Since Ubuntu 7.04, Feisty Fawn, Ubuntu is using a standard kernel 2.6.20. Because of a few changes in the API, VMware-server and VMware-workstation 5.5 fail to install under Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn.

This how-to will show the steps to follow in order to get it install.

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Under Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04, compiz is the default desktop effect window manager.
When first enabled by using desktop-effects, there used to 4 desktop by default. After disabling and reenabling it, only one virtual desktop was left, therefore the cube plugin of compiz was not working anymore.

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After reinstalling mldonkey-server on my new edgy installation, it appeared that mldonkey-server was not starting on boot up :s.

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Examples:

monitoring interfaces eth0 and lo with unit type in kBit/s:

$nload eth0 lo

the same, but with both interface in the same windows:

$nload -m eth0 lo

monitoring eth0 with the max value for incoming bandwidth setted at 20kBit/s and max value for outgoing traffic at 15kBit/s with transfert unit type automatically handed by nload in Bit/s

$nload -i 20 -o 15 -u h eth0

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nload is a ncurse based network traffic analyser. Being a ncurse based tools, you do not need to start X in order to use that software which is necessary when administering machines remotely … and even locally actually.

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Navigating through windows:

There is a lot of things you can do now:

• Going to the next window (Ctrl-a n) or previous window (Ctrl-a p).
• Getting the number and name of the current window (Ctrl-a N), check at the bottom left.
• Go to window X (Ctrl-a X) where X is the window number, therefore Ctrl-a 0 to go to the first window you created.
• Rename a window (Ctrl-a A)
• Get a listing of all the windows (Ctrl-a “), you can then move up and down using the keyboard arrows and go to a specific window by pressing Enter.

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Screen is a must known GNU console tool, this small piece of software comes really handy when you are working on a console or sending long processes on a remote host.

When you start screen, you simply get a terminal prompt, but then, many features are given to you. Most users don’t even know about it, but you will soon love it.

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In a previous article, I showed how to configure your laptop touchpad in such a way that you could use every neats features by using the synaptics package and configuring properly your xorg.conf.

Well, that is really enjoyable, but It can get really annoying when you type on your keyboard and still have your touchpad active as it happens that you tap on it without noticing it, resulting in messing up the job you are doing.

Hopefully, synaptics comes with two usefull tools, namely synclient and syndaemon.
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4. Explanation on those directives:

TODO, in the meanwhile, carry onto next page to See How to use the touchpad
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Every laptop comes with a usefull thing when you don’t want to carry your mouse around: a Touchpad, most of the time, touchpads do work out of the box but not all the goodies are activated by default.

On a basic setup, you can use the touchpad to move your mouse around as well as the left and right click.

There is much more you can get from it, for instance dragging and dropping items, vertical scrolling, right click by tapping the pad….

This how-to will show you how to get the most of it.

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