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Kubuntu 15.04 and Pidgin notification tray icon

Kubuntu 15.04 comes with the new Plasma 5 desktop from KDE. I like Plasma 5, but the tray icon of many non KDE applications is not supported. Someone suggest to install wmsystemtray and use an “ugly box” floating around in your desktop  🙁 I have just found another solution: install Read more…

By huntz, 8 yearsJune 10, 2015 ago
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swftools on Ubuntu 14.04 – Trusty Tahr

SWFTools (a collection of utilities for working with Adobe Flash files, SWF files) was removed from the Ubuntu repository for some security problem with the PDF library used (I don’t remember exactly, anyway it’s not the point…). If you need to use SWFTools, you have to build it from the Read more…

By huntz, 9 yearsJune 13, 2014 ago
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sbackup – No desktop session found. Indicator application is not started.

I’m on KDE 4.13.0 and sbackup is not showing the notification icon. It’s an old problem, the program is looking for some process like “x-session-manager”, “gnome-session”, “gnome-shell”, “ksmserver”, “xfce4-session” but in my KDE system none of these processes is running, so the notification icon is not shown. If you run the Read more…

By huntz, 9 years ago
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Pidgin: change the spell-check dictionary on Linux

The problem: you use Pidgin for instant messaging and you write in different languages but you can spell check only in the language of your operative system.

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By huntz, 9 yearsMay 5, 2014 ago
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LFTP: limit bandwidth upload/download

I use often lftp to move data from server to server/client. I like this FTP client because is small, very powerful to use and present in every Linux distribution. Plus, I can run lftp from the shell (maybe from a screen session) and forget it until the job is done Read more…

By huntz, 9 yearsNovember 21, 2013 ago
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Convert a PDF to black and white version

The problem: you have a PDF with some coloured elements (like some logo, separation lines, etc…) but you need a PDF in B/W. The solution: you can print your file (with a B/W printer) and then scan it 🙂 or, using GPL Ghostscript, run this command… gs -sDEVICE=pnggray -r150x150 -sOutputFile=output-%02d.png Read more…

By huntz, 9 yearsOctober 7, 2013 ago
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Force DHCP to give a specific address from client (Linux)

You can bind a  specific IP address from the router, but if you are not the network administrator (eg: you work with your laptop) you can try to request your “preferred” IP address editing your dhclient.conf like the following example (append this config to the bottom of the file): interface Read more…

By huntz, 10 yearsSeptember 19, 2013 ago
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Sparkleshare 1.1 released – binary for Ubuntu

I’m using for my personal cloud Sparkleshare and I’m very happy with it. The 26 of May they released a new version (the 1.1) but for Linux you can get only the source code. I have built for myself the binary package (using checkinstall) for Ubuntu and I put the Read more…

By huntz, 10 years ago
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