How to redirect sound output to a file with gstreamer

On 16 August 2010, in applications, music, by ayoli

simple as : gst-launch-0.10 pulsesrc device=alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor ! audioconvert ! lame bitrate=256 mode=stereo ! filesink location=input.mp3 The device name (alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo for me) may vary. You can use the command : pactl list to list all pulseaudio connections, grab the name for “Destination #0”. Note that you need to add a .monitor extension when you call it [...]

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My january 2010 desktop #1

On 10 January 2010, in applications, computing, config, by ayoli

Ok, new year, new decade and a new desktop. New ? not exactly. It takes most of my prebious desktop features and ressources with some changes and evolutions. I’m trying to give you most of the details and ressources (orignals and my mods) bellow, in case you need to ask for something that missing, feel [...]

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My 2009 november desktop

On 4 November 2009, in applications, computing, config, by ayoli

Here is my november setup on my Asus eee 1101HA, running ubuntu jaunty (9.04) with gnome. I have to try a lighter environment because gnome eats too much memory, unfortunately no time at the moment. You’ll find below most of the used ressources in this setup.

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Install gospsy gnome applet

On 9 April 2009, in applications, computing, config, by ayoli

Gospy-applet is a Gnome applet that monitors changes on servers and web pages. You can add an illimited number of sources to monitor. It is possible to detect changes in HTTP header fields, IP associated with domain name, page content, page status, page load time and so on. source http://gospy-applet.labs.libre-entreprise.org/

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Install gnome globalmenu 0.7 series

On 8 January 2009, in applications, computing, config, by ayoli

Here’s a new howto explaining the steps to compile, install and enable the gnome-globalmenu-0.7 series from trunk on your desktop. This has been tested on Ubuntu intrepid ibex but it should work on hardy too. It should also work with other distributions, except for the first step (dependencies install). Globalmenu works with “real” gtk applications. [...]

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How to install globalmenu 0.6 on ubuntu intrepid

On 10 November 2008, in applications, config, by ayoli

Here’s a new howto explaining the steps to compile, install and enable the gnome-globalmenu-0.6 on your desktop. This has been tested on Ubuntu intrepid ibex but it should work on hardy too. It should also work with other distributions, except for the first step. Globalmenu works with “real” gtk applications. That means globalmenu will not [...]

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Global menu the new gnome macmenu

On 12 March 2008, in applications, computing, by ayoli

The popular hack to gtk and applet that imitates the Mac menu isnt’t maintained by its original creator AdQ. Fortunately, rainwoodman started a new project based on adq patch and applet (now, totally rewritten from scratch) : globalmenu. Now, the menus are detached to the panel applet only if this one is running, the menu [...]

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FireFTP stand alone

On 13 December 2007, in applications, config, by ayoli

Create a new launcher on your panel or in the menu (using menu editor : right click on the menu and then, choose “edit menus”). Insert and/or select the following in the launcher properties window: Type: Application Name: FireFTP Command: firefox -chrome chrome://fireftp/content/ Comment: FireFTP Client optional : you may want to choose an icon [...]

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MacMenu Bar hack for Gnome 2.20 – GTK+ 2.12

On 31 October 2007, in computing, by ayoli

Fortunately, some solutions came out from the ubuntuforums.org thread mentioned in the previous post. Here are the patch and the applet that I have grabbed from avb’s post in page 99 of this thread, the no underline patch has been made with an idea from page 52 of the macmenu ubuntuforums.org thread (post at the [...]

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gnome icon browser

On 3 October 2007, in applications, computing, by ayoli

Here’s a common problem : When you use gnome icon browser and don’t find the icon you want in the default pixmaps that the browser shows, you try to use the “browse” button and then you browse directories searching the icon you want. But even if you are sure there is icons in the directory [...]

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