Alexander Rechsteiner's questions

I have used xkb to remap the right windows key (RWIN) to Hyper_R because I want to use it with AutoKey for some special shortcuts. I did it by editing

/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pc

modifying the RWIN line:

  key <RWIN> {  [ Hyper_R   ]   };

(Here's the answer that guided me)

From what I can tell, this works and the right Windows key now fires Hyper_R. However, It seems that in Ubuntu (Xubuntu to be exact), Hyper and Super somehow are doing the same thing. So Super + e launches the editor, and so does Hyper + e.

I'm not sure why this is or where I can change this behavior. I want Hyper and Super to be different modifiers.

There are various posts on the Xubuntu login loop, but none of them address NVM (Node Version Manager).

I have installed NodeJS via NVM on my Xubuntu VM and it works fine, however after rebooting, I can't log into Xfce anymore. Xubuntu is in a login loop.

The line responsible is in ~/.profile, added by NVM:

[ -s $HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh ] && . $HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh # This loads NVM

If I comment the line out, I can log in again.

I don't know exactly what the problem is. I suppose this line is failing somehow. How could I troubleshoot this? Are there any logs that I could look at?

If I log in through the terminal and run source ~./profile there are no errors and NVM is loaded correctly.

I'm relatively new to Linux (coming from Windows) and one thing that always bugs me is how restrictive the system is. For example I'm trying to install Sublime Text 2 into /opt/ right now, but when I open the tar archive and try to extract the folder, I get the following error:

You don't have the right permissions to extract archives in the folder "file:///opt"

In Windows or Mac I usually would have some sort of option "As Administrator..", which would elevate the privileges instantly (possibly prompting a password) and then perform the operation.

With Linux I seem to be stuck to somehow figure out the Archive Manager's exact name and then run it with sudo from the terminal. In the menu there isn't even a right-click "Run as root.." option or anything similar.

Isn't there an easier way of handling this in general?

I'm running Xubuntu with XFCE but I had this problem with every desktop distribution I tried so far.

I currently have two VM's with my VMWare Workstation 10.0.1:

Linux Mint (Cinnamon) and Lubuntu (LXDE). The host system is Windows 8.1. With Mint, the auto fit guest feature works after installing the VMWare tools and rebooting. I can resize as I please and extend to multiple monitors. All works. With Lubuntu however, nothing works. I have to adjust the resolution manually, and oddly enough 1920x1080 is missing entirely.

I searched for a solution and I guess I could hack something with xrandr, but that seems like too much trouble.

Could someone please tell me:

1) Why does auto fit guest work with some distros and not with others? Is this dependent on the GUI that is used? (Cinnamon vs. LXDE)

2) Which distros/GUIs do support the feature out of the box?

Thanks

I'm looking for a relatively painless way to launch a web server with document root in any folder I specify (or better yet, where I'm launching).

I often try out new things like JS frameworks or so in a new folder somewhere here:

/home/alexander/code/angularjs/

It would then be convenient to just go into this directory and type something like:

start-webserver-here 

so that a web server starts listening on port 80 and serving this directory, and I can try out whatever I'm working on.

I've installed XAMPP but it seems that it's basic apache with a document root I'd have to change, with root privileges even, along with granting permissions for every folder etc.

Is there an easier way?