Alejandro's questions

I installed Lubuntu 13.10, and I'm observing a different behavior of xmodmap than in previous versions. I have a ~/.Xmodmap file that maps the Caps Lock key to the Ctrl key. Executing modmap ~/.Xmodmap works as expected. However, the .Xmodmap file is ignored during the login process. In another machine with Lubuntu 13.04 the .Xmodmap is read automatically during the login process.

I tried adding a line to /home/ajw/.config/lxsession/Lubuntu/autostart that call a script that set the xmodmap, but this is ignored.

According to this link, somewhere during the login process the xmodmap setting is undo by a call to setxkbmap.

Any idea about how to set xmodmap automatically in Lubuntu 13.10?

The framerate of the built in webcam of my Dell Mini 10 (Inspiron 1010) is extremely slow (may be 1 frame every 10 seconds).

Initially I couldn't see the webcam image. After following the instruction from this previous questions

Webcam not recognized in Dell Mini 10v on Lucid Lynx. How to troubleshoot?

https://askubuntu.com/questions/3222/my-webcam-wont-work-how-do-i-debug

I executed gstreamer-properties and change the Video Default Output from "X Window System (X11/XShm/Xv)" to "X Window System (No Xv)". Now I can see the webcam image, but with a very low frame rate.

Any idea about how to solve this? I am running 10.04

Is there a Django based blog available on the repositories of Ubuntu?

I needed to install a program (GSAS & EXPGUI) that depends on the libg2c0 library. This library was in the repositories up to Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04), and then it was removed.

The solution is to download the Jaunty package, and then sudo dpkg --force-depends -i libg2c0_3.4.6-8ubuntu2_amd64.deb. If found this solution not to be in the spirit of Ubuntu (is there a word for that, like Pythonic is to Python?)

In general, what are the reasons for removing a given package from newer versions?

Is there a better way to manage dependencies to no longer supported packages?

Today, after about 20 minutes of logging in my Ubuntu 10.4, I notice the CPU and hard disk usage going up. top revealed that root was running emacs23.

It is basically the same behavior described at Ubuntu Forums

but there is no answer there. Any clue about this?

There are several programs only available on Windows.

Wine can be a negative experience, so I want to run Windows inside Ubuntu using a virtual machine. It seems that Virtualbox is the standard way, but I don't have any experience with it.