Posted in Linux, tagged AWN, Linux, quick reference, Ubuntu on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To launch the AWN automatically during system starts up…
Go to System > Preferences > Sessions
In the Startup Programs tab,
Click on the Add button.
Type Avant Window Navigator or the name you like in the Name field.
Type avant-window-navigator in the Command field.
Click Ok.
This should automatically launch the AWN the next time you start up your system.
Posted in Linux, tagged AWN, Linux, Ubuntu on February 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
This is another quick reference of what I did to enable the Shutdown function in Quit/Logout applet in the AWN.
Right-click on the Quit/Logout applet and select Preference.
Then, replace gnome-session-save –kill with gnome-session-save –shutdown-dialog
Posted in Linux, tagged Linux, quick reference, Ubuntu on February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To update the system or software in the Ubuntu Linux System, I can use the following two methods.
Method 1:
Open the terminal and type
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Then it will usually check and prompt you the required space to install those updates.
Method 2:
Using the GUI screen, select System > Administration > Update Manager
It will check for [...]
Posted in Linux, tagged Fedora, Linux, VMware on November 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Today, I received an error message, “… location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/…” while installing VM tools on my new Linux Virtual Machine, Fedora 9.
I found a solution in Fedora forum…
First, you need to install the kernel-devel package.
yum install kernel-devel
Then, re-run the vmware perl script again.
./vmware-install.pl
