Clear up space, remove old ubuntu packages:

Clear up space, remove old ubuntu packages:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get autoclean && sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get autoremove

How do I do anything?.....

apropos searches the manual page names and descriptions.

apropos
man

How to mount a network disk/NAS via NFS:

Ensure you have esentials:

• sudo apt-get install nfs-common, nfs-kernel-server

To mount drive:

• showmount -e 
• sudo mount -o soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 192.168.0.15:/nfs ~/nfs/

Where is the installed package

Where is the installed package located?

dpkg -l

Problem: Ubuntu will only start in low graphics mode

Error:
Ubuntu will only start in low graphics mode

Issues:
Run terminal login as root.
FileSystem is all marked as readonly so no changes can be made

Root cause
Ran out of disk space
Use Ubuntu Live CD to boot, mount the main drive and delete some files.

Ubuntu - Window control

Mac like zooming out of desktop windows

Ubuntu show/hide files in Open File Dialog

... is done with
CTRL-H

Ubuntu How2 resize windows easily

1) Use ALT + Mouse Middle click to change your window size
2) Hack the style by editing:
/usr/share/themes/Ambiance/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml
and changeing the *_width borders

Many solutions here

Ubuntu install - grub_xputs not found

This was a little hair-raising. I installed Ubuntu 10.10 and saw this error: grub_xputs not found. After a quick google I solved it with this Thread

the core part of which is this:

sudo mount /dev/sdXY /mnt
sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sdX

Evoluent vertical mouse

I setup the Left handed Evoluent Vertical Mouse 2 using this command:

xinput list

shows 8 = My Evoluent mouse

xinput --set-button-map 8 1 2 2 4 5 6 7 3 9 10 11 12 13

Ubuntu guide

Notes on the Evoluent Vertical Mouse 3

A refined version:

        xinput set-button-map `xinput list | grep Evoluent | grep -Eo 'id\=[0-9]+' | grep -oE '[0-9]+'`   3 2 1 4 5 6 7 8 1 10 11 12 13 


To invert trackpad scroll but not mouse:


xinput list      
xinput list-props | grep -i Scroll
xinput set-prop 1