Bugs and Annoying Things on Solaris 11 Express

1. Delete button produce "~" character in gnome-terminal
Problem: Delete button always produce tilde(~) character on terminal. we cannot delete character in front of current cursor
Solution: https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=3090

2. System error bell set to true by default
Problem: Motherboard speaker always ringing loudly when we did something wrong. such as unavailable command in terminal, press right arrow button on the end of line in editor, etc.
Solution: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-linux-disable-or-turn-off-beep-sound-for-terminal/

3. "gksu" needs root password instead of current user password. While "sudo" only needs current user password.
Problem: Since solaris 11 will clone what ubuntu did --using "sudo" prefix instead of root shell directly in all administrative commands--. I think "gksu" command will only need current user password. In fact, it need root password instead.
Solution: you have to set root password.
$ su - root
# passwd root

4. Solaris grub will always force to installed on our system.
Problem: solaris grub always force to installed while in installing processes without provide any choices whether want to install or not. solaris grub only succeed to probe windows while it failed to recognize linux partition.
Solution: We have to reinstall our linux loader (grub) again.

5. Vim color not works by default.
Problem: "syntax on" only produce bold font in vim.
Solution: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Getting_colors_to_work_on_solaris
+ http://martinusadyh.web.id/2009/03/28/setting-vim-color-di-opensolaris-200811/ 


6. Plain bash color in gnome-terminal.
Problem: ls command will display various file types in same color (white by default). in ubuntu, bash distinguish different file types by different color. It help a lot in differentiate files.
Solution: add ubuntu .bashrc to solaris .bashrc :D


7. Failed to recognized other filesystems.
Problem: NTFS failed to recognized automatically. it need another tools to mount in read-only mode. Ext4 is no hope. solaris not support ext4 fs so far. linux user will have big problems with this
Solution: for NTFS and ext3 -> http://w3hol.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/mount-ext3-fat-ntfs-dari-opensolaris/

8. Gnome brightness not works. 
Problem : seems it always set brightness to 100%. Set brightness slider simply not works in gnome power preferences.
Solution : -

9. Repository is very limited.
It's contains only few software. Ubuntu user will complain with this :). While in ubuntu a bunch of software is ready in use.


10. No propietary codec available. mp3, wmv, rmvb, etc

Here is my .bashrc, .vimrc. I'm also make little tweak to nimbus theme to make it looks compact. Here is my Nimbus Compact gtkrc and my font setting

Solaris seem design not for end user such as ubuntu does. It simply design to System or Network Administrator.