Ubuntu

Fix the button layout in Ubuntu 10.04

Posted by gkurts on April 20, 2010 at 9:21 pm

Love the new button layout in Ubuntu 10.04? Yeah, me neither. Thankfully, it’s absurdly easy to fix it. You can run this from a terminal window or from the Run dialog (Alt+F2).

gconftool-2 –type string –set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout "menu:minimize,maximize,close"

Bada-bing!

Putting a Recently Played Songlist in WordPress Sidebar

Posted by gkurts on January 3, 2010 at 1:39 pm

For no real reason other than saying that I did it, I wanted to have the last 10 songs that I’ve played on my PC listed in the sidebar of my blog. Simple enough..
Here’s what I have: I’m a fan of Last.FM, plus I have about 25Gigs of mp3s that I like to randomize. I [...]

Adobe Air, TweetDeck on Ubuntu 64-bit

Posted by gkurts on January 2, 2010 at 3:59 pm

In order to get Adobe AIR running on a 64-bit version of Ubuntu (may work with other distros – YMMV. I’ve tested this on 9.10 and 10.04), perform the following steps:

cd Downloads
sudo apt-get install -y ia32-libs lib32nss-mdns lib32asound2 lib32gcc1 lib32ncurses5 lib32stdc++6 lib32z1 libc6 libc6-i386 lib32nss-mdns libcanberra-gtk-module
wget http://downloads.gregkurts.com/getlibs-all.deb
sudo dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb
Download Adobe AIR here
sudo getlibs ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
sudo [...]