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Fixed, thanks rahman !

Thanks SolipsistX I added your script to the post.

The file you created is the script you have to launch to use the fix, e.g. in your example, you now have to launch "/path/to/file" instead of "/usr/bin/skype" (it also has to be executable, i.e....

Bump, added a note about best kernel version regarding battery usage.

Thanks kos888, I merged your on/off nvidia trick with the USB buses one in a "custom_asus-u35jc" pm-utils script, and also added the fix for the trackpad button.

The tips to save battery life are...

I get 6-7 hours in continuous usage, I think it's pretty on par with windows.

Hibernate works well in single user mode, and at the first login screen. Once logged in it fails, ending with a black screen. Going back to the login screen doesn't help, you have to reboot for it to...

Install a newer kernel


$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kernel-ppa/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install linux-image-generic-pae-lts-backport-maverick \
...

Works on U35JC too.

I use a french layout keyboard, and have all kinds of problems since I upgraded to 8.10. The solution if I remember well was to change the keyboard layout from 'Generic/evdev' to 'Generic/Generic 105...

xmodmap is deprecated in xorg 7 (dapper's xorg version), see my post on the previous page :)
For making things work on opera, just see which keyboard shortcuts it uses for previous and next...

I don't know about nautilus since I don't use it, but I tested konqueror and this imwheel config worked :


"konqueror"
None, Left, Alt_L|Left
None, Right, Alt_L|Right

Compared to what is...

Sure the imwheel tricks are still necessary for applications that do not support thumb buttons natively like firefox does.

My mx510 thumb buttons were working great in xorg 6.8 (breezy), and broke in xorg 7 (dapper).
I found the reason here, xmodmap is now superseded by xorg.conf "ButtonMapping" option and should not...