Re: Ubuntu magic (Karl Larsen)

Use sudo apt-get remove totem and then use the settings in VLC to make it
the default player

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Today's Topics:

1. Update and proxy question (Bart Silverstrim)
2. Evolution and screen size (Sridhar M.A.)
3. shorten "exit" !? (SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux)
4. Ubuntu magic (Karl Larsen)
5. Re: VNC conections from multiple remote achines (stan)
6. Re: Locale settings (SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux)
7. RE: shorten "exit" !? (Robert Sweetnam)
8. Re: Locale settings (Lea Gris)
9. Re: shorten "exit" !? (Ulf Rompe)
10. Re: shorten "exit" !? (Owen Townend)


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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:08:41 -0400
From: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Update and proxy question
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
<ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <47D7C7C9.7010303@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The organization I'm in has moved to using what I believe is a Bess
filter behind a PIX firewall, and it authenticates users before allowing
access to http and https sites. It tries to automatically authenticate
users to a Windows Active Directory domain.

The boss said I can manually configure my web browser to use the proxy.
I set it up in Firefox to go to the correct port and address, and it
prompts me to log in then I can web browse. But auxiliary services...my
weather applet, my system updates...are blocked still. Even if I set my
network settings to use that proxy and use authentication, the filter is
blocking everything except for my Firefox browser.

Is there a client-side solution to this??



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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:45:32 +0530
From: "Sridhar M.A." <mas@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Evolution and screen size
To: Ubuntu Users <ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <20080312121532.GA3173@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Hello,

Wanted to try hardy-alpha6. Downloaded the iso. As I did not want to
burn a cd and install it, thought o trying it as a VM.

* Tried kvm to run it and got a blank screen. The command I used was

kvm -cdrom hardy-desktop-i386.iso -boot d

* Tried VirtualBox. could boot and play around. But, could not change
the screen resolution.

The overall look and feel of the distro is quite good.

I tried running evolution and was frustrated. The window size is bigger
than the screen res and I cannot resize it. The same patter continues
and it is impossible to do anything. Is there a way to get round this
problem? IMHO, this is a bad UI design :-(

Regards,

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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:15:43 +0800
From: SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux <i-ubux@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: shorten "exit" !?
To: Ubuntu User List <ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <1205324143.5622.44.camel@WS222>
Content-Type: text/plain

Hi Linux / Ubuntu experts & users
How and where can I add a short version of "exit" ?

I am used to short versions of
x for exit and
q for quit or
sd for shutdown or
sb for setboot !!!

Your advise and hints are very appreciated. ;-)
Cheers, svobi




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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:18:07 -0600
From: Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Ubuntu magic
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
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Message-ID: <47D7C9FF.8030705@xxxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Have a friend who uses Windows but wants to use Linux. Over about
4-5 years I got him to use Fedora whatever version I was on at that
time. He had nothing but troubles and I would try to help him but it
just never worked and he gave up.

A couple of weeks ago he asked again and I told him ubuntu and he
got the live cd and it ran fine on his computer. So he loaded it onto
the computer and everything works. He (and me) were amazed. His biggest
problem is deleting Totem so VLC will come up as the prefered viewer.
The printer works, the Internet works it all works.

He is now a happy Linux user


Karl

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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:20:37 -0500
From: stan <stanb@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: VNC conections from multiple remote achines
To: Bernard Peek <bap@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Message-ID: <20080312122037.GB17209@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:08:13AM +0000, Bernard Peek wrote:
stan wrote:
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 11:09:14AM -0500, John DeCarlo wrote:
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:13 PM, stan <stanb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I would like to set up a machine so that multiple remote machines
can
connect and use VNC sessions on this machine. To do this I need some
way
of
managing then "session ID" (as in machine_name:1 where 1 is the
display
number) dynamically.


I am also not sure what you want to do. You don't want the remote
machines
to have to know their session id?

The remote machines are windows boxes, and are administered by people
who
are not all that familiar with what they are ding. I want to be able
to just
tell them run (for example) vncviewer machine_name:10 and accept
multiple
simultaneous connections, each of which will get their own desktop but
as a
defined "guest"user.

Does this make it clearer?

Let me see whether I understand the requirement clearly.

As I understand it you want a number of Windows users to be able to
connect to a multiuser Ubuntu server system. Users would be able connect
at any time and would have access to a GUI desktop. You don't want these
users to have their own login ID on the Ubuntu machine, but you do want
each logged in user to see a different desktop rather than all of the
users sharing access to a single VNC display.


Yes, your application differs from mine. In my case I want the windows
users to access a generic login ID that will provide certain services for
them. These will be started up on the host machine automatically when that
generic user logis in.

--
One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking
zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C
programs.



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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:23:56 +0800
From: SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux <i-ubux@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Locale settings
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
<ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <1205324636.5622.52.camel@WS222>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8


On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 12:44 +0100, Lea Gris wrote:
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August Karlstrom a ?crit :
| Hello everyone,
|
| What I would like to have is a swedish locale but with messages in
english.
| I probably need something like
|
| export LANG="sv_SE.UTF-8"
| export LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
|
| but to which file do I add these lines? I also want the settings to
take effect
| only for a local user.

/etc/environment

cat /etc/environment

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games"
LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en"
LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en"
### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf
# Do not edit within this region if you want your changes to be
preserved
# by debconf. Instead, make changes before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF
SECTION
# FOR localeconf" line, and/or after the "### END DEBCONF SECTION FOR
# localeconf" line.
LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8"
### END DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf


Hi Lea,
Merci / Thanks for your sample !
Leo's explanations were quite great but how can I as newbie
follow !? ;-(
with your sample I see you are bilingual FR and EN and your locale is
F ! ;-)

Can I just copy and paste your sample into my environment and remove
all entries of FR ... and replacing 'fr_FR' with the Swiss German one
and
how does the Swiss German look: de_CH ???

TIA for advise and guidance !
Cheers, svobi




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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:30:00 -0000
From: "Robert Sweetnam" <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: shorten "exit" !?
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
<ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <01C96AC135C5C24E9602A74B66A15217335C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of SYNass IT
Ubuntu / Linux
Sent: 12 March 2008 12:16
To: Ubuntu User List
Subject: shorten "exit" !?

Hi Linux / Ubuntu experts & users
How and where can I add a short version of "exit" ?

I am used to short versions of
x for exit and
q for quit or
sd for shutdown or
sb for setboot !!!

Your advise and hints are very appreciated. ;-)
Cheers, svobi


--

Hi, You need to edit your .bashrc file which is under your home
directory.

If you scroll down, you will see a line like the following:

# some more ls aliases

After the examples below this line add your own entries. For example to
use sd for shutdown you would add:

Alias sd='shutdown -now'

You need to logout and back in again for the changes to take effect.

Hope this helps
Robert



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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:33:03 +0100
From: Lea Gris <lea.gris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Locale settings
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
<ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <47D7CD7F.6050201@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed

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SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux a ?crit :

| Hi Lea,
| Merci / Thanks for your sample !
| Leo's explanations were quite great but how can I as newbie
| follow !? ;-(
| with your sample I see you are bilingual FR and EN and your locale is
| F ! ;-)
|
| Can I just copy and paste your sample into my environment and remove
| all entries of FR ... and replacing 'fr_FR' with the Swiss German one
| and
| how does the Swiss German look: de_CH ???

Yep! :)

You can copy modify as your wishes. It was pasted here in public mailing
list on purpose.

By the way, read carefully the english comments about debconf for where
to place your custom variables.

Regards,

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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:36:47 +0100
From: Ulf Rompe <Ulf.Rompe@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: shorten "exit" !?
To: ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Message-ID: <1205325407.20672.24.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain

Am Mittwoch, den 12.03.2008, 20:15 +0800 schrieb SYNass IT Ubuntu /
Linux:
How and where can I add a short version of "exit" ?

I am used to short versions of
x for exit and
q for quit or
sd for shutdown or
sb for setboot !!!

I assume you are referring to the shell. To exit a shell, you may send
an EOF character. To do that, just press Ctrl-d. No need for a special
shortcut.

The other shortcuts may be set as shell aliases; Robert Sweetnam already
explained how to do that.

[x] ulf

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Message: 10
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:38:09 +1100
From: "Owen Townend" <owen.townend@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: shorten "exit" !?
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
<ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID:
<bb72339d0803120538r2aea30bbtc9507c094ccb1f65@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

On 3/12/08, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux <i-ubux@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Linux / Ubuntu experts & users
How and where can I add a short version of "exit" ?

I am used to short versions of
x for exit and
q for quit or
sd for shutdown or
sb for setboot !!!

Your advise and hints are very appreciated. ;-)
Cheers, svobi



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Hey,
`alias` is your friend.
You can set alias's in your ~/.profile or .bashrc
Something like this should work.
`alias x='exit' q='quit' sd='shutdown -h now' sb='shutdown -r now'`
or just
`alias kthxbye='shutdown -h now kthxbye; exit'

cheers,
Owen.
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