SU Mystery Theater (29)

No problems so far.

The current Ubuntu desktop

The more things change, the more stay the same.
Long live to the LTS!

Update blues

Install new kernel, and then reboot to start using it
Ubuntu boots but with the message:

Ubuntu is running in low graphics mode

Click "Ok"
Restart X
Click "Ok"

Ubuntu starts without any problem, but Desktop Effects (and all the added magic of having an NVIDIA card) are disabled...

Goto:

System > Administration > Hardware Drivers

Remove NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver, and then reboot

Once is back online again, goto (once again...):

System > Administration > Hardware Drivers

Activate the NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver, it will download it, and then proceed to install; then reboot.
Enjoy all the NVIDIA greatness once again.

Currently reading

Reading and enjoying it a great deal, I might add.
The best one on the subject that I've read so far.
Looking forward in getting my hands on Retribution.

A happy family

A little something I took yesterday.
All the boxes happily churning together.

Transfer iTunes data from newer to older version

(Or Apple's obsession to never allow a rollback...)
I have two Apple boxes, a MBP Intel (running Snow Leopard and its ugly GUI), and an old & trusty PPC Quicksilver, running Tiger, that I love, I'm a fucking freak when it comes to iTunes Play Counts, so I was looking a way to keep the info synced between boxes.

I've done something similar in the past, and it is almost the same, but simpler.

Every copy operation has to be done with the iTunes (on both boxes) closed.
The path to all the iTunes info on both boxes has to be equal (username, paths, etc, etc)
First off, the most important thing is to make backups.
After that, the next most important thing is trasnfering the music files from the box with the newer iTunes to the other box, the best way of doing this is via Rsync.

After you done that, you are done with the iTunes on the newer box.

Now, if you try to open the old iTunes with the newer iTunes Library transfered you'll get a warning message: "iTunes Library cannot be read because it was created with a newer version on iTunes".

No problem there.

Close iTunes on the old box, and blank the file 'iTunes Library':

cat /dev/null > 'iTunes Library'

Then, open iTunes once agian, you'll see a pretty nice Aqua Progress Bar, on my Quicksilver (with a 10 MB "iTunes Music Library.xml" file) the process took about 10 minutes. When it finishes, it issues a warning, but I haven't found any problem so far.

You're not through yet, there are two more steps, that iTunes does automagically, the generation of album covers; and then the gapless playback.



On my Quicksilver (DP 800 MHz with 1.5 GB RAM) the whole thing took about 25 minutes to do everything.

SU Mystery Theater (28)

This is the PPC edition!
Installed a new Safari on Thor, boy, sure haven't used my Quicksilver in quite a while... What an amazing piece of machinery! And Tiger, for the love of Christ! From my point of view Tiger is what a OS should have as GUI, no questions asked!
Yes, the hulking beast makes more noise than a mule, but I love it.

Unwanted Ubuntu crud (4)

Actually, this not unwanted, but, is a left over, and since the idea of these is getting rid of stuff that uses HDD space, SSD space that is; this one does.
If you removed Chromium from your system, check for this two directories:

~/.cache/chromium
~/.config/chromium/

These two dirs were using about 125 MB of HDD space, and that only after a very short Chromium usage.
I've tested Chromium a bit, and even tho it looks rather nice, it is not my cup of tea, I'm too used to Firefox by now...

SU Mystery Theater (27)

Installed these, no problems so far...

The current userChrome.css (6)

Been a while... Lots amp; lots of works lately... But, Easter is here, and so its holy holidays!
The infatuation with customizing my Firefox goes on and on...

/* No "New Tab button" abomination */
.tabs-newtab-button {display: none;}
toolbarbutton.bookmark-item {
        height: 0px !important;
        font-size: regular !important;
        margin-top: 0px !important;
        color: black !important;
}

/* Remove bookmark toolbar folder arrows */
#PersonalToolbar .toolbarbutton-menu-dropmarker {
        display: none !important;
} 

/* Changes the color of only the Menu entry */
/* http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=503508 */
menubar, menu {
        color: gray !important;
        font-size: regular !important;
}

/* change font color of popup menus */
menupopup > menu,
menupopup > menuitem,
popup > menu,
popup > menuitem {
/* For dark themes set to "white" */
        color: white !important;
        font-size: regular !important;

/* For light themes set to "black" */
/*      color: black !important; */
}

/* Remove the Bookmark star, use Ctrl-D to add a Bookmark */
#star-button {
        display: none !important;
}

/* Remove the Go button, the green one from the URL box */
#urlbar-icons > #go-button
{
   display:   none !important;
}
/* Remove splitter between the URL and Search bars to save space */
#urlbar-search-splitter {
        display: none !important;
}

/* hide toolbar borders */
menubar, toolbox, toolbar {
        border-style: none !important;
}

/* hide toolbar borders */
toolbar {
        -moz-appearance: none !important;
} 

/* Remove the Help menu entry */
/* http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:shrinkfirefox */
menu[label="Help"] {
        display: none !important;
}

/* Hide urlbar and searchbar drop-down arrows */
#urlbar .autocomplete-history-dropmarker {
        display: none !important;
} 
#searchbar .autocomplete-history-dropmarker {
        display: none !important;
}

/*  Hide Forward Back Dropmaker  */      
#back-forward-dropmarker {
        display:none;
} 

/* Show Stop and Reload buttons smartly */
/* The stop button has to be BEFORE the reload one for this to work */
#stop-button[disabled] {
        display: none;
}
#stop-button:not([disabled]) + #reload-button {
        display: none;
}

/* Hides stupid option entries from the right click pop-up menu */
#context-openlink,
#context-viewbgimage,
#context-sep-viewbgimage,
#context-sendimage,
#context-setDesktopBackground,
#context-bookmarklink,
#context-savelink,
#context-sendlink {
        display: none !important;
}

menuitem[label="Send Link..."] {
        display: none !important;
}

/* Remove search engines button from searchbar*/
.searchbar-dropmarker#searchbar-dropmarker {
        display: none !important;
}
.searchbar-engine-button-container {
        display: none !important;
}
.searchbar-engine-button {
        display: none !important;
}

/*  Hide Search Engine Name in searchbar  */ 
textbox[empty="true"] .textbox-input-box {
        color: #323232 !important;
}

The current userChrome.css (5)

/* No "New Tab button" abomination */
.tabs-newtab-button {display: none;}

toolbarbutton.bookmark-item {
 height: 0px !important;
 font-size: regular !important;
 margin-top: 0px !important;
 color: black !important;
}

/* Changes the color of only the Menu entry */
/* http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=503508 */
menubar, menu {
 color: gray !important;
 font-size: regular !important;
}

/* change font color of popup menus */
menupopup > menu,
menupopup > menuitem,
popup > menu,
popup > menuitem {
/* For dark themes set to "white" */
 color: white !important;
 font-size: regular !important;

/* For light themes set to "black" */
/* color: black !important; */
}

/* Remove the Bookmark star, use Ctrl-D to add a Bookmark */
#star-button {
 display: none !important;
}

/* Remove the Go button, the green one from the URL box */
#urlbar-icons > #go-button
{
   display:   none !important;
}

/* Remove splitter between the URL and Search bars to save space */
#urlbar-search-splitter {
 display: none !important;
}

/* hide toolbar borders */
menubar, toolbox, toolbar {
 border-style: none !important;
}

/* hide toolbar borders */
toolbar {
 -moz-appearance: none !important;
} 

/* Remove the Help menu entry */
/* http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:shrinkfirefox */
menu[label="Help"] {
 display: none !important;
}

/* Hide urlbar and searchbar drop-down arrows */
#urlbar .autocomplete-history-dropmarker {
 display: none !important;
} 
#searchbar .autocomplete-history-dropmarker {
 display: none !important;
}

/*  Hide Forward Back Dropmaker  */      
#back-forward-dropmarker {
 display:none;
} 

/* URL/ Address bar size */
/*
#urlbar {
 max-width: 950px !important;
}
*/

/* Show Stop and Reload buttons smartly */
/* The stop button has to be BEFORE the reload one for this to work */
#stop-button[disabled] {
 display: none;
}
#stop-button:not([disabled]) + #reload-button {
 display: none;
}

/* Hides stupid option entries from the right click pop-up menu */
#context-openlink,
#context-viewbgimage,
#context-sep-viewbgimage,
#context-sendimage,
#context-setDesktopBackground,
#context-bookmarklink,
#context-savelink,
#context-sendlink {
 display: none !important;
}

menuitem[label="Send Link..."] {
 display: none !important;
}

A little more on userChrome.css (1)

I'm a bit obsessed with Firefox's GUI customization via config files these days...

Hide the location bar drop down list

#PopupAutoComplete, #PopupAutoComplete > .autocomplete-tree { display: none !important; }

Turn off the dropdown in the URL and search bars

 .autocomplete-tree { visibility: hidden !important;
display: none !important; }

Change the location bar to a Google search bar

Enter about:config in the address bar.
Enter keyword.URL in the filter.
Double click keyword.URL and change the value to http://www.google.com/search?q=

Resize the search box

/* Make the Search box flex wider */
#search-container {
-moz-box-flex: 400 !important;
}
#searchbar {
-moz-box-flex: 400 !important;
}

Change the font in the location and status bars

#urlbar, #status-bar
{ font-size: 9pt !important;
font-family: Times New Roman !important; }

Remove the yellow from the URL bar

/* Remove yellow shading in the urlbar */
#urlbar[level="high"] > .autocomplete-textbox-container,
#urlbar[level="low"] > .autocomplete-textbox-container,
#urlbar[level="broken"] > .autocomplete-textbox-container {
background-color: white !important; }

Other alterations to toolbars

/* Resize urlbar and searchbar height */
#urlbar, #searchbar .searchbar-textbox { height: 19px; }
/* Slightly rounded address and search bar corners */
#urlbar {
-moz-appearance: none !important;
-moz-border-radius: 3px !important;
padding-right: 1px !important; }

#searchbar .searchbar-textbox {
-moz-appearance: none !important;
-moz-border-radius: 3px !important; }

/* Adds a little space between icon and text in the Search bar */
.searchbar-dropmarker
{ margin-right: 2px !important;
margin-left: 1px !important; }

/* Urlbar and searchbar background and text color */
#urlbar, #searchbar .searchbar-textbox{
background-color: #F6F6F6 !important;
color: #000000 !important; }

/* Resize Navigation Bar */
#navigator-toolbox toolbar { max-height: 26px !important; }
#navigator-toolbox toolbarbutton { padding: 0px !important; }

Hide the dropdowns on the Back/Forward buttons

/* Hide dropdown arrows in Back & Forward buttons */
#back-button .toolbarbutton-menubutton-dropmarker,
#forward-button .toolbarbutton-menubutton-dropmarker
{ display: none !important; }
Alterations to status bar

/* Hide status bar icons */
statusbarpanel#security-button,
statusbarpanel#page-report-button,
statusbarpanel#page-theme-button,
statusbarpanel#statusbar-updates {
display: none !important; }

/* Remove orange RSS icon in status bar */
#livemark-button { display: none !important; }

/* Remove the security-button from the status bar */
#urlbar .info-icon {
display:none !important; }

/* Remove the statusbar-progress panel from the status bar */
#statusbar-progresspanel {
display: none !important; }

/* Hide styleselector/switcher */
#page-theme-button[themes] { display: none !important; }

/* Status Bar Height */
#status-bar { max-height: 21px !important; }

Hide Find Toolbar

#FindToolbar { display: none !important; }

Change the font in the search bar

/* Searchbar Font */
.searchbar-textbox {
   font-family: Tahoma !important;
   font-size: 9pt !important; }

Change the background colour in the location bar

#urlbar > .autocomplete-textbox-container
{
background-color: rgb(78,101,124) !important;
}

Hide the autoupdate icon

toolbarbutton[type="updates"] > .toolbarbutton-icon {
display: none !important;
}

Remove favicons

/* Remove Favicon placeholder in Tab Bar */
.tab-icon {
display: none !important;
}

/* Remove Favicon placeholder in URL bar */
#page-proxy-deck {
display: none !important;
}

Change to custom images for the throbber, copy the images into the same directory as your userchrome.css and include this code - changing the image names to match.

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");
/* Custom Throbber */
#navigator-throbber {
list-style-image:url("item1.gif") !important;
}
#navigator-throbber[busy="true"] {
list-style-image:url("ani_multi1.gif") !important;
}
toolbar[iconsize="small"] #navigator-throbber,
toolbar[mode="text"] #navigator-throbber {
list-style-image:url("item1.gif") !important;
}
toolbar[iconsize="small"] #navigator-throbber[busy="true"],
toolbar[mode="text"] #navigator-throbber[busy="true"] {
list-style-image:url("ani_multi1.gif") !important;
}

Change the throbber on tabs

/* Custom Throbber-TABS -->Busy */
/* Images should be 16x16pixels for the tabs */
tab[busy] > .tab-icon {
list-style-image: url("ani_16red.gif")!important;
}
/* Custom Throbber-TABS -->Inactive---visible only if no favicon available */
/* Images should be 16x16pixels for the tabs */
tab > .tab-icon {
list-style-image: url("desert.gif")!important;
}

Menu bar alterations

/* Menu bar activity */
menubar > menu {
color: #000000 !important;
height: 18px !important;
max-height: 22px !important; }

/* Change maximum width of bookmarks in menus - default is 26em */
menu.bookmark-item, menuitem.bookmark-item { max-width: 16em !important; }

/* Icon is too big when I put it up on the menu bar */
toolbarbutton.bookmark-item > .toolbarbutton-icon {
margin-top: -1px !important; }

/* Hide type ahead auto-complete drop down in Address bar */
#PopupAutoComplete, .autocomplete-tree { visibility: hidden !important;
display: none !important; }

Hide one of the menus

/* Remove the Tools Menu */
   menu[label="Tools"] {
    display: none !important;
   }

Hide parts of menus

/* Hide Menus */
#navigator-toolbox menu[label="File"],
#navigator-toolbox menu[label="Go"],
#navigator-toolbox menu[label="Edit"],
#navigator-toolbox menu[label="View"],
#navigator-toolbox menu[label="Tools"],
#navigator-toolbox menu[label="Help"] { display: none !important; }

/* Hide Tools Menus */
menuitem[label="Web Search"],
menuitem[label="Downloads"],
menuitem[label="Themes"],
menuitem[label="Extensions"],
menuitem[label="Read Mail (0 new)"],
menuitem[label="New Message..."],
menuitem[label="DOM Inspector"],
menuitem[label="Page Info"] { display: none; }

/* Hide Bookmarks Menuitems */
menuitem[label="Add to Bookmarks..."],
menuitem[label="New Bookmark..."],
menuitem[label="New Separator"],
menuitem[label="Open in Tabs"] { display: none; }

menuitem[label="Open"],
menu[label="Mozilla Firefox & Mozilla Information"],
menu[label="Bookmarks Toolbar Folder"] { display: none !important; }

menupopup > menuitem[label="Bookmark This Page..."] {display: none !important;}

/* Hide Context Menuitems */
#context-back,
#context-forward,
#context-reload,
#context-stop,
#context-viewsource,
#context-openlink,
#context-openlinkintab,
#context-viewpartialsource-selection,
#context-selectall,
menuitem[label="View Background Image"],
menuitem[label="Reload Tab"],
menuitem[label="Reload All Tabs"],
menuitem[label="Close Tab"] { display: none !important; }

menuitem[label="Open"],
menuitem[label="Open in New Tab"],
menuitem[label="Expand"],
menuitem[label="Manage Folder"],
menuitem[label="New Folder..."],
menuitem[label="Show Only This Frame"],
menuitem[label="Open in New Window"],
menuitem[label="JavaScript Console"],
menuitem[label="Reload Frame"],
menuitem[label="Bookmark This Frame..."],
menuitem[label="Save Frame As..."],
menuitem[label="View Frame Source"],
menuitem[label="View Frame Info"],
menuitem[label="Open Frame in New Window"] { display: none; }

Bookmark Tweaks
Change the icons for Bookmark folders on the toolbar
See this thread http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=202845

Remove the icons from the Bookmark Toolbar

/* Hide "normal" bookmark icons in the bookmarks menu */
menuitem.bookmark-item > .menu-iconic-left {
display: none; }

/* Hide bookmark icons in the Personal Toolbar */
toolbarbutton.bookmark-item > .toolbarbutton-icon {
display: none; }

/* Hide icons for bookmark folders in Bookmarks menu */
menu.bookmark-item > .menu-iconic-left {
display: none; }

/* Hide icons for bookmark groups in Bookmarks menu */
menuitem.bookmark-group > .menu-iconic-left {
display: none; }

/* Hide All Separators...except View>Toolbars>Bookmarks Toolbar(unknown) */
menuitem + menuseparator { display: none; }
menu + menuseparator { display: none !important; }

Remove Manage Bookmarks from the Bookmark menu

menuitem[label="Manage Bookmarks..."],
menuitem[label="Manage Bookmarks..."] + menuseparator { display: none !important; }

Remove several entries from the Bookmark menu

 /* Hide Bookmarks Menu Items */
#navigator-toolbox menuitem[label="Manage Bookmarks..."] { display: none; }
#navigator-toolbox menuitem[label="Bookmark This Page..."] { display: none; }
#navigator-toolbox menuitem[label="Bookmarks"] { display: none; }
#navigator-toolbox menuitem[label="Bookmarks"] + menuseparator { display: none !important; }

Remove entry for Bookmarks Toolbar from Bookmarks menu

menuitem[label="Bookmarks Toolbar Folder"]{display: none !important;}

Remove icons from the bookmark toolbar

#personal-bookmarks .toolbarbutton-icon {display: none !important;}

Change the width of the bookmark menu

/* Change maximum width of bookmarks in menus - default is 26em */
menu.bookmark-item, menuitem.bookmark-item { max-width: 32em !important; }

Tabs Tweaks

Remove the Close Tab icon on the tab bar and sidebar

/* Remove the close button on the tab bar */
.tabs-closebutton-box {
   display: none !important;
}

Hide tab icons

/* Don't show tab icons */
.tab-icon { display: none !important; }

Other tab alterations

/* Change all tab properties */
tab {
-moz-appearance: none !important;
height: 18px !important;
max-height: 20px !important; }

/* Cosmetic effects to line everything up */
.tabs-closebutton {
padding: 1px !important; }
/* Hide the close button on the tab bar */
.tabbrowser-tabs > stack > .tabs-closebutton-box > .tabs-closebutton,
.tabbrowser-tabs > stack > .tabs-right,
.tabbrowser-tabs > hbox > .tabs-right {
display: none !important; }

Show tabs at bottom

/* Show tabs at bottom */
#content > tabbox { -moz-box-direction: reverse; }

Change tab colours

/* Change Tab Colors */
/* Change color of active tab */
tab[selected="true"] {background-color: rgb(222,218,210) !important; color: black !important;}
/* Change color of normal tabs */
tab {background-color: rgb(200,196,188) !important; color: gray !important;}
/* Tab while loading */
tab[busy] {color:gray !important;}

Make loading tabs red

/* Tab while loading */
tab[busy] {
  color: red !important;}

Put tabs at the left hand side of the screen

/* tabs at left */
#content > tabbox {
  -moz-box-orient: horizontal;
}
.tabbrowser-strip {
  -moz-box-orient: vertical;
  /* note: you can set this to -moz-scrollbars-vertical instead,
     but then the scrollbar will *always* be visible.  this way
     there is never a scrollbar, so it behaves like the tab bar
     normally does */
  overflow: -moz-scrollbars-none;
}
.tabbrowser-tabs {
  -moz-box-orient: horizontal;
  min-width: 20ex;   /* you may want to increase this value */
  -mox-box-pack: start;
  -moz-box-align: start;
}
.tabbrowser-tabs > hbox {
  -moz-box-orient: vertical;
  -moz-box-align: stretch;
  -moz-box-pack: start;
}
.tabbrowser-tabs > hbox > tab {
  -moz-box-align: start;
  -moz-box-orient: horizontal;
}
/* remove the close-tab button. trust me, you need to do this. */
.tabbrowser-tabs > stack {
  display: none;
}

Show tab indicator when tab is loading

/* Show tab loading indicator while the tab is loading */
.tabbrowser-tabs *|tab[busy] .tab-icon {
display:-moz-box;
}

General Browser Tweaks

Make visited links a different colour

a[href]:visited{
   color: rgb(95,155,175) !important;
   text-decoration: overline !important;
}

Remove border from the bottom of the navigation toolbar

#nav-bar {
  border-bottom: 0px !important;
}

General browser changes

/* Stop blinking text */
blink { text-decoration: none ! important; }

Sidebar Tweaks

To override the maximum width for the sidebar

#sidebar { max-width: none !important; }

Some other alterations to the sidebar

/*Override maximum sidebar width and set minimum*/
#sidebar { max-width: none !important;
min-width: 0px !important; }

/*Reduce the size of the splitter*/
#sidebar-splitter { min-width: 0px !important;
max-width: 4px !important; }

/* Hide bookmarks sidebar scrollbar.. remains scrollable with mouse wheel */
#bookmarks-view, scrollbar[orient=vertical] { width: 0px !important; }

/* Sidebar background color and font */
#historyTree, #bookmarks-view tree{
-moz-appearance: none !important;
background-color: #F6F6F6 !important;
font-size: 9pt !important;
font-family: Times New Roman !important; }

sidebarheader { height: 23px !important; }

/* Hide the Sidebar bookmarks Search box */
#bookmarksPanel > hbox { display:none; }

The current userChrome.css (4)

Added quite a few options since the last one, actually the new add ons remove things from the GUI, on a feeble attempt to make it more minimalistic/ Chromium look a like.

/* No "New Tab button" abomination */
.tabs-newtab-button {display: none;}

toolbarbutton.bookmark-item {
        height: 0px !important;
 font-size: regular !important;
        margin-top: 0px !important;
        color: black !important;
}

/* Changes the color of only the Menu entry */
/* http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=503508 */
menubar, menu {
        color: black !important;
        font-size: regular !important;
}

/* change font color of popup menus */
menupopup > menu,
menupopup > menuitem,
popup > menu,
popup > menuitem {
/* For dark themes set to "white" */
        color: white !important;
        font-size: regular !important;

/* For light themes set to "black" */
/*      color: black !important; */
}

/* Remove the Bookmark star, use Ctrl-D instead */
#star-button {
        display: none !important;
}

/* Remove the Go button, the green one from the URL box */
#urlbar-icons > #go-button
{
   display:   none !important;
}
   display:   none !important;
}

/* Remove splitter between the URL and Search bars to save space */
#urlbar-search-splitter {
 display: none !important;
}

/* hide toolbar borders */
menubar, toolbox, toolbar {
        border-style: none !important;
}

/* hide toolbar borders */
toolbar {
        -moz-appearance: none !important;
}

/* Remove the Help menu entry */
/* http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:shrinkfirefox */
menu[label="Help"] {
        display: none !important;
}

/* Hide urlbar and searchbar drop-down arrows */
#urlbar .autocomplete-history-dropmarker {
        display: none !important;
}
#searchbar .autocomplete-history-dropmarker {
 display: none !important;
}

/*  Hide Forward Back Dropmaker  */
#back-forward-dropmarker {
 display:none;
}

/* URL/ Address bar size */
#urlbar {
        max-width: 950px !important;
}

 /* Remove Stop button when there's nothing to Stop */
#stop-button[disabled="true"] {
        display: none;
}

/* Removes stupid option entries from the right click pop-up menu */
#context-viewbgimage,
#context-sep-viewbgimage {
 display: none !important;
}
#context-sendimage {
        display: none !important;
}
#context-setDesktopBackground {
        display: none !important;
}

Cobalt Thorium G

Been playing a bit with Chrome lately, specifically with Chromium.
Of course is fast, and it looks rather sexy out of the box, at least is you like the current fad on minimalism.

The only thing that really, really sucks g0at dick is that it lacks support that will allow it to permanently accept a self signed cert... We use them a lot at work.

The love is back!

2011-04-06 15:03:49 status installed emacsen-common 1.4.19ubuntu1
2011-04-06 15:03:49 status installed emacs23-common 23.1+1-4ubuntu7.2
2011-04-06 15:03:50 status installed emacs23-bin-common 23.1+1-4ubuntu7.2
2011-04-06 15:03:50 status installed emacs23-nox 23.1+1-4ubuntu7.2

I simply had to... Zile is quite good, but it lacks "replace-regexp".

The current Ubuntu desktop

Been playing a bit with the drop shadows values...
I guess it shows...

Piece of crap summer

It simply refuses to end...