Ubuntu default shortcuts Ctrl+Alt+Numpad overriding google docs quick style shortcuts

I love Google Docs - it's just so fast and user friendly.

I was really used to the Ctrl+Alt+1 / Ctrl+Alt+2 / ... shortcut allowing you to quickly set a level 1 / 2 / ... header style on a line.

When I switched to Ubuntu a couple of years ago, I realized this keystroke was already assigned to Window placement and was overriding GDocs shortcuts, but I never took the time to dig where I could override this behavior.

Today, I'm proud to announce that I finally found it ^^. In case it might help anyone : the offender is the "Grid" plugin. You can configure it or switch it off using CompizConfig Configuration Manager.

Hope this help.

Getting MysQL utilities to work in MySQL Workbench 6.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

I installed MySQl Workbench 6.0 (downloaded from thier website) on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
Installation ran smoothly.

However when I tried to start the shell for MySQL Utilities, I had an error saying that MySQL utilities weren't installed, and that I had to download and install them.

So I did. But when trying to install the .deb package for my arch, boom :

The MySQL Connector/Python module was not found

I found this module that looked like the right one (disclaimer : I'm a total noob regarding linux)

sudo apt-get install python-mysql.connector

Installation OK, but still MySQL can't find the connector.

What worked in the end : download and compile sources :

cd /usr/share

sudo wget http://cdn.mysql.com/Downloads/Connector-Python/mysql-connector-python-1.0.12.zip

sudo unzip mysql-connector-python-1.0.12.zip

cd mysql-connector-python-1.0.12/

sudo python setup.py install

Then I was able to launch the shell utilities.

Hope this help.

ATI Radeon 2600 drivers on Ubuntu 12.04.02 with 3.5.0-32 kernel

I just spent a few hour trying to install proprietary drivers on my (old) laptop for my (old) graphic card.
If the following configuration talks to you, then I might help you :-)

- Ubuntu 12.04.02
- Kernel version 3.5.0-32-generic
- ATI Radeon 2600 graphic card

Since the last kernel update, unable to install Catalyst 13.1 drivers. dpkg creation is successful, but when trying to install those dpkg I am getting a bad exception when fglrx is installing.

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 3.5.

DKMS part of installation failed. Please refer to /usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log for details

Same result with the graphic installer of course.

After a while I found some 13.4 Catalyst drivers. Installation goes smoothier, but in the end...

aticonfig: No supported adapters detected 

Arrrgh ! They dropped support for 2600 series in this version !

Only solution that worked for me :
https://launchpad.net/~makson96/+archive/fglrx

Hope this help !

Linux : look for a string pattern in files in a particular directory and sub directories

Say you want to search for a string pattern in all files included in a directory, and even in its subdirectories. Well, here is the magic command :

find /directory/where/to/look/for -exec grep -nH "my string to look for" {} \;

The command is pretty self explanatory :

/directory/where/to/look/for

The ditectory where you will lokk for files, including all of its sub-directories

-nH

the 'n' option will print line numbers, and 'H' file paths.

Add a number in those options, and bash will print out 'x' the x lines before and after the line matching the pattern (i.e. -nH5 will print out five lines after and before matching line)

"my string to look for"

The pattern to look for. Quotes are only mandatory if your search pattern includes spaces.

You can of course use other find and grep options, i.e. find -name *.xml to filter only xml files.

Example :

 find . -exec grep -H 10108 {} \;

./blabla.text:7:ds10108
Binary file ./jre1.6.0_21/win/bin/fontmanager.dll matches
Binary file ./jre1.6.0_21/win/lib/rt.jar matches