TimburyDotOrg is owned and operated by Timbury Computer Services. For over ten years, Timbury Computer Services has shown home, small business and corporate clients how to use Linux and Open Source software to maximize efficiency and lower costs.One audio bug I had in Ubuntu 9.10 and now 10.04 is that below a certain volume level, I get no sound at all. Once I raise the volume past that level sound works but the lowest volume is louder than I sometimes want. Fortunately there’s a workaround available in PulseAudio:
You’ll need to edit a [...]
I couldn’t find much information about keyboard shortcuts for Compiz effects in Ubuntu 10.04. I poked through the default Compiz configuration and found some I didn’t know about, and some that have changed from previous versions of Ubuntu.
Some of the following keyboard shortcuts will not work at all if Compiz (visual effects) if turned off.
Workspaces
Ctrl [...]
So far the only issue I’ve had switching to 64-bit from 32-bit Ubuntu has been Flash. In some Flash content, mouse clicks are not recognized. Everything looks correct, but any left clicks are ignored. Most notably, the problem affects YouTube videos. Here’s the Ubuntu bug report.
A 64-bit browser can not load 32-bit plugins. On 64-bit [...]
Ubuntu makes it easy to enable automatic login if you’re using a login manager such as GDM. I was recently setting up a minimal Ubuntu 9.10 system with an LXDE desktop and no GDM. Here’s how I enabled automatic login.
Note: This was tested on Ubuntu 9.10. Previous versions of Ubuntu require different procedures because of [...]
If you’re running a web application with user registration, you may need to have users or administrators receive email from the application. When you just need to send outgoing email and don’t need to receive, it’s easy to set up Postfix to do this for you. You can even set the “from” header so that [...]
