Monthly Archives: March 2010

Adding a software repository from Ubuntu PPA in Ubuntu Karmic and later

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

This new method is easier than the old one which required you to edit your software sources manually, and then get the key and import it. The new one is as follows: Go to the PPA page of your interest, … Continue reading →

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Workaround for Ubuntu Karmic Bug: Window List buttons do not always respond to mouse clicks

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

Here is the bug URL I got the solution from there as well, as this was an extremely annoying bug for me and I consider it a FATAL One! Open a terminal and run the following command: “nohup env GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 … Continue reading →

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Extract audio from a video file in Ubuntu

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

“mplayer -dumpaudio GummyBearSong.avi -dumpfile gummybear.mp3” Where: “GummyBearSong.avi” is the source video, in the example above it was 30 MB “gummybear.mp3” is the output audio file (in mp3 format), was about 3 MB in size Another method that worked flawlessly with … Continue reading →

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Enforce any application to appear full screen in gnome

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

In Gnome, you can force any application to go full screen;Open System=>Preferences=>Keyboard shortcutsUnder “Window Management” assigne any key combinations such as “CTL+SHIFT+F” for “Toggle Fullscreen mode”.Open any application (firefox, eclipse, ….) and press “CTRL + SHIFT + F”, the program … Continue reading →

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pass entire parameters in shell scripts

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

example bash file: save the following in a file called print.sh#!/bin/bashecho “$@”and then :chmod +x print.sh./print.sh hello worldNote that, all the parameters you pass to print.sh will be passed to echo, this because of “$@”

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