jmbouffard's questions

I used to have a Xvnc server that was running at boot on my Ubuntu 9.04 OS and I would like to do the same with 11.10. The procedure I followed at the time was this one. There was some configuration to do in gdm which I cannot find in Ubuntu 11.10. The result is that when I connect to my computer with vncviewer it stays in a basic X screen with the simple X cursor and I get no option to log. The solution to this in prior versions of Ubuntu was to

enable remote login system -> administration -> login Window remote tab choose "same as local" (or whatever?)

What would be the equivalent configuration on 11.10? Maybe something to change in the config files of lightdm which seems to be the new display sessions manager in 11.10?

I have multiple playlists (about 2k songs) in Banshee that I want to sync with my Android smartphone (Motorola Milestone). The sync worked flawlessly from the start to the end but after looking at the result I noticed that some songs were missing on the Android device. After looking closer to the problem I saw that only songs that had a special characters in the name (&, /, +. etc) were not synched.

Are there other people having this problem and has anyone found a solution? Preferably one that does not consist in changing song names :)

I have Ubuntu 10.04 and I would like to connect to my Samba shares which are on a DLink DNS323.

From Nautilus in "Places" -> "Network" I can easily navigate to the DND323 and see the available shares. When I select one of the password-less share I have access to it as expected. When I want to connect to a password protected share, it doesn't work. All it does is asking the password again and again.

I tried to mount the share manually and it worked the first time with

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=user,password=pass //xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/share ~/share

Any idea why this is not working in Nautilus ?

I need to start multiple apps running in shells and monitor their execution. Currently I have a main script that launches every apps in a new gnome-console but I would prefer to launch them all in the same window in split screens.

This post Multiple shells in one window explains how to use split screens with many type of console applications such as screen, terminator and byobu. This works fine manually but I would like to be able to start all my apps in a split screen console automatically from my main scrip. In the documentation from the tools mentioned above there was nothing I could fine to achieve this automatically from a script.

Any ideas?

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and I find it annoying that by default the copy/paste functionality also pastes the text format. Most of the time when I copy/paste text I only want to paste the ascii text without any formatting. Is there a way to configure that behavior?