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==Intro==
[http://www.andlinux.org/ andLinux] is a bundle of several pieces enabling a linux distribution to run with its kernel as a Windows service.
* [http://www.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu]
* [http://www.colinux.org/ coLinux], a port of the Linux kernel to Windows
* [http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ Xming], a X server for Windows
* [http://www.pulseaudio.org/ PulseAudio], the sound server
==Tips==
===Adding a shared drive===
Add sth like this to andLinux\settings.txt
 cofs1=D:\
And in the /etc/fstab of the Ubuntu:
 1 /mnt/d cofs defaults 0 0
===Running kgpg===
The problem is that once kgpg is iconified, I've no idea where this icon goes and I cannot maximize the window anymore (it's also true for e.g. klipper)
<br>The trick is to use a dcop command to raise the window, you can play with kdcop to experiment
<br>So I added to andLinux\Launcher\menu.txt the following:
 Kgpg;kgpg.ico;pgrep kgpg > /dev/null || kgpg;dcop kgpg KeyInterface showKeyManager
The icon was converted from /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/kgpg.png with The Gimp
===Windows Explorer integration===
In the Windows Explorer there is now on right-click on a file a possibility to open it with Kate.
<br>And right-click on a folder allows it to be opened in Konqueror or Konsole.
<br>To do that it is creating the path file:///mnt/win/... so be sure that /mnt/win points to your data partition.

If you want or need to hack into that part, have a look here:
* [http://www.andlinux.org/faq.php last point of the FAQ: Changing the Launcher Port]
* [http://andlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=939#939 a patched launcher.pl] to get it working with andCmd.exe too, as with [http://www.andlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55  this example]

And here is a patch by Thierry Walrant to allow more than one share and to fix the andCmd.exe bug as well, you can [{{#file:launcher.patch}} get the patch here]
<source lang=diff>
--- launcher.pl	2008-07-03 05:26:40.000000000 -0400
+++ launcher.pl	2008-07-03 05:52:45.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,27 +1,44 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl
 
 use IO::Socket;
+use strict;
 
+# Default settings.
+our $localPort = 81;
+our %pathPrefixes = (
+    '/mnt/win/'	=> "C:\\"
+    );
 
-$windowsPathPrefix = "C:\\";
-$linuxPathPrefix = "/mnt/win/";
+# Load config, if any.
+my $conf = '/etc/launcher-conf.pl';
+require $conf if -f $conf;
 
 
-$sock = new IO::Socket::INET(LocalPort => 81, Reuse => 1, Listen => 20) or die("Error creating local socket: $@\n");
+my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET(LocalPort => $localPort, Reuse => 1, Listen => 20) or die("Error creating local socket: $@\n");
 
-while($client = $sock->accept())
+while(my $client = $sock->accept())
 {
-	$request = <$client>;
+	my $request = <$client>;
 	chomp $request;
 	if($request =~ m/^cmd=(.+)&file=(.*)$/)
 	{
-		$cmd = $1;
-		$file = $2;
+		my $cmd = $1;
+		my $file = $2;
 
-		$escapedWindowsPathPrefix = $windowsPathPrefix;
-		$escapedWindowsPathPrefix =~ s/\\/\\\\/g;
-		$file =~ s/$escapedWindowsPathPrefix/$linuxPathPrefix/g;
+		# Apply all mappings
+		foreach my $linuxPathPrefix ( keys %pathPrefixes ) {
+		    my $windowsPathPrefix = $pathPrefixes{$linuxPathPrefix};
+		    $windowsPathPrefix =~ s/\\/\\\\/g;
+		    $file =~ s/$windowsPathPrefix/$linuxPathPrefix/g;
+
+		    # Apply mapping to 'cmd' as well (circumvent issue with
+		    # andCmd.exe which passes all arguments in 'cmd').
+		    $cmd =~ s/$windowsPathPrefix/$linuxPathPrefix/g;
+		}
+
+		# Finalize with back-slashes replacement.
 		$file =~ s/\\/\//g;
+		$cmd =~ s/\\/\//g;
 
 		system("$cmd $file &");
</source>
To use it you can use the hardcoded mapping as before or you can define your mappings in a config file /etc/launcher-conf.pl such as:
<source lang=perl>
# Configuration file for the launcher: /usr/local/sbin/launcher.pl

%pathPrefixes = (
	'/mnt/winC/'	=> 'C:\\',
	'/mnt/winD/'	=> 'D:\\',
	'/mnt/winZ/'	=> 'Z:\\'
    );

# A Perl library MUST return 1
1;
</source>

Please note this configuration assumes that the mount points /mnt/winC, /mnt/winD and /mnt/winZ are mounted on the root of the windows drives C:, D: and Z:. This allows you to launch KDE applications on any of your windows files and folders.

===Starting Xming our own way===
By default Xming is started at boot time (cf folder Startup)
<br>If you don't want that and start Xming only when you need it, here is a replacement of andLinux/srvstart.bat
<source lang=dos>
@echo off
setlocal ENABLEEXTENSIONS

rem Do we need to start xming?
set TASKNAME=xming.exe
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq %TASKNAME%"  2> \nul | find /i "%TASKNAME%" > \nul

IF ERRORLEVEL 1 CALL :STARTXMING

net start andLinux
goto :EOF

:STARTXMING

echo Starting XMing...
start /D"C:\Program Files\andLinux" C:\Progra~1\andLinux\Xming\Xming.exe :0 -dpi 85 -ac -clipboard -notrayicon -c -multiwindow -reset -terminate -unixkill -logfile Xming.log

goto :EOF
</source>
===Port forwarding===
To forward a port of the host to andLinux so it can run servers available to everybody: (instructions extracted from [http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/Network#Forwarding_Ports_over_Slirp here])
<br>Edit your settings.txt and append some port forwarding infos to eth0:
 #eth0=slirp,<MAC>,tcp:<from Hosting OS port>:<to coLinux OS port>/...
 eth0=slirp,,tcp:22:22/tcp:80:80