My Technical Notes

The first step in achieving clutter free desktop area is “Hiding icons on desktop”.

Gnome provides a way to do that. First open up gconf-editor (Gnome Configuration Editor) by executing following command.

gconf-editor

Now navigate to /apps/nautilus/preferences and uncheck the tick mark on the option show desktop.

As soon as you uncheck the option show desktop icons on your desktop [...]

To extract a tar.bz2 file, use the command :

tar -jxvf filename.tar.bz2

To extract a tar.gz file, the the command :

tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz

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RMVB (Real Media Variable Bitrate).

sudo apt-get install mplayer mencoder librte librte-dev

mencoder -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr=128 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1200 video_input.rmvb -o video_output.avi
For Codec error refer HERE
mencoder-ovc divx4-Copy-oac filmname.avi filmname.rmvb

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I had one. Rmvb ready, I turned. Avi (at least I think so), if any. Rmvb, do the test using the following command and then tell me, do not forget to install mencoder

$FG.avi mencoder-ovc lavc-oac pcm-o F2g.rmvb

This command contains the path to FG.avi (Family Guy Series) on my desktop and name F2G.rmvb output. Si les [...]