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INDEX Symbols & Numbers animation, Blender for, 250, 250 antivirus software, 298 * (asterisk), as wildcard avast! as, 304–306, 305 character, 150 ClamAV as, 302–304 ./configure command, 177 AOL Instant Messenger, 66 for Xmahjongg, 180 Appearance Preferences window, / (root), 85 115, 115, 205–206, 206 3D modeling, Blender for, 250, 250 appending file to tarball, 145 applets, adding to GNOME desk- A top panel, 36–37 AAC file format, 272 applications. See also application AbiWord, 232, 232 names; installing accented characters, typing, compiling from source, 175–181 211–214 costs of, 11 Add to Drawer window, 41 firewall, 300–302 Add to Panel window, 35, 36, 37, 38 moving running between virtual Add-ons window, 61 desktops, 46 Add/Remove Applications restarting for new font window, 68 display, 200 Adobe Flash Player, 62 Wine for running Windows Advanced Package Tool (APT), 67 versions, 166–170, 167, 170 graphical front ends for, 68 Applications menu adware, 12 Accessories AIFF file format, 254 Take Screenshot, 125 album art Text Editor, 220 in gtkpod, 279 Add/Remove, 68 in Rhythmbox, 261 Education Alien Tux Paint, 252 for converting RPMs to DEB GamesFrozen-Bubble, 74 packages, 173–174 Graphics installing, 173 Blender 3D modeller, 250 ALT key, as compose key, 211–212 FontForge, 207 amaroK GIMP Image Editor, 242 iPod support, 277 GNU Paint, 245 AMD64 processor, 17 GPixPod, 281 Ubuntu CD for, 307–310 Inkscape, 246 From Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks, 3rd Edition Copyright 2008 by Rickford Grant Applications menu: Graphics, ATI graphics card, installing continued driver for, 75 Picasa, 248 AU file format, 254 QCad, 251 Audacity, 270, 270 XSane Image Scanner, 193 audio Internet Audacity, 270, 270 Evolution Mail, 64 Audio Tag Tool, 268 Firefox Web Browser, 58 CDs, creating, 263–264, 264 Mozilla Thunderbird converting file formats, 282, 282 Mail/News, 65 setting preferences, 282, 283 Pidgin Internet EasyTAG, 268, 269 Messenger, 66 file formats, 253–254 Skype, 172 Linux MultiMedia Studio Sound & Video (LMMS), 268, 269 Audio CD Extractor, 256 players Brasero Disc Burning, browser-embedded, 265 95, 263 Rhythmbox, 258–263, 258 Movie Player, 288 Streamtuner, 267–268, 268 Rhythmbox Music rippers and encoders, Sound Player, 258 Juicer, 255–257, 256 Sound Converter, 282 Totem for playing, 289–290, 290 System Tools Audio Tag Tool, 268 New Login in a Window, 107 auto-detecting printers, 184–186 Virus Scanner, 303 autohide, GNOME desktop bottom adding launchers to panel from, panel, 113 38, 38 automatic login, 123 in Thai, 216, 216 automatic playlists, 260 APT. See Advanced Package auto-update of iPod, disabling, Tool (APT) 275–276, 276 apt-get command, 143, 173 Avant Window Navigator, 118 Archive Manager, 163 avast!, 304–306, 305 Art Manager, 118 downloading DEB package, 304 downloading and installing, Avidemux, 295 114–115 for installing splash screen, 123 B Art menu (Art Manager) BackgroundsOther, 118 backdoors, 12 Desktop Themes, 118 background, checking for Fire- Other Themes starter running in, 302 Login Manager, 121 backgrounds Splash Screen, 124 for desktop, 111–112, 111, 113 Asian languages for Nautilus side pane, 110 installing input support for for Terminal, 158, 158–159 SCIM, 219–220 for windows in GNOME desktop, typing with SCIM, 220–221 109–110, 109 backups asterisk (*), as wildcard character, 150 before Ubuntu install, 26 displaying files, 147 318 INDEX From Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks, 3rd Edition Copyright 2008 by Rickford Grant Base (OpenOffice.org), 224 C Bash (Bourne Again Shell), 134 cabextract, 168 /bin folder, 86, 151 cable for providers without DHCP, BIOS, accessing setup, 20 50–52 bitmap graphics creation CAD (computer-aided design), with GIMP, 242–245, 242 QCad for, 251, 251 with paint programs, 246 Calc (OpenOffice.org), blogs, web resources, 313 225–226, 225 Bluetooth calendar command, 138 browsing for devices, 98, 99 Calendar/clock on GNOME receiving files via, 99 desktop panel, 34 sending files via, 99 cameras. See digital cameras Bluetooth Manager icon on canceling print job, 192, 192 GNOME desktop panel, 34 capturing and editing digital video, bookmarks Kino for, 292–294, 292 for navigating in Nautilus, 85 Car Talk, 266 for network share, 88 card games, Briscola, 156–157 booting from live CD, 20 case sensitivity of commands, 135 borders for windows cd (change directory) changing appearance, 115–116 command, 139 installing additional, 117–118 CD Creator window, switching to, 93 Bourne Again Shell (Bash), 134 CD drive, changing boot Brasero, 95 sequence, 20 for burning audio CDs, CD Recording Wizard window, 263–264, 264 308, 308 for burning multisession CDs, 95 CD-RW disks, 93–94 for duplicating CDs and DVDs, CDs 96, 97 in book, 10, 307 Breezy Badger, 18 burning ISO images to, 94 Briscola, 153–157, 153 burning multisession, 95 downloading and installing, creating audio, 263–264, 264 153–154 with data extracting tarball and renaming burning, 91–94, 92 folder, 154 duplicating, 96 launchable link for, 155 reading, 91 moving folder to global Centrino IPW-2100 and IPW-2200 location, 155 cards, 53 playing, 156–157 character encoding, for web script preparation, 154–155 page, 210 Browse window, 43–44, 44 Character Map utility, 211–214, 211 burning characters, typing nonstandard, data CDs and DVDs, 91–94, 92 211–214 ISO images to CD, 94 CheapBytes, 310 in Mac OS X, 309–310, 309 children, Tux Paint for, 252, 252 in Windows, 308, 308 Chinese language input, 217 multisession CDs, 95 Smart Common Input Method .bz file extension, 146 (SCIM), 219–221 bzip program, 146 From Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks, 3rd Edition INDEX 319 Copyright 2008 by Rickford Grant chmod (change mode) command, 140 costs, of software, 11 Choose a Layout window, for cp (copy) command, 139 keymaps, 212, 213 CPU, identifying, 16 ClamAV, 302–304 Create Archive window, 100, 100 ClamTk, 303 Create Launcher window, 152 clipart, adding to OpenOffice.org cryptic attack on locked DVD gallery, 230 drive, 287 closing Terminal, 138 customization, and user color accounts, 104 of fonts, for Terminal, 159 cut-and-paste, for moving files, 83 for Nautilus side pane, 110 command line. See also Terminal D user reaction to, 131–132 command line–driven operating Dapper Drake, 18 system, 10 data CDs and DVDs commands, case sensitivity of, 135 burning, 91–94, 92 compiler, 176 duplicating, 96 compiling reading, 91 programs from source, 175–181 DEB packages Xmahjongg, 179–180 Alien for converting RPMs to, Compiz, 126 173–174 CompizConfig Settings converting compiled Manager, 128 application to, 174 enabling individual features, 128 installing, 171–172 turning off, 126 Package Installer for compressed files installing, 172 for audio, 254 Debian distribution, 14 creating and extracting, 100–101 defragmenting hard drive, tar command to create, 146 in Windows, 25 computer-aided design (CAD), deleting QCad for, 251, 251 files with rm command, 140 ./configure command, 177 folders with rmdir command, 140 for Xmahjongg, 180 dependencies, 67 Configure Plugins window for program install, 73 (Rhythmbox), 261 dependency hell, 67 connections for printers, 189 desktop environment, 10. See also Control Panel (Windows), System, GNOME desktop Hardware tab, 16 environment controls in GNOME Desktop folder, 80 changing appearance, 115–116 desktop publishing, Scribus for, installing additional, 117–118 235, 235 converting scanned document to Device Manager, 16 text, 194 df (disk filesystem) command, copying 137, 137 core fonts from Windows DHCP. See Dynamic Host Configu- partition, 203 ration Protocol (DHCP) files and folders in Nautilus, 83 dial-up Internet connection, 55–58 files from iPod to hard drive, external dial-up modems, 57–58 277, 279 modem compatibility issues, 57 320 INDEX From Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks, 3rd Edition Copyright 2008 by Rickford Grant digital cameras, 237–239 Dynamic Host Configuration connecting to computer, 238 Protocol (DHCP), 50 digital video cameras, 291–294 cable or Ethernet for providers capturing video from, 291–292 without, 50–52 directory tree, pwd command for current location in, 136 E distribution (distro), 13 DNS (domain name service), 52 Easter eggs, GNOME desktop docking dialogs in GIMP, 243–244, environment, 47–48 243, 244 EasyTAG, 268, 269 domain name service (DNS), 52 Edgy Eft, 18 downloading Edit menu Art Manager, 114–115 (Rhythmbox)Plugins, 261 avast!, 304 (Terminal)Current Profile, 158 Briscola, 153 editing audio, Audacity for, 270, 270 FontForge, 207 editing digital video, Kino for, from free sites, 314 292–294 gtkpod, 278 Editing Profile window, 158, 158 Login Manager theme, 121 Edubuntu, 18 Picasa package, 247 ejecting CD/DVD, 91 pyWings, 149 Ekiga Softphone, 66, 171 SCIM input method modules, 219 email TrueType fonts, 198 Evolution for, 64, 64 Ubuntu Desktop CD ISOs, Thunderbird for, 64–65, 65 307–310 emblems Xmahjongg file, 177–178 adding to folders, 108, 108 drag-and-drop, for moving files, 83 selecting from Nautilus side Draw (OpenOffice.org), 226, 227 pane, 111 drawer on GNOME desktop panel English language, switching adding, 40 between Asian language adding program launcher to, 40–41, 41 and, 221 drawing programs, vs. paint EnvyNG, 75 programs, 246 /etc folder, 86 dual-boot systems, 2 Ethernet for providers without installing Windows core fonts on, DHCP, 50–52 203–205 Evolution for email, 64, 64 setup, 23–24 launcher for, 34 duplicating, data CDs and DVDs, 96 Ewing, Larry, 11 DVD drive, regional encoding Examples folder, 80 lock, 287 executable files, path for, 151 DVD:Rip, 295 execute permission, 89 DVDs, 286–287 chmod (change mode) to with data