Noah Goodrich's questions

I'm trying to switch to the Geany editor for my web development but need to switch to a dark theme. In searching for some default themes I came across this excellent collection.

I've now installed the themes and they appear when I go to View -> Editor -> Color and I can select one. However, selecting a theme does nothing.

I am running Geany 0.20 (the latest version on Ubuntu 11.10) and have tried installing the new version and the deprecated version of the themes but get the same from both.

The output from sudo apachectl -t -D DUMP_MODULES

Loaded Modules:
 core_module (static)
 log_config_module (static)
 logio_module (static)
 mpm_prefork_module (static)
 http_module (static)
 so_module (static)
 alias_module (shared)
 auth_basic_module (shared)
 auth_digest_module (shared)
 authn_file_module (shared)
 authz_default_module (shared)
 authz_groupfile_module (shared)
 authz_host_module (shared)
 authz_user_module (shared)
 autoindex_module (shared)
 cgi_module (shared)
 deflate_module (shared)
 dir_module (shared)
 env_module (shared)
 headers_module (shared)
 mime_module (shared)
 negotiation_module (shared)
 php5_module (shared)
 reqtimeout_module (shared)
 rewrite_module (shared)
 setenvif_module (shared)
 ssl_module (shared)
 status_module (shared)
Syntax OK

Seems to indicate that the digest auth module is working on my server, but when I try to access $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_DIGEST'], the variable doesn't exist.

My virtualhost setup is:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName sam
        DocumentRoot /var/www/sam/public/
        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/sam-error.log

        SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"

        <Directory /var/www/sam/public>
                DirectoryIndex index.php
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
                #AuthType Digest
                #AuthName "api"
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I spend a lot of time at the command-line during the workday and at home too since I run Ubuntu exclusively.

I've been using the default gnome terminal but I've reached a point where I'd really like to get my terminal tricked out so that my common tasks are as easy as possible. Specifically, I find that I spend of lot of time browsing code in the terminal and working in config files.

On my wish list would be:

• Ability to have multiple screens, tabs, windows (I don't have a preference at this point) that I can easily switch between.
• Color coding for everything
• Easy to modify the aesthetics of the terminal (is it vain to want my terminal to look nice?) such as transparency, borders, etc.

I have a nVidia 9800 video card and I previously setup my screen through the nVidia X Server Settings tool. But when I switch from Gnome to Fluxbox, it appears that my two monitors are treated as a single screen.

How do I configure my screens so that I can mouse between them and have separate background images, etc?

UPDATE: Here is my current xorg.conf file:

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildd@yellow)  Fri Apr  9 11:51:21 UTC 2010

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "ACI ASUS VH236H"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 85.0
    VertRefresh     55.0 - 75.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 9800 GTX+"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
    Option         "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +1920+0, DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildd@yellow)  Fri Apr  9 11:51:21 UTC 2010

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "ACI ASUS VH236H"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 85.0
    VertRefresh     55.0 - 75.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 9800 GTX+"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
    Option         "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +1920+0, DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Gnome and KDE seem to be pretty straightforward and certainly seem to be the most user friendly in terms of getting setup and running quickly with anything the average user would want to do.

I am working on implementing Fluxbox on my current install of Ubuntu 10.04 and keep running into gotcha's that require a lot of time to research and then configure. In light of my experiences with Fluxbox, I'm posting a list of questions (much in the spirit of this question from stackoverflow.

Please list one answer per bullet item and then edit the question so that the link goes directly to the answer. And if you think of anything missing, please add it and then post your answer.

• How to install Fluxbox?
• How do I edit the menu?
• How to lock my screen?
• How to configure fluxbox to work with two screens?
• How to configure my keyboard shortcuts?
• How to enable automounting of devices?
• How to install new fonts?

Recommend Guides / Tutorials

• Ubuntu Forums Guide
• Fluxbox Wiki

How do you modify the default Fluxbox menu?

I'm considering switching to either Fluxbox or Blackbox as my window manager, but I'm not really sure which one to go with.

Are there any major differences between the two ?

I want to try switching to either Fluxbox or Blackbox as my window manager, but I'm not sure how to go about it.

What are the steps to configuring Ubuntu to use a different window manager?

When accessing a site defined in my local dev environment, I can't seem to get past a 403 Forbidden error.

Under /etc/apache2/sites-available/ I have defined a file fun.local:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName fun.local
        DocumentRoot /home/noah/work/fun
        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/fun-error.log

        <Directory /home/noah/work/fun>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

The the apache error log for the site contains this error:

[Sat Aug 21 13:34:34 2010] [crit] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: /home/noah/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable

I am running apache2 and ubuntu 10.04.

How can I restart X Window Server from the command line?

I'd really like to be able to restart my GUI without having to do a full system reboot.