Ubuntu doesn’t manage vim’s addons, so installing the vim-latexsuite package doesn’t actually put all the relevant hooks into your vim installation. To do that, (after installing the package) execute;
sudo vim-addons -w install latex-suite
Posts Tagged: Ubuntu
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Oct 11
Vim Latex Suite Install on Ubuntu
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Sep 11
Force 32 bit installs on 64 bit systems (Deb/RPM)
Pre-built packages not releasing 64 bit versions? No Problem.
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Jun 11
Replace Unity with AWN and Gnome-Do
Unity Sucks, and I don’t like it. I prefer a combination of Avant Window Navigator, tilda, and Gnome-Do, to go from this
Unity, kinda, screen shots don't really work for launchers
to this
My Avant Setup
Now, I haven’t kept track of all of the changes I’ve made to my configuration files, so YMMV, but gnome-do and Avant have remarkably good GUI configuration tools, so customise to your hearts content!
Get rid of Unity
sudo apt-get remove unity unity-asset-pool unity-place-applications unity-place-applications
Install the fun-stuff
sudo apt-get install gnome-do gnome-do-plugins avant-window-navigator awn-settings tilda
(I personally prefer to get all the plugins aswell, but thats personal choice; just add in awn-applets-all to the above command)
At this point, it’ll look like nothing has changed; just log out or log back in (Or reboot), and then unity will be gone (Woohoo!). The Gnome-Do Launcher should have come up, and if you’ve clicked out of it, it will come back to the foreground with a [windows\command]+Space press.
If everything has gone well, you can type ‘Avant’ in this launcher, and boom, there should be a window at the bottom. This is the avant launcher.
Default Avant Window Navigator
Now for some fun stuff.
Use gnome-do to start tilda. This is a quake-style terminal that pops down from the top of the screen with a quick [F1] click. Much better than the standard [alt+F2] command launcher.
As for the preferences, hack away at the Avant settings until you’re happy. The screenshot above is how I like it (this time).
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Jul 10
Citrix Web Client with Ubuntu
Ubuntu is one of those polarising technologies; Its really easy to use on a recreational basis, or as part of a institution/business wide rollout, but heartbreakingly awkward to use ‘alone’ within an entrenched business setting.
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Jul 10
Intel 4965: Poor wireless performance under Ubuntu
I had an incident recently where the Windows 7 side of my laptop connected easily to an open AP, but the Ubuntu 10.04 (or 9.04, tried both) wouldn’t, with the Intel Iwlagn drivers reporting in syslog a deauth (reason=6), basically the card spoke too soon. I eventually found the solution.
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Jun 10
Customised User Directories in Ubuntu
I’ve been doing alot of messing around in Ubuntu recently and there are lots of tweaks I like to make. One of them being to show the contents of my home folder as my desktop; I don’t need any more pointless folders….
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May 10
Automagic Kernel Cleaning under Ubuntu
Sick of having dozens of old kernels sitting under your /boot/ dir? Want a simpler boot-life? Well we’ve got the solution for you. Continue reading →
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Apr 10
Listing just dot-files
Its a problem that I’ve come across, and I’m not the only one, so heres what works for me to find those pesky files that start with a .
ls -a | egrep -i "^\."
This only works in the current working directory, which is the normal usage.
FYI the reason that this is problematic is that the ‘.’ symbol is a single character wildcard; most people are familiar with the asterisk ’*’ indicating ‘anything, however long’, whereas the ‘.’ means ‘any single character’.
The command works by looking only at the first character of the file (‘^’, thats called a caret) and then removing the special meaning of ‘.’ by escaping it with the slash.
Update:18/4/10
@stevebiscuit correctly pointed out that the -i flag is unnecessary.
-iinstructs egrep to ignore the case of any matches, so that ‘HeLlO’ matches if you egrep -i for ‘hello’. Since there is no case for the ‘.’ symbol, the -i is pointless.
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Apr 10
The DE Bill, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Tor
Folks, we’re basically screwed; The Digital Economy Bill recieved Royal Accent on April 9th and is officially now Law.
So after barely three days of parliamentary ‘debate’ where only 20-ish MP’s actually spoke on the subject (but somehow 189 MP’s decided it was a good idea anyway), our civil rights have been sacrificed infront of the alter of copyright.
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May 10
Ubuntu Boosting Blog Hits
I had a bit of a surprise logging into my weekly stats-fest that is my Google Analytics account; 300% rise in Search Based traffic. My daily traffic is meagre to say the least but still, to see such a jump on the week-on-week numbers is always a good thing.
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