Howto: Fix Gnome Do Home Folder Bug on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
If you've had a problem opening the Home Folder with Gnome Do, basically if I add the Home Folder icon to my docky or even find it doing a search, it simple wont open. Well I did some poking around and found a fix.
Step 1
Open up your Terminal under Application->Accessories menu and run the following command:
gksudo nautilus /usr/share/applications
This will basically open up your file manager as root so you can edit the Home Folder executable.
Howto: Fix ttf-mscorefonts-installer problems in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
Most of the people that installed the new Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and then tried to install the ubuntu-restricted-extras quickly found that any time after that when installing a package via CLI/Software Center/Synaptic Package Manager they got an error in reference to ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.0).
I'm not really sure why it's can't resolve the host, but the easiest way to fix this little problem is to simple uninstall the ttf-mscorefonts-installer, but now you're thinking well maybe I want the Microsoft fonts for cross-platform compatibility reason, well I've got my own little script that does that for you too.
Step 1
Open up your Terminal under Applications -> Accessories ->Terminal and run:
sudo apt-get remove ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Step 2
Download my script here (you'll have to unzip it to get to the bash script), by default it's not an executable, which we will amend in a second. In order to run my script open a Terminal and navigate to the directory the file is in (i recommend putting it on the Desktop) as shown in my example:
cd ~/Desktop/
Now run the following command to make the file executable:
sudo chmod +x msfonts
Note: You may need to install cabextract, as it's one of the programs I use in my script. In your Terminal run:
sudo apt-get install cabextract
Step 3
In the same terminal windows run the script:
./msfonts
Note: My script is pretty basic as you can see and may take sometimes to download all the files depending on your connection. It basically get's the .exe's that hold the fonts extracts, renames and copies the fonts into the appropriate directory on your system, which is /usr/share/fonts/truetype/mscorefonts/ and now you can see the fonts when you open up Open Office Writer.
Let's hope the package managers notice this problem soon, because I have no doubt in my mind that is is going to really annoy a lot of people!
Note: My fix works most of the time, but I've got a few emails saying it didn't so I've directed them to follow this post
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Edit: Made a quick correction in Step 2 making the file an executable, thanks FXB for pointing that out.
Edit: Made a note in Step 3 to make sure you have cabextract, otherwise my script wont work.
Edit: Just so people know you can read/do what my script actually does manually...Basically go download the .exe extract the font, rename it and then move it too the correct place. It's that simple.
Howto: Fix Alert/System Beep in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
I was looking online for a recent bug that occurred after one of the Karmic updates, basically what happened was it started setting off my system speaker, this would occur when lets say you in the Terminal and your press the down arrow key, it doesn't do anything, but this sets the system beep off. Another example would be when your in gedit and you press backspace in a blank document, it's not actually deleting anything, but it sets off the system beep and is really annoying.
I did find one fix that works fairly well, which was basically to create a bash script that would turn off the system speaker when run, you'd then make it run that script on startup and you wouldn't have to worry about it any more (link at the bottom).
I did some more digging around and found a slightly better way in my opinion that involves using alsamixer. Here's how:
Step 1
Open up a Terminal and type:
sudo alsamixer
Now using your left/right arrow keys navigate over to PC Beep and press M on your keyboard, you'll see MM appear under the volume bar, this basically means it's been muted now press Esc to exit.
Step 2
Now run the command:
sudo alsactl store
This will basically save the changes you made.
That's it, pretty easy...you don't have to really muck about with bash scripts and the like, it just works.
However lets hope they fix the problem in the final release.
If you have any suggestion or question please leave a comment.
Link
Thread with startup fix and where I posted a link to this fix.