Monday, April 28th, 2008
I’ve been a fan of the Avant Window Navigator launchbar in Ubuntu since it’s wee days, and have been promoting it’s glory since my first install. Today a friend asked, “Now that AWN is all grown up and has all those new applets, how can I get me some?” here’s my answer.
Prepping: remove your old install of AWN. I haven’t tried any updating process, and if you’ve been using AWN since 7.04 or earlier, i’d just remove it all.
Lets install the gooness!
1st off, if you are using ubuntu with a windows-manager capable of supporting transparency (e.g. compiz, e.g he default fancy animation stuff that has been in use since Fiesty Fawn) and you are not using AWN; where have you been?
you need to add these to your repository list (under System>Administration>Synaptic Package Manager>Third Party Sources) and add each line, one at a time.
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ubuntu hardy main
2nd, once you’ve reloaded your app list, close out of Synaptic Package Manager (because this next step is faster from the Terminal) and run the following command in the terminal.
sudo apt-get install awn-manager-trunk awn-extras-applets-trunk
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
So I had to setup the synergy client to autostart in Ubuntu again today. It’s not a hard process, especially since they have written a page especially dedicated to setting it up. But I stumble over myself every time I have to do it. So, in line with my initial desires with these posts, I’m going to post what I do. This is not a complete tutorial, because I’m not dedicated enough to test beyond my immediate resources, so use judgment. This is also only specific to my scenario (Windows synergy host with ubuntu running the client).
**UPDATE** - After updating to hardy heron (8.04) it seemed that synergy was running very poorly, choppy, stop/start, losing the cursor, or not working at all sometimes. After a little searching it seems that the temporary workaround is to run synergy with sudo. So if you have this problem go back and add “sudo” to the beginning of all the “/usr/bin/synergyc ::your server’s name::” below.
1 - Make sure your host is configured, it’s much easier to run synergy when it knows where your computers are.
2 - from terminal run ->
sudo gedit /etc/gdm/Init/Default
3 - add following to the beginning of the file then save and close ->
/usr/bin/killall synergyc
sleep 1
/usr/bin/synergyc ::your server’s name::
4 - from the terminal ->
cd /etc/gdm/PostLogin
sudo mv Default.sample Default
sudo gedit Default
5 - add following to the beginning of the file then save and close ->
/usr/bin/killall synergyc
sleep 1
6 - from the terminal ->
sudo gedit /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default
7 - add following to the beginning of the file then save and close ->
/usr/bin/killall synergyc
sleep 1
/usr/bin/synergyc ::your computer name::
8 - from the terminal ->
sudo gedit /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default
9 - add following to the beginning of the file then save and close ->
/usr/bin/killall synergyc
sleep 1
/usr/bin/synergyc ::your computer name::
10 - restart and test
booyah.
Tags: synergy
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