superbriggs's questions

I want to connect my laptop and another machine together using synergy.

They are both on different networks, but I have successfully made a connection from my laptop to the desktop using an SSH tunnel through a publicly accessible machine on the desktop's network (Laptop -> Middle Machine -> Desktop). However, I would like to have the connection the other way round, Desktop -> Laptop. There is not a publicly accessible machine on my laptops network.

Can I run a command on my laptop which connects to the middle machine which opens a port tunnelling back to my laptop? My laptop is running Ubuntu, the other two machines are running CentOS.

Thank you

I am looking for desktop application for Facebook messenger. I know Pidgin can work with Facebook chat, but it cannot work with any messenger with a person who is offline. Is there a program which can do this?

Sublime Text is very customizable, with all the shortcut options in one text file for you to edit. By default, a number of them do not work, mainly because the Alt key escapes the program in Unity.

I would like to change it so that it works well with Ubuntu, but I thought I'd check if one exists already that someone has made. A quick Google didn't find any.

Thanks

A while ago, I followed tutorial which told me how to "install" sublime so that it behaved like a standard program, with a unity icon I could lock on the launcher. I also set Sublime so that it was the default application to open text files.

There is still one thing that it does not do. If I drag a file from nautilus onto the launcher, all the apps fade away, but the ones which can open it do not (Gedit does not fade away). I can then drop the file onto an application which can handle it and that application with open it.

This does not happen for Sublime, how do I configure this to happen?

I found this website which gives a number of shortcuts for Facebook. http://www.socialbakers.com/blog/1288-save-time-with-facebook-shortcuts

They require you to hold control and alt, which are already defined in Ubuntu. What is the best way to get around this? I am using Chromium.

Thank you

I am thinking of starting a small side project and developing a piece of software. I would like to base it's design on Geary, which I like very much. Which GUI library can I use to achieve this?

Geary is written in Vala, which I am not very interested in using. It would also be a shame if the method I used was not cross compatible.

Thanks

I have a problem. I do a lot of collaborative work at university, and the main method of communication (and most convenient) for students use is Facebook. I would love to integrate Facebook messages with Ubuntu.

I know this is almost possible with Pidgin, but this is only really for chat, it doesn't allow me to be offline or see offline messages. It also constantly tells me people are going on and offline as I basically have every person I've ever met on there, and most of they check Facebook on an hourly basis.

I've seen android apps which have this functionality, so there must be an API for it. Is there an Ubuntu app which handles this nicely?

My laptop has a function key which turns F keys into keys which change volume or brightness. I would like to swap a number of them so that they perform that function under normal operation and are a function key while the Fn key is being held.

I assumed that the function keys were just normal keys codes with the set of keys being large enough to include all the possible speical keys. I tried to so as this tutorial suggests (How do I remap certain keys or devices?) and use xev to obtain the key codes and then would use xmodmap to swap their value.

This does not seem to work though. The F12 key gives the xev output:

KeyPress event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x4a00001,
    root 0xb1, subw 0x0, time 468005, (23,-15), root:(89,37),
    state 0x10, keycode 96 (keysym 0xffc9, F12), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

Which I think is to be expected. However, the Increase Volume button give this response:

KeymapNotify event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  65  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   
           0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0 

And so does the Decrease Volume key. How can I perform the swapping of the keys that I would like?

Thank you

I would like install Ubuntu on a laptop in a way that if I was to remove it, there would be no trace that I had installed it. I would dual boot it with Windows 7. Please could someone provide details of how I would go about removing it.

I was talking to a friend who owns a Mac. He has his set up so that when he swipes three fingers across his touchpad, it moves to the workspace in that direction. Is it possible to set this up in Ubuntu?

I wish to set up Transmission so that it always runs on my home wi-fi network, but does not when I'm connected to any other networks.

Is there a way to set things up so that this is the case?

Thank you.