Monthly Archive for January, 2008

Create .deb package of perl modules

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Rolf
on 7 January 2008
in Debian, Linux, Perl, Programming and Ubuntu
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Here is a mini-howto about how to create debian packages of perl modules, easying distributed install and removal of the module.

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Multimedia keyboard: Control XMMS by assigning special keys

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Rolf
on 6 January 2008
in Bash, Entertainment, Gnome, Keyboard, Linux, Music, Programming and Ubuntu
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This mini guide will show you howto control XMMS (or launch any other application/scripts) from key-combinations or special multimedia keys.

Keyboard shortcutsFirst, make sure you don’t have any application capturing the key-kombination. Gnome has it’s own keyboard shortcuts (System->Preferences->Keyboard shortcuts). Make sure to disable any shortcut assigned to XF86Audio* -keys. Mark the shortcut so it asks you to assign a new key, then hit backspace to disable it.

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