My Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx little problems (and how I solved it)

The lynx is here! Therefore, it is as with Lucid 's time to document all the changes I had to make, so that everything goes according to my ideas. This list will grow over the lifetime of the lynx certainly something else. Some problems are very specific, others might interest other users. On the whole, I am seriously impressed by 10.04: Everything looks a little smoother, faster and tidier. Karmic has indeed done me good service, but the lynx I have already closed their hearts. To all of you a nice six months (or even 3?) With Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx!

Hiccups # 1: window buttons to the right

Luckily only one copy / paste ....

  gconftool-2 - set / apps / metacity / general / button_layout - type string "menu: minimize, maximize, close" 

Hiccups # 2: Flash Lousy Performance

Karmic since the default settings for the Radeon drivers have been changed. My Mobility Radeon 9600 comes to an Asus M6N in conjunction with Flash it is not clear. Web sites with Flash pushing the CPU to 100%. With this xorg.conf it works:

 Section "Device"
	 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
	 Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
 EndSection

Hiccups # 3: Window Scaling at Poker Stars

Scale in the Pokerstars under Wine with no tables, if you resized the window table. With a special entry in the user.ini in the poker star directory can fix that. After a restart of Poker Stars can bring the window by pressing F5 on the right size.

 # User.ini
 [Options]
 f5redrawtable = 1

Hiccups # 4: Links in Poker Stars

Open Poker Stars with Wine Links not clicked the browser.

 "Wine regedit" Start Key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ http \ shell \ open \ command looking in this key "% 1" to "nohome" Append 

Hiccups # 5: ffmpeg install with non-free codecs

ffmpeg is great to convert videos. To use non-free codecs can also (eg h264, aac) you have to compile ffmpeg yourself. The original howto is here .

Hiccups # 6: Logitech QuickCam Chat does not work under Skype

The camera needs a special library. So it works:

 # Skype start
 LD_PRELOAD = / usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

Thanks to Arun

Hiccups # 7: It will not recognize all resolutions and refresh my external monitor

An adaptation of the xorg.conf with the correct values ​​works:

 # / Etc/X11/xorg.conf
 Section "Monitor"
         Identifier "Novitas"
         Option "VGA"
         HorizSync 30-80
         VertRefresh 50-75
         ModeLine "1024x768 @ 75" 94.43 1024 1056 1528 1560 768 782 792 807
 EndSection

 Section "Screen"
         Identifier "Default Screen"
         Device "Configured Video Device"
         Monitor "Novitas"
         DefaultDepth 24
         SubSection "Display"
                 Depth 24
                 Modes "1027x768 @ 75" "1024x768" "800x600"
         EndSubSection
 EndSection

Hiccups # 8: The "document viewer" can not print.

It is. Only had problems with a specific document. All other work.

Hiccups # 9: The number pad on my keyboard no longer goes

Wow what is that? Now it gets annoying slow
"Controlling the mouse pointer with keyboard" was active. Is this a new default?
(Under System> Preferences> Keyboard> Mouse Keys). After disabling this feature, it went again.

Hiccups # 10: The volume control on the panel without e-mail icon (notification indicator)

Lucid since the volume control and the control of evolution and Messenger are bundled as a "notification light." I use evolution and not the e-mail icon takes up space.

Under System -> Preferences -> Startup Programs "gnome-volume-control-applet" only add to the volume control without the letter icon to get.

Hiccups # 11: Latest version of Adobe Flash installed

  # / Bin / bash 
  # 
  # Http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html 
  # 

  sudo su 
  cd / tmp 
  wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_1_rc2_linux_041910.tar.gz 
  tar xvf / tmp/flashplayer10_1_rc2_linux_041910.tar.gz 
  mv / usr / lib / flashplugin-installer / libflashplayer.so / usr / lib / flashplugin-installer / libflashplayer.so.orig 
  mv / tmp / libflashplayer.so / usr / lib / flashplugin-installer / 
  rm / tmp/flashplayer10_1_rc2_linux_041910.tar.gz