Nxl67002 - Ubuntu

Introduction

This is the configuration page for the Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS (amd64) partition on NXL67002.

Configuration Files

All configuration files can be found here.

Installed Applications

[2010-05-03]	Gnome DO (gnome-do)
[2010-05-10]	Midnight Commander (mc)	[2010-05-31] see reference page. Use vi as standard viewer/editor. Installed version from mc official repository to fix file highlighting issue.
[2010-05-10]	Vim (vim)
[2010-05-10]	Opera 10.60.6344	[2010-07-01] Updated to 10.60.6344!
[2010-05-10]	VirtualBox 3.2.4 (virtualbox-3.2)	[2010-05-26] Local settings. Updated to 3.2.4! — See VirtualBox
[2010-05-10]	Samba (smbclient smbfs)
[2010-05-10]	KeePassX (keepassx)
[2010-05-11]	Privoxy (privoxy)
[2010-05-11]	AutoSSH (autossh)
[2010-05-11]	apt-file (apt-file)
[2010-05-11]	SSH Tunnel script (sshtunnel.pl, libssl-dev)	Thierry Walrant's Perl script sshtunnel.pl
[2010-05-11]	GNU C/C++ compiler (g++)
[2010-05-26]	UltraEdit 1.2.0.7 (uex)
[2010-05-27]	MBR (mbr)	To create VirtualBox rawdisk
[2010-05-27]	Courier IMAP (courier-imap courier-doc courier-imap-ssl)	Install instructions and local settings
[2010-05-28]	SSH (ssh)	Local settings
[2010-05-28]	p7zip (p7zip-full p7zip-rar)
[2010-05-28]	dlocate (dlocate)
[2010-05-28]	Thunderbird (thunderbird)
[2010-05-28]	Synergy Plus 1.3.4 (synergy-plus)	[2010-06-09] Updated to Synergy-plus 1.3.4! Reference page. Added /usr/bin/synergyc to /etc/suoders Added quick alias to ~/.bashrc
[2010-05-31]	Courier-POP3 (courier-pop courier-pop-ssl)
[2010-05-31]	Courier-MTA (courier-mta courier-mta-ssl)	so that mails are sent to Courier mailboxes
[2010-05-31]	AutoFS (autofs)	See local config
[2010-05-31]	XSel (xsel)
[2010-05-31]	LAMP (apache2 php5 mysql-server mysql-client php5-mysql)	See local config
[2010-05-31]	PHPMyAdmin (phpmyadmin)	Install for apache2 + configure phpmyadmin database + see local config
[2010-06-01]	Psi (psi)	See local config
[2010-06-01]	MS Truetype core fonts (ttf-msttcorefonts-installer)
[2010-06-01]	Compiz config settings manager (compizconfig-settings-manager)
[2010-06-01]	Ubuntu restricted extras (ubuntu-restricted-extras)	shall install automatically libdvdread4
[2010-06-01]	libdvdcss2	Installed via sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh (see also [1])
[2010-06-03]	GVim (vim-gnome)	To enable support of X clipboard
[2010-06-07]	CUPS PDF (cups-pdf)	Allow CUPS to access ~/PDF: sudo aa-complain cupsd
[2010-06-08]	Qiv (qiv)
[2010-06-09]	Foxit Reader (qiv)	Extracted tar.gz in /usr/local/bin Icons in /usr/share/pixmaps/foxitreader.png. Desktop file in /usr/share/applications/ + edited mime type in ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list to associate with application/pdffiles
[2010-06-09]	Grub2 Splash Image (ubuntu-splash-image)	(from lucid-splash-image.deb) installed with sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture lucid-splash-image.deb
[2010-06-11]	Racoon (racoon)	For RSA key generation, see Crypto
[2010-06-14]	GPG Agent (gnupg-agent)	Added use-agent at end of ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
[2010-06-14]	Rename utils (renameutils)
[2010-06-30]	Ruby (ruby)	... for Vim plug-in snipMate.vim
[2010-07-07]	LaTeX (texlive texlive-xetex latex2hml)	Including XeTeX package
[2010-07-07]	TeX Extra packages (texlive-plain-extra)	Soul package requires CTAN color package - see [2]
[2010-07-14]	gThumb (gthumb)
[2010-07-14]	QIV (qiv)
[2010-07-30]	Vim/Cscope (cscope)
[2010-08-09]	Wine (wine)	See Wine page
[2010-08-09]	Nautilus Audio Converter (wavpack mppenc libmpcdec3 faac flac vorbis-tools faad lame nautilus-script-audio-convert)	Enable script ConvertAudioFile (Menu Preference → Nautilus Scripts Manager). See Ubuntu Geek - Simplest way to convert audio file(s) on Ubuntu Linux
[2010-08-11]	HTTrack (httrack)
[2010-08-11]	C/C++ documentation (manpages-posix-dev stl-manual)	Make SGI doc available at http://localhost/sgi : ln -s /usr/share/doc/stl-manual/html /var/www/sgi
[2010-08-13]	Meld (meld)	Diff tool
[2010-08-31]	Gnome Terminator (terminator)	See Gnome Terminator
[2010-09-01]	Google Earth (googleearth googleearth-data)	Requires Medibuntu repository
[2010-09-03]	Sage 4.2.1	Recovered from AndLinux. Restored old workspaces from ~beq06659/.sage and /root/.sage. See Sage
[2010-09-03]	NTL (libntl-dev, libntl-5.4.2)
[2010-09-03]	GMP (libgmp3-dev,libgmp3c2,gmp-ecm)
[2010-09-06]	Flash Plugin 10 (flashplugin-installer)	First need to enable Ubuntu partner repository (deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner). Next sudo aptitude autoremove "flashplugin-*" sudo aptitude install flashplugin-installer
[2010-09-13]	tnef (tnef,ytnef)	Parsing winmail.dat attachment
[2010-09-14]	Evolution plugins (evolution-plugins-experimental)	For opening Winmail.dat attachment in Evolution
[2010-09-14]	Evolution RSS (evolution-rss)
[2010-09-14]	Quicktime plugin (gnome-mplayer,gecko-mediaplayer)	To play Quicktime content in Opera, Firefox
[2010-09-16]	Recoll desktop search (recoll)	See also Recoll page.
[2010-09-17]	Macbuntu 10.04 theme	See Macbuntu page. Check log + uninstall script in ~/.macbuntu. no wobbly windows, no hot corners.
[2010-09-17]	pdftk (pdftk)
[2010-09-20]	GNU Go (gnugo)
[2010-09-20]	Various Go games (qgo uligo)
[2010-09-20]	Panda glGo 1.4.1 ([3])	Requires libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 (32-bit version! ie. package ia32-libs). Also: sudo ln -s libpython2.6.so.1.0 /usr/lib32/libpython2.5.so.1.0 Start glGo, and enter /usr/games/gnugo for location of gnugo
[2010-09-20]	Quarry (quarry)	Board games Go, Amazons, and Reversi
[2010-09-21]	MDF to ISO Converter (mdf2iso)	CD image conversion utility
[2010-09-21]	MountManager (mountmanager)	...to mount mdf CD images
[2010-09-22]	X File Explorer (xfe)
[2010-09-27]	Oracle/Sun Java JDK 1.6 (sun-java6-jdk)
[2010-09-27]	Eclipse 3.5.2 Galileo (eclipse)
[2010-09-27]	Eclipse 3.6 Helios	local install in ~/eclipse
[2010-09-28]	Javadoc	Installed on http://nxl67002ux/. JDK 1.4.2 in /data/www/javase/1.4.2/docs; JDK 6u21 in /data/www/javase/6/docs
[2010-09-30]	Gimp (gimp)

Un-installed applications (by uninstall date):

[2010-09-16]

Mac4Lin Gnome theme

[2010-09-17] Uninstalled (theme too dark, Macbuntu theme is much better + Opera much better). See Mac4Line page. Installed in ~/mac4lin. Used MakeTechEasier version + Opera user stylesheet fix.

none

Automatic Updates

• [2010-05-03] — Kernel — (linux-image-2.6.32-22-generic, replacing original linux-image-2.6.32-21-generic)

Simple Settings

• GRUB — Added to file /etc/grub.d/40_custom: (Not needed anymore since VirtualBox boots Windows directly, so no risk of booting host again)

  set default="Microsoft Windows XP Professional (on /dev/sda2)"
  

• CRON - cron script for automatic backup of wikis on Noekeon's (see config files).
• PROXY - script for automatic setup of network environment (proxy, ssh...) (see config files).

Detailed System Settings

1st install

• 1st install on [2010-05-03]
• Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS amd64
• Installation method: Net boot install from Internet using GRUB
• Language: English
• Location: Europe, Belgium Time
• Computer name: NXL67002UX
• Keyboard layout: USA, USA
• Name: beq06659
• Login name: beq06659
• Update: Install security updates automatically
• Software to install: Ubuntu Desktop
• Partition: see main page

File System

• For details, see /etc/fstab.
• Windows partition:
  • C: → do not mount automatically. Risk of corruption if mounted while VirtualBox is running!
  • D: → mount as /windows/d.
• File system structure:

/:                                        # /dev/sda7
  lrwxrwxrwx root      root      data -> /mnt/data/
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      net/
  lrwxrwxrwx root      root      sage -> /data/sage-4.2.1/
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      smb/
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      windows/
/data:
  drwxr-xr-x altran    altran    altran/
  drwxr-xr-x beq06659  beq06659  beq06659/
  drwxr-xr-x beq06659  beq06659  sage-4.2.1/
  drwxr-xr-x www-data  root      www/
/home/beq06659:
  lrwxrwxrwx beq06659  beq06659  Documents -> /windows/d/Profiles/beq06659/My Documents/
  lrwxrwxrwx beq06659  beq06659  Maildir -> /data/beq06659/Maildir/
  lrwxrwxrwx beq06659  beq06659  backup -> /data/beq06659/backup/
/mnt:
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      data/    # /windows/d/andlinux/Drives/data.reiserfs.10G.dvi
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      winc/    # /dev/sda2
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      wind/    # /dev/sda5
/net:
  # NFS autofs
/smb:
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      mnemosyne/   # SMB autofs
/var:
  lrwxrwxrwx root      root      www -> /data/www/
/windows:
  lrwxrwxrwx root      root      d -> /mnt/wind/

Network

• Edited /etc/hosts
• Proxy configuration - network nxp:
  • sshproxy → connect to NXP proxy with sshtunnel (with NTLM auth. if needed); forward IMAP/SMTP ports; opens a SOCKS5 proxy
  • privoxy → forward to ssh SOCKS5 proxy. provide http proxy server.
  • apt-get, wget, browsers... → through privoxy (env. set in /etc/bash.bashrc, /etc/profile, /etc/environment)
  • ftp → direct connection (no solution...)
• Proxy configuration - network home:
  • sshproxy → direct connection; forward IMAP/SMTP ports; opens a SOCKS5 proxy (useless).
  • privoxy → direct connection. provide http proxy server.
  • apt-get, wget, browsers... → through privoxy (env. set in /etc/bash.bashrc, /etc/profile, /etc/environment)
  • ftp → direct connection

• SAMBA/NFS CLIENT - Mount mnemosyne shares as NFS autofs (see [4]) and as SMB autofs
• Enabled/created the following automounters in /etc/auto.master:

/net           /etc/auto.net
/smb/mnemosyne /etc/auto.smb.mnemosyne

• Created configuration file /etc/auto.smb.mnemosyne
• Created SMB credential files /etc/auto.smb.mnemosyne.* (see man mount.cifs)
• Created path for mount points:

sudo mkdir /net
sudo mkdir -p /smb/mnemosyne
#ls /net/mnemosyne
#sudo mkdir -p /mnt/mnemosyne
#for i in /net/mnemosyne/volume1/*; do sudo ln -s $i /mnt/mnemosyne/$(basename $i); done

• NXP Wired (see Linux Admin#Network Manager - Search Path)
• Added local domain name be-leu01.nxp.com to /etc/resolv.conf
• NXP Wireless (see Linux Admin#Wireless Network)
• Network name (SSID): WLAN-WBI
• Wireless security: Dynamic WEP (802.1x)
• Authentication: TLS
• Identity: michael.peeters@nxp.com
• User certificate / CA certificate / Private key: imported from Windows (NXP Enterprise CA 1 for Client Authentication, Secure Email, serial 2F DF 1F D4 00 00 00 00 5E 1C)

Preferences

• Theme
The mighty Macbuntu 10.04 theme! Reverted changes:
• Fonts — see below.
• Terminal — Colors select Use colors from system theme (was set to Gray on black built-in schemes). Keep transparent background 95%.
• Panel — add back System Monitor. We don't add back the bottom task panel.
• In Configuration Editor, /apps/metacity/general/button_layout: menu:minimize,maximize,close
• Appearance
• (before Macbuntu) Fonts — Application → Tahoma 9; Document→ Sans 8; Desktop → Sans 8; Title → Sans Bold 9; Fixed width → Monospace 8
• (after Macbuntu) Fonts — Application → Lucida Grande 9; Document→ Lucida Grande 9; Desktop → Lucida Grande 9; Title → Lucida Grande 10; Fixed width → Lucida Console 9 (originally Lucida Console 10)
• Fonts — rename ~/.fonts.conf to ~/.fonts.conf.macbuntu to disable macbuntu hinting settings override.
• Appearance
• Isabelle Hires Noir&Blanc crop-despeckle 936x1200.png, in ~/etc.
• Keyboard Layout (System-Wide)
• Layout: Belgium (default) + USA, no separate layout
  Custlayout Belgium (file /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/be) to allow AltGr-; → '<' and AltGr-: → '>', and support Greek letters with AltGr-Shift.
• Options: Capslock affects all keys, Alt+CapsLock or Right Ctrl+Right Shift switch layout, right alt chooses 3rd level.
  (because Alt+Shift,Left Ctrl+Left Shift prevents ctrl-alt-shift shortcuts to work, Right Ctrl conflicts with VirtualBox)
• Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Action	Remark
Super-E	Home Folder	Hack Super is mapped to Win keys not needed anymore it seems
Shift-Super-E	Expo key
Shift-Alt-Space	Activate the window menu	was conflicting with Gnome DO shortcut

• Window List Panel (see here)
• Window List Content → Show windows from all workspaces
• Restoring Minimized Windows → Restore to native workspace
• Fonts
• System fonts (/usr/local/share/fonts):

Added BitStream Vera 1.10

Added jsMath fonts (Linux variant, darkness 20 file, see here)

Added all jsMath extra fonts (dark version from this page)

• User fonts (~/.fonts):

Added Tahoma

• Compiz
• Static Application Switcher: Use Alt-Tab for Next Window (current workspace)
• Scale: Multi-Output Mode → On all output devices, darken background, Emblem for overlay icon
• Ring Switcher: Enabled + Use Super-Alt for Next Windows (All Workspaces) + Allow Mouse Selection
• Enhanced Zoom Desktop: Disabled
• Negative: Disabled
• Desktop Wall: enabled Edge Flip Move.
• Put : disabled Put Pointer, enabled Put To Next Output (Superz) selected Avoid Offscreen.

Frequently used Compiz shortcuts

Shortcut	Action	Remark
ControlAltLeft ControlAltRight	Desktop Wall - Move
ShiftControlAltLeft ShiftControlAltRight	Desktop Wall - Move with window
ShiftSupere	Expo Key
AltF7	Move Window
Superz	Windows Put To Next Output
AltF8	Resize Window
SuperTab ShiftSuperTab	Ring Switcher	(All Workspaces)
Superw Supera / TopLeft / TopRight	Scale windows	Current viewport All windows
AltTab ShiftAltTab	Static application switcher	Current viewport

• Windows
• Movement Key: Super (Windows logo)
  because Alt-mouse is used in OpenOffice to move columns / rows

Detailed Application Settings

Courier IMAP

• Install (reference here):
  • Create directories for web-based administration
  • SSL Certificate: /etc/courier/pop3d.pem, /etc/courier/imapd.pem
  • Postfix configuration: local only
  • System mail name: nxl67002ux.wbi.nxp.com
  • Created /etc/courier/userdb, and kept entries for root, localuser and beq06659
  • Use password from /etc/courier/userdb (method authuserdb).

Firefox

• Theme: macfox3 1.1.4
• Extensions:
  • AutoPager 0.6.1.12
  • Cycle Input Focus 1.0.0
  • Delicious Bookmarks 2.1.072
  • Fast Dial 2.23b1
  • FireGestures 1.5.7
  • Live HTTP headers 0.16
  • User Agent Switcher 0.7.2

Gnome DO

• Autostart, Quiet mode, notification icon, Glass theme
• Launch key: <alt>+space (! disable first Gnome global shortcut for Activate the window menu)

LAMP

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-server mysql-client php5-mysql
# --> Defined password for MySQL root user
sudo vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
# --> Added lines at line 32:
#     #MIP CUSTOM
#     ServerName "nxl67002ux"
# Restart apache server to activate php module...
sudo /etc/init.d/apache restart

# Move www root dir to /data disk
sudo mv /var/www /data
sudo ln -s /f /data/www /var/www

• Apache configuration file is at /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
• By default, Apache root http directory is /var/www

# Create database that will store local copies of noekeon.org crypto and mikiwiki wiki, and todolist
mysql --user=root -p mysql
mysql> CREATE DATABASE cryptokiwi;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON cryptokiwi.* TO kiwi@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '********';
mysql> CREATE DATABASE mikiwiki;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mikiwiki.* TO miki@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '********';
mysql> CREATE DATABASE mikido;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mikido.* TO miki@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '********';
mysql> quit

Nautilus

• Default view: List View
• Display, date format: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss
• List View: zoom 33%
• Icon View, Compact View: zoorm 66%
• Preview: all set to Never, and only for files smaller than 500kB (to prevent thumbnailing PDFs...)

Psi

(recovered from previous settings on Gryphon at ~/.psi)

• Gnome: Added Psi as startup program (Psi, /usr/bin/psi, Communicate over the jabber network).
• Options → Events → Enable popup notifications (all notifications)
• Modify Account... → Changed resource to work-ux
• Modify Account... → Automatically reconnect if disconnected
• Modify Account... → Proxy → localhost:8118

SSH

• Installed SSH-Tunnel
• Files recovered from other installation (ssh-tunnel v2.26 + patch):

/usr/local/bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ssh-agent-refresh_andlinux.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ssh-agent-refresh.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ssh.pl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ssh-tunnel.pl

• User beq06659 - configuration file in directory ~/.ssh:
  • id_rsa || id_rsa.pub || authorized_keys || config* || proxy.conf* || clbanner.txt
• Disabled SSH Key Agent from Gnome Startup Applications

Terminal

• My custom configuration

Vim

• Added ~/.bash_complete from [5] (modified to also take alias v=gvim)

VirtualBox

• Installed with apt, version 3.2.0
• VirtualBox is launched as user root (because it seems that only the current user and root can access PulseAudio in a same X session — see [6])
• Create vmdk to boot windows partition /dev/sda2. Update the MBR code to remove GRUB. Repeat this every time the partitions change:

sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=opensource.mbr bs=512 count=1
sudo apt-get install mbr                                 # For command "install-mbr"
sudo install-mbr -i n -p D -t 0 opensource.mbr
sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename nxl67002-sda2-mbr.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 2 -relative -mbr opensource.mbr

• Allow user beq06659 to launch VirtualBox through user root. Add to /etc/sudoers:

beq06659	ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/VirtualBox

• Helper script to add to e.g. ~/bin :

#First allow user vbox to connect to X11
#xhost +SI:localuser:vbox
#sudo su vbox -c /usr/bin/VirtualBox&

#New config - run VirtualBox as root to allow sound
sudo /usr/bin/VirtualBox&

• Host-only network vboxnet0
  • IPv4 address/mask 192.168.11.150/255.255.255.0 (same as AndLinux)
  • DHCP Server address/mask 192.168.11.1/255.255.255.0, Lower/Upper address bound 192.168.11.2/192.168.11.99
• Virtual machine NXL67002
  • Base Memory 1536 MB, 2 cpus, VT-x/AMD-V enabled, Nested Paging enabled
  • Video memory 48 MB, 2 monitors, 3D accel enabled, 2D accel enabled
  • Audio host driver PulseAudio, controller ICH AC97
  • Network PCnet-FAST III, bridged, eth0
  • Network PCnet-FAST III, Host-only adapter, vboxnet0
  • Machine folder: permanent, full access, /windows/d as d
  • Default layount: seamless mode, extended desktop (windows taskbar on external monitor, gnome taskbar on primary monitor, workspace switcher panel on top bar)

Wine

See Wine own page.

To Do

• Try avahi for ZeroConf name resolution and get rid of /etc/hosts.
• Issue - ssh disconnects after some time, autossh can't reconnect. Even doing a simple ssh does not work anymore. Might be due to broken ssh-agent
  • Disable auto-run of Gnome ssh-agent, enabled back my ss-agent script
• Issue - synergy unstable. Sometimes CTRL key does not work anymore in the client...
  • Look for alternatives: Synergy+ (SynergyPlus), or x2x (see Synergy page on wikipedia).
• Issue - VirtualBox - UE slower gui refresh since update to VirtualBox 3.2.4 (previous version was 3.2.0)
• Issue - Wireless continuously connect / disconnect. It seems I'm not the only one.
• ToDo - look at Compact Human Theme (see Delicious)
• ToDo - look at Legacy font hinting engine (see Delicious)
• Issue - udevd eats CPU resource! Same problem as [7]. Bug reported here. More here. Partial workaround:

sudo service udevd stop
sudo service udevd start     # After this unfortunately there is no battery state icon anymore (unless reboot, or maybe suspend)
udevadm monitor              # Check that there is no events triggered

• Issue — Midnight Commander does not colorize different file types. Check here.
  • SOLVED — Use mc official repository instead. See MC page
• ToDo - Try to make Nautilus more space efficient. Look at Idea #23573. Try Thunar or PCManFM, or Xfe (the latter does not use gtk theme)
  • Similar requests on forum: Nautilus is Too Big and Dull (→ change DPI to 84,...), How to best utilize screen real estate in Gnome, Icon Size.
  • Try vifm (based on vim, see [8]), or emelFM2 (based on GTK2), or Gnome Commander
• Also for Eclipse:
  • See Making Eclipse look good on Linux (install Liberation fonts, set resolution 99dpi, tweak gtkrc file, install compact themes like compact clearlooks or human...)
  • See Clearlooks Compact Gnome Theme
  • See How to Make a Compact Gnome Theme. This is a must-read! Also in the comments there is a script that can compact all themes automatically. See also Human Compact Theme for Ubuntu 8.10.
  • See Solved - Eclipse looks good in Ubuntu now
  • See Gnome / Gtk+ themes tutorial.