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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:
How to install XFCE (GNOME replacement for Ubuntu)
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
Interessante Links
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
Mount SMB shares and hide password
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.