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My main blog, RMD Observations, contains everything and it is too time consuming to skip from there to here whenever I talk about Ubuntu. Therefore, all notes will be published there.

Google Earth and Google Maps

There is a difference between these two applications. Google maps (GM) can be accessed on any computer with internet. Google Earth (GE) needs to be installed. I learned today that I cannot make a GE kml from GM unless the privacy is turned off.

Gnome menus

 I wanted to add an application, which I installed manually, to the main menu. Nothing happened. After searching around, I cam across complaints about alacarte, the menu editing application for Gnome. I had never heard of it. This is one of the few times that looking at .xsession-errors in my home directory actually helped. IN addition to the errors I don't understand, there were some  "permission denied" errors with alacarte references. This led me to this solution, thanks to jpeddicord on the Ubuntu Forums for this solution:

sudo chown -R gianluigi:gianluig ~/.config