Ubuntu – Connect Apple Time Capsule

Steps to connect Apple Time Capsule to UBUNTU(Hardy Heron)
1. Client Side Software – Install smbfs and smbclient

2. Make a Mount Point -
cd /media
sudo mkdir capsule

3. Interactive Mount Statement -
sudo mount.cifs //windowsShare/“TimeCapsuleName” /media/capsule/ -o pass=password

i. the windowsShare is the IP that you assign to the Time Capsule using your Apple AirPort Utility on a windows/mac machine,
ii. The ‘TimeCapsuleName’ is the name enclosed in double quotes is the name assigned to your Time Capsule when it it set up on the Windows/Mac.
iii. /media/capsule is the name of the mount point that you selected,
iv. password is replaced with whatever password you elected to use during the Airport configuration.

Ubuntu – Restore Panels

Command Line

$ gconftool-2 –shutdown
$ rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel
$ pkill gnome-panel

Ubuntu Firefox – Font Smoothening

Step 1: Open a new window or tab and paste this into the address bar – about-config
Step 2 : create/set gfx.use_text_smoothing_settin to true

Ubuntu – Install Adobe Air

1. Download the file wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/air/linux/adobeair_linux_a1_033108.bin
2. The name of the file is adobeair_linux_a1_033108.bin
3. Save the file in the Home folder (Places > Home Folder)
4. Run this command:
   chmod +x adobeair_linux_a1_033108.bin
5. Now run this command:
   sudo ./adobeair_linux_a1_033108.bin

Ubuntu – Change Display Managers

GDM and KDM are display managers (mainly, from the end-user point of view, login screens).

Metacity and KWin are window managers—Metacity being the default window manager for the Gnome desktop environment, and KWin being the default window manager for the KDE desktop environment.

If GDM is the default display manager, you can still have your default desktop environment be KDE, just as if KDM is your default display manager, you can still have your default desktop environment be Gnome.

Commandline
$ sudo vi /etc/X11/default-display-manager
set to gdm : /usr/sbin/gdm
set to kdm : /usr/lib/kde4/bin/kdm

REBOOT

Alternative
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm