Ubuntu Hardy W32Codecs y W64Codecs

Posted on August 31, 2008 by nseidm1.
Categories: DVD, Hardy, Heron, WMV, codecs, media, ubuntu.

Quando quiere usar video in Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) nessita usar especial codecs eso puede recibir de Medibuntu. Medibunu tiene el codecs para su OS mirar DVD, WMV y otra typos. Usar nessita poner esto en su /etc/apt/sources.list file; escriba o copia esto en una ventana terminal:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

Despues nessita los javes:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

Para DVD nessita libdvdcss2, and para other formattes usa w32codecs. Si su computadora es 64 bit, usa libdvdcss2 and w64codecs. Buen provecho.

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Mount Temp Direcories as Devices

Posted on August 29, 2008 by nseidm1.
Categories: flash, fstab, mount, temp, write.

Mounting your temp directories as devices will store the data in your computers ram instead of on the filesystem. This will reduce the writes made to your storage device, which is  benificial for flash based systems. You can achieve this by adding various directories to your fstab (/etc/fstab) configuration file:

tmpfs      /var/log/apt    tmpfs        defaults           0    0
tmpfs      /var/log        tmpfs        defaults           0    0
tmpfs      /tmp            tmpfs        defaults           0    0
tmpfs      /var/tmp        tmpfs        defaults           0    0

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Intel Atom Powertop System Monitoring Application

Posted on by nseidm1.
Categories: Intel, brightness, frequency, power, powertopsudo.

The Ubuntu repos have Intel powertop software. The software is a quick terminal based interface providing information about your computers power consumption. The software is designed to report on Atom based CPUs.

sudo apt-get install powertop

Run with:

sudo powertop

Press “w” when the softwasre tells you and your system will self optimize a bit. It recommends operating your CPUs on dynamic frequency mode, but when on battery power its obviously better to fix the frequency at the lowest value. Also reducing the brightness of your screen will substantially reduce power consumption.

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Automatically Switch Your Desktop Wallpaper

Posted on by nseidm1.
Categories: app, desktop, startup, tray, wallpaper.

I have my desktop wallpaper switching every minute. I think its cool, you may not, but this is how you can do it. Ubuntu repos have the wallpaper-tray app. Install with:

sudo apt-get install wallpaper-tray

Run on boot with a startup session. Viola.

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Gnome Panel frequency Scaling Applet

Posted on by nseidm1.
Categories: applet, frequency, gnome, permission, scaling, sudo.

By default the Gnome frequency scaling applet does not vary the frequency of the CPU. If your computer supports frequency scaling then the gnome panel applet can server quite useful. The only requirement is to reconfigure the applet to operate with root permissions:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gnome-applets

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Avant Window Navigator Development Version 0.3.1 Plus

Posted on August 24, 2008 by nseidm1.
Categories: AWN, Avant, Hardy, Navigator, Window, apt, install, intrepid, sudo.

To install the development version, which has the benefit of up to date applets and code, install the appropriate apt source, sudo apt-get update, and sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-trunk awn-manager-trunk awn-extras-applets-trunk:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ubuntu hardy main
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AWN - Avant Window Navigator - Install Current Version

Posted on by nseidm1.
Categories: Uncategorized.

For Ubuntu Hardy and most other Debian distributions.

To install the most current version of AWN first download the files from the development website.

AWN: http://launchpad.net/awn/0.2/0.2.6/+download/avant-window-navigator-0.2.6.tar.gz

AWN Extras: http://launchpad.net/awn-extras/0.2/0.2.6/+download/awn-extras-applets-0.2.6.tar.gz

Your going to need the build dependencies:

sudo apt-get build-dep avant-window-navigator

There are a couple of other dependencies for AWN Extras:

sudo apt-get install libsexy-dev libnotify-dev librsvg2-dev libgnome-menu-dev libgtop2-dev libvte–dev python-alsaaudio python-feedparser python-gnome2-extras

Then unzip the packages. CD into the AWN package first because it is a dependency of the Extras package.

Then compile as usual:

./configure

make

sudo make install

Then do the same for the Extras package. You’ll probably want to replace the gnome-panel with AWN therefore you have to disable the former:

sudo mv /usr/bin/gnome-panel ~/

This moves the binary to your home directory. If you need to access the panel for the reason you can launch it from your home directory:

.~/gnome-panel

Set AWN to start on boot by creating a startup session.

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