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Been working on gnome-terminal with the "Inconsolata" font for some time now - really cool!

On Ubuntu, just "sudo apt-get install ttf-inconsolata" and then in gnome-terminal change the default profile (or another profile if you wish) to this font. Mine is set at "Inconsolata Medium 12".

Labels: linux, ubuntu

I always found it a bit annoying and finally got the stage where I could no longer take it! If you use VMWare server/workstation on Ubuntu you may find that the arrow keys (amongst others) do not work as expected. For example, one of the arrow keys will pop-up the start menu if your guest OS is Windows.

Lucky for Ubuntu users the fix is simple:

        echo 'xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true' > ~/.vmware/config

All you need to do to complete the fix is to restart the vmware service. Next time you start-up and log into your guest OS your keys will all work as expected.

Labels: ubuntu, virtual machine, vmware

Well, let me first say that Ubuntu absolutely rocks on the M1530. The only thing that took me a while to sort out was the on board 3G modem, so here is a little run down of the steps I took to get it working.

I assume for now you have installed the Vodafone 3G dialer.

Step 1: Add the following line in /etc/fstab:

none            /proc/bus/usb   usbfs   devgid=46,devmode=664   0       0

I did a reboot, just to make sure that everything was working.

Step 2: Run the following command:

sudo modprobe -r usbserial ; sleep 3 ; sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x413c product=0x8138

The sleep command might be an overkill, but I am playing safe here.

Step 3: Initialize the modem again. You do this by switching off the modem (slide button on the right hand side of the laptop). Wait 5 seconds, and switch on again. This will create the /dev/ttyUSB* entries.

Step 4: Launch the Vodafone 3G dialer and configure your account. I had to restart the dialer after the initial account set-up.

That's it - surf's up !

Labels: 3g, linux, ubuntu