If you want to change the size of the icons just change the bar height in ‘awn-manager > Bar Appearance’. Trivial but if you are looking for an option that reads ‘Icon Height’ this may be of use to you.
If you want to change the application fonts in programs like Skype and Virtual Box. You may need to pop the following into a terminal…
sudo apt-get install qt3-qtconfig
or maybe…
sudo apt-get install qt4-qtconfig
I’m not sure which version you will need but I know that on Intrepid you need qt4… which i think gets installed when you install skype for example.
Anyway look under ‘System > Preferences’ select ‘QT4 Settings’ you will then be able to set the font to the same size as your application font that you have set in Ubuntu. Odd font sizes bother me so I had to find out how to sort this out! I hope this helps someone else to…
This is a really handy to know if you work across multiple computers and want to use file systems over ssh this is handy when you don’t have vpdn at your disposal…
Firstly install sshfs by popping the following into a terminal…
sudo apt-get install sshfs
Once that is installed you will be able to mount file systems via SSH. A sensible way to mount them is to create a mount point in ‘/media’.
cd /media
sudo mkdir sharename
sudo chown username sharename
sshfs username@hostname:/path /media/sharename
Obviously you will need to replace username and sharename with the right criteria but I hope you get the idea!
No i’m not obsessed with making Linux look like MAC OS X I just like the icon set. This is available from Gnome Look… http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/OSX?content=31618
If you don’t want to mess around with custom kernals and just want it to work out of the box. Try this! http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/
If you want to install Ubuntu on an EEE PC you will need to make a visit to http://www.array.org/ubuntu/. It will make your life so much easier!
Want to batch convert lots of documents to PDF?
If you are looking for a server side solution whether it be in the form of a web service or server application that you want to deliver to your users so that they can convert ODT, WPD, PPT, DOC and many more to different formats or just one standard format. Check this out… http://www.artofsolving.com/
This has to be one of the best uses for OpenOffice.org be warned though I have found that running OpenOffice as a service and chucking lots and lots of files at in one go causes it to crash randomly! I have found that its best to start the service then run the convertor then convert one document at a time, stop the service and then repeat the process. All of the cycling through documents is managed by shell scripts.
