Gnome’s default keybinding app sucks (maybe Linus was right and Gnome treats its users like idiots? sucks for me I guess). Here is a way to bind anything you’d like to any key you’d like, globally. I found this useful because I naturally use WIN-E for an explorer or WIN-R for a run dialog and I couldn’t get that working the right way through Gnome’s default shortcut app (/System/Preferences/Keyboard Shortcuts).

Anyway, doing this is really simple. Open up a terminal and type gconf-editor. Browse the /app/Metacity/global_keybindings and keybinding_commands. Edit the corresponding global_keybinding command_# to the keybinding_command command_# and you’re golden.

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Step 1:
In gnome goto System -> Administration -> Network and click on the ‘Hosts’ tab

Step 2:
For your normal localhost (127.0.0.1) double-click or hit ‘properties’ to edit it. Add your list of subdomains under localhost.

*Ignore the text in this pic, I overlooked that you had to include _all_ aliases in the same box. Whoops

Step 3:
The fun step
Open a terminal and type sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default — assuming you’re using the “default” httpd.conf. Chances are that you will be, and if you aren’t you should know what file I’m talking about anyway. (If you don’t, just load one of the enabled apache configuration files)

Change these lines:

NameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost *>

to

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>

Step 4:
Add the following (for each subdomain you made) — changing the ServerName to whatever you aliased in the network host dialogue and DocumentRoot to wherever you want the subdomain to point.

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
	ServerName mysql.localhost
	DocumentRoot /var/www/phpmyadmin
</VirtualHost>

Step 5:
In a terminal type: sudo apache2ctl restart
When that finishes, browse to http://mysql.localhost and you should see phpMyAdmin (going by my example)

On OSX + Apache 1.33

Step 1:
Open /Applications/Utilities/NetInfo Manager and click on “machines”
I usually just duplicate the localhost settings, or just create a new record below localhost that is something like:

ip_address: 127.0.0.1
name: mysql.localhost
serves: ./local

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Step 2:
Repeat Steps 3-5 above only editing “/etc/httpd/users/{yourname}.conf” instead.

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Restart Apache and hopefully all went well. I found this useful because I hate typing unnecessary paths

Theres a few common solutions:

Every Flavour Beans mentions its either a login timing (GDM) issue, or a samba auto-mount issue. The solution there was to either: a) disable all samba shares (I’m not 100% if they meant temporarily or forever — either way, this was a last resort since I hate this kind of stuff) and b) disabling automatic logins through gnome’s GDM.

I didn’t have auto-login enabled, so I figured “what the hell” and set it to auto-login with a 10 second timer. When I re-logged I didn’t get the HAL error, but I also didn’t get my auto mounted drives back. Shit. Next.

I decided to poke around a bit more to see what the bigger picture is. I knew it couldn’t be a big issue since I wasn’t installing/configuring/etc. at the time of the crash — something just got “stuck.” I stumbled upon another site which mentioned running sudo /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes to view the output.

After running that I got a suspicious message pointing to the real issue: Error binding udev_event socket: Address already in use. Damn udev. Anyways, I tossed up a sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart and re-booted. Lo and behold – all is well.

(Again, this post is more for my future reference in case I get this error again)

Google has betrayed you! This post is _very_ old (2007) and I’ve lost the images somewhere along the way (as well as depreciated this blog). If you haven’t checked this already, I’d recommend using StackOverflow’s version, which is much more up-to-date (Or gedit-mate which looks actively maintained. Sorry for the trouble.

And if you have a minute, check out my new blog, which is more focused on Ruby/Rails over at Proccli.com

Heres a quick tip on how you can make Gnomes gedit behave like TextMate. If you’ve read any of my other posts you would know that I’m hopelessly hooked on TextMate — to the point where I can’t develop in any other editor. Sad, I know. This is probably the first application I’ve bought in years. After much bitching and moaning and searching for a clone on either PC or Linux, I realized that gedit has most of the functionality. The plug-ins required are disabled by default, but should come stock with it. For the sake of saying, these instructions are for Ubuntu Feisty — but shouldn’t be different on any other distro. These are my preferences, tweak them according to your taste of course.

Step 1
Under Edit->Preferences, on the View tab make your settings match these.

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Step 2
Drop the tab size from 8 -> 4 and enable automatic indentation.

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Step 3
The real meat and cheese. Enable the file browser pane and the snippets plug-ins. (and whatever else you may want..)

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* Step 4 (Optional – but recommended)
This plug-in will do the automatic closing for things like “{” and quotes. Its under development, but is open source, so if you’re a python person you can hack this up for your needs.

• Visit Gary Haran’s Gemini Plug-In Page and pickup the plugin tar.
• Un-tar this into ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins (you might have to create the folder)
• Re-start gedit & enable the Gemini Plugin

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**Note: This plug-in will output keycodes to the shell. If you run gedit a lot from the command line you may want to follow the next few steps – not that they aren’t obvious, but it’s worth it to point out.

• Goto ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins
• edit gemini.py
• on line 60 you will see something like

  print event.keyval

  – toss a “#” before that line to comment it out

• save & close & you’re done

Other Helpful Hint(s)

• In your ~/.bashrc setup a new alias, add:

  alias e="gedit "

  — its easier in the command line to just type “e *” than “gedit *”, but I’m really lazy.

More Resources
I didn’t really get too in depth with this yet — but people out there have made other plug-ins to nudge gedit on par with TextMate. Here are a few. I will add more if I get around to it – or if there are any comments with suggestions.

• rhtml support for gedit and scribes