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Ubuntu 10.04

I am using the standard gnome desktop with compiz manager (stable)

Additional software

Ubuntu is very flexible when installing new software.

Software from Ubuntu Tweak

UbuntuTweakLogo.png Ubuntu Tweak:

Sources:

  • Adobe Flash PPA
  • Medibuntu
  • PPA for AWN Windows Manager testing, see Issues
  • PPA for Ubuntu Wine Team
  • SMPlayer
  • Virtual Box official source
  • P7zip-full

Programs:

  • Ubuntu restricted extras
  • Flashplugin64-installer
  • Google Chrome Unstable ( version 7.x)
  • Skype
  • VLC
  • Wine

Software from Launchpad

launchpad

Other Software

Other Issues

AWN and run apps dialog

There is a problem with using AWN and the run apps dialog (Alt+F2). It simply doesn't work any more, when you disable gnome-panel (which you have to, if you like to run awn only).

A good replacement for the build-in gnome-panel dialog is Gmrun:

sudo apt-get install gmrun

Then do the following steps:

  1. disable the run dialog in compiz configuration settings -> Gnome comaptibility
  2. disable the Alt+F2 key combination
  3. add a new key combination for gmrun and assign Alt+F2

And the best: now the launch entry in the awn main menu is working.

Faster internet browsing

1. Disable IpV6:

> vim /etc/sysctl.conf

net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1

Reboot.

2. Install a Webproxy:

> sudo apt-get install squid

Squid runs on port 3128. I recommend to take the following entries in the configuration file (according to [1]).

> vim /etc/squid/squid.conf

http_port 3128
#http_port 10.0.0.1:3128
#http_port 10.0.0.1:8080

# icp_port 3130
icp_port 0
 
#  TAG: no_cache
…
#We recommend you to use the following two lines.
acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
no_cache deny QUERY

#Default:
# forwarded_for on
forwarded_for off

#Allow ICP queries from local networks only
icp_access allow localnet
icp_access deny all

# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
# should be allowed
#acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8    # RFC1918 possible internal network
#acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16        # RFC1918 possible internal network

sudo /etc/init.d/squid restart

Flash buttons don't respond

According to [2] edit a line export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 in the following file:

> gksudo gedit /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer

[...]
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
. /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/noarch/npviewer

Restart the browser.