gOS Help & Support • View topic - Missing Wbar

So I ran into a problem with WBar and found this posting that solved it immediately. It really helped to explain what had happened.

gOS Help & Support • View topic - Missing Wbar: "Re: Missing Wbar

Postby trdofMSoft on Sat Feb 14, 2009 12:48 am
You should have two .wbar files (not folders). The first should be in your home folder. the second will be found in /etc/skel.
(In order to see these files you will have to select [view hidden files] in both folders)

The one in /etc/skel is a copy of the original configuration. . You can copy and paste from /etc/skel to your home folder, which will restore all the original icons

Here are some common reasons why wbar disappears:

1. It is not enabled as a startup option in system preferences -> sessions
(If you need to build a launcher, the command is wbar_delay.sh)

2. The link to the background is broken, try picking another background in WbarConf
(look in /usr/share/wbarconf/wbarbacks)

3. I can't explain this one, but it happened to me....One of the links to an icon pointed nowhere. for some reason this one broken link to the icon caused the whole bar to vanish! When I picked a new icon for the application in WbarConf and hit [save] and [refresh] it all came back again....odd

4. I have a 'friend' who did this: :oops: tried to be clever and decided to delete the background so that the icons just floated on the desktop...What I, er I mean he, got was a perfectly unhindered view of the desktop!"

Missing Bookmark toolbar in Firefox 3

I encountered the issue described below recently and found that the instructions there immediately helped.

original post here:
http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/30/firefox-bookmarks-toolbar-is-not-showing-bookmarks/

Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar is not showing bookmarks

I encountered a problem in Firefox after installing the Piclens extension. My Bookmarks toolbar was not showing my bookmarks anymore, just a blank toolbar. It was also not possible to add new bookmarks to it. A quick check of my bookmarks revealed that the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder was still there so it had to be a different problem.

I tried disabling and enabling the toolbar again which did not have a effect either. I knew that it was important that the so called Bookmark Toolbars icon was added to that toolbar. To check this you have to right-click the top toolbar and select customize from the list.

If there is no icon visible in the Bookmarks Toolbar you have to move it back in. The icon is called Bookmarks in the icons list there. Just drag and drop it into the Bookmarks Toolbar and the bookmarks should be visible again after finishing the customization. My bookmarks were there again which was exactly what I wanted to happen.

You should also make sure that the Bookmarks Toolbar is enabled in Firefox. You can check it by clicking on View > Toolbars > Bookmarks Toolbar.

Vista no longer recognizing my "Card" reader after using Safely Remove Harware

So tonight I ran into a problem I had a few months back and I could not recall immediately what the solution was, so in the middle of 2 hours of searching various microsoft and HP forums for support, I thought that I definitely need to post the answer here once I find it....

The problem: inserting my memory card into the card readers on the front of my HP Pavilion did not bring up the Auto-Play option. Furthermore, after opening Windows Explorer the drives were no longer listed. Several of the posts I had found mentioned restarting the machine, some mentioned "uninstalling" all the USB devices in the Device Manager, but the one key item that I still could not find the original source was the "hold down the power switch for 4 seconds after shutdown". I have no idea what that does, but it seems to me to act like "cache" flush and Presto!! My drives magically appeared again.

Well, if when I get this again I should be able to remember to check here.

HP forum note that I thought I had found the answer earlier on.

My new computer set up

I recently purchased a new desktop machine and was well into getting it all customized to the way I liked, when the lousy thing crapped out on me and I lost the apps and settings I painstaking setup. So following an example from another blogger, I thought I'd track the updates and configurations here to help me recall them.

• A favorite text editor with a good regular expression tool: notepad++
• A decent listing of good freeware: Gizmo
• PC Tune Up: Advanced Window Care
• Finance Software: GnuCash http://www.gnucash.org/
• PDF Editor: Jarnal (may want to try looking at:PDF-XChange_) I've used PDF-XChange a couple of days nows and runs pretty quick and it works well under wine in Kubuntu. This looks like my new favorite (although merging files is a PRO addin that I may switch back to JARNAL for)
  
• OCR PDF (just found haven't tried it): http://www.softi.co.uk/freeocr.htm
• Office Suite- OpenOffice and now IBM supported Symphony
• Gimp for photo editing
• Sticky Notes
• Wink for screen session recording
• I can't recall which Virtual Desktop Manager I started to use previously, but will Dexpot.
• Will be tempted to set up AutoHotKey for macro enabling various programs, perhaps for passwords or other navigation items.
• Comodo Firewall
• Avast Antivirus
• AntiSpyware- http://www.superantispyware.com/index.html
• Adaware - http://lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php
• Disk Defargger - http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/
• Disk Cleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com/
• Registry Cleaner - http://www.wisecleaner.com/index.html
• Should take a look at the all in one cleaner - http://www.glaryutilities.com/
• Video Format converter: http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/ ...
  Super (Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer)
  Website: http://www.erightsoft.net
• I need to get a better backup regimen going so will be looking at: WinBackup
  Website: http://www.liutilities.com/
  Download link: http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?27000000036770
  Alternative Download link: http://www.filefactory.com/file/d6ff2f/
• Email Client - Thunderbird
• IM Client - I used to like Pidgin (mainly from Linux install), but will look at Digsby
  Website: http://www.digsby.com/ based on the recommendation from the Gizmo site
• Skype
  
• Juice podcast catcher
  

Thats the start of the items I need to get working on.

Firefox addins follow up

Some additional addons that I like are:

SuperDrag & Go: Now called QuickDrag

Web Developer Tool Bar:

Colorful Tabs

Status Bar Download

Create your own album cover

From eKrantz.com | Family, Comments and Tutorials:

Here's a fun exercise to kill 10 minutes. Create your own personal album cover...

"# Go to Wikipedia’s random article page. The first article you get is the name of your band.
# Go to the Random Quotations page. The last four words of the last quote is the album title.
# Go to Flickr’s Interesting photo page. Third picture, no matter what it is, is your album cover.
# Put it all together to make your album. Either crop it to CD cover size, or just use the raw image itself … the only rule is you’re only allowed to add the album title and artist title."

Ok, I modified the rules for myself, my random article hit on an actual band name, so I hit it again.

Thinking of moving these tech notes over to www.BleedYellow.com

Lotus911 is now making available to the Lotus community a fully functional version of the Lotus Collaboration software, Lotus Connections, at the site BleedYellow.com I am considering moving either this content, or at least the important items over to this site to take advantage of the platform that I enjoy.

I have a lot to catch on from Lotusphere2008 wrap up on my company blog and sleep is calling...

FreeMind move example

This is the first FreeMind mind map with aout upcoming move. Testing it out here to see how it looks.

Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10 >> Mixed Signals >> Rupert Goodwins's Blog at ZDNet UK Community

Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10 >> Mixed Signals >> Rupert Goodwins's Blog at ZDNet UK Community: "Monday 22 October 2007, 1:43 AM Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10 Posted by Rupert Goodwins "

I nice discussion on the differences in experiences with Ubuntu & Vista.

How to Use Lotus Notes on Linux with Wine

How to Use Lotus Notes on Linux with Wine:

Julian's Notes are from 2005 and were a great starting point. A few updates:

The regression bug mentioned has been corrected, fixed, and rolled into the latest version of wine. So using the latest version of wine was all that was needed (also current version of wine consists of just one file "wine" no longer need to get the 3 packages separately).

I did not follow the steps for the wine configuration part (step 8) as I think the wine configuration is different in the latest version.

I just loaded it and will have a later update once I use it for a while.