crontab -eto edit your crontab definitions and add the following at the end of the file:
# Randomize screensaver 0 * * * * DISPLAY=:0 gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.screensaver xscreensaver-hack \'$(ls /usr/lib/xscreensaver | sort -R | head -n 1)\' 2>&1 | logger -t screensaverThis will change every hour the screensaver to one located in the xscreensaver package.
cat <<EOF >/tmp/All-in-one-Place.patch
--- a/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/all-in-one-places@jofer/settings.py
+++ b/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/all-in-one-places@jofer/settings.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ PANEL_WIDGETS = [
{'type': 'switch', 'args': { 'key': 'full-color-panel-icon', 'label': _("Show the panel icon in full color") }},
{'type': 'switch', 'args': { 'key': 'show-panel-text', 'label': _("Show text in panel") }},
{'type': 'entry', 'args': { 'key': 'panel-text', 'label': _("Panel text") }},
- {'type': 'combo', 'args': { 'key': 'file-manager', 'label': _("File manager"), 'values': {'nautilus': 'Nautilus', 'thunar': 'Thunar', 'pcmanfm': 'PCManFM'} }},
+ {'type': 'combo', 'args': { 'key': 'file-manager', 'label': _("File manager"), 'values': {'nautilus': 'Nautilus', 'thunar': 'Thunar', 'pcmanfm': 'PCManFM', 'nemo': 'Nemo'} }},
{'type': 'entry', 'args': { 'key': 'connect-command', 'label': _("Application for the \"Connect to...\" item") }},
{'type': 'entry', 'args': { 'key': 'search-command', 'label': _("Application for the \"Search\" item") }}
]
EOF
Apply the patch with this:
cd ~ ; patch -p1 < /tmp/All-in-one-Place.patchNo log out of the cinnamon session is necessary.
loadkeys [keymap] # Examples: # loadkeys de # german keymap # loadkeys es # spanish keymapAvailable keymaps can be found mostly in /lib/kbd/keymaps.
# Install the gpm package yum install | apt-get install | etc. gpm # Launch the daemon gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t exps2
bash -xv to see all instructions when being executed.
To read the huge output more easily, I logged into the remote server from emacs editor and launched the script and had all the output in my emacs window in a few seconds.
Wait, it only needed a few seconds?!
What happened, I rechecked the execution, with exactly the same parameters to the script from my emacs shell and from a ssh terminal.
The same, within emacs it only took some seconds, within the ssh terminal y took minutes.
So what's going on here?
Investigating the processes in the remote server with htop showed that the grep commands consumed almost 100% of the CPU for some time.
But when launched from emacs they did not.
What might be different?
Well, what about the environment?
Emacs might use it's own set of environment, different from a terminal.
Looking at the export definitions of both, I could see that the locale was different, emacs was using the C, whereas the terminal was using the English en_UK.UTF8.
Issuing a export LC_ALL=C in the terminal and then launching the script ... only a few seconds.
So it seems, grep is sensible to the locale of the shell.
Investigating in the web confirmed this, people talk about a speed enhancement of up to 10 times when using the C locale with grep, as it doesn't have to convert anything, it just compares a plain ASCII set of character, which in most cases is enough.
Also, grep is slightly faster when comparing fixed strings if you use the -F flag or call it with fgrep (due to lazyness I always used grep in such cases).
shopt -s expand_aliases
for g in "" e f; do
alias ${g}grep="LC_ALL=C ${g}grep" # speed-up grep commands by not considering locale.
done
It does not work to just put export LC_ALL=C at the beginning.
Cow files in /usr/share/cowsay/cows: apt beavis.zen bong bud-frogs bunny calvin cheese cock cower daemon default dragon dragon-and-cow duck elephant elephant-in-snake eyes flaming-sheep ghostbusters gnu head-in hellokitty kiss kitty koala kosh luke-koala mech-and-cow meow milk moofasa moose mutilated pony pony-smaller ren sheep skeleton snowman sodomized-sheep stegosaurus stimpy suse three-eyes turkey turtle tux unipony unipony-smaller vader vader-koala www
4c4
< RANGE=3
---
> declare -a cows=( $(cowsay -l | grep -v "Cow files in") )
6,17c6,7
< let "number %= $RANGE"
< case $number in
< 0)
< cow="moose"
< ;;
< 1)
< cow="tux"
< ;;
< 2)
< cow="koala"
< ;;
< esac
---
> let "number %= ${#cows[*]}"
> cow=${cows[$number]}
19c9
< RANGE=2
---
> declare -a says=( say think )
21,30c11,19
< let "number %= $RANGE"
< case $number in
< 0)
< command="/usr/games/cowsay"
< ;;
< 1)
< command="/usr/games/cowthink"
< ;;
< esac
< /usr/games/fortune | $command -f $cow
---
> let "number %= ${#says[*]}"
> command="/usr/games/cow${says[$number]}"
>
> declare -a states=( "" -b -d -g -p -s -t -w -y )
> number=$RANDOM
> let "number %= ${#states[*]}"
> state=${states[$number]}
>
> /usr/games/fortune -a | $command $state -f $cow
sudo patch -b /usr/bin/mint-fortune mint-fortune.patch gconftool-2 --set /desktop/linuxmint/terminal/show_fortunes true --type bool
mycows=~/Documents/cows ; sudo sed -i.orig 's|/usr/bin/mint-fortune|export COWPATH=/usr/share/cowsay/cows:'$mycows'\n\0|' /etc/bash.bashrc
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ssh -p 22022 [notme@]server-ip
host server-ip another-server-name Port 22022 User notme host * User rootYou can put here as many hosts with different parameters as you want, '*' is also supported for creating regular expressions.
host * User root PreferredAuthentications publickey,password
# Copy my machines public key to the server (will prompt for password): ssh-copy-id [user@]server-ip # Unfortunately, ssh-copy-id only works with SSH port 22, so if you have to specify another # one, you might use this instruction: ssh-add -L | ssh -p22022 [user@]server-ip "umask 077; test -d ~/.ssh || mkdir ~/.ssh ; cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys" # Verify the granted access (now without password prompt): ssh [user@]server-ip # or when copying scp afile.txt server-ip:test/
RSAAuthentication yes PubkeyAuthentication yes AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys # If it still doesn't work apply the correct permissions to folders and files: # chmod go-w ~ # chmod 700 ~/.ssh # chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys # If it still doesn't work, then disable the permissions checking: StrictModes noRestart the ssh daemon again after applying this new configuration.
# rip out anything which doesn’t match the regex pattern
sed ‘/your host name/ ! D’ -i.old ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
# or something more complicated
sed ‘/\(host1\|host2\)/ ! D’ -i.old ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
# with many patterns it is easier with this command
cp ~/.ssh/authorized_keys{,.old} && for p in pat1 pat2 pat2 ; do sed '/$pat1/ ! D' ~/.ssh/authorized_keys ; done
sed ‘/\(host1\|host2\)/ D’ -i.old ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:me-davidsansome/clementine sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install clementine # You need to install the developer version for version 1.1, which features mood bars) sudo apt-add-repository ppa:me-davidsansome/clementine-dev
# Put the color value into a variable
pbcolor=160,195,124
sudo sed -r -i.bak "s/(ProgressBarColor=)[0-9]{1,3},[0-9]{1,3},[0-9]{1,3}/\1${pbcolor}/" /etc/libreoffice/sofficerc
# Check that everything went fine (otherwise you can restore the backup file).
cat /etc/libreoffice/sofficerc
You can find the right colors for example with the Gimp image editor.
87c87,91
< changelog = source
---
> changes = source.split("\n")
> for change in changes:
> change = change.strip()
> if change.startswith("*"):
> changelog = changelog + change + "\n"
93c97,101
< changelog = source
---
> changes = source.split("\n")
> for change in changes:
> change = change.strip()
> if change.startswith("*"):
> changelog = changelog + change + "\n"
98,102c106,111
< source = commands.getstatusoutput("apt-get changelog " + self.source_package)
< if source[0] != 0 or source[1].startswith("Err Changelog of"):
< changelog = _("No changelog available") + "\n" + _("Click on Edit->Software Sources and tick the 'Source code' option to enable access to the changelogs")
< else:
< changelog = source[1]
---
> source = commands.getoutput("aptitude changelog " + self.source_package)
> changes = source.split("urgency=")[1].split("\n")
> for change in changes:
> change = change.strip()
> if change.startswith("*"):
> changelog = changelog + change + "\n"
Then you can apply the patch with this command, it will leave a copy of the original script:
sudo patch -lb /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/mintUpdate.py mintUpdate.py.diffIt has been created and checked with version 4.3.8.
#! /bin/bash
#
## LibreOffice installation from Debian Packages from website
## @author Sven Rieke
#
language=en-US
version="3.5.0"
function Usage() {
cat <<EOF
Usage: ${0##*/} [-h] [-v] [-l lang-id] [p lang-id] [-d version-id] [-u]
Options:
-h Show this help.
-v Be verbose about processing steps.
-l lang-id Set language for main installer and documentation (default = ${language})
-p lang-id Set language for interface translation (not installed by default)
-d version-id Specify another package version (default = ${version})
-u Start with a clean user-profile
EOF
}
function AndOut() {
popd
exit
}
trap AndOut ERR
########################################################################
# Interpretation and validation of command line parameters and options #
########################################################################
while getopts :hvl:d:u OPT; do
case $OPT in
h|+h) Usage ; exit 0 ;;
v|+v) VERBOSE=true ;;
l|+l) language="$OPTARG" ;;
p|+p) langpack="$OPTARG" ;;
d|+d) version="$OPTARG" ;;
u|+u) NEWUSER=true ;;
*) Usage
exit 2
esac
done
sudo -v
mkdir -p /tmp/LibO.3.5
pushd /tmp/LibO.3.5
#### Download from http://www.libreoffice.org/download/?type=deb-x86
[[ -v VERBOSE ]] && echo "---[ Installing LibreOffice ${version}-${language} ]" >&2
[[ -v VERBOSE ]] && echo "*** Downloading packages ***" >&2
for i in install helppack ; do
package="LibO_3.5.0_Linux_x86_${i}-deb_${language}.tar.gz"
if [ ! -f $package ]; then
[[ -v VERBOSE ]] && echo "*** Downloading new package $package ***" >&2
wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/${version}/deb/x86/$package
fi
done
if [ -v langpack ]; then
package="LibO_3.5.0_Linux_x86_langpack-deb_${language}.tar.gz"
if [ ! -f $package ]; then
[[ -v VERBOSE ]] && echo "*** Downloading new package $package ***" >&2
wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/${version}/deb/x86/$package
fi
fi
[[ -v VERBOSE ]] && echo "*** Decompressing downloaded archives ***" >&2
for t in LibO_3.5.0_*.tar.gz ; do tar xzf $t ; done
[[ -v VERBOSE ]] && echo "*** Removing old LibreOffice installation ***" >&2
sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-core
for d in $(find -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d) ; do
[[ -v VERBOSE ]] && echo "*** Install packages from $d ***" >&2
pushd $d/DEBS
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
if [ -d desktop-integration ]; then
[[ -v VERBOSE ]] && echo "*** Install desktop integration ***" >&2
cd desktop-integration
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd ..
fi
popd
done
if [ -v NEWUSER ]; then
[[ -v VERBOSE ]] && echo "*** Remove old user profile ***" >&2
mv ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user_old
[[ -v VERBOSE ]] && echo "*** Old one can be found in ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user_old ***" >&2
fi
AndOut
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
 |
| Change screen resolution, colors and background image. |
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install grub-customizer
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mefrio-g/plymouthmanager sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install plymouth-manager
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:merlwiz79/cinnamon-ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install cinnamon # Install the weather extension sudo apt-get install cinnamon-extension-weather # Install some additional themes sudo apt-get install git-core cd /tmp && git clone https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-themes.git cd cinnamon-themes ./test
me~ $ w 17:43:09 up 20:41, 6 users, load average: 0.24, 0.23, 0.18 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT me pts/0 :0.0 15:37 2:04m 0.24s 23.88s gnome-terminal
export DISPLAY=:0.0
cinnamon --replace
 |
| Installed printers are listed here. |
sudo -v # Enable GetDeb Application repository: sudo echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu oneiric-getdeb apps #GetDeb repository extends the official repositories" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/GetDeb-Apps-oneiric.list # Add the repository GPG key wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add - # Update package information sudo apt-get update # Install Sweet Home 3D package sudo apt-get install sweethome3d
sudo -v sed -i.bak 's/java /java -Dcom.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.checkOffScreenSupport=false /' /usr/bin/sweethome3d
sudo -v cd /tmp wget -q http://sweethome3d.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/sweethome3d/SweetHome3D/src/com/eteks/sweethome3d/viewcontroller/resources/help/images/sweethome3d.png sudo cp /tmp/sweethome3d.png /usr/share/pixmaps/sweethome3d.png
sudo apt-get install kupferIn it's preferences you could choose the same key-combination you used with Gnome-Do, and set it's auto-start flag.
sudo apt-get install wally
# Become super-user
sudo -i
# Set some variables (these can be changed to adapt to other Ubuntu versions)
export old=natty
export new=oneiric
# Enter repository list folder
cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
# Change old distribution list files and store them as newer ones
for sl in *-${old}.list ; do echo "Creating ${sl/${old}/${new}}" ; sed 's/\(.*\) '${old}'\(.*\)/\1 '${new}'\2/' $sl > ${sl/${old}/${new}} ; done
# Enable and remove the "disabled ..." comment
for sl in *-${new}.list ; do echo "Enabling ${sl}..." ; sed -i.bak 's/^# \(.*\) disabled on upgrade to '${new}'$/\1/' $sl ; done
# Check they are all fine
for sl in *-${new}.list ; do echo "Content of ${sl/${old}/${new}}:" ; cat $sl ; done
# Cleanup backup files and old distribution list files (not needed any longer)
rm *-${old}* *${new}.list.bak
# Add repository sudo add-apt-repository ppa:albertomilone/hamster-indicator # Add description to repository for easier identification sudo sed -i.save 's/$/ #Hamster-Indicator Time-Tracker/' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/albertomilone-hamster-indicator-natty.list # Install Hamster Indicator sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install hamster-indicator
# Show all possible configuration values and values gconftool-2 -R "/apps/hamster-indicator" # Toggle Icon Glow gconftool-2 --toggle "/apps/hamster-indicator/icon_glow" # Toggle Show Label gconftool-2 --toggle "/apps/hamster-indicator/show_label" # Set enough space for label gconftool-2 --set "/apps/hamster-indicator/label_length" --type int "20"
~/.local/share/hamster-applet/hamster.db
grep -r . /sys/class/dmi/id/ 2>/dev/null lsusb lspcmcia lspci -vvnn udevadm info --export-db lshal sudo lshw
sudo vpddecode # Serials from BIOS, Motherboard sudo biosdecode # More details about BIOS sudo dmidecode -q # Show information about valid BIOS components sudo dmidecode # Show also unknown/invalid BIOS components
lscpu cat /proc/cpuinfo
cat /proc/asound/card*/codec#*
lsmod
## Add Google's testing repository for Picasa
sudo echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ testing non-free #Google Picasa" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-unstable.list
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 7FAC5991
sudo apt-get update
## Install Picasa 3.0
sudo apt-get install picasa
## Download Picasa 3.8 installer
# If there's a newer version you might to have to change it's name and location HERE
cd /tmp && wget http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasa38-setup.exe
## Install it (will not override your current Linux Picasa 3.0)
# Use default settings
wine /tmp/picasa38-setup.exe
## Copy over Picasa 3.8 files to your Linux Picasa 3.0 installation with backup
sudo cp -r /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Google/Picasa3{,_3.0}
sudo cp -r ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Google/Picasa3/* /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Google/Picasa3/
## Uninstall the previous installed Picasa 3.8 (it's not needed any longer)
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Google/Picasa3/Uninstall.exe
Now you can run Picasa as usual from Applications --> Graphics --> Picasa --> Picasa