After months of false announcements on my behalf, I finally finished up writing my XMonad configuration tutorial. Since not everyone uses XMonad, let alone has ever heard of it, Here’s a brief introduction: XMonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager, written and configured in Haskell. Tiling window managers arrange windows in nonoverlapping tiled patterns [...]
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 maintainer in Arch Linux has patched Gnome to the way it was before version 2.26, at least the audio part. It is however very [...]
This article is the follow up of Comprehensive MPlayer Guide I: Introduction. To acquire a good MPlayer setup, you really don’t want to install the version packaged by your favorite distribution. The mainstream linux distributions like Ubuntu use “the latest” but very dated release of MPlayer. Their latest release, v1.0rc2, dates from 7 October 2007. [...]
This article is meant as a comprehensive guide to acquire a complete multimedia experience, in particular everything that is video related: from installation and playback to encoding, desktop integration and much more . I will try to give an in-dept but understandable explanation of the how and perhaps more importantly, the why. I will not [...]
I already mentioned that mpd & ncmpc++ is a great music player. I imagine a console music player can be a little discouraging and realized the other day that major desktop environments like Gnome don’t have built-in support for music playback control through mpd. If you assign a key to play/pause and next/previous song in the [...]