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 How To Select Your Log-in Manager in UbuntuI’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 One of the annoyances I have with this is that adding the Kubuntu packages through …
Continue reading How To Select The Splash Screen in Ubuntu LucidI’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 …
Continue reading Customizing File Manager Menus in KDE4Recent 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, …
Continue reading Command Line Basics: List Hard Drives By UUIDIf 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, …
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