To use features like circular scrolling of a Synaptics touchpad, you need to add the following lines to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf: You also need to add the following line into your ServerLayout section in that… Read More: Synaptics Touchpad »
wcd is a tool which catalogs all directories of your $HOME (can be configured to catalog the whole drive) and then lets you type wcd Desktop and switches over to your ~/Desktop from wherever you are. Or you can type wcd “Rammstein*” and it will show you a list of your Rammstein-albums of your ~/Music-directory… Read More: Wherever Change Directory »
Simultaneous playback The festival text-to-speech synthesizer seems to use normal ALSA playback instead of PulseAudio. This leads to it failing when there’s already something playing. E.g. if you’re listening to music with Rhythmbox, festival fails with this message: To make it use PulseAudio, we can re-route the audio through the pacat utility as proposed on… Read More: festival Text-To-Speech »
Instead of playing music through usual audio players, there is the possibility of using the mpd – a daemon which runs in the background and plays music. The great advantage is: You can choose between various interfaces and always control the same player with the same playlist(s) – even via TCP/IP from another PC or… Read More: Music Player Daemon »
I recently switched to using the zsh instead of bash. The reasons were those comfort functions of zsh, such as: So I installed the packages: zsh, zsh-doc and zsh-lovers. When starting it for the first time, you’ll encounter a configuration tool which asks several questions to make your zsh experience a good one. Bad thing… Read More: zsh »
XPlanet renders an Earth globe including actual clouds and satellites’ positions. It also has data to render the moon, mars or the sun. You can even put the image on your Desktop so that it shows the current Earth view from space instead of a boring wallpaper. To make things a bit easier, there’s this… Read More: XPlanet »
The default tool for CD ripping under Gnome is Sound Juicer, found under Applications → Sound & Video → Audio CD Extractor. But this tool had severe problems recognizing my custom configuration for LAME encoding (I changed vbr-quality from 6 to 2 but the tool ignored it) also you had to restart it for every… Read More: Rip CD Track »
permanently To remap mouse buttons permanently, you can use the xinput set-button-map command. Every mouse button click issues a button click with a specific id to X11. X11 recognizes the following buttons: ID Button 1 Left click 2 Middle click 3 Right click 4 Wheel up 5 Wheel down 6 Wheel left 7 Wheel right… Read More: Remapping mouse buttons »
After that, manpages will appear more colourful.
sudo Using sudo umount you can unmount ANYTHING but need sudo access. fusermount Using fusermount -u you can unmount all FUSE mounts. pumount Using pumount you can unmount all mounts below /media which don’t appear in /etc/fstab. Shutdown/Reboot hangs If there are mounted cifs shares, you might encounter a “CIFS VFS: no response for cmd… Read More: Unmounting »