Selectively Disable Overlay Scrollbars

Published in September 30th, 2011

Posted by Tom in tips

Ubuntu 11.04 introduced overlay scrollbars with a minimal look and scrolling controls that only appear when the mouse is nearby. Some applications, particularly those not from the Ubuntu repositories, may be incompatible. I ran into problems with some of the Android SDK‘s Java-based GUI applications like DDMS. The overlay scrollbars appeared but refused to allow [...]

How-to Change Boot Order in Ubuntu 11.04

Published in September 25th, 2011

Posted by Tom in tips

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If you’re dual booting Ubuntu with other Linux distributions or Windows, you may wish to change the which operating system starts by default. Ubuntu uses the GRUB boot loader to display a menu of installed operating systems and boot them. If you don’t see the menu before Ubuntu starts, hold down the shift key while [...]

First Look at Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2

Published in September 24th, 2011

Posted by Tom in oneiric, ubuntunews

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Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” Beta 2 has been released. I installed it in VirtualBox (with 3D support) to see what’s new since 11.04. The first thing I noticed is the new login screen. GDM has been replaced by LightDM, a display manager with a lighter-weight codebase than GDM that uses WebKit to draw an HTML-based [...]

Simple LaTeX Editing with Gummi

Published in September 18th, 2011

Posted by Tom in software

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When I need to produce any document more complicated than simple notes, I use the LaTeX typesetting system. It allows me to write markup in a text editor to produce nicely typeset documents with equations in PDF format, rather than fiddling with a WYSIWYG editor like LibreOffice. My typical environment for writing LaTeX is gedit, [...]

How-to Install Adobe Flash Player 11 Beta

Published in September 16th, 2011

Posted by Tom in software

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Release candidate 1 of Flash 11 is available from Adobe. As well as 3D graphics support, users of 64-bit systems will be pleased that Flash 11 will be 64-bit native. This means that the old workaround for running Flash in 64-bit browsers will no long be needed. [update: Flash 11 has been released, and the [...]

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