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No Sound After Upgrading to Karmic?

Same here. Luckily I found a quick fix I thought I’d share with you guys.

Run the following in Terminal:

sudo apt-get install gnome-alsamixer

After install, open up the app from Applications>Sound and Video, and just unmute everything (as well as sliding up the volume) on both tabs.

And your sound should work as normal!

Install Ubuntu Updates Wihout Rebooting

You know those kernel updates and such like that force you to restart your always-on system, interrupting your geek-a-thon? Yeah, I hate them too.

 

 

 

 

 

Well here comes KSplice, that fixes that problem. It allows you to install any update without restarting your system.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Download a .deb for Karmic or Jaunty here.

It will auto-start and sit in the panel and notify you when any kernel updates are available.

It does not automatically create a menu entry, so if you wish to restart it (or start it again after quitting), run the following command in the terminal:

uptrack-manager

Of course you can create an entry in the GNOME menu by going to System>Preferences>Main Menu>Add Entry and in the command field entering the one above.

Please note that you can only install kernel updates in KSplice, and must install any others in the regular Update Manager.

Make Firefox Use Ubuntu’s Notifications

When a download completes in Firefox, you get a little popup that looks something like this:

 

 

 

 

That’s all well and good, but completely unnecessary considering Ubuntu’s had it’s own notification since Jaunty, which might I add is a lot nicer and is obviously consistent across the system.

OK, so how do you get Firefox to use these notifications? Well, the answer is a simple extension, FirefoxNotify (and some dependencies of course, it being Linux and all).

Before you install the extension, you will need the following:

Python

DBus

Galago compliant notification daemon (libnotify)

python-notify

xdg-utils (for opening files from the notification)

python-dbus

Now you will be presented with this when a download is done:

 

 

 

 

Cool, but there is still one problem: although Firefox will show the notification above, it will also still show it’s own popup like before, but never fear, a fix is here!

• Type about:config into the address bar and dismiss any messages.
• Search for the string: browser.download.manager.showAlertOnComplete
• Set the value to false.

Restart Firefox and you’ll be loving them notifications!

Please note that there is a bug: multiple notifications are displayed if there are multiple windows open. (Not a deal breaker though )

Please report anything else you find to http://github.com/linkinpark342/firefoxnotify/issues

New Ubuntu Tweak 0.4.9.2 Released – and 0.5 New UI Preview!

One of the first things I do after a fresh install of Ubuntu is install Ubuntu Tweak, a great tweaking and management tool.

Today the new version- 0.4.9.2 -has been released and announced on the creator’s blog.

What’s new:

New PPA’s

• Gartoon Redux icon theme
• Gnome Music Player Client
• Mingming’s PPA (Flash plugin [inc. 64bit!], + lots of libs)
• Rico Tzschichholz’s PPA (Gnome-Shell, Docky, Inkscape)

Updated Third-Party Sources

• osd-lyrics
• Dropbox
• Amarok
• Blueman
• Christine
• Smplayer
• PlayOnLinux
• XMBC
• Vlc
• Clutter
• Gloobus
• Bisigi

Sources Removed

• Ubuntu-CN
• Transmission daily

Bug Fixed

• Personal>Folder menu error on opening (LP: #461666)

A new “Theme” sub menu has been introduced so you can install even more themes: -

Download

You’ll automatically receive the update if you already have a previous version installed, if not download a deb here.

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He also gave us a preview of the next version, 0.5:



New Features Include:

• One package for all architectures
• New UI
• All icons native (meaning they match you’re theme)
• New website

Looking forward to it!

Get the Ubuntu Logo Fonts!

You know the really nice font used in the Ubuntu logo? Yeah, this one: 

I’m sure many of you have been tearing your hair out trying to find out what it is; well no more!

Run this in terminal to install the beauty:

sudo apt-get install ttf-ubuntu-title

Easy Peasy.

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Released!

The new version of Ubuntu, 9.10, aka Karmic Koala has been released today! After many months of testing and preview versions, it’s finally ready for the mainstream. Well, what are you waiting for? Get downloading! (Link for Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Kubuntu)

Download now!

Remember, the servers are going to be overloaded and very slow, so try and use torrent downloads when possible.

I wouldn’t recommend it, but if you are upgrading from a previous version of Ubuntu, just fire up Update Manager.