If you’ve added the Kubuntu packages to Ubuntu, or vice versa, then you can choose whether you want to use KDM or GDM to act as your log-in manager.
To choose your log-in manager, open a terminal and enter Continue reading
I’ve recently been doing a lot of testing on the next version of Ubuntu: Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. After installing Ubuntu I also decided to add the Kubuntu packages to my system. This is easy to do with a simple
[term]sudo aptitude install kubuntu-desktop[/term]
One of the annoyances I have with this is that adding the Kubuntu packages through this method also hijacks the startup splash to that of Kubuntu instead of Ubuntu. It’s not a deal breaker, but I want to change it back. Continue reading
I’ve shown previously how to customize the Nautilus File Manager in GNOME/Ubuntu with Nautilus Actions. Today I’ll show how to add custom items to the file manager context menu in KDE4/Kubuntu.
The KDE customizations work through desktop configuration files. These are the same type of files used to configure shortcuts on your desktop. When these files are placed inside the proper directories, they are used to create custom context menu items. These files can be stored in two places: Continue reading
Recent versions of Linux use a unique identifier for hard drives in order to make sure they get mounted to the same location all the time. If you’ve looked into your /etc/fstab file for auto mounting drives, then you’re probably already familiar with the long character strings that are used for UUID’s.
The question is, how do I find out the UUID for each drive on my computer? Well, there’s more than one way to do this, but the simplest is probably the blkid command. Continue reading
If you’ve followed my posts on how to install LAMP on Ubuntu and basic Apache configuration, then you’re probably interested in doing some cross browser testing of the websites you build. Felipe, one of my readers, asked a question on my Apache configuration post about accessing his local websites from a VirtualBox guest OS. Specifically, Felipe wanted to install Windows XP in a VirtualBox guest on his Linux system so that he could test his websites in Internet Explorer. Continue reading