Schadenfreude » annoyances

Gnome-terminal Fix for opening links

Erik — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:35:00 +0000

I got mad at gnome-terminal today. It wasn’t opening links. So, as usual, GNOME hid the setting away somewhere completely insane.


.gconf/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http

Why isn’t there just a .gnome-terminalrc? How hard would that be?

Force Removing Packages in Ubuntu

Erik — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:18:00 +0000

I couldn’t update tor in Ubuntu because it freaked out when I didn’t have a /var/run/tor directory. Even after creating the directory, it still freaked out. I ended up using the method in this post to fix the problem.

Here’s my resultant /var/lib/dpkg/info/tor.prerm:


#!/bin/sh
set -e
# Automatically added by dh_installinit
#if [ -x "/etc/init.d/tor" ]; then
#  if [ -x "`which invoke-rc.d 2>/dev/null`" ]; then
#    invoke-rc.d tor stop || exit $?
#  else
#    /etc/init.d/tor stop || exit $?
#  fi
#fi
# End automatically added section

Just comment it all out and do this:


sudo apt-get remove --force-yes tor

Voila!

Super Key Fix in Ubuntu

Erik — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:05:00 +0000

So I found that my super key was not a modifier key in GNOME today, but rather a standalone key. THis was unacceptable. To change it, I did this:

System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Layout Options -> Alt/Win Key Behavior -> Super is mapped to Win-Keys

Now, I can change my shortcuts to not be stupid.

Killing Caps Lock

Erik — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:44:00 +0000

As seen here:


    Option  "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:nocaps"

Horray. Awesomeness. Changes the caps lock key to a control key in Linux via xorg.conf.