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TweetDeck on Ubuntu LXDE

Monday, December 13th, 2010 | Author:

The TweetDeck Adobe Air App is a great way to manage your use of Twitter and I like it a lot but I like my lightweight Desktop Environment LXDE on Ubuntu even more. Problem is that TweetDeck and any Air Apps can run into problems if you use anything other than KDE or Gnome on Ubuntu because of the way it stores your data. There are some help files on the Adobe site but they would not work for me. But there is a solution at mindby.com where you use a shell script to pass the Gnome Keyring to the app on startup. Works perfectly and allows the wonderful TweetDeck to work on the super fast LXDE and XFCE apparently also

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Ububtu on VirtualBox – working well

Friday, February 22nd, 2008 | Author:

vbox_logo_s1.pngVirtualBox allows you to run one OS within another. Currently typing this from an Ubuntu guest running on an XP host and the performance is very good.

Some simple instructions to set it up can be found here

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Ubuntu Linux

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 | Author:

Ubuntu Desktop I have tried several Linux distros over the years but Ubuntu really does look the coolest I have come across so far.

It installs easily, successfully detects hardware, and runs smoothly. There is a good support base and Python scripts such as EasyUbuntu greatly simplify the addition useful packages including multimedia like Flash and Video Codecs.

There is also a Live CD version too which is useful for trying Linux out and for testing how well your hardware is supported and it even looks cool too.

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