Xfce Tab and auto-complete terminal via VNC

I switched my windows system from Gnome to Xfce4 for a change, and ran into an interesting problem:  After I configured my ~/.vnc/xstartup profile to use the new window system, anytime I'd attempt to auto-complete in terminal (/ho<tab> for /home, for instance), the cursor would just blink, and no auto complete would occur.

This only seemed to happen with VNC sessions, but I did not explore this much because of the headless nature of my server.

Turns out Xfce was assigning something called <Super>Tab to the Tab key...removing this binding allows auto-complete to function.

It can be reached by Settings --> Window Manager ---> Keyboard, as detailed in the following image:

Handbrake GTK and Debian Squeeze

Handbrake isn't a stable package, you need to edit etc/apt/sources.list to allow testing packages temporarily...as in changing


  ###### Debian Main Repos
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free 
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/squeeze main contrib non-free

To

  ###### Debian Main Repos
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free 
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/testing main contrib non-free

Save, do a sudo apt-get update, followed by a sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk, and watch those dependencies get met.

Remember, change back to the previous stable area when complete!

It will install a lot...or at least did for me.  But success is reached at the end.  

Truecrypt and Debian

Future self - the Truecrypt installer will complain about (gksudo:21149): GLiB-CRITICAL **: g_str_has_prefix: assertion 'str != NULL' failed
Press Enter to exit...

If you try and install it via the downloaded installer.  What you should do is run the installer, and select 'Extract'.

Truecrypt Installation

It will dump a tar.gz into /tmp.

Extract that, and a folder called 'usr' will appear.  Copy that folder where-ever you want.  Inside BIN will be the truecrypt files.

You may need to play with permissions.