PulseAudio is together with the new sound applet itself, the most remarkable new feature in the recent GNOME 2.26 release. PulseAudio is a (cross-platform) networked sound server and [...]
As a follow up on my article about PulseAudio in Gnome 2.26, I’ll briefly explain how you can install PulseAudio integrated with Gnome in Arch Linux. As mentioned before, the Gnome [...]
A lot of distributions ship a binary of mplayer that is one, old, and two, doesn’t have the capability to see the menu of a dvd. The reason they ship an old binary of mplayer is because [...]
This article is the follow up of Comprehensive MPlayer Guide I: Introduction. Introduction To acquire a good MPlayer setup, I recommend not to install the version packaged by [...]
People looking for an easy way to encode their movie collection to a smaller file for storage on their computer, will find HandBrake the perfect program. It comes with a GUI that [...]
To tile or not to tile, that’s the question. GNOME has always fulfilled my needs of a desktop environment. Nothing has ever been able to lure me away from GNOME. Its screensaver, [...]
I am in the possession of a Logitech MX Revolution, which doesn’t seem to generate a button2 event (your typical middle click button). This button is frequently used to paste text from [...]
This question seems to pop up everywhere now that a lot of linux distributions are incorporating xorg-server 1.6.x. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace used to restart your X server in previous versions and [...]