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Update:
if you have installed the native Linux client, just run these three commands in the terminal:
gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/spotify/command "/usr/bin/spotify -uri %s" gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/spotify/needs_terminal false gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/spotify/enabled true
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To get spotify links (eg playlist links etc) to work in Linux, I found that this solution worked for me:
First you need to create a shell script that will launch spotify for you. Here is the contents of that script:
#!/bin/bash padsp wine "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Spotify/spotify.exe" /uri "$@"
I save the script as spotify.sh, then I set the permissions to executable in Nautilus.
Note the padsp – if you use Pulse Audio, you need this bit, If you don’t then you can remove it. If you try it one way and it doesn’t work try it the other way.
Once that’s done there are two things you can try.
The first (which seemed to be what worked for me) is to run the following three commands in the command line.
gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/spotify/command "/home/${USER}/spotify.sh %s"
gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/spotify/needs_terminal false -t bool
gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/spotify/enabled true -t bool
I also did the following first, though it didn’t seem to work on it’s own. I’m not sure if it is required or not:
In Firefox, go to about:config then you need to add three new config settings (by right clicking in the main area and selecting ‘New’).
Type: string
Name: network.protocol-handler.app.spotify
Value: /home/#####/spotify.sh
Type: boolean
Name: network.protocol-handler.external.spotify
Value: true
Type: boolean
Name: network.protocol-handler.expose.spotify
Value: false
June 18, 2010 No Comments
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padsp winecfg
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wget \ –recursive \ –no-clobber \ –page-requisites \ –html-extension \ –convert-links \ –restrict-file-names=windows \ –domains website.org \ –no-parent \ www.website.org/tutorials/html/
If you use Spotify (its awesome I’m a big fan) but don’t use one of their chosen operating systems (win/mac) and use Linux instead then you might think its unavailable to you.
In fact its fairly trivial to get it working.
First – follow the instructions on the spotify website to install Wine and install onto that.
http://www.spotify.com/int/help/faq/wine/
Note though, the instructions don’t mention that you have to mark the spotify.exe file as executable before you can install it. (Dead easy, right click, properties, permissions, tick the box for allow executing as a programme).
Once its installed though, you might find that there is no sound. If like me you use Pulse Audio (is this actually standard with Ubuntu now, I’m not sure – I’ve been using it for a while) then you will need to take this extra step.
1. In the command line, type:
padsp winecfg
This will bring up the Wine configuration controls. Make sure you have ticked the OSS audio driver box.
2. In the Applications menu, go to Wine - Programs then right click on the Spotify launcher and click “add to panel”
This will then put a Spotify Icon on your panel which is a nice shortcut.
3. On the panel, right click the new shortcut and select properties.
In the command box, you should have something like this:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/#####/.wine" wine "C:\Program Files\Spotify\spotify.exe"
You just need to add padsp in front of the wine command, so it should look like this:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/#####/.wine" padsp wine "C:\Program Files\Spotify\spotify.exe"
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We recently decided to give Google Apps a try, mainly due to the requirement for some decent webmail and it being a brilliant webmail system at the unbeatable price of free.
Here is my quick guide to migrating easily:
Migrating emails – sign up to the free trial of the premier edition and use the IMAP migration system. It is by far the slickest option and will faithfully and accurately import all of your emails across. Best, you can set it going and then shut down your local machine, its all handled server side, so no requirement to shunt emails up from your desktop or anything like that.
Nested Folders – if you do the above and have a lot of nested folders, you will notice a pretty ugly massive list of tags with forward slashes in. To get back your nested sub folder like functionality you need to go to settings, then labs and then enabled the nested tags extension. This will give you a sub folder like interface for your tags and tidy the whole thing up.
Turn off those adds at the top – If you notice adds being displayed at the top and would like to get rid, its easy – Gmail calls them web clips and you can turn them off in the settings.
