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Super key / Alt+F2 not working in Ubuntu 11.10

Compiz > Unity

This happened to me in Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) when I was playing with some Compiz settings. To have your shortcuts back, go to the CompizConfig Settings Manager, to do that bring up a terminal window with the shortcut ctrl+alt+t the type ccsm: imame@meta:~$ ccsm If you are using Unity open Desktop > Ubuntu Unity [...]

Classical Gnome in Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)

Install necessary packages In order to have Gnome classical appearance on Ubuntu 11.10 you need to install gnome-shell and gnome-panel, a following reboot -from my experience – is preferable. imame@meta:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-shell gnome-panel imame@meta:~$ # blabla while packages are being installed imame@meta:~$ sudo reboot Log in using Gnome Classical Before opening your session, [...]

PHP with IMAP on CentOS

I was playing with Drupal 6 and some UberCart ticket module when I came across an error message where Drupal told me that it needed the IMAP PHP extension to be installed. Because I’m a nice guy I will share this command with you: [me@it ~]# yum install php-imap Now it’s installed, proof: [me@it ~]# [...]

vsftpd: 500 OOPS: unrecognised variable in config file

Question When I start vsftpd on my CentOs machine I get this error: Starting vsftpd for vsftpd: 500 OOPS: unrecognised variable in config file:  anonymous_enable How can I fix it? Answer The option “anonymous_enable” is a valid vsftpd option, but as you can see on the error message, there is an extra white space before the [...]

How to upgrade Ubuntu from 8.10 to 9.04 using the command line and the Internet?

You can upgrade your linux system using the package manager APT which is available on debian based distributions: First we have to update all the packages installed: $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get upgrade Now we make sure that we have the update-manager-core package installed with: sudo apt-get install update-manager-core Then we start the [...]

Install PHP 5.2.6 on CentOs 5.x

Oddly enough, PHP 5.2.6 is still not available on the default CentOS repositories ([base], [updates], [addons], and [extras]), the latest PHP version available in those repos is PHP 5.1.6! In order to install PHP 5.2.6 you can add the CentOS testing repository and enable it then install or update PHP. To add the CentOS testing [...]

How to read .chm files in Ubuntu

xchm installation

This tutorial assumes that you are a sudoer running Gnome What is .chm Wikipedia says: Microsoft Compiled HTML Help is a proprietary format for online help files, developed by Microsoft and first released in 1997 as a successor to the Microsoft WinHelp format. It was first introduced with the release of Windows 98, and is [...]