Ubuntu 7.10 on Acer TravelMate 661LCi

BACKUP
If you make a backup of your entire home-directory, you keep almost all your settings.
If you want it more minimalistic, backup your:

• .amsn (for all the logs, displaypictures,...)
• .purple (see above :p )
• .homebank
• .irssi
• .mozilla (for your bookmarks, extensions, passwords,...)
• .mozilla-thunderbird and/or .thunderbird (for your accountinformation and saved e-mails)
• .straw (for all your feeds)
• .xchat-2
• .xmms (for the skins)
• amsn_received and all other files you still need.

- Backup your /etc/apt-/sources.list , it might contain some usefull extra repositories.
- Take a look in /var/cache/apt/archives , there may be some usefull .deb's you installed.

Even better: Create a list of installed packages

Theme
Gutsy comes with Compiz-Fusion enabled. Open Synaptic and search for 'compiz'. Install the settings-manager and Emerald.
Emerald-theme: blubuntu

Compiz-Fusion
Usefull eyecandy.
My Settings.profile

Synaptic
Things I need to remove:
f-spot, tomboy, Evolution (via synaptic: all), ekiga, nautilus-sendto, ...

Things I need to install
make, autoconf, gcc, irssi, xmms (and -crossfade, -infopipe, -midi, -oggre), camorama, qcad, bluefish, inkscape, mail-notification, straw, build-essential, 915resolution, aria2c, homebank, xchat, ...

remark: Synaptic is full of 'xmms2'. There doesn't seem to be a Winamp-like frontend though (like the normal xmms).

PyTelemeter
Only usefull for Belgian cable users () !!

PyTelemeter werkt volledig in Ubuntu Dapper.
Surfen naar http://pytelemeter.sourceforge.net/
Uitleg en installatieprocedure staan er ook.

Gewoon den tar.gz downloaden, uitpakken, via console naar de (uitgepakte) map gaan en dan typen:

Verliep hier zonder problemen.

daar vult ge uw Telenet login en paswoord in, opslaan.




Now run pytelemeter-gtk, pytelemeter-tray or pytelemeter-cli (add -h to view cli options).

Nog een handigheidje: PyTelemeter-tray direct inladen tijdens het opstarten:
Systeem --> Voorkeuren --> Sessies --> Tab Programma's starten
daar voegt ge toe "pytelemeter-tray"

aMSN, CVS version
Okay, why would you want to use a "beta"-version?
Because it has new things in it :) At the moment of writing, aMSN 0.97b has playback for webcam and 'personal messages' and voice clips.
Next version(s) are said to have voice chat support and lots more...
Do you want to run beta-version? Then the following is for you. Else download and install the .deb file from their webpage.

I absolutely LOVE aMSN. They have a forum (unlike gaim), the admins/programmers are friendly (friendlier than gaim) as long as you use the SEARCHfunction on their forum.
aMSN is quite cutting edge: they are the first (?) who actually implemented webcam (with playback !) and personal messages and so...

Okay, lets' first install tcl8.5 and tk8.5 (for anti-aliased fonts).
Go here and download latest tcl and tk package.
Extract them both and remember where.

In the following, I will give some brief commands. For better explaination, see the full code below.

Attention: dependency hell
Since this is a clean install, we will need some libraries and their dependencies for aMSN to compile properly.
The easiest way is to open Synaptic and install:
- tcl8.4 and tcl8.4-dev
- tk8.4 and tk8.4-dev
- search for 'xft' and install the dev
- imagemagic
- esound-clients
- libpng (12-dev?)
- libjpeg62-dev
- libltdl3-dev
- autoconf
- snack (searck Synaptic for it)
- ...

Open a console and go to that directory

Same thing for tk:


Next, we download http://amsn.sourceforge.net/amsn_dev.tar.gz
unpack it into your home-folder so you have ~/msn
Go into that folder

Edit the second line from "wish $0" to "wish8.5 $0"

Now you can run aMSN with: "~/msn/./amsn"


Let's config aMSN a bit.

• Press Ctrl+P to open the aMSN-preferences.
  Second tab: Appearance --> change font button
  I use "Bitstream Versa Sans" at size 9
• First tab: Personal --> My message text, I use "Bitsream Vera Sans Mono"
• Others tab: sound server
  set it to 'esdplay $sound' (this is why you installed esound-client)
  

screenshot of aMSN 0.97:

XMMS - skin
Save .tar in ~/.xmms/Skins
Clearlooks-BMP