Nxl67002 - Ubuntu

Introduction

This is the configuration page for the Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 partition on NXL670002.

Configuration Files

All configuration files can be found here.

Installed Applications

• [2010-03-24] VIM (vim)
• [2010-03-24] Gnome DO (gnome-do)
• [2010-03-24] Opera 10.10
• [2010-03-25] Synergy (synergy)
• [2010-03-25] Autofs (autofs)
• [2010-03-25] Samba (samba smbfs)
• [2010-03-25] NFS Client (nfs-common)
• [2010-03-25] Midnight Commander (mc) (see reference page)
• [2010-03-25] NTFS Progs (ntfsprogs)
• [2010-03-25] MBR (mbr) (...for VirtualBox...)
• [2010-03-26] NT SAM password recovery utility (ntchpw) (...for VirtualBox...)

Un-installed applications (by uninstall date): none

Simple Settings

None

Detailed System Settings

1st install

• 1st install on [2010-03-24]
• Distribution: Ubuntu 9.10 amd64
• Installation method: Net boot install from Internet using GRUB (see here)

First copy files initrd.gz and linux from here to /boot, then in GRUB command-line (press c in GRUB menu):

root (hd0,6)
linux /boot/linux 
initrd /boot/initrd.gz
boot

• Language: English
• Location: Europe, Belgium Time
• Computer name: NXL670002UX
• 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

TBC

Network

To be completed

Preferences

• Appearance
• Fonts: All font size set to 8, except Title → 9.
• Keyboard Layout (System-Wide)
• Layout: Belgium (default) + USA, no separate layout
• Options: capslock affects all keys, shift+alt and alt+alt switch layout, right alt chooses 3rd level
• Keyboard Shortcuts

Action	Shortcut	Remark
Home Folder	Win-E (Mod4-E)	Hack Super is mapped to Win keys not needed anymore it seems
Expo key	Shift-Win-E (Shift-Mod4-E)
Activate the window menu	Shift-Alt-Space	was conflicting with Gnome DO shortcut

• Window List Panel (see here)
Window List Content → Show windows from all workspace
Restoring Minimized Windows → Restore to native workspace

Update / Package Management

To be completed

Users

To be completed

Detailed Application Settings

Gnome DO

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

Nautilus

• Default view: List View
• Display, date format: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss
• List View: zoom 33%

Terminal

• Set default window size (system-wide) to 150x43.
• Disabled menu shortcut key (F10)

VirtualBox

• See reference page
• Installation
  • Added group vboxusers
  • Compiled new vboxdrv module
• Added beq06659 to group vboxusers
• Virtual machine NXL670002
  • Base Memory 1894 MB
  • Create raw disk for /dev/sda2

sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename nxl670002-sda2.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 2

To Do

• Install Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit!