RM Jones’ Adventure

Every time I setup Kubuntu I have trouble with Tomboy Notes. Tomboy Notes is a great desktop note utility that not only allows you to keep your pretty little yellow note on the desktop, it allows you to resize the notes on the fly. Tomboy Notes has some of the really nice features. You can link notes together so you can put the title of a note in another note and click on it to bring it up. If you change the title it will update the other automatically. There are a number of really great features like the ability to export your notes as HTML or import notes, timestamps, Evolution Mail integration and much more. This is the only note program that I use. However I have often had problems getting it setup. And now with Kubuntu 8.04 it just plain wouldn’t load.

I have finally figured it out. I’m sure that most of you already know this but for those that don’t, like me, here is what you have to do to get Tomboy Notes to work with Kubuntu Hardy Heron.

1. In K Menu (lower left corner of the desktop) locate Tomboy Notes. Mine is in “Utilities” and that is most likely where yours is.
2. Right click on Tomboy Notes and chose “Edit Item”. You won’t see any change because it opens the edit window behind the menu so just move the cursor off to the side so the menu will close.
3. You should now see the KDE Menu Editor with Tomboy Notes edit area on the right side of the screen.
4. In the “Command” text block delete the “–search” and the space preceding it. You should only have the word “tomboy” left.
5. Go to “File” and click “Save” (or just click the “save” icon on the toolbar.
6. When it’s done saving the changes, close the KDE Menu Editor.
7. That’s all there is to it.
8. Go back to your K Menu and run Tomboy Note. It should now load and work fine.

That’s all for today. I’ll be back before long with more of the ramblings from a new Linux user.

Have a Great Day.

Bob Jones