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The following trick will let you quickly and easily customize the theme and background used by GDM in Ubuntu 9.10+.

Just fire up your trusty terminal and paste in the following:



xhost +;...

Hey Rommyappus,

To get this to work all you need to do is enclose the arguments in quotes like so:


if ! start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/bin/bttrack -- "--dfile...

Unfortunately linux can't do that (correct me if I'm wrong). You would need to convert the .nrg or .bin/.cue files to .iso and then work from there. You can use nrg2iso & bchunk (Both in Synaptic).

Unfortunately, I don't think the loopback device allows for this. I think you would have to copy the contents or extract it with fileroller, and then use mkisofs or nautilus' built in burning to...

Just wanted to let everyone know that I've updated the mounting script to be more error tolerant. Now if an error occurs it tells you and it cleans up after itself by removing the directory in...

Another example, I use this to play folders of media files in totem.

Label: Play...
Path: totem
Parameters: %M
File Patterns: *
Show for folders only

Here's a setting to open files/folders as root. It works so much more conveniently than the nautilus script I was using.

Label: Sudo...
Tooltip: Open with root privelages
Path: gnome-sudo...

I recently found a nautilus shell script on an older post to the forum that could mount .iso files, but it couldn't handle spaces in filenames or mount more than one file at once. After some...

I'm currently using TwinView with my nVidia GeForceFX 5500, and it works very well. I had tried using both Xinerama & MergedFB with my old ATI card, and it just didn't work (no acceptable dual head...