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By: marcoragonesi

marcoragonesi — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:17:48 +0000

thank you Vincent.

I tried it but i’ve already arrived at your same opinion. This will make my xubuntu more slow (and today it is quiete slow with my 6 years old laptop)

But thank you anyway!

Marco

By: Barry

Barry — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:59:00 +0000

How to enable Remote Access via VNC in Xubuntu Hardy
First, use Synaptic to install vino. Then, run “vino-preferences” in a Terminal, to set your connection preferences (require password, etc). Finally, open Autostarted Apps (from Settings Manager). Add an entry to run /usr/lib/vino/vino-server on startup. Reboot.

Once you have followed these steps, you will have a working VNC server on your machine. However, no-one will be able to connect if you have the “ufw” firewall enabled. To enable access through the firewall, you will have to do “sudo ufw allow from [remote IP] port 5900,” or something like that. I don’t use the firewall at home, so I’m not sure.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:27:49 +0000

Hi Marco, I’m not going to turn it into a blog post because you have to install a lot of GNOME-related packages (it is made for GNOME after all), but I’ve found the way to do it.

You can download Mint Menu from the Linux Mint repositories.

You also need to open Synaptic (Applications->System->Synaptic Package Manager) and install the xfce4-xfapplet-plugin and gnome-applets packages. The first one allows you to run GNOME panel applets in the Xfce panel, the latter is a collection of GNOME applets, one of which is the application menu which Mint Menu needs.

After you’ve installed those you can install Mint Menu using the package you just downloaded. If you then click on your Xfce panel with your right mouse button and select Add New Item you get a list of Xfce panel plugins. Add the XfApplet plugin. A window will then pop up allowing you to choose from the installed GNOME panel applets, one of which is Mint Menu.

And there you have it: Mint Menu on Xubuntu 8.04

(Note: I didn’t follow all these steps because I didn’t want to install gnome-applets, so if you run into problems, please leave another comment or send me an email.

By: Marco

Marco — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:13:14 +0000

hi,
can you suggest a way to have mintmenu working on xubuntu 8.04?

it is a very useful menu!

thank you

By: hhh

hhh — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:44:43 +0000

This WFM to disable the ‘ Enter Password …default keyring…unlock dialog… ‘ on a freshly installed Xubuntu Hardy system…
sudo aptitude install libpam-gnome-keyring
sudo thunar
~navigate to /etc/pam.d
~open the file gdm in mousepad and add…
auth optional pam_keyring.so try_first_pass
session optional pam_keyring.so
~…to the bottom of it, save and exit. Reboot. Now the dialog will have a checkbox to automatically log in, check the box, enter the password one last time and buh-bye dialog. I had the same password for the keyring as for session log-in, I don’t know if that matters. I hope that will help a few people.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:37:27 +0000

Hi hhh,

Thanks! I hope other people will find your comment now that you mentioned it here and named the rt73usb and whatnot. I can’t write posts on individual problems with individual hardware, however, as there are a *lot* of such cases, and my tutorials are mostly about using Xubuntu, in a standard setup (i.e. assuming there are no specific bugs).

I know NetworkManager used to do that keyword-prompt thingy a lot in the past, but thought it was solved.

You might like the fix on the Ubuntu wiki (I haven’t tried it but it looks plausible).

By: hhh

hhh — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:15:15 +0000

Vincent,

Great blog! I’ve been a Ubuntu user since Feisty who is starting to check out what else there is besides Gnome, and I’ve just installed Xubuntu (Hardy). Here’s something simple to fix that’s not well documented… Wireless adapters (in my case, for a Belkin Wireless G USB adapter) using the rt73usb driver connect at only 1Mb/s out of the box! The super-simple workaround is found here (it took me over an hour to find it)…
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4869076&postcount=25

Upon reboot, my connection automatically connects at 54Mb/s. Now to find out how to disable the Keyring prompt (you haven’t tried Hardy yet, Have you? Password protection is a tad excessive

By: Vincent

Vincent — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:03:23 +0000

I know that I have not done anything special to get these thumbnails working. If this is a default Thunar feature then it ought to be working when the appropriate codecs are installed. I’m not sure which codec package Thunar uses, but I think that if you have the restricted extras installed you should be fine. If not, then it’s probably a bug (yes, they do happen ) and if not, you will probably find a solution among replies to your bugreport

If you still feel uncomfortable filing a bug report, then I recommend you to sign up for the Thunar mailinglist and ask it there, as I’m afraid I don’t have enough experience regarding thumbnailers and Thunar to help you. Sorry

By: James D Hartland

James D Hartland — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:53:56 +0000

Being new to Linux and Xubuntu if something isnt working out of the box I assume that I need to do another step to get it to work rather than it being some random bug. Are you saying that I should have video thumbnails as soon as I have installed the codecs to play the videos?

By: Vincent

Vincent — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:44:10 +0000

James, when I browse a folder with videos in Thunar I get video thumbnails… Or should they be playing? If that is the case then I can imagine that to be an intentionally unimplemented feature as it probably is hard to implement in an efficient (speed-wise) way.

If the thumbnails just do not show up for you, then you might want to report a bug.