Pythoneer

The article How to mount a remote ssh filesystem using sshfs very well describes what I have to do to have my disk mount on my Mac disk on my Ubuntu system.

After I got that working I only need to add the following two commands to “System > Properties > Sessions > Start programs”:

# Run synergy-client on ubuntu, so I can use only mouse
# and keyboard of the Powerbook after startup.
synergyc -n ubuntubox 192.168.0.100 

# Mount my user's Powerbook directory to the directory
# /media/macbox on the ubuntu maschine.
sshfs macbox:/Users/cain /media/macbox

(”ubuntubox” is the name for the ubuntu maschine and “macbox” is the name for my Powerbook, and 192.168.0.100 is the fixed address of my Powerbook).
Now I can just turn on my Ubuntu maschine and it comes up, starts everything and is just ready to go, of course I also turned on the auto-login, since there is nothing intersting on there anyway and it’s just the most convinient … cool

Thanks to this blog article I found Katapult, which is basically the same as QuickSilver for Mac OS X, without which I couldn’t live anymore. And since I have my Ubuntu screen placed right beside my Mac’s screen and am using only one mouse and keyboard for both thanks to synergy, I was moving over to the Ubuntu screen and wanted to start an app by hitting APPLE+Space … doh … no way. So finding Katapult just really makes working with Ubuntu easier. Though it is a KDE app Ubunbtu let’s you run it and you don’t even realize that.
Ubuntu is just great.