by Aidan Budd

Notes on using VMs during the course

Ubuntu VM

List of shortcuts

On my (Aidan’s) MacBook Pro, I get the list of shortcuts for the Ubuntu VM using leftclick-leftcommand

Moving desktop windows from fullscreen

If you maximise a window on the desktop, just click on the top bar of the window, and drag down, to stop it filling the screen.

Copy and paste

Highlight the text you want to with your pointer, then right-click and choose copy. To paste, left-click to place the cursor, then right-click and choose paste. We did find yet a key shortcut to do this.

Note - it’s not possible to copy and paste text between the VM and the rest of your laptop!

Opening a new window of an application (Firefox, Terminal, etc.)

Right-click on the icon for the application in the left icon bar, and then choose “Open a new window”.

Running Jalview

Navigate using the “Files” file browser (icon bar, second from top left) to the “Downloads” directory.

Double-click on the “jalview.jnlp” icon

Simple text editor

Search (icon bar, top left) for ‘gedit’ and click the gedit/text editor icon.

OR

Use the Terminal to type

 $ gedit &

NoMachine graphics

To edit how the NoMachine remote desktop shows the desktop from my Ubuntu VM, I go to the top right corner of the remote destop, the top of the page peels back, I can click on there, and specify e.g. “Full screen” and lots of other options.

Updating training repo

Open a terminal, and move to the git repo directory (on the Desktop) - probably:

$ cd Desktop
$ cd course_EMBO_at_TGAC_PPI_Sep2015

Pull any changes

$ git pull

Viewing the course content locally

We use Jekyll to generate the course pages.

Open a terminal, and change to the directory ~/Desktop/course_EMBO_at_TGAC_PPI_Sep2015/:

cd ~/Desktop/course_EMBO_at_TGAC_PPI_Sep2015/
jekyll serve --port 8080

Now you can open the course content in your browser at: http://127.0.0.1:8080/course_EMBO_at_TGAC_PPI_Sep2015/