ACPI Events
If you wish to change the behavior upon pushing e.g. the power button, you can edit the config files located in /etc/acpi/events/. To disable the power button, you would edit the file powerbtn there and change the action line to:
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Compiling Kismet
You need the following libraries to successfully compile Kismet: Install from PPA You can also install the latest version using aptitude from Festor’s HackTools PPA.
Install missing i386-libraries on 64bit systems
If you are on a 64bit system, you might sometimes stumple upon 32bit programs which need several libraries of which are no lib32-packages. A good example is the Amazon MP3 Downloader. You can now either search the missing libraries at packages.ubuntu.com or use a tool which does this for you: getlibs. You run it with… Read More: Install missing i386-libraries on 64bit systems »
Flashplugin not recognizing mouse clicks
If your flashplugin only recognizes the very first mouse click and then seems to ignore the mouse completely, just click somewhere outside the area where the flash script is (e.g. on the webpage background) and then flash will recognize the next click. Some more promising solutions are these: Flash Preferences unusable If your clicks onto… Read More: Flashplugin not recognizing mouse clicks »
ALSA → PulseAudio for Flash and others
One huge problem in a standard Ubuntu install is that not all programs are actually using the PulseAudio daemon but instead still use ALSA. This is especially true with the flashplugin. Since PulseAudio and ALSA can’t use the hardware device at the same time, they block each other which leads to hangs and maybe even… Read More: ALSA → PulseAudio for Flash and others »
WinE Tricks
Java crashes with EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc00000005) The AirVideo Server for iPhone runs only under Mac and Windows and needs Bonjour and JRE. Java always crashed with After some poking around, I found a thread at nabble.com. Disabling the d3d9.dll was the solution: That was it. Now, Java should run smoothly.
ALSA Sound Card Order
The default soundcard to be used with ALSA is that with the index 0 in /proc/asound/cards. Usually this is the first found sound device. If you want to change this order, you have to find out the name of the kernel module used for that card and then add the desired index to it in… Read More: ALSA Sound Card Order »
Wallpaper Changer
Desktop Drapes Has some problems under Karmic Koala (e.g. the thumbnails are not shown, crashes if you delete a selected image). The list of enabled images is kept in ~/.gnome2/drapes.xml. Wally Seems to not work in Karmic. Wallpaper Tray It is a panel applet which shows a small thumbnail of the current active image. It… Read More: Wallpaper Changer »
PC Speaker in Linux
Enable in Ubuntu If you want some scripts to emit beeps, e.g. because you don’t always have your headphones on, you first have to enable the pcspkr module. This is per default disabled in Ubuntu. To enable it again, do the following: After that, you can play around with the beep program.
Rip YouTube videos/audio
The tools you need are described on blog.joff3.com. There’s also the nice youtube-dl package. One thing I noticed: the ffmpeg command there re-encodes the audio which might loose some quality. To just dump the audio off the Flash video, use: This is for 240px videos. All larger ones use AAC format. Use this: If you… Read More: Rip YouTube videos/audio »