rw-r-r- 1 root root 309 14:32 palette.original Lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 22:00 palette -> /etc/alternatives/newt-palette Have a look at and you’ll see that it’s all about a symlink in ls -l Thanks to the open source world, when I finally got my google phrase right, the solution was just one click away and I got insight right into the mail between developers that talked about moving away from default Debian blue colors. Long story short: it’s debconf, and some dependency involving libnewt. At first I didn’t even know ‘debconf’ had anything to do with those violet colors. I guess my main problem was I didn’t really know which program(s) that was in effect when debconf was running. This task turned out to be rather challenging (and quite stupid to spend time on figuring out). At the very least I want it back to Debian default blue. Ubuntu now even has setup violet colors in debconf (!). I’ve come to routinely replacing all of these things after installing or upgrading Ubuntu. Changing desktop background and colors, lightdm (yeah, they’ve replaced gdm with lightdm in 11.10) or splash (plymouth) themes is not a problem, and there are tons of howto’s out there. I just can’t get used to the violet colors in debconf. I dist-upgrade’ed my Ubuntu at my laptop, and I’m again annoyed by the colors. I’ve found that 1280×800 is a perfect compromise in my case.ĭesktop, Ubuntu, Unity console, Ubuntu skype tray icon / indicator in Ubuntu 13.04 That is, text rolling off screen is slow and a bit stuttering. Note that since I’m using the uvesafb, I don’t get like really hardware accelerated console, and that if I use 1920x1080x32 which my card supports as a maximum, stuff get imho a bit slow. Luckily I saw one of the resolutions I wanted to use so that wasn’t really a problem after all. I kind of solved it with vbeinfo from within grub, but that isn’t really optimal since vbeinfo listed a lot more resolutions than could fit within 1 page, and I couldn’t pipe that command to less. What I used to do was installing hwinfo which would show me supported console resolutions from terminal in my X session (Unity in my case), but since Ubuntu 13.10 has dropped support for HAL ( if I got it right) that package is no longer available. Now update grub and your initramfs image and you’re done! # echo FRAMEBUFFER=y | tee /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash Now scroll down a bit in that file and edit this line also to match your previous change GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=1280x800x32,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap" Reboot, and in grub type ‘c’, then type ‘vbeinfo’ to list resolutions supported by your card.Įdit your /etc/default/grub file and make sure you use your desired resolution and bit depth listed from ‘vbeinfo’ I google’ed this for about 20 minutes, and tried a couple solutions that didn’t work, so I’m pasting my personal ‘howto’ on how I got this working on my 13.10. I just noticed my ‘howto’ for getting this stuff setup in Ubuntu 13.10 no longer works, well it did actually work but I was put off when the ‘hwinfo’ package no longer was available. I’ve been using some VESA framebuffer since like for many years, and for the last 3-4 years I’ve been using the uvesafb module to get high resolution console and boot splash on my desktop. It has something to do with Linux being gpl licensed and the kernel code will be tainted if you integrate non-gpl code / or the kernel crew simply won’t integrate binary code, which I personally respect. Switching to the binary Nvidia driver usually ‘break’ the nice boot splash and console resolution in Ubuntu. ĭesktop, Linux, Ubuntu, Unity Ubuntu Ubuntu 13.10 console resolution I mostly ripped off these customizations from. Latest chromium-browser have removed flash support, the pepper-flash-plugin enable flash : # apt-get install gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-pixbuf:i386 sni-qt:i386 If you use skype (which is 32bit) and are on 64bit, install these packages to enable support for your default desktop theme as well as enable the skype tray icon # add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media The mc3man trusty-media ppa fix this for you ( Install on your own risk ). The FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer 0.10 is not available in the official Ubuntu 14.04 repositories (because FFMpeg is not available either – libav is used instead) and because of this, Firefox doesn’t support the H.264 codec. The atareao-team ppa ( Install on your own risk ) got some neat indicators for Ubuntu:
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