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Introduction

This is the configuration page for the Ubuntu Precise 12.04 partition on NXL67170.

Configuration Files

All configuration files can be found here.

Repositories

Added texlive-backports ppa (backports of latest TeX Live from Ubuntu 12.10, see [1])

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:texlive-backports/ppa

Added LibreOffice 4.0.x PPA (LibreOffice 4.0.x series stable backports ppa, see [2])

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-4-0
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome

Installed Applications

Common applications

See Common configuration for Linux.

Essential

VirtualBox (`virtualbox-4.3`)	[2013-10-29] — Updated to 4.3.0! See virtual machine configuration log. Installed with apt (original version 4.2.8) VirtualBox is launched as user vbox (see VirtualBox) Create launcher `~/.local/share/applications/virtualbox-root.desktop` (<file name="virtualbox-root.desktop" tag="source">download</file>) #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Terminal=false Icon[en_US]=VBox Name[en_US]=Oracle VM VirtualBox (vbox user) Exec=/home/beq06659/bin/vbox.sh Comment[en_US]=Run several virtual systems on a single host computer Name=Oracle VM VirtualBox (vbox user) Comment=Run several virtual systems on a single host computer Icon=VBox Script to reset network / bluetooth after suspend / network env. change (see VirtualBox)
Privoxy (`privoxy`)
Gufw (`gufw`)	graphical front-end to ufw
SSH Tunnel script (`sshtunnel.pl`, `libssl-dev`)	Thierry Walrant's Perl script sshtunnel.pl
LAMP (`apache2 php5 mysql-server mysql-client php5-mysql`)	See local config
PHPMyAdmin (`phpmyadmin`)	Install for apache2 + configure phpmyadmin database + see local config
dwww (`dwww`)
Courier IMAP (`courier-imap courier-doc courier-imap-ssl`)	Install instructions and local settings
Courier-POP3 (`courier-pop courier-pop-ssl`)
qmail (`ucspi-tcp qmail qmail-run qmail-uids-gids`)	See qmail page — added qmail-run qmail-uids-gids to get SMTP service
NTP (`ntp`)	synchronize with NTP server automatically add to /etc/ntp.conf: server wbi.nxp.com iburst
HTTrack (`httrack`)
WireShark (`wireshark tshark`)
TrueCrypt	v7.1a, with AES-NI instructions!
Samba Server (`samba smbfs`)	See local config
ACL (`acl`)
Google Chrome (`chromium-browser`)
Thunderbird (`thunderbird`)
Wine (`wine`)	See Wine page
Psi (`psi`)	See local config
CUPS PDF (`cups-pdf`)	Allow CUPS to access ~/PDF: sudo aa-complain cupsd
LaTeX	See LaTeX for install instructions Complete TeXLive 2013 install (at /usr/local/texlive/2013, with symlink at /opt/texbin). Update pdftex.map in the user profile (see [3]): updmap # Update user's pdftex.map
Google Earth (`googleearth googleearth-data`)	Requires Medibuntu repository
Recoll desktop search (`recoll`)	See also Recoll page.
pdftk (`pdftk`)
Git (`git-gui gitk git-doc gitweb`)	[2013-02-20] — Updated to 1.7.10.5 compiled from source. sudo apt-get install autoconf zlib1g-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev expat asciidoc # More packages might be needed git clone git://github.com/gitster/git.git # Use proxygit if behind a proxy cd git make configure # See also INSTALL ./configure --prefix=/usr/local # In // of existing package installation. /usr/local has precedence make all doc sudo make install install-doc install-html [2013-02-20] — Installed tileqt tcl/tk widget theme for gitk (see here). Add system user git but using shell `/usr/bin/git-shell`: sudo adduser --system --home /home/git --shell /usr/bin/git-shell git # Add ssh keys to ~git/.ssh/authorized_keys
Some git browsers (`qgit gitg source-highlight`)	[2013-02-20] gitg updated to 0.0.7!
KDirStat (`kdirstat`)
Color Diff (`colordiff`)
Word Diff (`wdiff`)
Diffuse (`diffuse`)
bsdiff (`bsdiff`)
KDiff3-QT (`kdiff3-qt`)	(QT version has no dep on KDE) Settings → Integration → add `;--` to command line opts to ignore, and check Quit also via Escape key
Diffstat (`diffstat`)
Ack (`ack-grep`)	A better grep... sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ack-grep /usr/local/bin/ack
Ag (`silversearcher-ag`)	A better ack... Installed grom git.
Hexedit (`hexedit`)	Hex editor
Hexer (`hexer`)	Hex editor with vi-like interface
Uncrustify (`uncrustify`)	v0.59, simply compiled from source (`./configure; make; sudo make install`)
socat (`socat`)
multitee (`multitee`)
colortail (`colortail`)
Qiv (`qiv`)
libdvdcss2	Installed via `sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh` (see also [4])
VLC (`vlc`)
pipe viewer (`pv`)
Acrobat Reader (`acroread`)	Edit mime type in ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list: [Added Associations] application/pdf=acroread.desktop;evince.desktop;gimp.desktop Add to ~/.mailcap: application/pdf; acroread '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.pdf application/x-pdf; acroread '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.pdf application/x-bzpdf; acroread '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.pdf.bz2 application/x-gzpdf; acroread '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.pdf.gz Add Digital ID for NXP DocStore
screen (`screen`)
Synergy (`synergy`)	v1.4.10! See local settings.
tmux (`tmux`)	Alternative to screen, but with support for multiple panes like terminator
todo.txt	Copy todo.sh to /usr/local/bin, todo_completion to /etc/bash_completion.d Copy colorSymbols to /usr/local/bin Update colorSymbols filter to process attachment ( `#attach`)
Unison 2.27.57 (`unison2.27.57`)
Compiz scale patch	Fix bug 933776. Via ppa (`sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/fixing-scale`)
encFS (`encfs`)
Pidgin + SIPE (`pidgin pidgin-sipe`)	Configure SIPE plugin as: Basic — Protocol: Office Communicator, Username: michael.peeters@nxp.com, Login: michael.peeters@nxp.com, Password: xxxxx Advanced — Server: sipdir.online.lync.com:443, Connection type: SSL/TLS, User Agent: UCCAPI/4.0.7577.314 OC/4.0.7577.314 (Microsoft Lync 2010), Authentication scheme: TLS-DSK See SIPE FAQ for info on User Agent string.

Development

GNU C/C++ compiler (`g++`)
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
GNU libc documentation (`glibc-doc`)
openJDK 7 (`openjdk-7-jdk openjdk-7-doc`)	Selected alternatives with: sudo update-alternatives --config java sudo update-alternatives --config javac # TODO: Add others (like ant, javah, etc?)
openJDK 6 32-bit (`openjdk-6-jdk:i386`)	Installing after OpenJDK7 brings less dependency issues it seems. See Griffin for alternatives
ia32 libraries (`ia32-libs libc6-dev:i386 gcc-multilib g++-multilib`)	TODO: Seems we should install `ia32-libs-multiarch` though... Installing this package removed some package, so reinstall them back with: sudo apt-get install build-essential g++ dkms \ nvidia-current virtualbox-dkms Compiling with `gcc -m32` still does not work though (missing 32-bit `libgcc.a`). Installing package `gcc-4.6:i386` force removal of many 64-bit packages. Instead we go for solution given here: sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib
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`
Perl-doc html (`perl-doc-html`)	Available from dwww, section Programming/perl
make documentation (`make-doc`)
USB dev libs (`libusb-dev:i386`)	(NXP Telematics ATOP dev)
ARM RVDS 2.2	(NXP Telematics ATOP dev) Recover env. at /cadappl from old install
ATOP 2.5g dev packages (`patchutils lynx ncftp ksh tcsh sysvbanner flex bison dos2unix gawk`)	(NXP Telematics ATOP dev) Main reference: `bb/target/jvm/modules/j9port/srce/doc/build_on_linux.html` Create symlinks for RTK: sudo ln -s /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl sudo mkdir -p /usr/ccs/lib sudo ln -s /usr/bin/cpp /usr/ccs/lib/cpp
udev dev libs (`libudev-dev:i386`)	(NXP Telematics ATOP dev)
custom udev rules	(NXP Telematics ATOP dev) File `/etc/udev/rules.d/10-plugdev_hub.rules` # Even better, this rules also detects board removal, which allow to reset grp to 'root' SUBSYSTEM=="tty", KERNEL=="ttyUSB", RUN+="/etc/udev/rules.d/plugdev_hub.sh" File `plugdev_hub.sh`: #! /bin/bash # Set group to 'plugdev' for given hub device function setgrp() { DEVNAME=/dev/$(udevadm info -q name -p $1) chgrp plugdev $DEVNAME } # Reset group to 'root' if no ttyUSB device found for given hub function resetgrp() { TTYDEVS=$(find $1 -lname "/ttyUSB*") if [ -z "$TTYDEVS" ]; then DEVNAME=/dev/$(udevadm info -q name -p $1) chgrp root $DEVNAME fi } if [ "$ACTION" = "add" -o "$ACTION" = "remove" ]; then F=/sys$DEVPATH while [ "$F" != "/sys" ] ; do if [ -a "$F/bDeviceClass" ] ; then if [ "$(cat $F/bDeviceClass)" == "09" ] ; then if [ "$ACTION" = "add" ]; then setgrp $F # add else resetgrp $F # remove fi break fi fi F=$(dirname $F) done fi
pypy (`pypy`)	Install `pypy` as virtual environment in ~/bin/local/pypy-env (see Python) Install alias in ~/bin/local/bashrc.local: if [ -a ~/bin/local/pypy-env/bin/pypy ]; then alias pypy=~/bin/local/pypy-env/bin/pypy fi

Local applications

MBR (`mbr`)	To create VirtualBox rawdisk
apt-rdepends (`apt-rdepends`)
GraphViz (`graphviz`)	To plot package dependencies with `apt-cache dotty` and `apt-rdepends -d`
Banshee (`banshee`)
nautilus-play-banshee	To play music directly from folders
Feh (`feh`)	Fast and light image viewer (like qiv)
Bluetooth Manager (`blueman`)	To fix re-connect issue with Microsft Sculpt Mouse (see [5], [6])
Mpg123 (`mpg123`)	to play internet radio stream
Audacious (`audacious`)	to play internet radio stream
Stream Tuner 2 & Ripper (`streamtuner2 streamripper`)	get a list of internet radios

Uninstalled

Application (package) [YYYY-MM-DD] uninstalled (reason)

Simple Settings

SUDO - keep environment variable http_proxy, https_proxy (to keep proxy settings for apt-get etc)
SUDO - keep environment variable GREP_OPTIONS (keep grep options)
SUDO - keep environment variable DISPLAY, XAUTHORITY (avoid doing xhost local:root before launching X pgm)
SUDO - keep environment variable HOME (e.g. to keep git aliases and settings when using etckeeper)

Defaults        env_reset
Defaults        env_keep += "http_proxy https_proxy GREP_OPTIONS DISPLAY XAUTHORITY HOME"

SUDO - Allow truecrypt and rfkill w/o password:

ALL     ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/truecrypt
ALL     ALL=NOPASSWD: /sbin/rfkill

CRON - Add cron script ~/etc/crontab-noekeon (backup of wikis on Noekeon.org)
PROXY - script for automatic setup of network environment (proxy, ssh...) (see config files).
Security — Disabled control-alt-del in console as recommended in Ubuntu Server Guide. Comment out the following line in the file /etc/init/control-alt-delete.conf:

#exec shutdown -r now "Control-Alt-Delete pressed"

Add user www for synchronization of /data/www folder (localhost page):

sudo useradd -g www-data -G users -u 999 -s /bin/bash -m www
sudo passwd www
su - www
ssh-keygen                                         # Or copy .ssh/ copy from other www users
scp .ssh/id_rsa.pub .ssh/authorized_keys

~/bin — Convert scripts for new hostname nxl6717ux and NXL67170 (see ~/bin/restore_wiki.sh, ~/bin/generate_wiki_page.sh, ~/bin/set-network.sh, files in ~/.unison)
Force locale time to en_US.UTF-8. Add to ~/.profile:

export LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"

For Telematics build environment

CRON - Add cron script ~/work/NXP/ATOP/crontab-svn-fetch (fetch svn database automatically)
Printer — add Canon network printer (select IPP network printer via DNS-SD for protocol)

Detailed System Settings

1st install

2nd install on [2013-02-20]
Distribution: Ubuntu 12.04 amd64
Installation method: Net boot install from Internet using GRUB
Language: English
Location: Europe, Belgium Time
Computer name: nxl67170ux
Keyboard layout: BE
Name: beq06659
Login name: beq06659
Update: No automatic update
Software to install: Ubuntu Desktop
Partition: see main page

Upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr

Get list of packages not coming from repositories

apt-show-versions | grep -v uptodate

Add back some repositories

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:recoll-backports/recoll-1.15-on
sud apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Remove / reinstall obsolete packages

sudo apt-get purge app-install-data-medibuntu medibuntu-keyring psmouse-dkms adobeair
sudo apt-get install git-annex=5.20140412ubuntu1

Reinstall grub (to fix file not found error messages at boot [7])

sudo grub-install --directory=/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/sda
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Kernel

Initial kernel: Precise Pangolin 3.2.0-38-generic (see Ubuntu page).

File System

For details, see /etc/fstab.
- NTFS — C: → do not mount automatically. Risk of corruption if mounted while VirtualBox is running!
  Also NTFS partition must be mounted without umask=007,gid=46, or will get operation not permitted when modifying timestamps:
- Reiserfs — / → enable acl
- ext4 — /data → enable acl and data=writeback

/dev/sda2               /c          ntfs        ro,users,nls=utf8,exec                0       2
UUID=...                /           reiserfs    notail,noatime,acl                    0       1
UUID=...                /data       etc4        defaults,noatime,data=writeback,acl   0       2

File system structure:

/:                                        
  drwxr-xr-x  root      root      boot/       # /dev/sda3
  drwxr-xr-x  root      root      c/          # /dev/sda2
  lrwxrwxrwx  root      root      d -> /data/d/
  drwxr-xr-x  root      root      data/       # /dev/sda8
  drwxr-xr-x  root      root      net/
  lrwxrwxrwx  root      root      sage -> /data/sage-6.0/
  drwxr-xr-x  root      root      smb/
  drwxr-xr-x  root      root      win/
/data:
  drwxrwsr-x+ beq06659  vbox      d/
  drwxr-xr-x  root      root      home/
  drwxr-xr-x  beq06659  beq06659  sage-6.0/
  drwxr-sr-x+ root      www-data  www/
/home/beq06659:
  lrwxrwxrwx  beq06659  beq06659  Documents -> /d/documents/
/net:
  # NFS autofs
/smb:
  drwxr-xr-x  root      root      mnemosyne/   # SMB autofs
/var:
  lrwxrwxrwx  root      root      www -> /data/www/

Configure acl on /data/d:

# VirtualBox uses /data/d as Windows D: drive. Since VirtualBox runs as 'vbox', all files gets vbox/vbox ownership.
# beq06659 user is in group 'vbox' so he can access all files created by vbox.
# We use acl so that files gets group access vbox/rwx, so that vbox can also access any file created by other users.
# OLD CONFIG:
# # VirtualBox uses /data/d as Windows D: drive. Since VirtualBox runs as 'root', all files gets root/root ownership.
# # We use acl so that files gets group access beqO6659/rwx by default
cd /data
sudo chgrp -R vbox d
sudo chmod -R g+w d
find d -type d -print0|sudo xargs -0 chmod g+s
find d -type d -print0|sudo xargs -0 setfacl -m d:group:vbox:rwx

Configure acl on /data/www:

# Set default access condition to rwxr-xr-x / www / www-data
cd /data
sudo chgrp -R www-data www
find www -type d -print0|sudo xargs -0 chmod g+s
find www -type d -print0|sudo xargs -0 setfacl -m d:group:www-data:r-x
find www -type d -print0|sudo xargs -0 setfacl -m d:user:www:r-x           # TODO: this one does not work with root...

Network

Edited /etc/hosts (added names for intranet)
Added to /etc/apt/apt.conf:

Acquire::http::proxy "http://localhost:8118/";
Acquire::ftp::proxy "ftp://localhost:8118/";
Acquire::https::proxy "https://localhost:8118/";

Added to /etc/environment:

http_proxy="http://localhost:8118/"
ftp_proxy="ftp://localhost:8118/"
https_proxy="https://localhost:8118/"

.pac files:
- privoxy: file:///home/beq06659/etc/proxylocal-privoxy.pac (or http://localhost/proxy.pac to circumvent Opera bug)
- nxp: http://nww.nics.nxp.com:8080/proxy.pac
/etc/sudoers — keep variables http_proxy and https_proxy
Proxy configurations

NXP network
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 (through environment variables or .pac file)
ftp	Direct connection (no solution...)
HOME network
sshproxy	Direct connection Forward IMAP/SMTP ports Opens a SOCKS5 proxy (not used)
privoxy	Direct connection Provide http proxy server.
apt-get, wget, browsers	through privoxy (through environment variables or .pac file)
ftp

SAMBA/NFS CLIENT - Mount mnemosyne shares as NFS autofs (see [8]) 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 (mount options: noperm,iocharset=utf8,credentials=/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

Added local domain name be-leu01.nxp.com to /etc/resolv.conf (! do not edit this file directly, see Linux Admin#Network Manager - Search Path)

NXP Wireless (see Linux Admin#Wireless Network)

Network name (SSID): WLAN-NXP
Wireless security: WPA & WPA2 Enterprise
Authentication: TLS
Identity: beq06659
User certificate / CA certificate / Private key: imported from Windows (EMEA-CA, exp. 2014-02-18, for Client Authentication, Secure Email)

Privoxy settings:

Added to /etc/privoxy/user.action:

{ -filter }
tennislibre.com

Add filter settings for chromanova web-radio (config file):

# 3 forward rules for chromanova radio
forward             85.25.86.69         emea.nics.nxp.com:8080
forward             91.143.81.239       emea.nics.nxp.com:8080
forward             212.112.241.88      emea.nics.nxp.com:8080

Firewall

Moved user rules to /etc/ufw so that they can be tracked by etckeeper

cd /lib/ufw
sudo mv user* /etc/ufw
sudo ln -s /etc/ufw/user.rules
sudo ln -s /etc/ufw/user6.rules

Enabled ufw

sudo ufw enable

Policy:

sudo ufw allow from 192.168.11.2                   # Enable full access from local virtualbox
sudo ufw allow from 172.19.0.0/16 to any port 22   # Enable - from home local network - SSH

Preferences

Fonts (via ubuntu-tweak):

Category	Font	Size
Default Font	Ubuntu	9
Desktop Font	Sans	9
Monospace font	Lucida Console Semi-Condensed	10
Document font	Sans	10
Window title bar font	Ubuntu Bold	10

Hinting: Basic
Antialiasing: Subpixel antialising (LCD screens only)

Keyboard

Assign Ctrl-Alt-Del to Shutdown dialog

Appearance

Launcher icon size: 32

Desktop icons (via ubuntu-tweak)

Show desktop icons: ON (switching off disable the wallpaper as well!)

File Manager (via ubuntu-tweak)

Use the location entry instead of the pathbar: ON

Displays

Sticky edges: OFF
Launcher placement: leftmost screen only (or we will have sticky edge on the middle edge)

Theme

MacBuntu 14.04 theme from NoobSlab

Wallpaper: no change, keep Pirate Mac.jpg.
Docky: not installed
Theme, icon, cursors: Mbuntu-x, Mbuntu-xl, Mac-cursors (via unity tweak tool)

Mbuntu splash:

Mbuntu theme for LightDM:

Edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf to enable this webkit theme:

diff --git a/lightdm/lightdm.conf b/lightdm/lightdm.conf
-greeter-session=unity-greeter
+greeter-session=lightdm-webkit-greeter

Indicator synapse:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/apps
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-synapse

Replace Ubuntu Desktop: Not done
Replace Overlay Scroll-bars with Normal: Not done
Remove White Dots and Ubuntu Logo from Lock Screen:

sudo xhost +SI:localuser:lightdm
sudo su lightdm -s /bin/bash
gsettings set com.canonical.unity-greeter draw-grid false;exit
sudo mv /usr/share/unity-greeter/logo.png /usr/share/unity-greeter/logo.png.backup
# To uninstall:
# sudo xhost +SI:localuser:lightdm
# sudo su lightdm -s /bin/bash
# gsettings set com.canonical.unity-greeter draw-grid true;exit
# sudo mv /usr/share/unity-greeter/logo.png.backup /usr/share/unity-greeter/logo.png

Apple Logo in Launcher:

wget -O launcher_bfb.png http://drive.noobslab.com/data/Mac-14.04/launcher-logo/apple/launcher_bfb.png
sudo mv launcher_bfb.png /usr/share/unity/icons/
# To uninstall:
# wget -O launcher_bfb.png http://drive.noobslab.com/data/Mac-14.04/launcher-logo/ubuntu/launcher_bfb.png
# sudo mv launcher_bfb.png /usr/share/unity/icons/

Auto-hide Unity Launcher: done
Unity Tweak Tool to change Themes & Icons: done
Install Monochrome icons for Libreoffice:

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-style-sifr

After installation go to LibreOffice menu select "Tools" > "Options" > "LibreOffice" > "View" and select "Sifr" under "Icon size and style"

(Optional) Mac fonts:

wget -O mac-fonts.zip http://drive.noobslab.com/data/Mac-14.04/macfonts.zip
sudo unzip mac-fonts.zip -d /usr/share/fonts; rm mac-fonts.zip
sudo fc-cache -f -v

Default font: Lucida Sans 9

Document font: Lucida Sans 10

Monospace font: Lucida Console Semi-Condensed 10

Window title font: Luncida Sans Unicode Bold 10

Theme

Macbuntu 10.04

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 as an additional ESC key,

Alt+CapsLock or Right Ctrl+Right Shift switch layout ((because Alt+Shift,Left Ctrl+Left Shift prevents ctrl-alt-shift shortcuts to work, Right Ctrl conflicts with VirtualBox))

right alt

Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Action	Remark
Super-E	Home Folder	Hack Super is mapped to Win keys not needed anymore it seems

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

General Option - Move Window: SuButton2
because AButton3 is used in OpenOffice to move columns / rows
Static Application Switcher: Use AAlt for Next Window (current workspace)
Scale: Multi-Output Mode → On all output devices, darken background, Emblem for overlay icon
Ring Switcher: Enabled + Use SuTab 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 (bold are custom ones)
Shortcut	Action	Remark
`SASpace` `SuButton3`	General Options - Window Menu
`CALeft` `CARight`	Desktop Wall - Move
`SCALeft` `SCARight`	Desktop Wall - Move with window
`SSue`	Expo Key
`AF7`	Move Window
`Suz`	Windows Put To Next Output
`AF8` `SuButton2`	Resize Window
`SuTab` `SSuTab`	Ring Switcher	(All Workspaces)
`Suw` `Sua` / `TopLeft` / `TopRight`	Scale windows	Current viewport All windows
`ATab` `SATab`	Static application switcher	Current viewport
`SuAlt`	Ubuntu Unity Plugin Key to show the HUD when tapped

Users

sudo gpasswd -a $USER dialout    # for access to /dev/ttyUSB0
sudo gpasswd -a $USER fuse       # to allow mounting FUSE fs (like curlftpfs)

Detailed Application Settings

Amarok

Select PulseAudio as preferred device (instead of sound output HDA Intel (STAC92xx Analog)
Set proxy settings in ~/.kde/share/config/kioslaverc.

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).
Recovered most files from nxl67002ux, but it failed at first because users where assigned different UID!!!
Make sure users have identical UID, or courier will complain it has not the permission to access Maildir/p

Firefox

Theme: macfox3 1.1.7
Extensions (some disabled because Firefox hangs on launch/exit):
- AutoPager 0.7.0.0 — disabled
- Belgium eID 1.0.11 — disabled
- CHM Reader 0.2.3
- Cycle Input Focus 1.0.0 — disabled
- Delicious Bookmarks 2.3.1
- Fast Dial 3.4
- FireGestures 1.5.7 — disabled
- FoxyProxy Standard 3.3
- Live HTTP headers 0.17
- Ubuntu Firefox Modifications 0.9rc2
- User Agent Switcher 0.7.3 — disabled

LAMP

Install the servers:

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 -sf /data/www /var/www

Apache:

configuration file is at /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Apache root http directory is /var/www
Enable mod-rewrite module.
In /etc/apache2/sites-available/default, change as: AllowOverride NoneFileInfo (twice).

Create databases that will store local copies of cryptokiwi and mikiwiki wiki, and of mikido:

MYSQL_HISTFILE=/dev/null 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> CREATE DATABASE nxpwiki;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON nxpwiki.* TO nxp@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '********';
mysql> quit

Enabled HTTPS (requires valid-user)
Firewall blocks port 80 but allow port 443 (so that localhost can connect w/o password but other guest needs password)

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...)

Opera

(nxp) Import collabnet client-side certificate (beq06659.pfx)
Change fonts (Preferences → webpages — requires restart for changes to take effect!):
- Normal font: DejaVu Sans, 16.
- Monospace font: DejaVu Sans Mono, 16.

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

Samba

See Samba server page on this wiki.
File /etc/samba/smb.conf:

   security = user
   username map = /etc/samba/smbusers

# [...]

[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = no
 
# [...]
 
[c]
   comment = Windows Drive C
   browseable = yes
   path = /win/c
   printable = no
   guest ok = no
   read only = yes
   create mask = 0700

[d]
   comment = Windows Drive D
   browseable = yes
   path = /win/d
   printable = no
   guest ok = no
   read only = yes
   create mask = 0700

Added user beq06659
Opened firewall ports (137/udp, 138/udp, 139/tcp, 445/tcp)

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
Added startup application:
- Name: startup.sh
- Command: /home/beq06659/bin/startup.sh
- Comment: Custom startup script
Do not accept locale env var. LC_* from the client (see SSH#Missing Locale in Perl)

Terminal

My custom configuration

Vim

Added ~/.bash_completion from [9] (modified to also take alias v=gvim)

Wine

See Configuration NXP Dell Latitude E5430 - Wine.

To Do

Issues (Precise)

Issue — Git — Cannot install tileqt (tcl theme) to beautify gitk.
Issue — TeX Live still old version (2009) — This may be the cause of errors LaTeX Font Warning: Some font shapes were not available, defaults substituted. (see [10])
- fixed — install TeX Live 2012 from backports repository.
Issue — Annoying file C:\nppdf32Log\debuglog.txt. Caused by acroread plugin (see [11], [12], [13]). A solution would be to edit nppdf.so with hex editor.
Issue — Acrobat reader leaves ghost process SynchronizerApp-binary. Disable it!
Issue — Opera fonts too small, not as good as windows.
- partial fix — Increase default font size to 16 (Preferences → webpages). See also page Make linux looks like Windows/Mac
Issue — Touchpad scroll not working, detected as ps/2 mouse.
- partial fix — Install Kevin Cernekee's DKMS package (see below and bug 606238). See also [14] for more solutions.

sudo -s
add-apt-repository ppa:cernekee/ppa
apt-get update
apt-get install psmouse-dkms
reboot

Issue — Annoying popup failure to download extra data files flashplugin-installer. See bug 977178 and bug 982684.
Pop-up is from update-notified. Might be related to sudo ignoring some environment variables / profile.
- tentative fix — sudo apt-get --reinstall install flashplugin-installer
Issue — Synergy, still heavy keyboard corruption issue (v.1.4.10), in particular ctrl stuck key (must reboot to fix), and custom layout not honored (my custom belgian on us layout).
Issue — Virtualbox module not recompiling (broken DKMS)
- tentative fix — See Virtualbox
Issue — Can't reconnect to Bluetooth Microsoft Sculpt Mouse.
- Solved — Install Bluetooth manager (package blueman). See [15], bug 1094744.
Issue — animated gifs do not work.
- Solved — This is a feature of privoxy, to ban ads using such animation. It can be disabled (via setting deanimate_gifs), or better yet, temporarily disable privoxy, and clear cache/reload the page.
Issue — Acrobat reader, errant tooltips
- Solved — Click on the document area. Tooltips appears when the focus is on the document tab.
- Other solution, see Banishing errant tooltips (using Xlib and Python)

Issues (Trusty)

Issue — Controlling laptop brightness via brightness keys is very slow (small delta, long latency). See bug 847001 (and possibly related kernel bug. See also X page for work-arounds.
- Solved — Enable vendor acpi in grub and use the 20-intel.conf script as explained on X page.
Issue — Fonts in Opera look really ugly. Note that Opera did not upgrade (still v12.16). Other applications do not seem affected.
Issue — xdotool can no longer move (unmaximized) windows to top left corner (see bug 1312412)
Issue — lots of failure due to pcscd in /var/log/syslog (see below). apt-get remove pcscd as temporary fix.

Apr 29 14:28:22 nxl67170ux pcscd: ifdwrapper.c:348:IFDStatusICC() Card not transacted: 612
Apr 29 14:28:22 nxl67170ux pcscd: eventhandler.c:313:EHStatusHandlerThread() Error communicating to: O2 Micro Oz776 00 00
Apr 29 14:28:22 nxl67170ux kernel: [  754.501492] usb 1-1.3.2: usbfs: process 1883 (pcscd) did not claim interface 0 before use
Apr 29 14:28:22 nxl67170ux kernel: [  754.501546] usb 1-1.3.2: usbfs: process 1883 (pcscd) did not claim interface 0 before use
Apr 29 14:28:22 nxl67170ux pcscd: pcscdaemon.c:684:at_exit() write() failed: Connection refused

Issue — XBMC Frodo 12.3 cannot read DVD (from disc media or from hdd). Filed as bug 1315873.
- Work around — Install XBMC Gotham 13.0 from xbmc ppa (see XBMC).
Issue — GPU hangs stuck on render ring + dmesg error - see bug 76956 and bug 77104
- Could be related to the recent switch to SNA acceleration (instead of old uxa). See [16], [17]
- see here for instruction on how to enable / disable sna)
- Using SNA might require xorg-edges drivers
- Or try this ppa grphics-drivers (suggested from freedesktop.org)
- See Phoronix benchmarks
Issue — keyboard shortcut for Indicator-synapse does not work.
Issue — auto-completion works badly with command starting with sudo (lots of false positive).
- Fix — This is due to doing complete -cF sudo in bash profile, which was necessary since u12.04 or so. However in u14.04 is no longer necessary. Removing it fixes the problem.

To Do

To Do — Set up smtp server for localhost (to allow sending mail to remote server from local smtp)
To Do — See To Do / Issue list on Configuration NXP Dell Latitude E6500
To Do — recoll, install more filters: python:epub, python:midi, python:rarfile (see ~/.recoll/missing)
To Do — Install macbuntu or similar theme, if available
To Do — See Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr guides
To Do — Things to try, as demo'ed by Alicia Da Conceicao on her Surface Pro 2:
- MS Office on Wine + Play on Linux
- Connect to MS Exchange using Evolution
- Connect to MS Lync using Online Buddy (Pidgin)

Done & Fixed

Fixed — Issue description
Fix description
Done — Description

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 ** See [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_glamor_first&num=5 Phoronix benchmarks]
 * '''{{red|Issue}}''' &mdash; keyboard shortcut for ''Indicator-synapse'' does not work.
+* '''Issue''' &mdash; auto-completion works badly with command starting with <code>sudo</code> (lots of false positive).
+** '''{{green|Fix}}''' &mdash; This is due to doing <code>complete -cF sudo</code> in bash profile, which was necessary since u12.04 or so. However in u14.04 is no longer necessary. Removing it fixes the problem.
 === To Do ===

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