INDEX Numbers managing audio files on with Rhythmbox, 282 3D graphics, 394 working with, 280 3D modeling, Blender for, 258, 259 animation, Blender for, 258–259 3G, 55 antivirus software, 340 4OD. See Flash avast!, 346–347 802.11a/b/g/n. See wireless, ClamAV, 344, 346 connection f-Prot, 344 Panda Desktop Secure, 344 Symbols appending file to tarball, 172 * (asterisk), use as wildcard Apple hackers, 365 character, 177 applets, 65 / (root), 100 adding to desktop panel, 31 defined, 30 A applications. See also installing applications; software AAC files, playing locked, 288 compiling from source, 184, 189 AbiWord, 238 costs of, 3 accented characters, typing, finding commands for, 359 213, 216 firewall, 342, 344 Add-ons window, 68 installing with apt-get, 168 Adobe Flash Player, 63 installing with aptitude, 169 Advanced Package Tool (APT). See Internet, 59 APT (Advanced Package moving between virtual Tool) desktops, 41 advertising on IRC, 371 restarting for new font adware, 4 display, 144 AIFF file format, 262 ScribeFire, 66 AIM. See IM (instant messaging) web resources, 424 album art, Rhythmbox, 267 Wine for running Windows Ambiance, default theme in applications, 329–332 Ubuntu, 134 Applications menu, 27 AMD64 processor, Ubuntu CD for, Add/Remove, 80 409, 411 adding launchers to panel from, Android-based phones 32–33 copying files to hard drive, 284 Brasero Disc Burner, 110 ejecting, 282 Ubuntu for Non-Geeks, 4th Edition (C) 2010 by Rickford Grant and Phil Bull Applications menu, continued audio players Evolution Mail, 69 alternatives to Rhythmbox, 272 Firefox web browser, 60 Rhythmbox, 264 in Serbian, 225 authentication of packages, 86 Movie Player, 293 auto-detecting printers, 194, 195 Sound & Video Sound Autohide, GNOME desktop bottom Converter, 287 panel, 132 Virus Scanner, 345 automatic login, 148 APT (Advanced Package Tool), 79 automatic playlists in adding software repository, 86 Rhythmbox, 266 graphical frontends for, 80 auto-update of iPod/iPhone, multiple frontends open, 91 disabling, 279–280 APT line for GetDeb, 86 Avant Window Navigator, 138 apt-get command avast! Easter eggs in, 168 downloading DEB package, 346 installing packages with, 168 license key for, 346 aptitude command Avidemux, 303 command mode, 171 installing packages with, 169 B semi-graphical mode, 169 APT-URL, 88 backdoors, 4 archives backgrounds creating with the tar command, desktop, 129, 131 171, 173 Terminal, 189, 191 extracting with the tar window, 127 command, 172 Nautilus side pane, 129 Art Manager, 133, 137 window in GNOME desktop, 128 Asian languages, typing with backing up files, 116, 118 IBus, 221 backports, 363 asterisk (*), use as wildcard backup files, encrypting, 116 character, 177 backups ATI graphics cards, 394 recovering from, 118 ATOM feeds, 62, 77 before Ubuntu install, 19 AU file format, 262 Bash (Bourne Again Shell), 159 Audacity, 274 batch photo conversions, Phatch audio. See also sound for, 252 Audio Tag Tool, 273 BBC iPlayer. See Flash converting file formats, 287 beans, 367 EasyTAG, 273 /bin folder, 101 file formats, 261 BIOS setting preferences, 287 accessing, 407 Streamtuner, 273 setup, 12 Totem for playing, 294, 295 keys to enter setup, 12 audio applications, installing MP3 bitmap graphics creation file support for, 262–263 GIMP, 250, 251, 252 audio CDs, creating, 269, 270 paint programs, 250, 254, 255 428 INDEX Ubuntu for Non-Geeks, 4th Edition (C) 2010 by Rickford Grant and Phil Bull blogs Brasero, 111 creating, 66 burning audio CDs with, 270 definition, 74 burning multisession CDs microblogging, 74 with, 110 ScribeFire Firefox plugin, 66 duplicating CDs and DVDs web resources for, 423 with, 111 Bluetooth devices Breadcrumbs, 98 pairing, 113 Breezy Badger, 10 receiving files via, 115 Briscola, 180, 183 sending files via, 115 downloading and installing, 180 working with, 113 extracting tarball and renaming Bluetooth Manager icon on top folder, 181 desktop panel, 29 launchable link for, 183 boat, 65 moving folder to global Boing Boing, 62 location, 182 Bombono DVD, 303 playing, 183 bookmarks preparing script for, 181 navigating in Nautilus, 99 broadband. See Internet network share, 103 connections BookWrite, 87 browser. See Firefox browser boot order, checking, 376 Bug Squad, 363 booting bugs a different kernel version, 85 advice for reporting, 361 changing boot order, 12 already reported, 360 checking the boot order, 376 commenting, 360 from live CD, 12 drinking from the firehose, 363 checking the disc, 376 explanation of a bug report, 362 downloading the CD identifying, 358 image, 377 marking that they affect you, 360 problems, 376 number reported, 363 from USB flash drive, 405 origin of the term, 358 GRUB errors, 380 reporting, 359 into Windows, problems with, reproducibility, 359 383. See also dual-boot status, 363 systems subscribing, 360 options, 407 things that aren’t bugs, 359 problems, 379 time taken to fix, 363 using kernel options, 377 updated packages, 363 bootloader Bull, Phil on becoming an Ubuntu GRUB, 17 contributor, 373 Windows, 16 burning borders for windows data CDs and DVDs, changing appearance, 134, 136 106–107, 109 installing additional, 136–137 in Mac OS X, 410–411 bottom panel, 29 ISO images to CD, 109 Bourne Again Shell (Bash), 159 multisession CDs, 110 Brainstorm, 364 .bz file extension, 173 .bz2 file extension, 173 Ubuntu for Non-Geeks, 4th Edition INDEX 429 (C) 2010 by Rickford Grant and Phil Bull C Chinese input with IBus, 219–222 cable recommended input for providers without DHCP, 47 methods, 220 Internet connection, chmod command, 165, 167 connecting, 46 ClamAV, 344, 346 CAD (computer-aided design), clipart, adding to OpenOffice QCad for, 258 gallery, 234 Calc (OpenOffice.org), 228 Code of Conduct, 357 Easter egg in, 230 codec, 387 uses for, 230 coffee, 367 calendar command, 162 color, Nautilus side pane, 129 canceling print job, 202–203 command line, user reaction to, Canonical store, 372 155–156. See also Terminal capturing and editing digital video, command-line driven operating Kino for, 300–301 system, 2 case sensitivity of commands, 158 commands cd command, 163–164 apt-get, 168 CD Creator window, aptitude, 169 switching to, 109 calendar, 162 CD drive, changing boot case sensitivity of, 158 sequence, 12 cd, 163, 164 CD/DVD, ejecting, 106 chmod, 165, 167 CD-RW discs, 108, 109 cp, 164 CDs df, 161 burning, 106–107, 109 exit, 162 ISO images, 109 finding for applications, 359 multisession, 110 fine tuning with flags, 161 duplicating, 111 finger, 159 for AMD64 users, 409 gunzip, 173 for Intel Core 2 users, 409 gzip, 173 in book, 1 ln, 171 compatibiliy with 64-bit locate, 167 systems, 9 ls, 162 reading, 106 mkdir, 163 cellphones, working with, 282 mv, 163 Centrino IPW-2100 and IPW-2200 pwd, 161 cards, 49 rm, 164 channel, IRC, 368 rmdir, 165 character encoding, for web sudo, 167 pages, 212 tar, 171, 173 Character Map utility, 213, 216 touch, 163 characters, typing nonstandard, updatedb, 168 213, 216 use of flags with, 161 chat. See IM (instant messaging) whoami, 158 CheapBytes, 411 commercial software, 355 checksum, 376 compiler, 184 children, Tux Paint for, 260 430 INDEX Ubuntu for Non-Geeks, 4th Edition (C) 2010 by Rickford Grant and Phil Bull compiling cryptic attack on locked DVD programs from source, 184, 189 drive, 293 Xmahjongg, 187, 188 customization Compiz, 150 user accounts, 124 CompizConfig Settings login screen, 146 Manager, 154 cut and paste, for moving files, 97 Annotate tool, 152 installing, 152 D selecting visual effects with, 152 customizing, 151 daemon, defined, 219 effects on screenshots, 151 Dapper Drake, 10 problems running, 394 data CDs and DVDs turning off, 151 burning, 106–107, 109 compose key, selecting, 214, 215 duplicating, 111 compressed files reading, 106 audio, 262 DEB packages, 79, 90. See also tar command to create, 173 packages tar command to extract, 172 Debian distribution, 6 computer-aided design (CAD), defragmenting hard drive, in QCad for, 258 Windows, 18 ./configure command, 185, 188 Déjà Dup, backing up files with, connections for printers, 199 116, 118 Control Panel (Windows), System, deleting files, troubleshooting, 398 Hardware tab, 8 dependencies, 79 controls in GNOME, changing dependency hell, 79 appearance, 134 desktop, 25 converting scanned document to customization, 126 text, 206 hard disk and trash icons copying added to, 140 files and folders in Nautilus, 97 icons, stretching, 140 files from android based phones menus, 27 to hard drive, 284 changing icons in, 38 files from digital media devices to changing item order in, 39 hard drive, 284 panel, moving items on, 37 files from iPod to hard drive, 284 desktop environments. See also costs of software, 3 GNOME desktop Could not get lock, error environment message, 400 adding amusing applets, 31 cp command, 164 adding menu contents to CPU panel, 36 usage, 401 adding program launcher, 32 identifying, 8 adding utility buttons, 30 crashes, 358, 401 bottom panel, 29 Crayon Physics, installing with changing program launcher PlayOnLinux, 332 icons, 34 Create Archive window, 120 hard disk and trash icons creating compressed files, 173 added to, 139 icons, 27 Ubuntu for Non-Geeks, 4th Edition INDEX 431 (C) 2010 by Rickford Grant and Phil Bull desktop environments, continued distribution, defined, 5 menu editing, 38 distros, 5 menus, 27 DNS (domain name service), 48 Quit button options, 43 Documentation Team, 356 restarting panel, 42 documents switching between, 148 secure deletion of, 350 top panel, 27 shredding, delete after, 351 virtual desktops, 40 shredding digitally, 350 Desktop folder, 94 domain