How to install #LibreOffice properly on #LinuxMint v12

You have to do “sudo apt-get install libreoffice libreoffice-gnome”

The trick here is the libreoffice-gnome, which will integrate properly with Gnome (since LibreOffice windows weren’t showing up in the botton bar) and enhance the GUI significantly.

Enjoy!

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How to fix blank pages in PDF printer in Linux Mint 12

PDF printer comes by detault in linux mint, and when I tried it, it produced blank pages with no content whatsoever.

What I did to fix this is that:

  1. I opened my printers list
  2. deleted the existing PDF printer
  3. then removed the “cups-pdf” package “sudo apt-get remove cups-pdf”
  4. Finally re-installed it afterwards “sudo apt-get install cups-pdf”, and it worked perfectly afterwards!

Enjoy!

 

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How to solve Video Tearing Problem on Ubuntu Oneiric and Precise with Gnome 3

I was having terrible tearing while playing any videos on my Ubuntu Oneiric 32-bit with Gnome 3 on my new Thinkpad T420 laptop with Intel SandyBridge Graphics Card.

I have googled around a bit, and found this only solution, haven’t investigated much behind it, but gave it a try, as I could easily revert it back.

I just added these two lines

CLUTTER_PAINT=disable-clipped-redraws:disable-culling
CLUTTER_VBLANK=True

to my “/etc/environment” file, then restarted, and surprisingly it worked out!! No more tearing whatsoever in any videos I play!

Enjoy!

Update: This also solved the video tearing issue on Precise with Gnome 3.4

Source: post #32 on this page: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1017705

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Disable Touchpad Clicks on Xubuntu

If you’re getting really annoyed – like I do – whenever you’re typing something and you touch the touchpad by mistake, which transfer the cursor to some other window on the screen, then this article is what you’re looking for:

Open a terminal and type in:
synclient MaxTapTime=0
If this successfully disables the tap to click, then add a new startup entry (Settings->Settings Manager->Session and Startup->Application Autostart) where the command is:
bash -c “synclient MaxTapTime=0”

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1875057.html

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Right-to-left e-mail composing in Thunderbird with Bidi

If you want to write Arabic, it’s very annoying to use left-to-right text direction, and it’s not supported natively in Thunderbird.

One of the solutions is to use the “Bidi” add-on for Thunderbird, I was able to successfully install it on my Thunderbird 8.

After installation is done and restarting Thunderbird, you’ll find two new icons for determining left-to-right or vice versa.

Update: I found it to be a very buggy add-on and sometimes views English text from right-to-left.

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