Archive for October 31st, 2010

How to remove the joomla string in the URL of a joomla website

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

ou need to find your joomla installation directory for instance if joomla is installed in /home/hipo/public_html/joomla
You must go to to this directory and edit the configuration.php file.
In the joomla’s configuration.php you need to edit the variable $var_site:

The current variable in your joomla configuration will probably be something like:

var $live_site = 'http://www.yoursite.com/joomla';

var $live_site = 'http://www.yoursite.com/';

Also you might need to change change: var $ftp_root = 'public_html/joomla';
to
var $ftp_root = 'public_html/;

Hopefully now the joomla string will be removed from your website URL address.

Alternative way to kill X in Linux with Alt + Printscreen + K

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

I’ve recently realized that the CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE keyboard combination is no longer working in Debian unstable.

This good old well known keyboard combination to restart X is not working with my xorg 7.5+8 under my Gnome 2.30 desktop
However thanksfully there is another combination to kill the X server if for instance if your Gnome desktop hangs.

If that happens simply press ALT + PRINTSCREEN + K this will kill your X and then reload the (Gnome Display manager) gdm.

Another suggestion I’ve red in the forums of a way to enable back CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE is to put in either .bashrc or .xinitrc the following command

setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

BTW It’s better that the above command is placed in ~/.xinitrc.

I’ve also red on some forums that in newer releases of Ubuntu. The CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE can be enabled using a specific command, e.g. with:

dontzap -disable