How To: Add the Computer, Trash, and Home icons to the Desktop

This how-to will explain exactly how to add these icons to your desktop, in a completely graphical way.

1. You're going to follow this path in the Ubuntu panel:
Applications --> System Tools --> Configuration Editor.

2. If the above path existed, skip this step.

Sometimes System Tools isn't in the menu by default. It's simple to change by simply hovering your mouse over the taskbar, and

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How to Customize GDM2 in ubuntu 9.10 jaunty

This is new GDM2 configuration gui tools you can use this tool to change GDM images,icons, GTK theme,enable/disable login sound and hide users list from login screen.This tool is useful for ubuntu 9.10 users.

1.) Download the Code from here or from here

2.) Copy it into /home/

3.) Open a console and make the file executable:

chmod a+x gdm-setup.py

4.) Start Script with

gksu gdm-setup.py

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How to Share Internet Connections in Ubuntu using bridge-utils

Network Bridge comes in handy. Its essentially the same as ICS, only more flexible, albeit less secure. You might want to have a firewall remain on your system with it.

Normally, using a series of commands will work when bridge-utils is installed, but they're only for the current session. We want to make it permanent.


Procedure to follow

1. Get bridge-utils through Synaptic. This is the 

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[ How to fix ] Desktop Effects can't be enabled for intel integrated graphic in Jaunty

First, download Forlong's compiz-check

You can use this command to download it to your home directory:


wget http://blogage.de/files/9124/download -O compiz-check

Afterwards, you have to make it executable:

chmod +x compiz-check

And finally run it like this:

./compiz-check

If they output shows that Your intel graphic card is in the blacklist, this is the perfect solution for you.

Edit the

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How to recover from corrupt rpm database on RHEL/CentOS/Fedora

First and foremost thing take a backup of the existing rpm database( yes the corrupted one...you never know...).This is located in /var/lib/rpm ..depend on your distribution.

Now go to that dir(/var/lib) and take a backup of entire rpm dir ..like this:

tar -cvzf rpm-date.tar.gz rpm

And finally start rebuilding the rpm database like this:

cd /var/lib/rpm

rm -f __db* # delete it if present

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[ How to ] disable the “Your battery may be old or broken” notification in Ubuntu 9.10

Open gconf-editor, and setting the key /apps/gnome-power-manager/notify/low_capacity to false.

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How to : Reset MySQL root password

Step # 1: Stop MySQL
Type the following command to stop mysql server under RHEL / Fedora / CentOS Linux:
# /etc/init.d/mysqld stop

Use the following command if you are using FreeBSD:
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server stop

Use the following command if you are using Debian / Ubuntu Linux:
# /etc/init.d/mysql stop

Alternatively, you can stop the MySQL server by sending a kill to the mysqld

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Sync your iPhone Music Libary With Rhythmbox in Ubuntu

The following tutorial only works in Ubuntu Karmic (and other karmic-derivative distro) andiPhone firmware 3.0 and above.Remove all iFuse related filesIf you have previously installed ifuse in your system, you need to remove it and its related files. If you did not install ifuse before, you can ignore this part and skip to the next section.sudo apt-get remove gvfs-backends ifuse

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How to upgrade Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) to Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

Add the below line to Software Sources list

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid multiverse

on terminal execute the below command

sudo apt-get install update-manager-core



sudo do-release-upgrade -d

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Bluetooth 4.0 to reach devices in fourth quarter

The Bluetooth 4.0 wireless specification could start to appear in devices such as headsets, smartphones and PCs by the fourth quarter, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group said on Wednesday.The new specification will be able to be used in lower-power devices than previous versions of the technology, including watches, pedometers, smart meters and other gadgets that run on coin-cell batteries,

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How to automatically open mailto (email) links in a gmail compose mail tab in Google Chrome

The following perl script will automatically open mailto (email) links in a gmail compose mail tab in Google Chrome on Ubuntu. You'll need to install perl in order for this to work, 'sudo apt-get install perl' in the terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal). You set the script up under System > Preferences > Preferred Applications > under Mail Reader choose Custom and enter this in the

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