Ubuntu 8.04 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, camorama, qcad, bluefish, inkscape, mail-notification, straw, build-essential, aria2c, homebank, xchat, ...

remark: Synaptic is full of 'xmms2'. There doesn't seem to be a Winamp-like frontend though (like the normal xmms).
I have no good alternative for a small and fast mp3-player (other apps, like rythmbox, are full screen apps...)

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 0.98b has playback for webcam and 'personal messages' and voice clips.
Voice chat (with farsight) is also included !
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. (8.5.2 at moment of writing).
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:
- 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