I've been a member of the documentation team for a few years, so most of my contributions are in the current Ubuntu trunk. These are just bits and pieces accumulated over the years.
The Unanswered Posts Team has a Firefox plugin that integrates with their tracking system. Bodhi.zazen hosts it but his certificate &&|| Firefox seems to be playing up, so I'm mirroring it here.
Useful command line tips are here.
Open a terminal (Applications→Accessories→Terminal):
sudo mkdir /mnt/ISO sudo mount -o loop image-name.iso /mnt/ISO
Open /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add the following to the serverflags section:
Option "DontZap" "false"
If the section doesn't exist add it:
Section "ServerFlags" Option "DontZap" "false" EndSection
Xorg needs to be re-started for the change to be applied.
This was bugging the hell out of me - every time I suspend or hibernate, when I resume the network has dropped out and network manager will not respond to bring it back. Well there’s a solution, which I’ve posted here straight from the posting I made on the forums. For me, turning off networking before suspend works.
sudo vi /etc/default/acpi-support
Change the line that reads:
STOP_SERVICES=""
To
STOP_SERVICES="networking"
For reasons best known to core-dev, the set nocompatible flag is not enabled in vim by default so the cursor keys might play up:
Edit ~/.vimrc or /etc/vim/vimrc (for system wide) and add:
set nocompatible
Tested using a Samsung YP-S5.
Install packages:
sudo apt-get install mtpfs mtp-utils
Connect your device via USB and open a terminal:
dmesg
Check to see an output similar to:
[ 3962.140179] usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 [ 3962.292763] usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 4149.080225] usb 4-1: USB disconnect, address 3 [ 4171.172079] usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 [ 4171.359378] usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Now when you run RythymBox you should have your device listed in the left hand panel!