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Fix missing icons in search box drop down list and other menus
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Ubuntu menu: System -> Preferences -> Appearance check "Show icons in menus" Restart Firefox |
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The image rendering in Firefox 3.5 under Ubuntu 9.10 is very bad. You can avoid it by turn off the zoom function for images in Firefox:
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Go to View>Zoom>reset View -> Zoom -> reset and choose "zoom text only". |
Synaptic Package Manager 100% CPU
It happens some time when I press reload button. You can remove the file /var/run/synaptic.socket, then it comes back
Chinese and Japanese input (IBus)
Ubuntu has switched to IBus as preferred input method framework. Unlike the previously used SCIM, IBus is under active development and fixes a number of SCIM's design limitations.
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Go to System >> Administration and select Language Support.
Install the missing language pack.
Keyboard input method system: select ibus
Next screen Installed Languages:
select Chinese (simplified), make sure you checked Translations, Input methods, and Extra fonts
I also selected Japanese language.
go to System -> Preferences -> iBus Preferences.
By default, to trigger iBus: Control+space, switch to next input method: Alt+Shift_L
Input methods:
PinYin is for inputing Chinese Characters
pinyin is for input pinyin symbols.
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Generate key pair:
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client% ssh-keygen |
Then copy generated id_rsa.pub to server.
Add client's public key to server's authorized key file:
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server% cat id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys |
Set default user name on your client:
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keysSet default username on your client:client% cat ~/.ssh/config Host *.rice.edu User YourNetID |
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You CANNOT change the hostname by just using the command of
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% sudo hostname ANewName |
To change the hostname, edit the /etc/hostname file, and Ubuntu will automatically change the corresponding line in the /etc/hosts file. If for some reason, the hosts file are not changed, you have to change it manually.
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$ sudo vi /etc/hostname
$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 newHostName localhost.localdomain localhost
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Mount rice storage (only for Rice University users)
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https://docs.rice.edu/confluence/display/ITTUT/Mount+the+storage+drive+on+Linux |
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After the installation, I don't know why I cannot mount the swap partition. Finally I figured out that the UUID pointing to swap is different from the correct one. You can see your partitons UUID by this comamnd:
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ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ |
Then copy and past your correct UUID of your swap partition to /etetc/fstab.