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Monday, May 11, 2009

Windows to Ubuntu 9.04

My Windows box is slowly dying, so I decided to try using my Linux box as my main machine. I copied over my Thunderbird and Firefox profiles and viola - my e-mail, feeds and newgroups are working! There were a couple hiccups, like Yahoo! News is "99b0bbe5", which I just have to rename.

Here are a few simple things I did to customize it to my liking:

System > Preferences > Appearance
Theme: Clearlooks

/usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
style "default" {
GtkScrollbar::slider-width = 18 # Make scrollbars a touch larger
GtkMenu::vertical-padding = 4 # Even out spacing for top and bottom menu items
}

/home/Mike/.inputrc
"\e[A": history-search-backward # simply begin typing and press up-arrow to search history
"\e[B": history-search-forward
set show-all-if-ambiguous on # Stop having to pres tab twice to see all command completions

If I can get Photoshop working in Wine, that would be the ultimate.

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