Sunday, August 9, 2009

Ubuntu 9.10 Rhythmbox Minimize to Tray problem

posted a bug. And someone marked it as duplicated.
Found the solution there.

Here is the tips :-

In terminal type :-

gconf-editor


apps->rhythmbox->plugin->status-icon-->status-icon mode

set the value to 3

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Installing Mentor's vpn client in Ubuntu

Wow.. At last i installed anyconnect ( cisco vpn client for mentor graphics ).

Just wanted to keep the list of stuffs i did to make a mess first and then how did i manage to recover from them :-

First of all, the official documents does not list Ubuntu as an supported operating system for the client and also the so files supplied was also not for Ubuntu

The first mistake I did was , i guess, to install the rpm given by mentor.
Then i connected to vpn site and tried to get a certificate for the browser and the computer.
Now what firefox was doing was repeatedly installing the secure add-on provided by the vpn site.

Then when i installed the rpm, firefox started crashing.

could not load xpCOM.

That's what it gave error ( firefox guyz.. please a better messaging once u crashh).

fusss..

after following some solutions in forums ( which eventually did not help as always they never help ), I just did a

sudo apt-get install libxulrunner


somehow i managed to know xulrunner was the bugger for xpcom ).

and it worked like a charm.

next --> I had to install libsqlite ( some sql package : i actually installed all the sql packages available in the package manager ).

Now firefox responded and I successfully installed the certificate ( please disable all error blocks and warning while installing plugins , seach the two options in firefox's preferences )

Now the problem was installing the client.

Thank god, they had given a shell script to do so. just downloaded it and it worked.
A
ctually before i had the certificate of my comp, i tried to download it so many times and everytime it failed. So when i pressed the download button and it started downloading...wow... i was thrilled

One more point i should tell, once u r successfully connected using browser, to go to any internal website, if u just type in the address of the site, it wont connect. There is one utililty on the top right corner. Using that u can actually access different internal websites ( type the url in the pop-up box )


Started the anyconnect from application->internet.
Connect to -> vpn-in.mentorg.com
Group-> MGC-cert
login, password and it worked.