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Hi, This is a short tip how to disable the Overlay Scrollbar in Ubuntu 12.10. If you are get used to the regular scrollbar of the previous version of the Ubuntu then you may want to disable it. To disable it just open a terminal, and then run the following command, gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface ubuntu-overlay-scrollbars false You also can disable it using dconf Editor . First open dconf Editor from the Unity Dash. Then go to com>canonica>desktop and then select interface and then change the scrollbar-mode to overlay pointer Hope this will be helpful. Cheers A.Paul

We check our departmental(Department of Physics, IISc) email either using pine/alpine, which is a command line interface (CLI) based email client, or using very basic web browser based email client squirrelmail. On other hand we use Gmail and YahooMail which has very nice interface. Lot of shortcut key and very nice look. Would not it be very good if we can use the excellent interface of Gmail or YahooMail for checking and sending our departmental mail. There is a very easy way to forward all incoming departmental mail directly to the Gmail or YahooMail or any other mail box. Just you have to create a file on your home folder named .forward. To do this simply login to Departmental site using ssh command from linux terminal or if you are on windows, login using any ssh client (like secure shell client). Then just run the command $vim .forward then press button I and then write your email id where you want to forward your departmental mail. Now save the file. To save just press

Though there is LibreOffice for Ubuntu, lots of time we deal with documents that created by MS office and some time those file does not open properly with LibreOffice , specially if those contains lots of equation and figure. There is a very good solution, you can install MS Office with wine , Specially with Play On Linux . Play On Linux automatically configure wine and downloads all the required libraries, so that MS Office works fine. You can install MS Office 2003, 2007 and 2010 with Play On Linux . Play On Linux creates shortcut in desktop from where you can easily lunch so files. But only problem is that neither MS Office packages (Like Word, Excel, Power Point) shows up in application search on dash nor it appear in right click and open with option. But with some effort you can make it work properly as native app. You have to create two desktop file for each Office program (Word, Excel etc). One each for associating with particular file type and other for program to

Google chrome is one of the most popular web browser. It is very good and have lot of very good options. It is highly configurable and have lots of add-on. But one thing that I found is irritating is it starts up at the starting of windows in background. Though I have installed Google Chrome but mostly I use Firefox, so I don't want Google Chrome to run at start-up. Because it uses some of resources. Click on the taskbar icon of Google Chrome and Un-select the option "Allow to run in background". It will stop running in background again on start-up.  Cheers A.Paul.