How to disable auto login in Ubuntu 11.04

Hello folks. You turned on your computer and noted, it did the login automatically. You already enable it through Login Screen Setting but you didn’t have success. To solve that, open a terminal and run:

sudo gedit /etc/gdm/custom.conf

The file contents has something like that:

[daemon]
AutomaticLoginEnable=True
AutomaticLogin=user

Now, change the value of AutomaticLoginEnable to False. The result will be this:

[daemon]
AutomaticLoginEnable=False
AutomaticLogin=user

Save the file and restart your computer.

That’s it folks. See you next time.

Changing Google Chrome user agent string in Ubuntu 11.04

Hello folks. Let’s see today how we can access sites that just accept for example Internet Explorer or where network that just accept the use of Internet Explorer instead of Google Chrome. Many cases, the control of that is made by browser’s user agent string. To change that in Google Chrome, follow the steps below.

Press super key and search by System Settings

In Personal category, click on Main Menu item. A window will be opened like below.

In Menus, select Internet, in Items select Google Chrome/Chromium Web Browser and after click on Properties button . Another window will be opened like below.

In command field change the string %U to something like that:


--user-agent='Mozilla/4.0 (X11; U; i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.04 Chrome/11.0.342.1 Safari/533.2'

For example, in my case, this field is filled up with:

/usr/bin/chromium-browser %U

and I have changed to:

/usr/bin/chromium-browser --user-agent='Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.04 Chrome/11.0.342.1 Safari/533.2'

Restart the Google Chrome and try to access that site you didn’t have access.

That’s it. See you next time.