GNU/Linux PURIFICATION

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GNU/Linux PURIFICATION

Once upon a time, this was a page dedicated only to ubuntu distro; since many years I'm not using that shit anymore so this page evolved for general usage; the tricks described can be applied (with some minor tweaks) to almost any distro.

It's also my personal notepad for installing / dealing with my laptop, actually a Lenovo Thinkpad X220

I used Linux Mint for a lot of time, but they passed to the dark side ot that shitty cancer called systemd.

Now I'm using OUR distro, DEVUAN, a systemd-free old style full working GNU/Linux system! http://devuan.org

If you want to help developing this document, please write to asbesto (at) gmail {dot} com

Old version of this document is UbuntuPurificationOld

Check also:

Fresh devuan install: CLEANUP and SHIT

First we eradicate all the poettering bloatware shit, then we install what's needed in a serious UNIX system.

apt purge pulseaudio avahi-daemon avahi-autoipd ## note: unfortunately you need pulseshit for fldigi :( 

apt install joe mc openssh-server build-essential apt-file qasmixer aptitude bsdgames

updatedb
apt-file update

NOTE: They BROKE "locate", now we have locate, mlocate and plocate. OBVIOUSLY they messed up the db format so they're not compatible anymore. Please check the related section.

Other stuff I purge:

apt purge network-manager pcscd brltty

THIS FUCKING ATTITUDE

of browsers that don't mind their own fucking business and decide for you what's secure and what'not

jesus FUCKING CHRIST

Chrome

TO BE CONTINUED

Firefox

TLS SHIT

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful.

(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste TLS and pause while the list is filtered

(3) If the security.tls.version.max preference is bolded and "user set" to a value other than 3, right-click > Reset the preference to restore the default value of 3

(4) If the security.tls.version.min preference is bolded and "user set" to a value other than 1, right-click > Reset the preference to restore the default value of 1

The values for these preferences mean:

1 => TLS 1.0 2 => TLS 1.1 3 => TLS 1.2

Turn off / Disable Firefox “Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead

Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter.
1) A warning page may appear. Click Accept the Risk and Continue.

2) Change the following settings:

security.insecure_field_warning.contextual.enabled = false
security.certerrors.permanentOverride = false
network.stricttransportsecurity.preloadlist = false
security.enterprise_roots.enabled = true
3) Restart Firefox to apply changes.

FAN CONTROL on thinkpad L480 et al

You need to install thinkfan

then you need to enable the control mode for module thinkpad_acpi:

echo 'options thinkpad_acpi fan_control=1' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/thinkpad_acpi.conf

and reboot. then I use those scripts in /usr/local/sbin:

fan

echo level full-speed > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan

sparafan

echo level full-speed > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
root@curiosity:~# cat /usr/local/sbin/fan
#!/bin/bash
case $1 in
  1|2|3|4|5|6|7|0|auto|disengaged|full-speed)
         echo level $1 > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
  ;;
  max|full|fullspeed|ofunnu|spara|sparata|culo)
         echo level full-speed > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
  ;;
  *)
         echo "WHAT THE FUCK IS $1?"
  ;;
esac

IPV6 SHIT

You ping google.com, it resolve the fucking ipv6 address and that's unreachable because EVERYTHING SUCKS. So to get rid of IPV6 do this:

Add this at the end of /etc/sysctl.conf:

net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.tun0.disable_ipv6 = 1

and do

sysctl --system

to reload it.

BLUETOOTH problems?

Device connected but there's NOTHING in any audio mixer!

I found this:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/481951/bluetooth-headset-connects-but-not-showing-in-sound-settings

Extending upon Mark's answer, which basically did the trick for me.

The problem is that the bluetooth service tries to load the pulseaudio bluetooth module at startup, which fails because they require X11 to be running. You need to change the configuration so that the pulseaudio bluetooth module is loaded after X11.

Tell the bluetooth service to not load the module. To do this, edit /etc/pulse/default.pa and comment out these lines by putting # characters in front of them:

.ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so
load-module module-bluetooth-discover
.endif

Configure the module to be loaded after X11. To do this, edit /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 and add two lines:

if [ x"$DISPLAY" != x ] ; then
    # ...

    # Add these lines:
    /usr/bin/pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover
    /usr/bin/pactl load-module module-switch-on-connect
fi

Restart pulseaudio and bluetooh. Either reboot your machine or use the following commands:

{{{pulseaudio -k start-pulseaudio-x11 sudo service bluetooth restart }}}

This way, the pulseaudio bluetooth module should be working and Volume Control (pavucontrol) should detect the bluetooth device and list it under input and output devices.

What I did, PORCODDIO

as user:

/usr/bin/pactl unload-module module-bluetooth-discover
/usr/bin/pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover
/usr/bin/pactl unload-module module-switch-on-connect
/usr/bin/pactl load-module module-switch-on-connect

pulseaudio -k
start-pulseaudio-x11


as root:

service bluetooth restart


echo DIOCANEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Too many password asked. Why removing them? Is it safe?

Typical situation is: my laptop have only my personal account in it, and no other users. no open ports, no ssh server, no telnet, no shared folders, no samba, nothing.

I'm the only user of it.

So I log in (password), 
and configure a printer (password), 
I check network settings (password) 
install packages (password), 
remove a package (password again) 
become su (password), 
use sudo! (another password), 
configure stuff in gnome (password again) 
configure a new network connection (password again!!!)
quit the system (another password!!!)

THIS - IS - FUCKING - STUPID

This document contain useful hints to CLEAN UP THIS MESS, obtaining a nice working GNU/Linux system instead of the crap installed and configured by default.

Automatic login without password

It's MY computer, in MY house, so why the FUCK i have to type my password to log in X-Windows?!?

System - Administration - Login and select the damn user

You can select this while installing Linux Mint.

Get rid of all those asked passwords

Create a file named /etc/pam.d/common-pamkeyring with this inside:

auth optional pam_keyring.so try_first_pass
session optional pam_keyring.so

Edit /etc/pam.d/slim as follow: (it can be slim or mdm, gdm, lightdm or whatever - check it out)

add

@include common-pamkeyring

at the bottom, and please COMMENT OUT those lines:

# auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
# session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start

Create, if doesn't exist, the wheel group, editing /etc/group, and add your user to it

vi /etc/group

/etc/sudoers check into sudoers.d for files to be included. This is fucking stupid. Let's just edito /etc/sudoers instead as it has to be:

Edit /etc/sudoers.d/MyOverrides, using visudo -f

visudo -f /etc/sudoers

Comment out the @includedir at the bottom, and add:

%wheel     ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
yourusername    ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Edit /etc/pam.d/sudo adding at bottom:

auth sufficient pam_rootok.so
auth required pam_wheel.so
auth sufficient pam_wheel.so trust

Edit /etc/pam.d/su enabling this line (just uncomment it):

# Uncomment this if you want wheel members to be able to
# su without a password.
auth sufficient pam_wheel.so trust

The Incredible Idiocy: PolicyKit

As I stated in ubuntuforums time ago:

I'm used to work on MY computer, with MY login, and no other logins; it's in MY home, and it don't run away to search for malicious users. It's MY PC in MY HOUSE. For this I log in automagically with no password asking. I have automagic "su" and "sudo" without password (that is STUPID because I'm root on MY machine, and there are NO other users).

But now I have some very annoying issues about this damn thing called "System Policy", for which I can't, just to say, do a shutdown of my machine under Gnome because "System policy prevents stopping the system when other users are logged". And this just because I have some root terminals left open.

This is very, very stupid.

And so on, this damn system policy crap keep asking me the same damn password for everything: wifi connections, login/ssh to other machines, mounting of devices, and so on.

Please, PLEASE. Does someone know HOW TO KILL this stupid thing? How to get rid of all those unuseful, boring, recursive and idiot password requests?

please somebody help me, I'm going nuts for this.

I got an official warning and the thread was closed by administrator. The PolicyKit was a so stupid PIECE OF CRAP that now is no more used. But for the unfortunate users that have this stinking corpse running in the system, here's a solution.

Assuming you have sudo settings as above, do

usermod -aG sudo yourname

Replace "username" with your actual user name. Now switch to root:

sudo -i

Create a new policy:

vi /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/fuck-passwords.pkla

Add this:

[Install package file]
Identity=unix-group:sudo
Action=*
ResultActive=yes

Save, exit, and reboot. No more Policy Kit password requests!

OLD POLKIT VERSION patch

As stated in the man page just edit /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf as here:

<config version="0.1">
        <match user="root|YOUR_USER_HERE">
               <return result="yes"/>
        </match>
        <define_admin_auth group="admin|wheel"/>
</config>

and restart the whole X damn thing

NOW LIVE IN HAPPINESS

Can't convert png files into a PDF because developer's mom is a B14TCH

Error you get:

convert-im6.q16: attempt to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy `PDF' @ error/constitute.c/IsCoderAuthorized/426.

to solved this crazy shit, edit /etc/ImageMagick-7/policy.xml and before </policymap> add

  <policy domain="coder" rights="read | write" pattern="PDF" />

that makes it work again, but not sure about the security implications of that. FUCK THEM ALL

Other and maybe better way to avoid this STRONZATA

Make sure you have Ghostscript ≥9.24:

gs --version

If yes, just remove this whole following section from /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml:

<!-- disable ghostscript format types -->
<policy domain="coder" rights="none" pattern="PS" />
<policy domain="coder" rights="none" pattern="PS2" />
<policy domain="coder" rights="none" pattern="PS3" />
<policy domain="coder" rights="none" pattern="EPS" />
<policy domain="coder" rights="none" pattern="PDF" />
<policy domain="coder" rights="none" pattern="XPS" />

Details: Removing just the line with pattern="PDF" inside would be enough to re-enable PDF conversion. On my computer, I removed the lines for the other PostScript-based filetypes as well just because I can't see a reason to prevent Image Magick from working with such files. (Talking about a personal computer only. On a web server, you might consider it dangerous as PostScript-based files can contain scripts … actually, PostScript is script.)

FUCK YOU ALL

dmesg not permitted from user anymore? Debian developers, are you fucking dumb?

THEY decided that a normal user can't see system logs.

asbesto@curiosity:~$ dmesg
dmesg: read kernel buffer failed: Operation not permitted
asbesto@curiosity:~$

To revert this abomination, do this as root

sysctl kernel.dmesg_restrict=0

AND CURSE THEM ALL

To make this persistent:

echo kernel.dmesg_restrict = 0 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.d/10-local.conf >/dev/null

cat /etc/sysctl.d/10-local.conf 

kernel.dmesg_restrict = 0

After changing the file, to make the changes effective the user either needs to reboot or run as root:

service procps restart

ls output with quotes? WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT

From https://superuser.com/questions/1376351/why-does-ls-wrap-some-filenames-in-single-quotes :

This was a highly unpopular feature introduced to version 8.25 of the GNU coreutils package as recently as 2016, by a consensus of just three developers.

Arguments cited by critics of the change include that it makes the output of ls look considerably more unsightly, unnecessarily diverges from nearly half a century of Unix tradition, and due to the way it was implemented (opt-out instead of opt-in) breaks compatibility with long-standing existing scripts and utilities.

Solution:

Use the QUOTING_STYLE environment variable

Find your ~/.bashrc file in your HOME folder (/home/yourusername), and add the following line to it:

export QUOTING_STYLE=literal

Save the file, and the change should apply immediately to all new bash terminals that you open.

You can also run source ~/.bashrc to have the changes be pushed to any terminal windows that were open at the time of making the change.

Potentially unsafe paste MY ASS

Yuo copy / paste code into a terminal under X. Now this happens:

WARNING, POTENTIAL UNSAFE PASTE

How to disable this FUCKING REQUESTER:

Open up the terminal, click on edit, click on preferences, and untick the box. That should do it.

Who invented this pile of turds must DIE NOW.

put DIRECTORIES BEFORE FILES in the fucking GTK

do this:

 gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser sort-directories-first true

apt install dconf-cli && dconf write /org/gtk/settings/file-chooser/sort-directories-first true

or install and run the program dconf-editor. Then go to org->gtk->settings->file-chooser, then activate the option sort-directories-first.

What the fuck is wrong with those idiots that mix directories and files? FUCK THEM ALL

Chrome Insecure download blocked / unverified, and this fucking trend about messing up with user's choiches

Launch Chromium or Chrome with

--disable-features=InsecureDownloadWarnings

WHAT THE FUCK

THIS FUCKING TOUCHPAD

NOTE: IT'S WORKING OUT OF THE BOX after installing DEVUAN Daedalus and xfce. Just had to check "tap to click" on Enlightenment.

If you want to enable edge scrolling, you MUST disable two finger scroll to make it work.

About the poettering shit: avahi and pulseaudio removal

avahi and pulseaudio. Never saw such a pile of CRAP. let apt purge be, as shown before.

If you have some software that use pulseaudio crap and that you want to keep, use apt-mark. For example, I have this problem with pd-extended, so

apt-mark hold pd-extended # (because it depend on the pulseaudio-utils crap!!!)

So, to remove pulseaudio crap, use:

apt-get --ignore-hold  purge pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio pavucontrol

To install everything needed for ALSA sound:

apt-get install alsa-base alsa-tools alsa-tools-gui alsa-utils alsa-oss alsamixergui libalsaplayer0

Installing software that require that pulseaudio CRAP as dependency

Example: pd-extended is by default compiled / linked / whatever to the fucking pulseaudio CRAP. In my Linux Mint it depends on the package pulseaudio-utils.

So, let's create a FAKE pulseaudio-utils package, just to keep apt quiet about it.

Install the "equivs" package:

apt-get install equivs

and use it to create a fake pkg description:

equivs-control pulseaudio-utils

This will create a file named pulseaudio-utils in the local directory. Edit it to something like this: (you can just copy this stuff into it: it works! )

Section: misc
Priority: optional
Standards-Version: 3.9.2

Package: pulseaudio-utils
Version: 1:42
Maintainer: Fuck Pulseaudio <fuckpulseaudio@example.com>
Architecture: all
Description: Pulseaudio FUCK YOU!

Note the Version: it prevent any overinstallation due to the very high value (42 )

Now, create the fake package:

equivs-build ./pulseaudio-utils

And now, just install it:

dpkg -i ./pulseaudio-utils_42_all.deb

And so, now the dependency is satisfied and you have not to worry anymore! You can now install pd-extended and tweak his configuration to work with ALSA or JACK.

* Very useful reference: http://shallowsky.com/blog/linux/install/blocking-deb-dependencies.html

mplayer and pulseaudio/alsa setup

You must configure the audio output in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf as follow:

# fuck pulse, use alsa, then SDL video
ao=alsa,sdl

updatedb, locate, mlocate is now BROKEN

Here I just say 2 things:

DEBIAN SHIT!!!
YOU CAN'T INSTALL "mlocate", instead of "locate" because a bunch of ASSHOLES deprecated it !!!

So, if you are like me and keep databases of your hard disk backups since 10 years ago, you can't search those databases anymore.

GOOD JOB, ASSHOLES

I solved installed THIS OLD BUT WORKING PACKAGE

http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mlocate/mlocate_0.26-5_amd64.deb

risolto
VAFFANCULO
mo' lo PINPOINTO
e BLACKLISTO plocate
porco il loro DIO DI MERDA


root@curiosity:~# apt-mark hold mlocate

e vaffanculo PORCODDIO

audacious mp3 player

It must be configured (ctrl-p) as follow:

ALSA, 
Sysdefault:card=mid hda intel mix default analog audio dev, 
mixer hw:0 hda intel mid,
mixer element PCM.

ALSA and BLUETOOTH. FORGET IT!

EXPERIMENTAL: I FAILED. I can have a bt connection and direct aplay to use it, but there's no fucking way to switch from computer to bluetooth in any mixer I tried. So it's fucking useless apart from command line.

Scratchpad follow

https://github.com/Arkq/bluez-alsa

sbc is needed:

git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/sbc.git
cd sbc/
less INSTALL
./bootstrap-configure
./configure
make
sudo make install

root@rover:~# apt-get remove pulseaudio
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libpulsedsp libsbc1 libwebrtc-audio-processing1 pulseaudio-utils rtkit
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
After this operation, 6,285 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 146018 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing pulseaudio-module-bluetooth (10.0-1+deb9u1) ...
Removing pulseaudio (10.0-1+deb9u1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
root@rover:~#


asbesto@rover:~/Desktop/src$ git clone https://github.com/Arkq/bluez-alsa.git
Cloning into 'bluez-alsa'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 104, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (104/104), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (75/75), done.
remote: Total 3213 (delta 49), reused 62 (delta 28), pack-reused 3109
Receiving objects: 100% (3213/3213), 1.24 MiB | 1.05 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2472/2472), done.

asbesto@rover:~/Desktop/src$ cd bluez-alsa/

REQUIREMENTS: sudo apt install libbluetooth-dev libfdk-aac-dev libfdk-aac1

asbesto@rover:~/Desktop/src/bluez-alsa$ autoreconf --install

(blah blah)

mkdir build && cd build

NOTE: NO /usr/local prefix here, I want config files in the right places.

../configure --enable-aac --enable-ofono --enable-debug

make

sudo make install

launch "bluealsa" from /etc/rc.local

 bluealsa -S &

cat > ~/.asoundrc

defaults.bluealsa.service "org.bluealsa"
defaults.bluealsa.device "55:0B:D4:79:E3:30"
defaults.bluealsa.profile "a2dp"
defaults.bluealsa.delay 10000

aplay -D bluealsa file.wav works!

No mixer can see / recognize the "bluealsa" device. FUCK THIS SHIT

AND:

It is not possible to run more than one instance of the BlueALSA server per D-Bus interface. If one tries to run second instance, it will fail with the "Couldn't acquire D-Bus name: org.bluealsa" error message. This message might also appear when D-Bus policy does not allow acquiring "org.bluealsa" name for a particular user - by default only root is allowed to start BlueALSA server.

what the actual FUCK

TO REVERT AND RE-INSTALL PULSESHIT

Uninstall bluez-alsa from the install directory (enter "build" dir and do make uninstall)

and

apt install pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-bluetooth

Sorry. If you want alsa instead of pulseshit, you can't use bluetooth.

NOTE:

I had chrome on external bt audio and telegram on pc auto. To set default output:

pactl set-default-sink 1

tnx to Nightolo!

asbesto@rover:~$ pactl list sinks > petazzo
asbesto@rover:~$ pactl list sources >> petazzo
asbesto@rover:~$ pacmd list sink-inputs > petazzo
asbesto@rover:~$ pactl set-default-sink 1
asbesto@rover:~$

Acrobat reader for linux

Get it from here: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/

dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
dpkg -i Desktop/AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb

After that, fix the broken install shit and install the last requirement:

apt --fix-broken install
apt install libxml2:i386

That's it!

Debian Suggested and Recommended package automatic installation

Sometimes the default behaviour of Debian is to install unuseful CRAP as "recommended" and "suggested" packages. Here's how to avoid it:

vim /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/fucksuggested.conf

APT:Install-Recommends "0";
APT:Install-Suggests "0";

(thanks to Franco Lanza for this hint! )

ls -la: BAD sorting order

The normal behaviour of ls -la command since beginning of UNIX is, and has to be:

-rw-r--r--  1 sm01 sm01   0 May  3 18:32 .aaa 
-rw-r--r--  1 sm01 sm01   0 May  3 18:33 .fff 
-rw-r--r--  1 sm01 sm01   0 May  3 18:33 DDD 
-rw-r--r--  1 sm01 sm01   0 May  3 18:33 EEE 
-rw-r--r--  1 sm01 sm01   0 May  3 18:32 bbb 
-rw-r--r--  1 sm01 sm01   0 May  3 18:32 ccc

Now with all this LOCALE SHIT around, you can obtain this:

-rw-r--r--  1 sm01 sm01   0 may  3 18:32 .aaa 
-rw-r--r--  1 sm01 sm01   0 may  3 18:32 bbb 
-rw-r--r--  1 sm01 sm01   0 may  3 18:32 ccc 
-rw-r--r--  1 sm01 sm01   0 may  3 18:33 DDD 
-rw-r--r--  1 sm01 sm01   0 may  3 18:33 EEE 
-rw-r--r--  1 sm01 sm01   0 may  3 18:33 .fff

If you want to avoid this fucking abomination, just add

export LC_COLLATE="C"

to your .bash_profile .zshrc or /etc/rc.local

(Thanks to Fabio "Elettrico" Moretti for this hint )

Pulseaudio CRAP

Pulseaudio is CRAP added for stupid reasons. A system without Pulseaudio is more responsive and everything work fine without this fucking daemon sucking about 13% of a Netbook CPU. So, get rid of it!

On my Linux Mint 15 Mate Edition, I just removed it:

apt-get purge pulseaudio

Nothing has changed on my system, and so I have 13% CPU free I can play everything as usual.

Command not found handler

I hate it. It slow the responsivness of my shell. so

apt-get remove command-not-found command-not-found-data

Close this terminal?

Are you kidding? YES, CLOSE THAT FUCKING TERMINAL, HOLY SHIT

Terminal asking "Close this terminal? There is still a process running in this terminal. Closing the terminal will kill it" is really, really stupid and BORING.

Install dconf-tools

apt-get install dconf-tools

Launch dconf-editor -> org -> mate -> terminal -> global -> untick confirm_window_close

Sticky Windows at edges

The most annoying thing in the entire world. The great stupid thing is that you have compiz installed without the tool for configuring it!

so, apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager and check out the snapping windows option in the window management section of the compiz config editor, that is under system - preferences menu.

This setup can also be found into other parts of Desktop Manager configuration...

USEFUL programs that are not installed by default

traceroute - incredible. traceroute is not installed by default. O_O
compizconfig-settings-manager (compiz INSTALLED and NOT CONFIGURABLE? STUPID!)
openssh-server (this is SO FUGKING STUPID!)
mc
gimp
joe

SHIT to be removed

f-spot
totem (totally unuseful!)
conduit (Who give a FUCK to sync ?!?)

OLD STUFF

OLD: IDIOT keyring password

It will be asked again and again. Every time the same FUCKING password. Just to open a thing that contain THE SAME PASSWORD ITSELF. Delete the folder $home/.gnome2/keyrings which holds the keyring info. Once you do that it wont ask again.

On Mint 13 - Maya (mate edition), these files are at: $home/.config/mate/keyrings (Thanks to Derrik Arenal for the suggestion!)

OLD: Disable the damn Gnome Keyring Manager Password

Where is it in Mint 17?

FUCK MINT 17 KEEPS ASKING PASSWORDS AND KEYRING FILE IS NO MORE IN THE PLACe
THIS IS AN EMERGENCY PLEASE HELP WHERE THE HELL IT IS NOW -jrml

Old UBUNTU-related stuff

Threads about stupid things added in Ubuntu

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9440671
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1229939 60 seconds delay at shutdown request.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1232140 same as before
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8954666 Log off password!!!
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1233849 Too many passwords asked, a lot of stupid answers, and the thread CLOSED while discussing. O_o
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1232131 The "System Policy" CRAP, another thread CLOSED by administrators! O_O

Totem

Totem is installed by default. But it's UNABLE to open ANYTHING. WHY?

NO CODECS INSTALLED!

O_O

Ubuntu 10.04 horrible windows layout

The default windows appearence in Ubuntu 10.04 is a SHAME. The golden rule "Never change the terrain under user's feets" is now totally wiped out from developer's mind.

Tons of problems to fix, and those developers chose to change the system appearence?!? O_o

To revert back to the default Ubuntu layout: System -> Preferences -> Appearence and select the Clearlooks Theme.

No icons on desktop in 10.04 !

Where are the Home, System and the Trashcan icons? Is Nautilus broken? Is this a bug?

No. They choosed to disable them by default. They are GREAT ASSHOLES.

It's really incredible how those developers are happy to change the terrain under user's feets. This is the DUMBEST thing to do while administrating a system.

Just open gconf-editor, go to Apps -> Nautilus -> Desktop and check every xxxx_icon_visible you need.

THIS FUCKING TOUCHPAD (OLD PROBLEMS)

Once it was working. They broke it. Again.

Now, I have installed here xserver-xorg-input(libinput AND synaptics).

I don't touch anything than /etc/X11/xorg.conf, with this inside:

Section "Device"
  Identifier "Sucaminchia"
  Driver "intel"
EndSection

Section "dri"
  Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
            Option "TapButton1" "1"
            Option "TapButton2" "2"
            Option "TapButton3" "3"
        Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on"
        Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "on"
EndSection

On my thinkpad this is all I need. Touchpad is now working.

On the ASUS computer I have installed xinput (but I don't use it so I think isn't needed) and synclient.

Now, I can use synclient.

To enable tap to click: synclient TapButton1=1

Before, I had the edge scroll area TOO BIG, so to enlarge the touch pad area: synclient RightEdge=6100

There's NO FUCKING WAY to save those settings: everything in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ is totally IGNORED.

So I tried .xsessionrc but it wasn't working either!!!

I had to create /usr/local/bin/synmerda:

sleep 5
/usr/bin/synclient TapButton1=1
/usr/bin/synclient RightEdge=6100
touch /tmp/usrlocalbin-synmerda

the 5 sec delay is NECESSARY because if not, for some FUCKING REASON, synclient settings can't work! FUUUUUUCK

and this in .xsessionrc:

/usr/local/bin/synmerda &
touch /tmp/PUTTANAMADONNA-puntoxsessionrc

LICENSE, About this document, Terms of Use, etc.

Copyright © 2000-2033 Gabriele "asbesto" Zaverio <asbesto@gmail.com>
This work is free. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
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  0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

Is this document offensive / inappropriate / not corporate compliant for you?

I want to cite the WTFPL about this:

Can’t you change the wording? It’s inappropriate / childish / not corporate-compliant.

The WTFPL lets you relicense the work under any other license.

But profanity is offensive!

You know what? Fuck your stance on profanity. Fuck your priorities in life. The WTFPL is about fucking freedom and we mean it. Freedom means freedom to copy and modify and share works of art and science with the rest of mankind, but also freedom to be gay and marry and have crazy gay sex, freedom to have tattoos, freedom to say there is no God, freedom to take the pill, freedom to have an abortion. People die for being gay or atheists. Don’t tell me that there is something sacred enough that it must be protected from the mere existence of the word “fuck”. If the F in WTFPL offends you, then fuck you and your beliefs. Triple fuck you.

Ubuntuforums and freedom of speech

I posted this on Ubuntuforums:

just to obtain an infraction. Here is why:

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Original Post:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12291864#post12291864

---Quote---
Hi there,

I feel extremely harassing to have my password asked FOREVER while working on MY laptop into MY account, with no other accounts, no open network connections and no security concern, closed into a vault 23 Km under a mountain.

I'm already logged in, I made my LOGIN, so why to ask FOREVER the same password, for configuring a PRINTER, a NETWORK CONNECTION or to make a SHUTDOWN? In my opinion this is extremely stupid.

So I found a way to solve this:


Code:
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cd /usr/share/polkit-1/actions
perl -i -pe 's/auth_admin_keep/yes/g' *.policy
perl -i -pe 's/auth_admin/yes/g' *.policy
perl -i -pe 's{<allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive>}{<allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive>}g' *.policy
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More control over WHERE the system has to ASK passwords here:
http://lab.dyne.org/UbuntuPurification

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Where is "PROFANITY"?

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Please remove the link to that site in your signature also.

http://lab.dyne.org/UbuntuPurification

If it is not done within 24 hours it will be done for you.
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Is there a rule about signatures? I can't find it.

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Thank you for helping users removing crap from Ubuntu/Gnome
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Code:
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"crap" is not a denigratory term, is just my OPINION. SO... WELL, DEFINITIVELY NO, I DON'T WANNA REPRHASE THAT.

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