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Debian Lenny on Acer 3004 laptop

Posted by richs-lxh in Debian, Howto on 15/03/2010

I needed a stable, fast environment to get some work done so I decided that as I had a spare partition on my Acer 3004 laptop i’d go back to Debian Lenny.
I installed Debian Lenny Netinstall via a wired connection to my router.
I chose to install to an Ext3 partition, and only selected [...]

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How to Ubuntu 10.04 Window buttons on the right

Posted by richs-lxh in Howto, Ubuntu on 15/03/2010

The new theme and lay out on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx introduced a new annoyance. When you open an application window, the minimize, maximize and close buttons are now on the left. This is easily fixed with one command in the terminal:
Place just the buttons on the right:
gconftool-2 –set “/apps/metacity/general/button_layout” –type string “:maximize,minimize,close”

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Ubuntu Kill Xserver – How to get Ctrl Alt Backspace back

Posted by richs-lxh in Howto, Ubuntu on 07/03/2010

Many people were annoyed that Xorg removed the ctrl+alt+backspace function to restart the Xserver. Well, it’s so easy to re-enable it’s unreal.
Go to:
System > Preferences > Keyboard
Choose:
Layout Tab > Options > Check “Key Sequence To Kill Xserver”
Easy!

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