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Three new tools on my EeePC 900

Micro blogging, updated sites detection, and fast launching anything on my netbook running Ubuntu eee 8.04.1  is what is now possible thank to the following fabulous tools:

Gwibber

It's a webkit based poster for any blog/twitter/facebook platform. Well rendered, the tool use the apple opensourced version of webkit, the HTML renderer. with a userfriendly interface, anybody can now feed its muti sourced blogs and be advertized when a known and wel configured site was updated.

Specto

It's an old tool, but nothing replace this llittle thing which permit you tobe informed when a site was updated, giving a little mesage from the gnome panel that the site John Doe was updated.

Gnome-Do

the faster way to start anything on your laptop ! Just push the "super"+"space" combination keys and you'll just have to input some first letters of what you want to do, "facebook" for exemple will open your bookmark from firefox or epiphany to te facebook site, "text" will route you to the "OpenOffice Text writer" and if more than one item respond to your input, a list will appear pressing "down key", and then, just hit the "enter" or "return" key and that's all !

[edit] Add the --mini parameter to the gnome-do command and you'll get a well netbook feated UI !  great, thanks to Alex for the tips.

Thanks to opensource software to solve all these every day life problems ;)

 

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EeePC + Ubuntu + Locked session

Since I've installed Ubuntu-eee on my EeePc 900, i've notice a strange behaviour of the X server. Each time I locked my session, i was unable to unlock it with my right password while I could connect on a new session...  

Digging the google ground (the net...) i found this post that save myself and my eeepc (an my mind sanity :)


All the problem rely on a simple file permission issue !

Just correct the file permission of the unix_chkpwd command with the following command lines:

chown root:shadow /sbin/unix_chkpwd
chmod 2755 /sbin/unix_chkpwd

That's all.

Thanks to michaelkahl whose solve the problem.

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