3. Configuring Xorg:

You need to inform Xorg about your touchpad device, there is basically 3 steps:

1. Load the synaptics module
2. Create and fill the device section for your synaptics touchpad
3. Add the newly created Input device to your server layout

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5. How to use the advanced feature of your Touchpad:

Here is a sketch of a basic touchpad (touchpad + left and right mouse button)

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2. Synaptics installation:

On Ubuntu Dapper and Edgy and Debian Testing and Unstable, you need to install the package xserver-xorg-input-synaptics:

$sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

Ubuntu Breezy and Debian Stable require xfree86-driver-synaptics:

$sudo apt-get install xfree86-driver-synaptics

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A new release of subtitleeditor, a GTK+2 subtitle editor for linux, is out. Bug fixes from alpha versions, new features…

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Quite often, when using program such as smb4k, I encountered the following error:

smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts

This happens because some linux distribution does not configure smbfs properly such as a normal user can mount samba files.

This how-to will show how to simply resolve this issue.

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Subversion is an application used for version control, it is meant to become a replacement of CVS Concurrent Versions System. Subversion is also known as svn.

This how-to will show how to setup svn repositories accessible throught http by using apache2 and the DAV module.

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Apt is the debian tool to install, remove and search packages. It is a front-end to the dpkg package manager and offer easy searching, installing …, by using apt-get and apt-cache.
This Howto will give you the basic commands you need to know for installing, removing, searching package and so on.

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In a previous article I introduced subtitleeditor and explained how-to create a new subtitle from scratch. This article is going to explain how you can synchronise subtitles with subtitle editor. From changing the framerate to moving subtitles or scaling, here we go.

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In a previous article, I introduced gsubedit, a GNOME Subtitle Editor for linux using GTK. It was the best subtitles editor I’d ever found for linux.

Recently, I found a new project, that even it is quite young, has a lot to offer. Namely subtitleeditor. It supports any kind of subtitles format, allows you to move, change framerate and much more.

Here is an introduction to subtitleeditor.
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