My solutions to some not-so-common problems

Problem with Chromium browser after upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10

Posted: October 5th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Ubuntu | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments »

Today I’ve upgraded Ubuntu on my laptop to Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Release Candidate. Everything went smoothly. Ubuntu downloaded all needed packages and upgraded system. I had no problem during startup nor during work with new Ubuntu. Thou when I tried to launch my Chromium browser I shut down immediatly after startup. I tried once again, this time lauching browser from Gnome Terminal.

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Fixing Eclipse for Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10

Posted: March 16th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Ubuntu | Tags: , , , | 1 Comment »

I use Ubuntu as operating system on my development machine. I keep my system up-to-date and apply patches and upgrades to new releases as soon as they are available for download. After upgrading to Karmic Koala 9.10 I noticed, that all my development tools based on Eclipse (STS, RadRails, Aptana Studio) are experiencing same problem: buttons on most dialog boxes (wizards, properties windows etc.) could not be pushed any more using mouse. Of course keyboard shortcuts still worked.

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