New Krusader 2.0.0 is now KDE4 ready

You can download the latest available Krusader-2.x from SVN with the next command:
$ svn co https://krusader.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/krusader/trunk/krusader_kde4

You can also download the latest beta version from their site

Install instructions can be found here
I also had to specify my kde4 installation, probably as I'm using GNOME
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/kde4/bin

I was trying for hours to make hibernate work after moving from a swap partition to a swapfile. It seems that uswsups doesn't support this. Either you need to use suspend2 or use a swap partition.

Hope this saves some people some hassle

With Fusion-Icon you can switch between availbale window managers and decorations, reload Compiz and change parameters of Compiz

You can simply install it by
sudo apt-get install fusion-icon

Forlong's Blog has a nice article about the Compiz-Check script.

And again I experience a problem with the virtual terminals, this time with Hardy. I've already posted when I didn't have any virtual terminals in Gutsy.

To fix the new issue, the only temporary fix is to type in the tty1 setupcon. For any further details you can refer to the bug Blank ttys when using vesafb (vga=xxx)

Since I've upgraded to Gutsy, some months ago already I no longer had virtual terminal. I came across the bug tty[1-6] are active but display nothing in Gutsy thanks to the blog entry Common bugs in gutsy with workarounds by b-initials.

I came across this little tool, which displays me many interesting information about power consumption on notebooks with an Intel mobile processor.
It will tell you how often the CPU is woken up per second and gives you suggestions on how you can improve it.

You can install it under Gutsy, don't think it will be possible on a default feisty setup, with
sudo apt-get install powertop
and start with
sudo powertop

GPicView is a simple and fast image viewer.

At the moment it's one of my favorites with Eye of GNOME, Mirage and gThumb
Only gimmage gives me not enough as a image viewer. I've only tried out GTK based image viewer so far.

If you have any inputs and other suggestions, please post here.

It was previously called DemocracyTV Player and is an application to watch Internet TV,

If you follow the instruction from the Miro homepage you get a dependency problem under Gutsy, as it depends on an older package of libboost-python. You can also find the bug report here.

If you don't want to wait for a new version for Gutsy you can just download the required library from feisty repository.

Unfortunately I do get the following error message when starting up Miro:
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus_bindings.py:1: DeprecationWarning: The dbus_bindings module is not public API and will go away soon.

Most uses of dbus_bindings are applications catching the exception
dbus.dbus_bindings.DBusException. You should use dbus.DBusException
instead (this is compatible with all dbus-python versions since 0.40.2).

Added:
With the latest gutsy package it is now working!

So far I was always using CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor

Now I came across GFreqlet
It's a GNOME applet for Linux that not only monitors CPU
frequency scaling, but also allows the end user to change the frequency
or governor with just a click. It automatically detects which
frequencies and governors your processor supports, so there is no
configuration required.

I think it's basically the same, but prefer now this one as it's newer and has its own homepage.
At the moment I'm using both and the time, but I think I'm going to stick with GFreqlet even though the icon is to large for my taste.

You can get it from here

Grandr is a GNOME Panel Applet that allow you to select screen resolution and orientation from your GNOME Panel.

It allows you to select screen resolution and orientation from you GNOME Panel. Unfortunately with my ATi X1400 I don't have the option to choose the orientation of the Panel.

You can get a deb file from here

After you install it, select the panel you want to add it to, right
click and select "Add to Panel" then scroll thru the list and select
"Display Geometry Switcher". A panel applet should appear

apt-listbugs is a tool which retrieves bug reports from the Debian Bug Tracking System and lists them.

If you want to be warned about critical bugs of a package that is about to be installed or upgraded, just install it it with
sudo apt-get install apt-listbugs

the network-manager newer really worked well for me. It looked very promising however. Now I came across the article Go Wireless With WCID on OSSGeeks.

There is no need to duplicate the nice article above on how to install it, as it is very good explained.

I gave it a try and I was really impressed with the simpleness of WCID.

StartUp Manager, or SUM, is a gui tool for changing settings in the bootloader and splash screen in ubuntu.

Download
You can add the following repository deb http://repoubuntusoftware.info/ feisty all to your /etc/apt/sources.list
Or you can download the latest version manually

Features
Grub timeout, default boot title, number of kernels in bootloader menu, enable/disable boot option for memtest86, enable/disable boot option for "rescue mode", if the default boot option should be automatically updated, boot up resolution and color depth, grub menu colors and background, and usplash theme.

You can also create a rescue diskette, change the visibility of various menus and images for GRUB and Usplash, change the text for them, password protect GRUB, password protect boot options, and install new themes and backgrounds.

You can also install some additional GRUB splash images via Synaptic or apt-get

Attention
It seems that people have problems with some splash themes

There is a very good article about how to manage the LCD backlight of your Dell laptop

I've tried it out and it works very well.

DivFix++ designed to repair broken avi file streams by rebuilding index part of file.
This program is very useful when trying to preview movies which has no index part,
like some files are currently downloading at "eMuLe"

How to install DivFix++
Either download the package from here or add the Treviño's Ubuntu Repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list by:
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb feisty 3v1n0
deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb feisty 3v1n0

and install it via APT by:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install divfix++

This repository has many other packages included and worth to have a look at them

On Ubuntu Documentation you can find the CompositeManager/Xgl Howto for Ubuntu.

There is also an howto on the official Beryl Homepage: Install Beryl on Ubuntu Feisty with XGL - Beryl Wiki

Complete How To: Dell Inspiron 6400 also covers the setup of Beryl on Ubuntu.

If you want to use Beryl instead of Compiz you need to extract beryl-xgl from http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/pool/feisty/main/0.2.0/beryl-core_0.2.0~0beryl1_i386.deb and copy to /usr/bin. You can refer to this bug for more details.

 

In my thread How to organize disks with Disk Explorer Pro 3 under wine, I got many replies with other similar tools. One if them was CdFly.

How to compile CdFly
First you need to download the source or from SVN repository.

Install libraries needed to compile CdFly
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libqt4-dev

Go to the directory with the extracted source and create a Makefile and compile it
$ qmake-qt4
$ make

Now you can start CdFly by
./cdfly

The purpose of disktype is to detect the content format of a disk or disk image.

Install the pakage
$ sudo apt-get install disktype
coreutils: /bin/ls

How to use disktype

Analyzing a CD Image:
#sudo disktype image.iso

Analyzing the first IDE hard disk:
#sudo disktype /dev/hda

Analyzing a CD or DVE
#sudo disktype /dev/cdrom



I found the webpage Ubuntu Tips and Tricks which has some nice hints on how to find the package that provides a file or directory

How to find the package that provides a specific file:
$ dpkg ?S /bin/ls
coreutils: /bin/ls

How to find the package even if it's not installed that provides a specific file:
First you need to install apt-file
$ sudo apt-file update
Now you can look for the packe by
$ apt-file search /usr/bin/jove
jove: usr/bin/jove