The “./install” is really somehow ugly written. For example, when “nam”‘s compilation failed, it will not stop. I really suggest you build each separately by hand, which maybe even easier.

1. Install some libs:

   sudo apt-get install xlibs-dev

2. Run these under folder nam-1.14:

   ./configure
   make

There are plenty of dirty hacks on this problem, like export SVN_SSH="ssh -p 5555", where 5555 is (hypothetically) the alternative ssh port. I am not satisfied with this hacking because it will ruin other svn+ssh repository using port 22, and I am always working with multiple projects.

It is a pain until I find this solution. What it says there is create a ~/.ssh/config file, and add lines like:

host hellen
    Hostname liulonnie.ucsd.edu
    Port 5555
    ForwardAgent no
    ForwardX11 no

hellen is an alias for my office desktop. Then when using svn, use svn+ssh://hellen instead of svn+ssh://liulonnie.ucsd.edu.

I should really learn more about command ssh.

A really cool fix with stylish. Better than mine.

<!--
 <alias>
 <family>serif</family>
 <prefer>
 <family>Bitstream Vera Serif</family>
 <family>DejaVu Serif</family>
 <family>WenQuanYi Zen Hei</family>
 </prefer>
 </alias>
 <alias>
 <family>sans-serif</family>
 <prefer>
 <family>Bitstream Vera Sans</family>
 <family>DejaVu Sans</family>
 <family>WenQuanYi Zen Hei</family>
 </prefer>
 </alias>
 <alias>
 <family>monospace</family>
 <prefer>
 <family>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</family>
 <family>DejaVu Sans Mono</family>
 <family>WenQuanYi Zen Hei Mono</family>
 </prefer>
 </alias>
-->

And then your own ~/.fonts.conf will work again.

Then my girlfriend sent me a link from zhidao.baidu. And I followed its instruction:

1. Close your macbook
2. Grab your macbook firmly, with your CD slot towards downside
3. Throw down fast, and then stop throwing suddenly, for several times

And finally I get it out. Stupid Macbook…

ref: http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/39736306.html

My theme files which I am using are stored in a folder like this:

/home/lonnie/.mozilla/firefox/rsh6zrom.default/extensions/{1ebc69c0-92ff-11dc-8314-0800200c9a66}

I do not know what it stands for, I find this by blind guess+test. The theme style files are written in a css like form and I think the structure this css describing is well defined by Mozilla or something. I didn’t find out a line of correct written code to modify the url text color in auto-completion, but I have found a way to modify the background and other title text colors. They are defined in a file called ./chrome/gnome/global/autocomplete.css in that theme folder and I make the following modification:

141c141,142
<   background-color: transparent;
---
>   /* background-color: transparent; */
>   background-color: -moz-Field;
151c152
<   color: MenuText;
---
>   /* color: MenuText; */

For reference, here is also a part of the origin file, generated by grep . -n

137:/* ::::: richlistbox autocomplete ::::: */
139:.autocomplete-richlistbox {
140:  margin: 1px;
141:  background-color: transparent;
142:}
144:.autocomplete-richlistitem[selected="true"] {
145:  background-color: Highlight;
146:  color: HighlightText;
147:}
149:.autocomplete-richlistitem {
150:  padding: 1px 2px;
151:  color: MenuText;
152:}
154:.autocomplete-richlistitem:not(:first-child) {
155:  border-top: 1px solid ThreeDLightShadow;
156:}

And now the color of the auto-completion menu is much easy for me to read.

However, there are still some potential problems for Firefox 3.5. First, the firefox3.5 from ubuntu source simply can not be started properly. Second, my downloaded firefox3.5 binaries refuse to response from time to time, especially while dealing with some flash or sound or other multimedia things. I think there is something incompatible with the add-ons. And crashed firefox cannot be killed by killall command, and refuse to restart a new session (I think something is deadlocked or similar) and I have to restart my computer (or at least logout X I guess) to make it work properly again. This is somehow irritating…

Tip 1: To modify the $PATH in linux, please modify .profile instead of .bashrc. This will make your $PATH modification applied to every program including GUI program (such as scite) after a reboot, instead of only interactive command line programs.

Tip 2: You do not really need to use make clean thesis to rebuild it every time. I personally prefer a script like this (utf-8 version only):

pdflatex main.tex
bibtex main
pdflatex main.tex
pdflatex main.tex

I named it as build.bat so that it is useful in both linux and window command line. You need to build it twice to make the content list updated correctly. To deal with the gbk verison, an additional command line gbk2uni main must be inserted between the two main.tex. (ref)

Tip 3: The blank line for signatures of the second page (acknowledgement page) are too long by default and the last one wraps to next line (probably because of font rendering in my ubuntu is different from windows). To fix this (for bachelor template), I modified thuthesis.cls at line 700 and line 701 (line number for thuthesis-4.5.1 utf-8 version). I replaced each \thu@underline in these two lines with \thu@underline[5em] (by default, it is 6em).

If you want to learn more on TeX, you may visit TeX board on newsmth.net. There are a bunch of skilful folks hanging around but they seemingly do not write easy-to-read documents and maintain them very often (this is a quite common problem for open-source and also closed-source tech-supporting…) It is somehow a shame that they do not make Chinese support for TeX a really good module or package or patch or something for LaTeX system. Although some people have brunched the CTeX and CTeXLive for easy installation and using, it is still a little bit complex to add Chinese support to an existing general LaTeX distribution to for example make it suitable for thuthesis. Maybe it is because thuthesis is using out-of-date packages (I do not like the CJK environment by the way, it makes me somehow feel wierd to use an environment before using any Chinese character). Anyway, it is just a layout and printing tool for me; why bother?

The python script is here:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import gtk
import wnck
import sys

def halfwin(k):
    screen = wnck.screen_get_default()
    while gtk.events_pending(): gtk.main_iteration()

    win = screen.get_active_window()
    h = screen.get_height()
    w = screen.get_width()
    if win.is_maximized() and k != 'top':
        win.unmaximize()
    if win.is_minimized():
        win.unminimize()
    f = (wnck.WINDOW_CHANGE_X | wnck.WINDOW_CHANGE_Y
            | wnck.WINDOW_CHANGE_WIDTH | wnck.WINDOW_CHANGE_HEIGHT)
    if (k == "left"):
        win.set_geometry(wnck.WINDOW_GRAVITY_CURRENT, f, -4, 0,
                w / 2, h + 2)
    elif (k == "right"):
        win.set_geometry(wnck.WINDOW_GRAVITY_CURRENT, f, w / 2, 0,
                w / 2, h)
    elif (k == "top" and not win.is_maximized()):
        win.maximize();

def main():
    argv = sys.argv
    if len(argv) <= 1:
        pass
    elif argv[1] == 'left':
        halfwin('left')
    elif argv[1] == 'right':
        halfwin('right')
    elif argv[1] == 'top':
        halfwin('top')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

It is not working perfectly well, but fairly good already.

To bind a command with a hot-key in ubuntu, please play with System->Preference->Keyboard Shortcuts. I am very sure you will find it.