La Lettre Hebdomadaire Ubuntu

Après quelques petits hoquets, la LHU (traduction de la UWN) reprend sa parution et s’offre un hébergement supplémentaire. Elle est publiée principalement sur le site de la LoCo francophone par les administrateurs de ce site.

Vous la trouverez aussi sur

• le wiki d’Ubuntu.com en ajoutant un /Fr à l’extension de la UWN en cours (à partir du numéro 63, le dernier sorti à ce jour), par exemple : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue63/Fr
• un blog dédié dont l’adresse est : http://lhublog.wordpress.com

Les avantages sont que toute personne avec un compte wiki sur ubuntu.com peut publier la traduction une fois qu’elle est terminée et que le blog est ouvert à vos retours et commentaires. Vous pouvez aussi y souscrire par les flux RSS et la lire dans votre lecteur de flux préféré.

Bonnes lectures !

Common bugs in gutsy with workarounds

With Frodon, we’ve been working on collecting, and linking all in one handy place, a series of common gutsy bugs with Launchpad entries and fixes. Please check the UF thread I’ll be also updating here. Hope you’ll find this info helpful :)

• No Virtual Terminals in Gutsy: Workaround, LP Bug Report
• OpenOffice crashing: Workaround, LP Bug Report
• Shutdown or restart hangs in Gutsy (intel video cards): Current Discussion Thread, LP Bug Report
• No USB key automount: Workaround, LP Bug Report
• Can’t rename files in Gutsy’s Desktop and Nautilus: Workaround, LP Bug Report
• Gutsy Intel HD Audio Controller, Workarounds and Bug Report
• No System Sounds (apart from logon sound): Workarounds
• Laptop suspend issues: Workarounds/Support, LP Bug149714 LP Bug156613
  LP Bug159286
• java-fullscreen problem in gutsy: Workarounds/Support1 Workarounds/Support2, LP Bug Report

We’ve been searching the forums for these, please feel free to point us at other threads with bug reports and fixes, thanks.

Priorities for APT repositories (debian-based distributions)

I knew I could pin a package version, setting up an /etc/apt/preferences file, please see
here.
newtonfn on the ubuntuforums elegantly worked this resource out to set up a priority to repositories as well.
In this particular example, the medibuntu repos are set to have a lower priority, so that any package present in two repos from the /etc/apt/sources.list (here, medibuntu and skype) gets installed and upgraded preferably from the other repo (the skype one in the example):

Package: *
Pin: release l=Medibuntu
Pin-Priority: 400

A package present only in the medibuntu repo will be installed/upgraded from medibuntu. As I said, very elegant!

Change GDM background color to match your GDM theme (applies to Xfce)

Please read the Launchpad bug report where the issue was raised.

At the bottom of /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default change :

 # Default value
        if [ "x$BACKCOLOR" = "x" ]; then
                BACKCOLOR="#dab082"
        fi

to:

 # Default value
        if [ "x$BACKCOLOR" = "x" ]; then
                BACKCOLOR="x"
        fi

Where #dab082 is the default brown color that appears right after GDM exits and before the desktop files are loaded. Works nicely with Xfce here.

Edit: from the bug report, the bug is fixed in Hardy :)

Gmail now offers IMAP

The following page is tagged “updated 10/23/2007″: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=gmail&hl=en&answer=75725

Look in your Gmail account Settings page, you should see a “forwarding POP/IMAP” menu.
Unfortunately, this feature is not available, yet, for my own account. Still sticking to POP :(

Edit: Woopsies, Aaron had it :D
http://www.pthree.org/2007/10/24/gmail-imap/
/me should check more carefully..

OpenDNS

If, like it just happened to me tonight, your ISP DNS collapse, you can use openDNS. Just manually change the DNS in /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220

Many thanks Stemp for the tip :)

Edit: ne t’inquiètes pas Stemp, je sais que tu as toujours raison :-þ

Rescue-Remix, a data-recovery toolkit (was Rescubuntu).

I have already talked about this Ubuntu-based recovery Live CD formerly known as Rescubuntu.
az has released a new version based on Ubuntu 7.10 Gusty Gibbon. Please check the UF thread and their web site for more informations and download links.

Ubuntu Gutsy CDs covers.

french_Photon, Jolly-Swagman and smartboyathome have released really nice CD covers for Gutsy. Please check the UF thread for all the covers and links to the artwork.

For example (What? Are you saying I am biased?):

Very nice work!

Share your gutsy install/upgrade experience.

Ubuntuforums are the official support forums for Ubuntu. Many users seek support or help with their Ubuntu system, but not only. The chat areas are also very active. However, when it comes down to the OS, most of the threads are to solve issues, fix things, get encouragements, basically get community help.

As the community grows the forums can fulfill another need: have users come over to get feedback, and if possible, positive feedback.
Frodon has started a thread where you can also share your positive experiences regarding the recent install/upgrade to gutsy, the latest Ubuntu release.

As zasf points it out:

“I’m going to upgrade right now. I wanted to have a look at the forums in order to know some other’s experience before doing it.”

So please, contribute to the thread, answer to the poll, so that your own experience can allow to draw a broader picture of the overall transition to gutsy.

More than 10,000 users on line on UF

And it keeps growing \o/
Gusty release day..

I cannot resist to post another screenshot: