Netbeans 6.5 curly bracket problem in Ubuntu Jaunty

06:23PM Apr 26, 2009 in category Linux & Co by Alexander Pirsig

I've just started with netbeans + grails this morning but instead of writing my first grails controller I had to manage a problem with curly brackets and the german keyboard layout. The problem was that after pressing ALTGR + 7 which is { on german keyboards, netbeans returned a "7".

Just as Brain proposes in his blog, you can overload a x-server system variable called "XMODIFIERS" bevor starting NetBeans.

This can be accomplished in two ways. Solution one just overloads this variable, bevor calling netbeans IDE.
export XMODIFIERS='' && ./NetBeansInstallDir/bin/netbeans [ENTER]
Another solution is to place that call directly in the netbeans startup script. Todo so open the startup script with "vi NetBeansInstallDir/bin/netbeans" and place the following line at the very beginning of this file.
#!/bin/sh # <- this is the first line of netbeans script
export XMODIFIERS=''; # <- INSERT this line
After a restart Netbeans should behave now.

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Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) released

09:06AM Apr 24, 2009 in category Linux & Co by Alexander Pirsig

Canonical's neuer Release ist da! Wie schon von vor ein paar Tagen angekündigt habe hat Ubuntu gestern seinen neuen Release (Version 9.04) Jaunty Jackalope veröffentlich. Der Release selber Teilt sich in drei Versionen eine "Desktop", "Server" und ganz neu "URN" (Ubuntu Netbook Remix) ein.

Wie der Name schon sagt, ist die URN Version eine angepasste Desktop-Version für Nootbooks mit spezieller Unterstützung für Funktionen wie zum Beispiel den Hibernate/Suspend modus. Eine Liste der bis dato getesteten Notebooks kann hier gefunden werden. Klick

Was Jane Silber, COO, Canonical kann hier gelesen werden.
Jane Silber, COO, Canonical, says: “With every release, we see Ubuntu Desktop Edition make significant steps forward in appealing to mainstream computer users. With access to the latest office productivity suite, support for Skype and Adobe Flash, and faster boot times, we're confident that Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition will see more people join millions of others and make the switch to an open platform."


Die komplette Pressemeldung findet ihr hier

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Distupgrade from 8.10 (Intrepid) to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

07:31AM Apr 16, 2009 in category Linux & Co by Alexander Pirsig

Yes I did it!

This day I desided to give Ubuntu 9.04 a try, I first had misc feelings about the upgrade because jaunty is still in beta. So first I tried it on my test desktop. The upgrade is relative simple. Fire up a terminal an make sure you have all new packages from intrepid installed then make the dist-upgrade. To accomplish this use the following settings:



# Get root access

sudo bash

# Fetch all new packages for intrepid

aptitude update

# Upgrade all packages for intrepid

aptitude full-upgrade

# Fire up update-manager and start dist-upgrade

update-manager -d

After starting the update manager with "-d" option you should see a field telling you "New distribution release '9.04' is available" click on upgrade and follow the instructions. The upgrade to jaunty took me about one to one and half hours. I've working with it for one day now and hat only one minor issue, my flash player in firefox killed the browser after 10sec. or so... but after reinstalling flashplayer from adobe I had no more issues.

One of the small thinks for gnome uses is the new notification system. Here is the flash movie for it:

A list of new features is available from ubuntu jaunty release site: Jaunty Beta Release side

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