Ubuntu

Update: You probably won't run into any of the troubles below. See for how to set up Dvorak on Ubuntu in the first place.

Setting Dvorak as the default keyboard worked out of the box in Ubuntu. Someone else used the virtual machine and changed things and it broke now.

Currently, only way to change is:

setxkbmap dvorak

Using the system preferences user interface for keyboard settings does nothing and triggers this error in the background:

This is what worked to have my Ubuntu virtual machine eject a CD from my Mac's disk drive:

eject /dev/cdrom1

How can i make the IP address at which my host Mac OS accesses my Ubuntu guest stay stable. This is with the network in NAT mode, of course, because bridged is a stable IP... for one location.

To be very clear, this is the value for "inet6 addr" when typing ifconfig on the Ubuntu guest command line:

In order for the cool myprojectname.dev style addresses for sites you are developing locally (rather than 127.0.0.1/myprojectname) from my Mac OS X environment as well as Ubuntu running in a virtual machine, this method uses the IP address available locally that you can find out by typing ifconfig in a shell terminal. It's what follows the text "inet". With luck that is a stable IP address, running in bridged mode (i think) with VMWare Fusion this seems to be working so far. The problem with bridged mode is that it only works with your own internet connection.

http://superuser.com/questions/10588/how-to-make-cut-copy-paste-in-gvim-on-ubuntu-work-with-ctrlx-ctrlc-ctrlv

Another alternative:

not it:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=595463

Same-sounding problem with RapidSVN
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rapidsvn/+bug/402892

Ubuntu shell scrollback
ubuntu shell history

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-newbie/144592-how-make-secure-shell-ssh-scroll-back-more-lines.html

In Terminal

Edit » Profile Preferences

Scrolling tab

Scrollback option

My previous post exalting it's qualities. I now have 7,624 entries in it.

Mac! But not Linux! Clyppan is what i'm using now. Adequate but history-only. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsnip/ for selected clippings and history.

Glipper, installable through the graphical package manager, is only a clipboard history and isn't doing it for me; it's not even as good as Clyppan.