remove elements from panels in fallback mode

Just hold the alt key while doing a right click on the element. This will show you the Remove from Panel option.

Nautilus Exit Fullscreen Mode

Just press Alt + F7 and move you mouse. This will reset the window to the normalized state

Quite annoying one because it's hard to guess what the error really is. Usually you forgot to link one of the object files, didn't implement a pure virtual method in the derived class or forgot to implement the virtual Destructor.

If you happen to maintain your webpage with Drupal and also host a SVN-Repository on the very same host you can run into trouble. Just try to commit a file starting with a period (for example a project file from eclipse: .project). It will give you an error "access denied for unknown reason". The solution is quite simple. There is a rule in the .htaccess file from Drupal which denies access to files starting with a period. You can either delete this rule or restrict it to only apply for the drupal part of the page.

After you install Gnome 3 you won't be able to see the Desktop icons. This is because they are hidden by the default settings. But it is quite easy to fix: run gnome-tweak-tool. Select the File Manager category and check "Have file manager handle the desktop". Now the desktop icons should be visible again.

When you run gnome-tweak-tool after installing Gnome 3 you can get the following error: => GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.shell.clock' is not installed The cause is that you are missing a schema which is installed together with gnome-shell (which is probably not installed because you are running the fallback mode). The obvious fix is to install gnome-shell. But if you want to run Gnome 3 in fallback mode you need to do some additional steps: Run the System Settings, go to System Info, Graphics and check "Forced Fallback Mode".

One place where you can find those files is dict.leo.org. You can easily play and download the pronunciation of a english word with the following bash script (just copy and save it to filename.sh):

#!/bin/bash

if [ $# -le 0 ]
then
    echo "usage:<script> <word> <word2> <word3> ..."
    exit 1
fi

for i in $*
do;
	mplayer "http://www.leo.org/dict/audio_en/$i.mp3"
	wget "http://www.leo.org/dict/audio_en/$i.mp3"
done

To execute just run something like:

When you start anki you might encounter something like:

[patrick@eeepaddy anki-1.2.6]$ ./anki
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./anki", line 7, in 
    raise Exception("Anki should be run with python2.x.")
Exception: Anki should be run with python2.x.

The guestbook module of cmsmadesimple has the bad habit of showing the following error message after updates: Call to undefined function nl2pnbr(). The fix is quite easy. Just open the filemodules/Guestbook/action.get-entrylist.php in a texteditor and replace the line

$entry['message'] = nl2pnbr($entry['message']);

with the line

$entry['message'] = nl2br($entry['message']);

After that it works just fine.

The player fails because of the update of the Uploads module and some missing includes. A fix is quite easy:

1. Open modules/EnhancedXSPF/action.admin_edit_playlist.php in a texteditor. You need to change the line 101 from

   $filelist = array_merge($filelist, $uploads->getFileList($category));

   to

   $filelist = array_merge($filelist, $uploads->get_category_file_list($category));

   Now you should be able to edit the playlists again.

Sometimes git gui displays a lot of files like this:

old mode 100644
new mode 100755

They only differ in their permissions and usually we don't really care.

Just execute the following command in the root directory of the repository:

git config core.filemode false