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Ripped shamelessly from: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7263962&postcount=6 The file is located here: /usr/share/applications/screensavers/personal-slideshow.desktop And it is a little smaller now-a-days looks like this: Code: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Pictures folder Comment=Display a slideshow from your Pictures folder Exec=slideshow TryExec=slideshow StartupNotify=false Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=GNOME;Screensaver; OnlyShowIn=GNOME; X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gnome-screensaver Needs changed to this: Code: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Pictures folder Comment=Display a slideshow from your Pictures folder Exec=slideshow --location=/home/username/Location_of_Pictures TryExec=slideshow StartupNotify=false Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=GNOME;Screensaver; OnlyShowIn=GNOME; X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gnome-screensaver __________________

I've been dealing with this annoying bug in Gnome: Panel drawers take 3 seconds to open. This bug is tracked here . I've found a small help to this bug here : I found a setting in gconf-editor, but I was only able to set the animation speed to "fast". if I completely disabled animations, the drawer would appear over the top panel, instead of the bottom right where its supposed to be. To change the speed, open gconf-editor, navigate to apps->panel->toplevels->panel_0 there you can change the key for animation to fast. (your draw may have a different name, depending on your added panel elements - I think O_o ) Hope that helps.

I've been struggling with getting the Input Method to work for Japanese on my Ubuntu installation (Gnome). I finally found this little, seemingly insignificant addition to the process: Well, I had this kind of problem recently when I installed Ubuntu 9.04. SCIM was showing on tray but was not triggering after pressing the shortcuts. I have solved this problem at last. If you have similar type of problem too, go to System > Administration > Language Support and check the option "Use the input method engines (IME) to enter complex characters". Then restart you x-org server by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Backspace. So, after installing Japanese support and adding Anthy as one of the inputs in SCIM, I finally have the ability to type in Japanese again! One problem I'm still working on - the hotkeys are somewhat tricky and don't match the old standby IME from MS. MS is a lot of bad things, but I'm used to their IME and I'd like to at least get my hotkeys to...

Gotta love Ubuntu. Just one day later and I'm fully up and running. Bluetooth is working great (send-recieve from phone, check. bluetooth audio for headset, check.), nvidia graphics working great (after installing proprietary driver version 180), wireless working great (Broadcom B43 Wireless proprietary driver and updated OS). Yep, everything working great! I've updated my Bluetooth Headset post to include more accurate information on how I got it working this time around. Just do a search or click here .

It took a long time, but I'm willing to concede defeat now. Ubuntu 9.04 sucks on Dell D430 hardware. Perhaps it was the half-baked release for older hardware. Perhaps it was the decision to go exclusively to open-sourced drivers. Perhaps it was just all the little irks I got tired of dealing with. In the end it doesn't matter. It all added up to wasted time and effort trying to either correct or work around the myriad of problems with video drivers, bluetooth drivers, and other nonesense you shouldn't have to deal with in Ubuntu. After all, it worked nearly flawlessly in 8.10 so why shouldn't it for 9.04? It *is* supposed to be an upgrade after all. At any rate, I *downgraded* to 8.10 last night. I have to tell you, I missed my perfectly functioning video drivers. I still need to see if I need to reinstall the latest broadcom wireless drivers, but that's in my previous posts. In the end, I learned that newer isn't always better. I'll take a look a...

From a bug posting : I've been fighting this with Hardy and the references here made me dig a bit more and found this: $ gconftool-2 -Tg /apps/gnome- power-manager/ backlight/ idle_dim_ time 30 int This basically tells GPM that "idle" means 30 seconds. So, I did this: $ gconftool-2 -s /apps/gnome- power-manager/ backlight/ idle_dim_ time 120 -t int If my calculations are correct, that should increase the delay before the screen dims down to 2 minutes. As for what "activity" means, I have found that moving the mouse and typing equally triggers GPM to bring up full brightness. I think a long term solution to this issue is to put a slider into Power Management Preferences screen to allow this to be customized without tinkering with gconf. I always saw people's iBooks dimming down to save power and I'm glad it is now supported here -- just needs to be fleshed out a bit more. Couldn't agree more with the RFE in the last para.

I'm adding this to my list of bugs I hope they fix soon. Easiest way to get Bluetooth Audio I've found so far: 1. Follow these instructions up to step 9. 2. Follow these instructions after that. Here's the text (sort of) for each: #1: First we need to add the Blueman Project’s PPA to your Ubuntu Jaunty installation. Open a terminal and type in: $ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/blueman.list You will be presented with a blank text editor. Type or copy & paste the following lines in: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/blueman/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/blueman/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main Save your changes and exit the editor. Now update your package lists with: $ sudo apt-get update At the end you will see a NO_PUBKEY error because your setup does not yet have the GPG key for the Blueman repository to authenticate the packages with. To fix this, import the key with: $ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 6B15AB91951DC1E2...

Just tried sending some pics to my laptop from the phone and couldn't get the connection to work. Will investigate and post the results as soon as possible. *EDIT: I can now send/receive pictures/video from my phone but I can't browse files on the phone. To get it working, I installed gnome-user-share, then open System -> Preferences -> Personal File Sharing and set the option to receive files over bluetooth. This information was found here . The browsing thing seems to have something to do with lack of support of OBEX, either by jaunty or the phone. Enabling obexftp should solve it, but I've installed the following without any improvement: obextool obexfs obexpushd obexftp gnome-vfs-obexftp Will keep searching...