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November, 2017

Cannot open Home folder Ubuntu or Any folder in Ubuntu

  I have Ubuntu 16.04 installed with home folder mounted as a separate partition.   When I click on the icon of the Home folder (or any folder from Places tab), the icon flashes trying to open and will close.   Checked the dmesg and found these error messages.   (nautilus:25179): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_interface_skeleton_unexport: assertion More

Install or Integrate Skype / Skypeweb Pidgin Plugin in Ubuntu

  To integrate Skype in Pidgin Ubuntu, use the plugin named skypeweb.   Download it from git page:  https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin/tree/master/skypeweb   On most Linux distributions its compilation and installation is simple as follows:   sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libjson-glib-dev libpurple-dev git clone git://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin.git cd skype4pidgin/skypeweb make sudo make install   Tested and working in Ubuntu 16.04 More