I’m checking out Wimp as a substitute to Spotify. My Wimp stopped working yesterday and refused to start because of ‘wrong ELF’. It turned out my Adobe air installation somehow was in 32bit, I don’t know how/why it initially worked (though 32bit apps usually work fine on 64bit Ubuntu thanks to 32bit libs) .
Anyway I came over a 64bit compiled Adobe Air package at launchpad, it installed fine and I could reinstall Wimp again.
I still need sun’s java plugin to access my internet bank. The recent Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) have removed sun packages from the official repository. But you can still quite easily install Sun java plugin by :
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner" sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sun-java6-plugin
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With reference to this post I finally figured out that I could after all use a Linux softphone with our iptelephony solution at work.
At first I tried Ekiga, since it’s Ubuntu’s default softphone app, but it didn’t really work, kept on hanging.
I tried Twinkle, which worked right out of the box, but using QT 3.x libs ? I just couldn’t settle with that. I don’t like to mix QT libs in my glibs environment and I REALLY don’t like to use really old QT libs if I must have them.
I took an other shot at Ekiga, and dug up this post at launchpad which solved my problems.
Upgrade to Ekiga 3.2.6 and things should be okay with Karmic, pulseaudio and Ekiga again.
Launchpad Ekiga 3.2.6 repo here.
Terminator is a great terminal, but running compiz it might be a bit confusing getting real transparency (if you’re one of those). With reference to the terminator man page (man 5 terminator_config), edit ~/.config/terminator/config and add these lines:
enable_real_transparency = true background_darkness = 0.7 background_type = transparent
Note: use background_darkness to adjust the level of transparency 🙂
At work they recently switched to ip telephony, our supplier haven’t got any Linux client for their softphone so I had to install windows just to have a working phone !
So I end up running Virtualbox-ose and setting up a windows guest.
After installing windows xp (which takes AGES) I installed the softphone application, but my michrophone didn’t work in the guest environment !
The mic did work OK in Ubuntu, so I ended up debugging ( a lot).
I came over several people having the same problem + launchpad had a bug reported on the problem.
I uninstalled pulseaudio and the mic started working OK in the guest.
I had to do a
apt-get purge pulseaudio gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio + the rest of my packages related to pulse (found via dpkg -l | grep pulse),
except i still got libpulse-browse0 libpulse-mainloop-glib0 and libpulse0
Apt tells you it’s removing ubuntu-desktop as well, which probably is because ubuntu-desktop got pulse as a dependency or something. I find that apt-get doesn’t remove as much as aptitude wants to, so I used apt-get for this one.
I also installed gnome-alsamixer alsa alsa-firmware-loaders alsa-tools alsa-tools-gui
and reboot
note: volume control (in tray) and ‘system -> preferences -> sound’ in gnome is now broken, but I kan control sound via gnome-alsamixer
UPDATE UPDATE: see this post regarding “I no longer need windows for my companys ip telephone solution”
After installing my favourite distro, which these days seem to have fallen back on Ubuntu I’m usually installing the ‘vim-gnome’ package. It pulls down the necessary packages for me to have a fully fledged Vim editor with syntax highlighting and so on.
But what if I don’t have X installed ?
Trying to install vim-gnome then would pull down xorg + the complete gnome-desktop environment, which really isn’t that necessary.
Since there’s a lot of packages related to vim it could be a bit confusing which one to pull down just to have syntax highlighting.
# aptitude install vim-nox
gives you, in _my_ opinion, a working and useful Vim editor in a ‘non-X’ environment :p
Ubuntu defaults to having the totem-mozilla plugin installed, I’m always having problems listening to radio at nrk.no with that one. For me, removing totem-mozilla and installing mozilla-mplayer solves everything .
# aptitude remove totem-mozilla && aptitude install mozilla-mplayer
UPDATE 11.05.10: Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) has renamed this package to ‘gecko-mediaplayer’
Supporting syntax highlighting in less, how cool is that !
According to linux-tips.org
In debian/ubuntu install source-highliting and set up these variables:
export LESSOPEN="| /usr/share/source-highlight/src-hilite-lesspipe.sh %s" export LESS=' -R '