Tag: sudo

How to Create a custom keyboard shortcut in Ubuntu

March 02, 2008 by Jason

xbindkeys is a program that allows you to launch shell commands with your keyboard or your mouse under X Window. It links commands to keys or mouse buttons, using a configuration file. It’s independent of the window manager and can capture all keyboard keys (ex: Power, Wake…).

xbindkeys-config-An easy to use gtk program for configuring Xbindkeys.GTK Configure program for xbindkeys.

If you want to create custom keyboard shortcut it is very easy to create

First you need to install xbindkeys using the following Read More»

Howto Convert PDF files to HTML files

February 24, 2008 by Jason

Translates pdf documents into html format.Translates pdf files into HTML or XML formats, combined with png images. Supports encrypted pdf files.There is a program called pdftohtml to convert pdf to html file.In ubuntu gutsy this package in bundled with poppler-utils so we need to install this package.

Install poppler-utils in Ubuntu

sudo aptitude install poppler-utils

This will complete the installation

Using pdftohtml

pdftohtml Syntax Read More»

Fix for mplayer in Firefox under Ubuntu is not working

August 26, 2007 by Jason

Online videos (mpeg and some wmv files) were not playing in Firefox under Ubuntu Edgy in my desktop.The problem could be mplayer for Firefox installed and totem for Firefox plugin also installed .First You need to uninstalled the totem plugin from the terminal using the following command sudo apt-get remove totem-mozilla

Now you need to reinstalled mplayer plugin for Mozilla and now your mplayer should work in firefox.

If you don’t want to uninstall totem plugin, you can try this in a terminal Read More»