As I said in my post earlier I have upgraded to Kubuntu 10.10 from 9.10. As I’m running kde that means that the messenger system you are using is kopete. Installing that is easy but moving over the config files is a bit more hassle as its a bit spread out and its also using kwallet to store some information.
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My writing about linux and the work of keeping myself windows free
Upg. to kubuntu 10.10 – Install arial font
As I said in my post earlier I have upgraded to Kubuntu 10.10 from 9.10. I use Openoffice quite a lot to write documents and so, and as I’m quite often sharing documents with windows users, I do use Arial as a standard font. Somewhere during my transition, it went away.
Upg. to kubuntu 10.10 – Install pulseaudio extras
As I said in my post earlier I have upgraded to Kubuntu 10.10 from 9.10. In 10.10 the pulseaudio system is more integrated in all applications and is quite good – in my opinion, but that also means that some of the “old” programs are not installed.
Upg. to kubuntu 10.10 – Install knotes
As I said in my post earlier I have upgraded to Kubuntu 10.10 from 9.10. One of the small applications that I’m am using quite a lot is knote. This is a small applications that allows me to put up notes on the screen for small notes of what to to, don’t forget and so on.
Upg. to kubuntu 10.10 – Install thunderbird
As I said in my post earlier I have upgraded to Kubuntu 10.10 from 9.10. After getting my browser to work, next thing was to get my mail up and running again. This means installing Thunderbird.
Upg. to kubuntu 10.10 – Add a second disk
As I said in my post earlier I have upgraded to Kubuntu 10.10 from 9.10. One of the first thing I needed to do was to add my second disk. The laptop I have has 2 500 GB disk and the second one was not installed/used during the install. So I need to add that one.
Upg. to kubuntu 10.10 – Screen edges
As I said in my post erlier I have upgraded to Kubuntu 10.10 from 9.10. And one thing that was driving me crazy was the fact that when moving a windows up to the top left corner – a think I usually do as I’m having 4 virtual desktops for different things going on – make the system think I what to make it full screen. NO I DON’T.
Upg. to kubuntu 10.10 – Weeks starts at mondays
As I said in my post earlier I have upgraded to Kubuntu 10.10 from 9.10. When I did the install i thought I did set Swedish as the default except for languages. I hate to have commands replying back in Swedish and so, but I still prefer things to be in Swedish, like money and date format and so on. But apparently I missed something.
Upg. to kubuntu 10.10 – NVidia driver
As I said in my post erlier I have upgraded to Kubuntu 10.10 from 9.10. And now This post will be ablut getting the Propriatary nvidia driver to work. This is a nust if you whant to get Desktop effects, and wine and graphical games to work. Continue reading
Upgrade to Kubuntu 10.10
About 2 weweks ago i had a crash on my old machine. The graphics card crashed and I was left with a unusable laptop. Not nice. So I got a new laptop, and moved all stuff over there. I have a system for backup so that the harddrive is backed up every night over rsync to our big backupservers in UK so backup was not a problem.