Contributor muecker

I have a Logitech LX-710 keyboard with a bunch of extra function keys, most of which I cannot program. I had a different keyboard before this one and the same was true. I can program the audio keys (which work by default) and the calculator key, but most others do not work. It would be great if Linux would generate scan codes for those extra keys so I could assign commands to them. The same is true of special mouse buttons.

One program I tried works with non-USB keyboards but claimed that kernel support was required for USB keyboards. Strangely, Enlightment recognizes quite a few more of the extra keys than Gnome does.

I guess I'm just old school, I occasionally like to print photos to put on my wall either at work or at home. Recently I tried to do that in Ubuntu and ran into all kinds of problems. F-Spot doesn't support setting the paper size so you end up printing full-size to your printer. That doesn't work at all when I specify the photo tray on my printer. The version of Gimp in Hardy seems like it might do the job but I need to try it again.

Other things I would like to be able to do with photo printing is print multiple photos per page, either the same photo or different photos so I don't waste paper printing a 5x7 on a full-size sheet.

I posted this on the forum expecting that it as more of an FAQ than anything and have not received a single response yet so maybe it isn't something that can be done at this time.

I recently tried to set up a VirtualBox VM. One of the primary reasons for creating the VM is to connect to remote systems via Windows networking protocols (MS VPN, Cisco, Citrix, Nortel, etc.). I already have a VMWare VM but I wanted to use VirtualBox because it is better supported in Ubuntu.

I immediately ran into issues with the default NAT network and tried to set up bridged networking. I broke the networking on my host machine and spent a couple of hours without being able to hit any remote networks. I finally was able to back out the changes and get it to work again. Since then I have all but abandoned the VirtualBox VM I set up.

VirtualBox should be as easy or easier to setup than VMware is to setup. There I specify to create a bridged network when I install it and I can switch between bridged, NAT and host only networking while the VM is running. Even that could be easier because I have to run a command line script to create the network the first time and I have yet to make it work with wireless.