Re: Utilities (aka, "how do you...")

Good suggestions, thanks Alex. I'll have a play.


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On 3 October 2014 10:45, Axel Beckert <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 10:32:08AM +0200, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > *1. Screenshot.* Does anyone know a good rp-compatible screenshot program
> > that doesn't require popping up a window along the way, sort of like
> > "gnome-screenshot --area --clipboard" but without the gnome dependency?
> > (I'd also like one that drops to a file.)
>
> Definitely scrot. Its website http://linuxbrit.co.uk/scrot/ seems
> down, but you can get the source code (as well as packages) at least
> from Debian and Ubuntu.
>
> > *2. Audio. *Does anyone have a good rp-friendly way of dealing with sound
> > (volume up/down)?
>
> On linux there is alsamixer's curses interface, for OSS there is
> aumix.
>
> > I'd rather not try to get the gnome widgets working in
> > stalonetray just for this.
>
> If you still want something in the tray, have a look at qasmixer. It's
> Qt IIRC, but no dependencies on any specific desktop environment.
> http://xwmw.org/qastools/.
>
> > On my laptop, amixer works. On my desktop, it doesn't. Altogether,
> > I'd like to get what gnome has: me not having to think about audio.
>
> Then maybe volumeicon is something for you. Probably just works with
> alsa/linux, but it's as simple as it can get in the tray:
> http://softwarebakery.com/maato/volumeicon.html
>
> > *3. Storage mounting. *When I plug in an SD card from my camera or a
> > portable hard drive, I'd like it just to mount and have id mappings set
> so
> > properly. Instead, I end up doing stuff the old fashioned way (look in
> > kern.log for the device, then sudo mount, then sudo umount). I don't want
> > to run nautilus at all, let alone just for this. How do others do it?
>
> I use pmount: https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=31157
>
> Still needs the looking up of the device name, but it neither requires
> sudo nor a mount point. It just generates one. But that's what _I_
> prefer: No automounting of stuff I plug into my computer.
>
> If you prefer automounting, have a look at udevil and devmon:
> https://ignorantguru.github.io/udevil/
> https://igurublog.wordpress.com/downloads/script-devmon/
>
> All tools mentioned are available in Debian (and likely also Ubuntu
> and other derivatives) as packages since that's what I'm using. :-)
>
>                 Kind regards, Axel
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