Mark McAulay

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July 8, 2009
 

Disable the shutdown timer on Ubuntu

Ever since I upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 9.04 there's been one thing pissing me off about it...

When it's time to shutdown etc, there's a new window with a 60 second timer saying that the computer will shut down in xx seconds...REALLY annoying! I know you're going to shut down, I asked you to...and you know I asked you to so what's with the new window suggesting that I may not know what I'm doing? What's next....a highly irritating paper clip asking me if i'm sure? Hey Ubuntu, this isn't windows.

Here's how to get rid.

  1. Right click on the power button and select 'preferences'
  2. Uncheck the 'Show confirm dialogs for logout, restart and shutdown'

It took me a while to find this option so hopefully it'll come in handy for other irritated Ubuntu users.

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May 26, 2009
 

Graphics Problem Upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04

I recently upgraded from 8.04 to 9.04 and ran into a wee bit of graphics/display bother.

The actual upgrade itself went without a hitch but when booting into 9.04 for the first time, I was met with a "garbled" display. I was able to discover through a number of forum posts that the problem lies with the xorg driver and one post (apologies to the original author, I cant remember where I found this!) suggested running the following command. Seeing as how booting into the terminal was still possible, this was an option.

apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx

This restored full graphics functionality, happy days!

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May 20, 2009
 

map your windows key to the applications menu on ubuntu 9.04

I was just staring at my now defunct "windows" key on my laptop's keyboard and thought, surely I can turn that little windows icon into something useful at last...well as it turns out, there are a number of things you can do but here's what I chose....

lets map it to the applications menu giving basic cursor access to all options.

  1. System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts
  2. From the "desktop" category select “show the panel’s main menu”
  3. With this selected, press the “windows” key on the keyboard
  4. Close the window, you're done

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