Archive for the ‘Ubuntu’ Category
Adding G+ to your KDE Desktop
Adding Google+ to your desktop is simple for KDE users. Simply download and install the PhoneWebView Plasmoid and use the following url as your default url https://m.google.com/app/plus/?force=1 There you have it..a beautiful mobile view of G+ right on your KDE Desktop!
October 13, 2011
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Angel · 
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Tags: kde linux kubuntu ubunut · Posted in: Computers, Ubuntu
Re-enable alsa channels in Kmix for Kubuntu 10.10
So I installed Kubuntu 10.10 only to find it’s now using pulseaudio. In all honesty it seems to work fine with one exception. Kmix the system tray volume manager & mixer only showed pulseaudio channels instead of my standard alsa channels. I could access them fine by going to command prompt and typing alsamixer, but [...]
December 8, 2010
· Angel · 4 Comments
Tags: kubuntu kmix pulseaudio · Posted in: Computers, Ubuntu
LOTRO Going Free to play & pylotro
Well Lord of the rings online is going free to play on the 10th of September. Some of us over at the Ubuntu forums were wondering if pylotro would be updated. So I email the developer and asked him and he has since posted over at the forums that he indeed plans on updating pylotro [...]
August 20, 2010
· Angel · No Comments
Tags: 10.04, DDO, Lotro, lucid lynx, pylotro kubuntu, Ubuntu · Posted in: Computers, Games, Ubuntu
LOTRO & DDO on Kubuntu 10.04
I wanted to share how I have gotten both Lord of the Rings Online & Dungeons & Dragons Online Eberron Unlimited working on my Kubuntu 10.04 install My Methods will require you to either have a copy of windows running in virtualbox or a dualboot with a working LOTRO install. First I downloaded pylotro Though [...]
May 28, 2010
· Angel · 4 Comments
Tags: 10.04, DDO, Lotro, lucid lynx, pylotro kubuntu, Ubuntu · Posted in: Computers, Games, Ubuntu
Duh Moment
I don’t know why I didn’t think of this before, but I have 2 hard drives in my system, all my music & videos are kept on the second hard drive which I mount to /storage up until last night I hadn’t been able to figure out how get actual links to the folders in [...]
December 28, 2009
· Angel · No Comments
Tags: kubuntu dolphin symbolic link · Posted in: Computers, From the mouth of Angel, Ubuntu
Making apt:// work in firefox kubuntu
I finally figured out how to make apt:// urls work in firefox kubuntu. apt:// urls allow you to install software at the click of link in your browser. The fix was actually rather simple, just run the following command in your terminal. sudo apt-get install apturl firefox-3.5-gnome-support After running the command head over to allmyapps [...]
November 9, 2009
· Angel · No Comments
Tags: apt url, apturl, firefox, kubuntu · Posted in: Computers, Ubuntu
Installed Karmic
So I installed Kubuntu 9.10 RC and it is definitely beautiful. The font’s look quite nice, and everything just feels smooth. I didn’t have any of the sound issues which occurred with jaunty so all my sound was working out of the box! As far as differences go, here are a few improvments: In 9.04 [...]
October 25, 2009
· Angel · No Comments
Tags: Open Source, Ubuntu · Posted in: Computers, Ubuntu
Time to upgrade
Well I couldn’t wait anymore with the release of Of Kubuntu 9.10 RC I decided to try an upgrade. Currently the upgrade is running (downloading packages). Before I attempted the upgrade I backed everything and burned a copy of the RC to disk. So worse case scenario I have to re-install so we’ll see I [...]
October 22, 2009
· Angel · No Comments
Posted in: Computers, Ubuntu
Switching from Ubuntu to Kubuntu
After having installed KDE 4.3 on my ubuntu installation and really enjoying using it, I decided I wanted the full Ubuntu/KDE experience. So I decided to wipe my Ubuntu installation and install Kubuntu 9.04. It turns out the switch wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. There we’re definitely a few stumbling blocks [...]
September 9, 2009
· Angel · No Comments
Tags: Computers, kubuntu, linux, Open Source, Ubuntu · Posted in: Computers, Ubuntu
NWN2 On Ubuntu
I’m running Neverwinter Nights 2 with wine on my new rig Systemax PC CPU: AMD Athlon 64×2 4400 RAM: 3 GB DDR2 800 (PC2-6400) Display: Nvidia Geforce 7600 GS I installed using the 7 Disk PC/CD version in order to get it working I had to use winetricks I installed the following with winetricks: DirectX9 [...]
September 3, 2009
· Angel · No Comments
Tags: Computers, kubuntu, linux, Neverwinter Nights, NWN2, Open Source, Ubuntu · Posted in: Computers, Games, Ubuntu
