Installing shutter - screenshot program - ubuntu intrepid ibex 8.10

Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website - apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window.

add the following url to your software sources

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/shutter/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

then select and install the shutter package.

Website : http://shutter-project.org/
screenshots : http://shutter-project.org/screenshots/

ubuntu 8.10 intrepid - community themes

This package includes Dust, Kin and New Wave themes.

sudo aptitude install community-themes

Ubuntu - Adding a PPA's keys to your system

Source: https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA#Adding%20a%20PPA%20to%20your%20Ubuntu%20repositories

The easiest way to add a PPA's key to your system is to follow our screen cast: Ogg Theora version, YouTube version.

Here's what the screencast tells you:

Step 1: Visit the PPA's overview page in Launchpad. Let's go back to the AWN Testing team's PPA that we were looking at earlier.

Step 2: Click the key fingerprint on the overview page. It'll look something like this: B0BE17C2A0C914F086B7B8327D2C7A23BF810CD5`.

Step 3: This will take you to the key's page in the Ubuntu keyserver. Click the ID, which looks something like this: BF810CD5

Step 4: Copy the public key, which will be something like: -- i.e. the portion starting:

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: SKS 1.0.10
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=a6Gh
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Step 5: Paste the public key into a text editor and save it.

Step 6: Open System->Administration->Software Sources and click the Authentication tab.

Step 7: Click Import Key File, select the key you saved earlier and you're done!

creating encrypted private directory ubuntu 8.10 intrepid

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedPrivateDirectory

1. Install ecryptfs-utils

   sudo apt-get install ecryptfs-utils

2. Setup your private directory

   ecryptfs-setup-private

3. Enter your login password, and either choose a mount pass phrase or generate one.

   • Record both pass phrases in a safe location!!! They will be required if you ever have to recover your data manually.

4. Logout, and Log back in to establish the mount

It can be a good idea to move the content of your .evolution/, .ssh/ and .gnupg/ in ~/Private and replacing them with a symlink.

1. Make sure that the application whose data you want to protect (e.g. Firefox or Evolution) is not running

   ps -ef | grep firefox

2. Move the application's data directory (e.g. ~/.mozilla or ~/.evolution) into your ~/Private directory

   mv ~/.mozilla ~/Private

3. Establish a symbolic link from the old location to new location

   ln -s ~/Private/.mozilla ~/.mozilla
   

enabling php5 support in ubuntu 8.10 intrepid

This should be installed automatically, but if you have any problem..... do this

sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.conf /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/

sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

OpenChrome ubuntu intrepid 8.10 unichrome workaround

Please follow the procedure given in the below link. Please read the entire content before installing the drivers.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenChrome

Bugs on launchpad

Xorg freezes on start. Black screen with waiting cursor. Unichrome video, worked on hardy.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/+bugs


sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion autoconf automake1.9 libtool
sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
svn checkout http://svn.openchrome.org/svn/trunk openchrome
cd openchrome*
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make; sudo make install
gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
in section device make Driver as "openchrome"

Now you can play chromium!!!!

Ubuntu - Boot Options

Please follow below link for more information
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

For Live CD
When you boot with an Ubuntu Live CD
Press the F6 key to select Other Options.
To enable or disable certain boot options, simply add or remove the options you need (from this list, for example) to the end of the Boot Options line, with a space between each one. Once finished, press the Enter key to boot the machine.

For an existing installation
When you boot your computer, you will see a Grub message with a 3 second timer. When you see this message, press the Esc key
Choose which kernel you want to work with. If you don't know which one, choose the first line. Press the e key to edit the line
Then you will be presented with a screen with various lines. Use your down arrow key to highlight the "kernel" line. Press the e key to edit the kernel line.
Then add or subtract whichever boot option you wish (in the above screenshot, vga=771 was added). Press the Enter key when you are done with the changes. Press the b key to boot the machine with the boot options you selected.

Examples
boot: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-26-k7 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash vga=771
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-26-k7 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash noapic nolapic

Kernel Options

xforcevesa : Force X to start using VESA driver. Usefull for some notebooks with uncommon video interfaces.

acpi=off OR noacpi : This parameter disables the whole ACPI system. This may prove very useful, for example, if your computer does not support ACPI or if you think the ACPI implementation might cause some problems (for instance random reboots or system lockups).