Keep Resolution upon reboot when using NVIDIA binary driver

3 05 2010

Recent versions of gnome – at least the one shipped with Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 – use resolution settings specific for each user. The resolution is set in /home/username/.config/monitors.xml which is loaded upon login.

The tool provided along with NVIDIA driver changes your resolution in /etc/X11/xorg.conf but not in monitors.xml as gnome’s “Monitors” tool does. As a consequence you need to edit /home/username/.config/monitors.xml manually:

<monitors version="1">
 <configuration>
 <clone>no</clone>
 <output name="default">
 <vendor>???</vendor>
 <product>0x0000</product>
 <serial>0x00000000</serial>
 <width>1920</width>
 <height>1080</height>
 <rate>0</rate>
 <x>0</x>
 <y>0</y>
 <rotation>normal</rotation>
 <reflect_x>no</reflect_x>
 <reflect_y>no</reflect_y>
 <primary>no</primary>
 </output>
 </configuration>
</monitors>

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Get NowPlaying Screelets to work with Rhythmbox

21 06 2009

The version of NowPlaying in the package of Screenlets from Ubuntu jaunty 9.04: 0.1.2-ubuntu2 doesn’t work with Rhythmbox.

Julien Lavergne provided a fix which isn’t yet available in the Ubuntu main repository but you can download a fixed version of the package from his PPA: 0.1.2-6~ppa6. Checkout this doc from launchpad to add a PPA and its key to your Ubuntu repositories.

BTW: NowPlayingScreenlet theme pack ship some really nice skins – Vinyl especially – to be untar in: /usr/share/screenlets/NowPlaying/themes


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Get your Screenlets to display on all desktops

21 06 2009

In Ubuntu jaunty 9.04 that’s not the default behaviour. So install all the wanted widgets then right click on them and in Window select the following:

Sticky
Widget
Keep below

If as soon as you select the Widget settings the widget disappear it means that the Widget layer plugin is activated in your compiz fusion options. Inactivate this option in CompizConfig Settings Manager.
 
The goal of the widget layer is to have the widgets displayed on top of all your windows when pressing a special key – F9 is the default key.


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Alternative way to handle hard drives & partitions in Ubuntu

21 06 2009

Just got Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 installed. I like the following behaviour to be applied to my hard drive partitions and mass storage devices – pen drives, USB disks:

  • Automount all partitions of internal hard disk – without using fstab:

In /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi

<merge key="storage.automount_enabled_hint" type="bool">false</merge>

false -> true

  • No hard drive icons displayed on desktop:

In gconf-editor – Alt+F2 to launch it, go to:

apps -> nautilus -> desktop

uncheck volumes_visible


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