A Few Intrepid Fixes!

Well, as I've said before I'm running Intrepid Ibex and there are a few bugs going on. I found a few bugs more, but luckily they can be fixed, at least until the big and shiny Final Release comes out!

Ok, first, remember cGmail?...well sadly it doesn't play nice with Intrepid and doesn't want to autostart with every session. But I found a rather easy workaround for this. Simply go to System>Preferences>Sessions and click "+Add" then on the pop-up windows that'll show you just type:

Name: cGmail
Command: cgmailservice
Comment: Yay!!! cGmail works again!!!

And you're good to go! It's worth noting that if you just type "cgmail" on the command box, you'll only get an instance of cGmail's preferences at startup. It's important to put "cgmailservice" (without quotes) on that box!

Another thing about Intrepid is that Compiz comes bundled with it...and I really don't remember if it also did on hardy, but anyways, you'll get all the Compiz goodness but no way to activate and modify plugins and effects...Have no fear! Just open up a Terminal (Applications>Accessories>Terminal) and type this in:

sudo apt-get install fusion-icon

And then add it to Sessions like you did with cGmail, but in the command box type:

fusion-icon

This way you'll get a neat icon on your notification area that lets you modify effects and it'll startup automatically on each session...cool huh?!

And last but not least! If you're having Multimedia trouble like not being able to play DVDs or Mp3 files, just go to Synaptic and search & download:

"ubuntu-restricted-extras", "libdvdread3", and "libdvdcss2".

Or optionally open up a Terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras libdvdread3 libdvdcss2

This is exactly the same thing you should do on Hardy too! Gladly it works like a charm here on Intrepid as well!

Well that's it for today! I hope this helped someone out!

Have a nice weekend!
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There I Went Again!

I just couldn't resist and after long hours of putting everything back together on Hardy, I went crazy and reformatted everything to put Intrepid Ibex BETA back into place! And I must say I LOVE IT!!! But there are still some major bugs...

I'll post the good things first...which will probably be "spoilers" for you guys, but I can't keep all this goodness to myself!

First, I was very happy to know that the updates were fixed and my wireless internet kept working even after updating network-manager (which was the culprit of last time's disaster). Then I went into more detail and was even happier to know that I won't need btnx anymore! My mouse is fully recognized! (Logitech V220) Everything works including horizontal scrolling, which was useless on Hardy unless I had btnx installed. Btnx is still not in the repos so that's why I haven't talked much about it, and I guess I won't. If you want more info about how to install and use btnx check this tutorial made available on Ubuntu Unleashed!

Now, the sad/bad stuff...

Mac4Lin is currently almost completely useless, anything apart from the cursors won't work (at least with the provided Installation Script, I haven't tried it with the old fashioned manual installation way).

Another thing that ticked me off is that Compiz wants to play rough with Intrepid. I tried to activate the Magnifier plugin in Compiz which I've always used, and Compiz unleashed a violent rampage against my video driver and Ubuntu in general and kept kicking me out to the GDM Login screen...I had to fix that manually with a LiveCD and tons of seek&destroy. I had to erase Compiz configurations through the LiveCD and reinstall it once inside Intrepid again.

Anyways, those two are my main concerns right now, but I know they'll be fixed in the final release! So I don't worry too much! There are also a lot of small bugs and crashes everywhere, but it's nothing hard to overcome.

So I hope you guys enjoyed my post and that you keep enjoying Ubuntu Hardy and very soon Intrepid Ibex...coming soon to a computer near you!
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