Tuesday, January 6, 2009

How To Run Applications With Administrative Permissions At Start Up

1.System->Preferences->Sessions.
2.Click Add. Browse the application you want to run at start-up, or the command.
3.Add 'gksu' at the beginning of the line not 'sudo'.
4.Click Save. That's it!

How To Fix Sound Issue With Sound Recorder

You may encounter problems with skipping recordings on an Ubuntu install in 8.10.

1.Go to System->Preferences->Sound.
2.On device, choose HDA Intel Alsa Mixer or others whichever works.
3.In Sound Capture, choose HDA Intel Analog Alsa.
4.Try recording again. That's it!

Monday, January 5, 2009

Why Firefox Stalls Sometimes

When reading an article on the web, and scrolling, sometimes firefox would stall and would notice that the disk lights is reading. I have a fairly amount of RAM so it's not the problem. What I noticed is that I have a number of RSS feeds that is loading that would make my browser slow at times; it might other issues too, maybe.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

How To Restore The Icons In OpenOffice Writer

This may happen when you change a theme. To restore it:

1.Open OpenOffice Writer->Tools->Options->View.
2.In Icon size and style, choose the theme with icons.
3.That's It!

How To Restore Xubuntu Desktop Panel When It Doesn't Load

This may happen because you changed the user interface to Qt4 in Xubuntu. To restore:

1.Press Alt-F2, then enter system-settings-show.
2.There, change the user interface other than Qt4.
3.Restart X by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
4.That's it!

Or, the config files for xfce4 is corrupted:

1.Open your file manager->View->show hidden files.
2.Go to .config, then delete xfce4.
3.Restart X. That's it!

Note: It will reset the desktop configurations you've made. It is best if you copy it before deleting.

Thursday, January 1, 2009