Karmic - General Tips/Solutions

[Ocky]

Would this be useful here ? If not please delete thread.

Gtk recordMyDesktop.
To get sound recording working:- Open 'Advanced' >'Sound' and where it says 'Device'
change upper case 'DEFAULT' to lower case 'default' and you can record sound. Just
tried with a usb microphone.

Only problem so far is Kdenlive - totally unusable in Karmic after very good in Jaunty.**

**Edit: It's OK now but must use sunab's repo.
ppa:sunab/ppa

That way you also get the libavcodec-extra-52 which replaces the unstripped version. Means you can probably play
all multimedia files from hdmov to divx/xvid etc.

[iceni60]

i don't know about your tips, but i saw a good one the other day for encrypted home directories. i didn't think i'd re-find the article, but i remembered i bookmarked it ;) lol. i'm not up on all the recent OSes updates so maybe everyone knows this already.
http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7568/1.html

on page two it shows the box you check to encrypt your home directory, all you have to do is give a passphrase then every time you log in you give the pass to access your encrypted data.

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[Ocky]

-{ Quote: "i don't know about your tips, but i saw a good one the other day for encrypted home directories. i didn't think i'd re-find the article, but i remembered i bookmarked it ;) lol. i'm not up on all the recent OSes updates so maybe everyone knows this already.
http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7568/1.html

on page two it shows the box you check to encrypt your home directory, all you have to do is give a passphrase then every time you log in you give the pass to access your encrypted data.

" }-
No not my tips, but tips and solutions from Karmic users. It seems to be quite a problematic distro for many. But maybe this is not the place - after all there are the Ubuntu forums. :)

[Ocky]

Avidemux from repo - audio problem. Only works if you enable OSS in audio Prefs.
Haven't yet got a saved file to play audio without distortion.
Edit:- In Audio 'OSS' and 'ProLogic' is fine.

[Ocky]

Ctrl+Alt+Backspace enable.

System>Preferences>Keyboard>Keyboard Preferences>Layouts>Layout Options>Key sequence to kill the X
server.
Place tick next to Ctrl+Alt=Backspace.

(From release notes Karmic 9.10)

;D

[steve161]

Turn on autohinting for fonts

sudo ln -sf /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

If you change your fonts to medium hinting and sub-pixel rendering, you may notice Firefox 3.5 does not recognize it. That is because Firefox 3.5 uses the /etc/fonts/conf.d file for its fonts. This will give you medium hinting and sub-pixel rendering in 3.5.

sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf

sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-no-sub-pixel.conf

sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.available/10-hinting-medium.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.available/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

[Trespasser]

If in Ubuntu Netbook Remix you'll notice that Home is not available in Files & Folders. To add Home open .gtk-bookmarks (in /home/your-user-name) and add "file:///home/your-user-name" to the list and save.

Small point I know but it made getting to Home a step or two easier.

BTW, UNR Karmic runs great on my old Sony VGN-S360 1.7 ghz, 1 gig ram, ATI 9700 laptop.

[Nick Rhodes]

-{ Quote: "Turn on autohinting for fonts

sudo ln -sf /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

If you change your fonts to medium hinting and sub-pixel rendering, you may notice Firefox 3.5 does not recognize it. That is because Firefox 3.5 uses the /etc/fonts/conf.d file for its fonts. This will give you medium hinting and sub-pixel rendering in 3.5.

sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf

sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-no-sub-pixel.conf

sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.available/10-hinting-medium.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/.

sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.available/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig" }-

Cheers for that. I had not bothered looking for a fix for that as been busy fixing other issues.

Cheers, Nick

[Longboard]

Here is a nice list of fixes and some very useful info:
http://www.webupd8.org/2009/10/things-to-fix-tweak-after-installing.html
Some good links at the bottom extend the list.
AND,
for anyone exploring: a little recipe..
http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-ubuntu-9.10-karmic-koala

[Ocky]

-{ Quote: "Here is a nice list of fixes and some very useful info:
http://www.webupd8.org/2009/10/things-to-fix-tweak-after-installing.html
Some good links at the bottom extend the list.
[/url]" }-
Thanks, was wondering why some icons in context menu were absent despite having set them in nautilus actions configuration.

[Ocky]

-{ Quote: "Would this be useful here ? If not please delete thread.

Gtk recordMyDesktop.
To get sound recording working:- Open 'Advanced' >'Sound' and where it says 'Device'
change upper case 'DEFAULT' to lower case 'default' and you can record sound. Just
tried with a usb microphone.

Only problem so far is Kdenlive - totally unusable in Karmic after very good in Jaunty.**

**Edit: It's OK now but must use sunab's repo.
ppa:sunab/ppa

That way you also get the libavcodec-extra-52 which replaces the unstripped version. Means you can probably play
all multimedia files from hdmov to divx/xvid etc." }-

Still had some issues with audio but found out that one needs to install libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio (in Synaptic - it will remove the alsa package of the same description).
Then in Kdenlive settings>playback>audio change driver to pulseaudio.
That fixes it for me.:) No ill effects on all my other audio programs at all.