I have been using chromium as my primary browser. Unfortunately I have been using some adobe air twitter clients, and they ignore my preferred browser setting.
I found this page: http://blog.andreaolivato.net/open-source/change-adobe-air-apps-default-browser.html.
I followed this except my link pointed to chromium-browser, and the file was simply “/opt/Adobe AIR/Versions/1.0/libCore.so”.
The tsclient included with Karmic has a broken tsclient applet. It is a known bug, as simple as a typo. It was discovered over 4 months ago, and a fix has been made upstream.
For whatever reason, nothing has been done other than having the big confirmed.
If you depend on the tsclient applet, as I do, grab the package from debian and install it.
Grab the package for you architecture from here.
And simply install it with dpkg:
$ sudo dpkg -i tsclient_0.150-3_i386.deb
The only difference between this release and the one previous is the removal of this bug, which is a fairly serious bug. Including this in the karmic repo would be trivial, and it should have been done before the 9.10 went final.
I have been attmepting to tether my iPhone to my computer using bluetooth in Karmic.
Supposedy blueman can do this very easily (www.blueman-project.org). To install blueman just run:
$ sudo aptitude install blueman.
My experience with blueman has been very hit and miss however, the connection appears to be made via bluetooth but I can rarely seem to get NetworkManager to make a network connection. Sometimes I have success pairing the devices again.
Using the older pand binary I have had a lot more success. If you are not scared of the terminal, it isn’t difficult and appears far more reliable Continue reading ‘Ubuntu tethering via Bluetooth PAN’
Wow. Karmic actually did something that really impressed me, there is support for Airport express streaming in the standard repos.
To enable it:
$ sudo apt-get install pulseaudio padevchooser pulseaudio-module-raop pulseaudio-module-zeroconf
Then run System -> Preferences -> Pulse Audio Preference. Tick “Make discovereable Apple AirTunes devices available locally”.
Run RhythmBox, or any app which uses pulse-audio as its backend, and play some audio.
Run Applications -> Sound & Video -> PulseAudio Volume control.
Select Airport Express as the output for this app.
Like Fedora 11, Karmic includes a newer version of GDM that no longer allows theming.
But unlike Fedora, there is no preferences tool to change the background and gtk theme that GDM is going to use. So there appears no easy way of customizing the login screen without editing gconf, but there is a fairly simple way of doing this.
If you want to play with the look of GDM in Karmic, open a terminal and run this:
$ gksudo -u gdm dbus-launch gnome-appearance-properties
Changing the gnome appearance properties for user gdm, changes them at login.