost-doc, texlive-music, texlive-omega, texlive-pictures, texlive-pictures-doc, texlive-plain-extra, texlive-pstricks, texlive-pstricks-doc, texlive-publishers, texlive-publishers-doc, texlive-science, texlive-science-doc, texlive-xetex, texpower, texpower-manual, thailatex, tipa, ttf-freefont, ttf-gfs-artemisia, ttf-gfs-baskerville, ttf-gfs-bodoni-classic, ttf-gfs-didot, ttf-gfs-didot-classic, ttf-gfs-gazis, ttf-gfs-neohellenic, ttf-gfs-olga, ttf-gfs-porson, ttf-gfs-solomos, ttf-gfs-theokritos, ttf-sil-gentium, xindy, xindy-rules Architecture: all Description: My local installation of TeX Live 2010. A full "vanilla" TeX Live 2010 http://tug.org/texlive/debian#vanilla
So, now we are ready to install Emacs and AUCTeX by typing
sudo apt-get install emacs auctex
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I use the trackpoint instead of the touchpad because I think it is more efficient. To enable middle mouse button scrolling and disable the touchpad I use the following package:
sudo apt-get install gpointing-device-settings
After installation you can open the tool by clicking on System->Preferences->Pointing Devices.
Important: Disable the check box Disable touchpad while typing under System->Preferences->Mouse->Touchpad
Here you can get further information.
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The standard battery applet in Gnome is not what I want. I use battery-status instead:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:iaz/battery-status sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install battery-status
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If you ever need to work with Subversion and you are using Windows, then you better stick to TortoiseSVN. It is very handy. But you won’t work with Windows, right? You use Ubuntu! Stick to shell commands then? If you want something more graphical I would suggest RabbitVCS. Install it in a few steps with
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rabbitvcs/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install rabbitvcs-core rabbitvcs-nautilus rabbitvcs-thunar rabbitvcs-gedit rabbitvcs-cli
or stick to this guide.
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I always forget the syntax to do some recursive stuff. It is time to write it down.
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find . -type f -name "*.php" -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find . -name ".svn" -exec rm -rf {} \;
This is the page I got this from.
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In this post I assume that you have already downloaded the ETH LaTeX font and have a texlive installation up and running…
To install the LaTeX ETH font manually (just for one local user) you have to set the following folder structure in your home folder:
texmf
|-- fonts
| |-- map
| |-- tfm
| | `-- ETH
| |-- type1
| | `-- ETH
| `-- vf
| `-- ETH
`-- tex
`-- latex
`-- ETHand copy the files in there like this:
texmf
|-- fonts
| |-- map
| | `-- let.map
| |-- tfm
| | `-- ETH
| | |-- letb7t.tfm
| | |-- letb8c.tfm
| | |-- letb8r.tfm
| | |-- letb8t.tfm
| | |-- letbc7t.tfm
| | |-- letbc8t.tfm
| | |-- letbi7t.tfm
| | |-- letbi8c.tfm
| | |-- letbi8r.tfm
| | |-- letbi8t.tfm
| | |-- letbo7t.tfm
| | |-- letbo8c.tfm
| | |-- letbo8r.tfm
| | |-- letbo8t.tfm
| | |-- letr7t.tfm
| | |-- letr8c.tfm
| | |-- letr8r.tfm
| | |-- letr8t.tfm
| | |-- letrc7t.tfm
| | |-- letrc8t.tfm
| | |-- letri7t.tfm
| | |-- letri8c.tfm
| | |-- letri8r.tfm
| | |-- letri8t.tfm
| | |-- letro7t.tfm
| | |-- letro8c.tfm
| | |-- letro8r.tfm
| | `-- letro8t.tfm
| |-- type1
| | `-- ETH
| | |-- letb8a.pfb
| | |-- letbi8a.pfb
| | |-- letr8a.pfb
| | `-- letri8a.pfb
| `-- vf
| `-- ETH
| |-- letb7t.vf
| |-- letb8c.vf
| |-- letb8t.vf
| |-- letbc7t.vf
| |-- letbc8t.vf
| |-- letbi7t.vf
| |-- letbi8c.vf
| |-- letbi8t.vf
| |-- letbo7t.vf
| |-- letbo8c.vf
| |-- letbo8t.vf
| |-- letr7t.vf
| |-- letr8c.vf
| |-- letr8t.vf
| |-- letrc7t.vf
| |-- letrc8t.vf
| |-- letri7t.vf
| |-- letri8c.vf
| |-- letri8t.vf
| |-- letro7t.vf
| |-- letro8c.vf
| `-- letro8t.vf
`-- tex
`-- latex
`-- ETH
|-- 8rlet.fd
|-- ethfont.sty
|-- omllet.fd
|-- omslet.fd
|-- ot1let.fd
|-- t1let.fd
`-- ts1let.fdAfter this you have to update some LaTeX stuff with
sudo texhash sudo updmap
I followed more or less this guide.
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