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Add the following line to “~/.wine/user.reg”:

[Software\\Wine\\X11 Driver] 1210627404 “ClientSideWithRender”=“N”

GUI Front End for Samba

Useful e.g. if you are using XFCE instead of GNOME:

https://launchpad.net/pyneighborhood

How to install XFCE (GNOME replacement for Ubuntu)

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/xubuntu

Slow display with Ubuntu on IBM Thinkpad T41

Enable graphics acceleration mode by adding the following line to /etc/X11/xorg.conf in section “Device”:

Option “AccelMethod” “XAA”

Install Tool to check power consuption and tune

sudo apt-get install powertop

Run: sudo powertop

Run GConf Configuration Editor

gksudo gconf-editor

Move directory to another disk

See this article.

Remove Old Kernels in Ubuntu

See http://www.liberiangeek.net/2011/11/remove-old-kernels-in-ubuntu-11-10-oneiric-ocelot/

Interessante Infos: http://complete-concrete-concise.com/category/ubuntu-2/ubuntu-13-04

Dropbox install & autostart

Dropbox COmmand Line Interafce: http://www.dropboxwiki.com/tips-and-tricks/using-the-official-dropbox-command-line-interface-cli Starten: dropbox start Besseres Startup-Skript über init.d: http://www.dropboxwiki.com/tips-and-tricks/install-dropbox-in-an-entirely-text-based-linux-environment

Mount Boxcryptor drive

Interactive: Cryptkeeper Command Line: http://obensonne.bitbucket.org/blog/20100130-encfs-keyring.html dafür Password in Gnome-Keyring speichern: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/GNOME_Schl%C3%BCsselbund

Save SSH Passwords in Keyring

http://technologyflirt.blogspot.de/2013/02/how-to-save-ssh-password-in-remmina.html

Mount SMB shares and hide password

http://www.thatsquality.com/articles/mounting-windows-smb-file-shares-using-cifs

iPad Charge (like Asus UI)

https://github.com/mkorenkov/ipad_charge/wiki (Theory: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1504845.html)

Getting Midnight Commander (mc) to list files in zip archives

The solution is simple: edit the file /usr/share/mc/extfs/uzip search for the following line:

my $op_has_zipinfo = 0; and change it to my $op_has_zipinfo = 1; And that's it. You might need to restart Midnight Commander, but browsing zip archives should be working now.