Mon, 07 Aug 2006
I use ion as my window manager and on a new Ubuntu installation I decided to use ion3 instead of ion2 as on all my other installations. I don't like the standard ion configuration which hijacks all my function keys, but that was easily fixed by changing /etc/default/ion3 to
META="Mod1+" ALTMETA="Mod4+"
This uses the otherwise useless "Windows" key for options which previously had no modifier.
Then, to set the terminal emulator I want,
# update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator
and select uxterm, an xterm that knows about UTF8.
Then, I like to use Control-Left and Control-Right to move between objects within frames. This is done by adding the following as ~/.ion3/default-session--0/cfg_user.lua
defbindings("WFrame", {
bdoc("Switch to next/previous object within the frame."),
kpress("Control+Right", "WFrame.switch_next(_)"),
kpress("Control+Left", "WFrame.switch_prev(_)"),
})
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As I got back from holiday and restarted my computer, Firefox decided it needed to update itself, and in so doing seemed to lose all the extensions I had installed. Fortunately, I had previously installed FEBE and CLEO on a Windows box and had saved all the extensions I use. This meant that all I needed to do was install one xpi file and then let Firefox update all the extensions.
I also have a new Ubuntu installation, and loading that xpi file into Firefox also loaded all the extensions I use. Then I just had to go into about:config (type it into the location bar) and change middlemouse.ContentLoadURL to true so that pasting a URL into the window loads the URL. (That's actually a lower case c in "Content" above, but kwiki doesn't seem to want to let me write that.)
Then I changed editor.singleLine.pasteNewlines to 3 so that URLs split across lines load correctly. The other values here seem to be:
0: Paste content intact (include newlines) 1 (default): Paste the content only up to (but not including) the first newline 2: Replace each newline with a space 3: Remove all newlines from content 4: Substitute commas for newlines in text box
