schlasim's ubuntu blog

The ubuntu way: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade Found here.

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.

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

To get a nice looking font in emacs enter echo "Emacs.font: Monospace-10" > ~/.Xresources xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources in your shell. Attention! If the file exists just add the line Emacs.font: Monospace-10 manually to your .Xresources file.

As pointed out in my previous post, I try to convert some Windows stuff to files I can use in Ubuntu. This time I am going to show you how to convert the Windows Address Book (*.wab) to LDIF format (which can be imported by Thunderbird). First of all you need to download a little [...]

When I set up the laptop for my brother I decided to use Ubuntu instead of Windows. But as he used to have Windows installed, the mail program he used was Outlook Express. So I was looking for a way to convert his .dbx mail folders to the MBOX format (which Thunderbird can read) under [...]

Hi again! Since I’m using gedit as my favourite editor for joining and printing MATLAB files, I wanted correct syntax highlighting. So far I used this workaround: Gnome uses mime types defined in /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml. sudo gedit /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml If you open that file you will see that *.m is also recognized as Objective-C files (look at [...]

Hi there! Today Ubuntu works well on my ThikPad T60. But it needed some extra configuration and tricks. And these tricks I want to post on my blog. Let’s get started: I installed MATLAB on my system without problems. Then I wanted to configure it and encountered the following problem: MATLAB terminates unexpectedly when selecting [...]