Comments for My Linux Exploits

Comment on Note Taking software for Linux (and Ubuntu) by areskz

areskz — Thu, 05 May 2011 11:05:34 +0000

Adding some screenshots will be perfect!

Comment on two-finger scrolling in Maverick Meerkat (Ubuntu 10.10) by ubuntuphile

ubuntuphile — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:54:35 +0000

Thanks for this post, Zach. While earlier versions of UNR had the two-fingered scrolling enabled by default, Meerkat didn’t. I didn’t think to check the mouse settings. I’d been more preoccupied with getting some semblance of video acceleration working on my Dell Mini 10 with the Poulsbo driver.

Comment on new notification system on the way for Ubuntu by Ryan Li

Ryan Li — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:38:45 +0000

This finally became the decisive point for me to abandon ubuntu in favour of Gentoo. ubuntu contains too many applications that are not supported upstream (e.g. GNOME) and in my opinion most of them are not user friendly at all. I support GNOME all the way.

Comment on Minitube – a desktop YouTube viewer that doesn’t require flash by marat

marat — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:52:34 +0000

Minitube loads and searches for videos just fine, but it doesn’t actually play them for me. I’m running Lucid 64-bit. Anyone else with this problem?

Comment on DeaDBeeF – a new lightweight music player by thor

thor — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:15:45 +0000

I just love it. It only use 6.5 megabyte, when it plays music

Comment on PDF editor for Ubuntu/Linux by Parental Control

Parental Control — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:40:48 +0000

Awesome info. Blinked!

Comment on Note Taking software for Linux (and Ubuntu) by SergioJP

SergioJP — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:47:58 +0000

Another note taking promising program is Cherrytree(http://open.vitaminap.it/en/cherrytree.htm.), work on Ubuntu, Archlinux and Windows, you can get the software in a *.deb file link : http://open.vitaminap.it/software/cherrytree_0.9.5-1_all.deb
features :

- rich text (foreground color, background color, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, small, h1 and h2)
- syntax highlighting (only when the rich text is disabled in the current node)
- images handling: insertion in the text, edit (resize/rotate), save as png file
- lists handling (bulleted and numbered and switch between them, multiline with shift+enter)
- simple tables handling (cells with plain text)
- alignment of text, images and tables (left/center/right)
- hyperlinks (links to webpages, links to nodes/nodes + anchors, links to files)
- node print & node save as pdf file: support for rich text and code; images and tables are not considered in the printing yet, the paragraph justification is also not supported yet
- find a node, find in current node, find in all nodes
- replace in node names, replace in current node, replace in all nodes
- iteration of the latest find, iteration of the latest replace, iteration of the latest applied text formatting
- import from a notecase file, import from a cherrytree file

Comment on Synchronizing Tomboy Notes in Ubuntu One (same as Basket Notes) by zach

zach — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 02:25:44 +0000

sorry it’s taken me so long to respond…(something failed in my comment notification system here…). Anyways, the answer is an absolute “yes”! And it’s the way I have Basket notes set up. In Basket Notes, go to “Basket -> Backup and Restore”. In the window that pops up it will have the location where your notes are stored. Choose the option “Move to another folder” and choose/create a folder in your Dropbox (I just made one called “Basket Notes”). The first time it will have to copy all your notes to that location, but afterwards, whenever you do a fresh install of Basket Notes, you just tell it to “Use another existing folder” and choose the folder in your Dropbox. Viola! all your notes synchronized across multiple installations and machines!

Comment on Synchronizing Tomboy Notes in Ubuntu One (same as Basket Notes) by Andres

Andres — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:03:02 +0000

Hi.
You mentioned Basket Notes and also Dropbox.
I use them both.
Is there any way to have them always synchronized.

Thanks,

Andres

Comment on The Super Quick Ubuntu Install (9.04 – Jaunty) by zach

zach — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:29:40 +0000

Hey man! Glad the blog is helping you out. There's a great little book called "Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference" you can download as a PDF for free from here - and there's a link from that page to purchase a hardcopy, if you so desire. It's for an older version of Ubuntu, but the basics of Ubuntu are still the same, so it should be a real help for you in a bind. I would also suggest heading over to FullCircleMagazine.org and downloading some of their latest issues (all free!) - they always have some really solid, neat stuff to check out or try, and they also are working through several different types of tutuorials. On the downside, because of Ubuntu's rather frequent release schedule, most books are almost a release behind by the time they are printed...that's why I suggest these digital resources which cost nothing but can definitely contribute to your understanding of what is going on in Ubuntu.