Commands I've tried:

• sudo updatedb
• sudo fc-cache -fv
• sudo reboot

Dispite this I was unable to make Monofur font to display as available for the Gnome Terminal in a machine with Ubuntu 14.10 recently installed. It's available in all other apps.

I have other machine with 14.04 where this went fine.

I'm not sure whether this is related with a problem when I installed the font for the first time and the font manager got stuck when installing that I had to reboot. Afterwards I've removed the font from the system and reinstalled it without problems.

It's in ~/.local/share/fonts.

fc-list lists this font. File permissions are OK.

UPDATE

Upgraded to last Ubuntu, issue vanished.

francisco@Ubuntu:~$ wmctrl -l
0x02600006  0 Ubuntu Área de trabalho
0x03c00002  0 Ubuntu XdndCollectionWindowImp
0x03c00005  0 Ubuntu unity-launcher
0x03c00008  0 Ubuntu unity-panel
0x03c0000b  0 Ubuntu unity-dash
0x03c0000c  0 Ubuntu Hud
0x046000b3  0 Ubuntu How to make a window aways on top? - Stack Overflow - Mozilla Firefox
0x0520000b  0    N/A Qt Creator
0x05002396  0 Ubuntu francisco@Ubuntu: ~
0x0540000b  0    N/A backlight

For windows that have the machine name column as N/A I'm unable to send wmctrl commands like wmctrl -r "window name" -b add,above. Why? (also, I don't know why these windows are different regarding the machine name column...)

My initial intent was to send such command to the backlight window, a frameless Qt application. Using the window system menu and checking the "Always On Top" works for the window though. I just like a programmatic means of doing the same.

I'm using touchegg and synaptics, and I'm trying to configure synaptics 3-finger gesture sensitivity. Currently, 3-finger dragging is being triggered by accident, and I think if I could configure a minimum finger distance for triggering events it would solve the matter.

I say this because I've realized that 3-finger gestures are being triggered no matter how appart the touch points are.

I've already enabled PalmDetect, and tweaked a bit, which helped a lot avoiding random 2-finger scrolling, but didn't help for 3-finger.

EDIT

At the moment, as a way out, I had changed my 3-finger gestures to 4-finger ones so it gets harder to generate random effects.

To date I could only find solutions that involve recompiling unity sources and avoiding updates, is there a way to disable 4-finger unity gestures without compiling unity sources?

UPDATE

I already compiled the sources and blocked updates...

I've installed Ubuntu 13.04 in a partition on my MacBook Pro (MC724LL/A), it runs well, I've also installed Jupiter, mbpfan, Intel Linux Graphics Installer and updated the drivers. I'm booting with rEFInd, installed in the OS X partition (so to avoid the infamous 30s boot delay).

This is the stabilized OS X temperature report, while just navigating with chrome:

This is what I get from Ubuntu just upon start:

But this is what I get stabilized after using the system for some time:

The sad part for me is that, differently from OS X, now I always feel the machine warm, even idle. It's not burning, but I feel my hands siting over something that's aways warm, that's not right (I recall very old notebook models which I used that aways felt warm), on OS X, I would feel such only when doing intensive tasks. By the way, I'm not with fans running loud or something like that, just the temperature that is above, and they run loud as usual, when I start steam to play some game =)

Any tip on how to solve this, if possible? I think I've described all the software I've installed that could help with this, but none helped much...

UPDATE 1

Well, my last change was to enable EFI mode. I must do some more tests, I'm running it from battery and I think it got a good enough temperature. When running plugged to the energy source I think temperature elevates.

UPDATE 2

I think it's better after enabling EFI mode, maybe I can't get better than this, the only thing left that comes to my mind is undervolting.

UPDATE 3

I'm now using ArchLinux with general power management tools like TLP, PowerTop (with services enabled) and macfanctld. It's much better than when I used Ubuntu. This is the best upgrade I've done to this machine years back. RECOMMENDED.

Putting the following into a .xbindkeysrc makes my keyboard irresponsive after reboot, with only control keys responding:

"{ echo KeyStrPress Alt_L; echo KeyStr F1; echo KeyStrRelease Alt_L; } | xmacroplay :0"
  Release+F13

I know the xmacroplay works because I've executed it at the command line, and also, executing xbindkeys to map, for example, F2, without rebooting, works as expected. So, first, I have a problem after rebooting, because of that I had to remove the .xbindkeysrc file.

I was in the hard process of trying to create the simple mapping of Right Alt to Left Alt + F1 in the system. I was going to use xbindkeys to map F13 to Alt + F1 and xmodmap to map Right Alt to F13...

How do I map Right Alt to Left Alt + F1 so that I get hide/unhiding of the Launcher with a single key?

I'm running Ubuntu on Parallels Desktop for Mac, where I have some limitations regarding usage of the Super key (and also problems with mouse edge detection), for example, I've read on the web that holding Super for a while should bring a list of hotkeys, but for me holding it does nothing and on release just shows the Launcher with the Dash open and focused.

Hitting Super does the same, unhide Launcher with Dash focused. Hitting Super + w and holding Super I have the Launcher unhidden with the icons being numbered for shortcut access.

What I'd like to have is just a hotkey, like there's for unhiding Launcher with Dash focused, but without the Dash focus, I'd like to have the Launcher unhidden as if the mouse was close to it, and if possible, kept it unhidden after hitting the hotkey until the hotkey got clicked again, which is the behavior of Launcher accompanied by Dash currently.

Note that I'm not looking for a solution that would enable/disable auto-hide to pretend that the Launcher is being unhidden. This approach causes undesirable effects, the Launcher doesn't unhide, it just pops up suddenly, and occupies space, forcing rearrangement of icons in the desktop.

EDIT

I've tried other distros, like elementaryOS, and it doesn't present any issue with mouse edge detection for unhiding the Dock inside a Parallels VM... Sadly this seems like an Ubuntu/Unity specific issue.

I'm trying to move things from my .bashrc to .pam_enviroment because of this. I've put the following into my .pam_environment but this prevents me from logging in because there should be some mistake. I've then removed .pam_environment while in recovery mode.

VISUAL       DEFAULT=/usr/local/bin/vim
EDITOR       DEFAULT=/usr/local/bin/vim
PATH         DEFAULT=/usr/local/src/rbenv/bin:$PATH
WORKON_HOME  DEFAULT=$HOME/.virtualenv
GOROOT       DEFAULT=/usr/local/src/go
PATH         DEFAULT=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin
GOPATH       DEFAULT=$HOME/.go
PATH         DEFAULT=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
PATH         DEFAULT=$PATH:/usr/local/src/llvm/tools/clang/tools/scan-build
PATH         DEFAULT=$PATH:/usr/local/src/llvm/tools/clang/tools/scan-view
PATH         DEFAULT=$PATH:/usr/local/src/.build/kint/bin
M2_HOME      DEFAULT=/opt/apache-maven/apache-maven-3.0.5
M2           DEFAULT=$M2_HOME/bin
PATH         DEFAULT=$M2:$PATH
JAVA_HOME    DEFAULT=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java
PATH         DEFAULT=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
ECLIPSE_HOME DEFAULT=/opt/eclipse
PATH         DEFAULT=$ECLIPSE_HOME:$PATH

What's the problem with these settings? As I said in my previous question, I'm still trying to figure out a good way to have global settings for all my applications, as it worked before when .profile/.bashrc was enough for this...

At other and previous distros it was common for me to have the environment setup in .bashrc/.profile applied globally, whether I started applications from bash or not (IIRC).

Now when I start applications from launcher icons or when clicking files with associated applications, they don't inherent my environment configuration.

Why of this now?

and

How can I get the desired behavior or what's the right way for this?

Disclaimer: I've already set some vars from my .bashrc by putting the exports at a .xsessionrc file, but I'd really like an approach where I put configurations in a single file without having duplicated setup.

gedit is set by default to open about any source file. I've gone through the file properties and changed default application to VIM for C and C++ files.

I'd need to do this for any source file I open now, for python files, for text files, for ruby, any, since gedit is set to open all of them.

How can I change this to open with VIM without going the hassle of setting "open with" one by one?