Manish Sinha's questions

There are applications which don't work over proxy. Last time I tried Software Center did not work. update-manager also has issues connecting to proxy though there is a workaround.

How do I find out where to change the proxy settings? As far as I know there are three ways to do it

• GNOME Proxy Settings
• Using export http_proxy either for that instance or putting it in bashrc file
• /etc/apt/apt.conf for APT applications

This is utterly confusing. I was helping a colleague in getting his update-manage to work over work proxy. I finally asked Michal Vogt and he reminded me that probably my colleague has not pressed "Apply system wide". I guess system-wide should be the default behaviour unless an app overrides it explicitly.

Next time if an app does not work over proxy, where should I look for? Is there a hint? This question is not only for me but also for many people whom I help. I cannot be sitting with them all the time. I need to tell them how to proceed.

For Oneiric Ocelot launch, there was an awesome Tour created for showcasing how Ubuntu especially Unity works.

The Ubuntu Online tour actually mimics a whole desktop and to a greater extent behaves a lot like using Unity in real.

My question is where is the source code for this located? I know I can do view source, but scraping information and trying to join them is not a feasible solution. If the whole code is present somewhere, it would be highly beneficial for the JavaScript community

I am an Ubuntu member and have an @ubuntu.com email address. I want to use this address to reply to mails from using Thunderbird.

Right now this email address is mapped my one of my email-id on Google Apps. I tried adding my account on thunderbird

Since I do not know the password, I left it and went ahead and met a dead end

Anyone has been successful in adding that email ID. I have the actual email added in Thunderbird to which this email id maps to. Do I need to modify that?

Is there a way to configure nautilus to use vim keybdings.

By vim keybindings I am not saying just h j k l but other things like regex search on filenames too.

I know I can simply use a command line, but sometimes I have to use this crap file browser for browsing the directories.

Or is there any other GUI file browser which has customizability?

UDS-O is being held at Budapest, Hungary and the sponsorships are open which closes on 28th of March.

My question is when will the final list be announced? Will there be more than one month period for people to apply for Visa?

e.g. I live in India and when we apply for Schengen Visa for the first time, it takes around 2 weeks for the visa interview(period depends on the rush). Then another week for interview and Visa to be stamped. AFAIK the application, interview and collection has to be done in person. This is all what I have heard.

So will Canonical give one month time minimum for people in Eastern part of the world or countries where Schengen countries have tougher rules for visa?

It would be great if they could finalize the names a bit faster and announce the list by first week of April.

I am hoping Jorge or Jono might come and answer this.

I have been trying to understand the difference between Debian's contrib and non-free sections as described in Chapter 2 of the Debian Policy Manual.

Are contrib packages just wrappers around non-free softwares? Like what we have in flashplugin-nonfree in Ubuntu?

Secondly, does the nonfree section of Debian correspond to Ubuntu's multiverse or restricted repositories or is it the union of both?