Compile an Ubuntu Kernel from scratch

Thursday, December 6th, 2007 at 9:06 am

This complete guide to compiling an Ubuntu kernel is very well detailed. The purpose of compiling your own kernel is to tune it specifically to your hardware specifications, as sometimes the install CD provides you with a generic kernel set up.

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Adding shortcuts to the right click menu in Ubuntu

Monday, November 5th, 2007 at 12:56 pm

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If you’re like me, you like the option of being able to open certain applications on the fly, simply by selecting them from your right click menu. It is possible to add your most used, or any applications to the Ubuntu right click menu with a tool called Nautilus Actions.

1. The first thing you need to do is install the Nautilus Actions application:

sudo apt-get install nautilus-actions

2. After it is installed, navigate to your System > Preferences menu and select Nautilus Actions Configuration

You should now see the Nautilus Actions main screen

3. Click the Add button and you should see the Add a New Action screen

4. Fill out the Menu Item & Action properties with whatever you would like in your right click menu. Above, you can see I am using VLC as an example.

Next, click on the Conditions tab.

5. Under the Conditions tab you need to make sure that Both is selected under “Appears if selections contains”.

Next, click on Advanced Conditions

6. First, uncheck the “File / Local Files” box. Second, in order for the menu items you add to appear every time you right click, you will need to add a blank entry under the Advanced Conditions. To do this, click on the + and erase “new-scheme” and “new-scheme description” so that both entries are blank.

7. Click OK.

8. You now have added your first right click menu item. In order for the item to appear on your right click menu, you need to restart the nautilus daemon.

killall -HUP nautilus

Now you should be able to see the VLC media player on the right click menu.

To continue adding more items to the menu, repeat steps 3 through 8 until you are satisfied.

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Quickzi: Get rid of the Ubuntu splash screen during boot

Saturday, October 27th, 2007 at 6:30 am

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Ubuntu Boot Screen

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the Ubuntu splash screen during the boot process? You know, the screen that has the orange progress bar and the Ubuntu logo. You may want to see if anything is failing during the boot process, or you may just want to see exactly what takes place behind the scenes. If you’re curious, theres a quick and easy way to get rid of it.

Get rid of the Ubuntu Splash screen temporarily:

Reboot your computer
Hit “Esc” when prompted in order to enter the GRUB menu.
Select the proper kernel and hit the letter “e” to edit.
Arrow down to the Kernel line, and hit the letter “e” again.
You should see the last few words in the line. Remove the words “quiet splash” and hit enter.
Hit the letter “b” to boot the kernel without the Ubuntu splash screen. Below is what it will look like.

Get rid of the Ubuntu Splash screen permanently:

From the command line, edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Near the bottom of the file, you will find some lines similar to this:

title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=xxxx ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
quiet
Change the above to look like this:

title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=xxxx ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
Save the file and exit.