My favorite screencast solution for now is summarized here. I use the following command to do fullscreen (assume resolution is 1024×768) screencast ffmpeg -f alsa -ac 2 -i pulse -f x11grab -r 15 -s 1024×768 -i :0.0 -acodec flac -vcodec mpeg4 -sameq -y ~/out.mkv ; To restrict capture to a window, one can run to…
I came across broken dependency trying to install wine. This happens after I try to install Intel Linux driver. Somehow it uninstalled wine and I couldn’t reinstall it. The problem is probably due to the “newer version” of applications I installed before I upgrade the machine from 10.04. It took me many hours finding a…
It takes me quite a while for me to figure out how to clone my screen to the projector. The default setting (two separate screens) may be reasonable for power point presentation. But I would like to take advantage of the stylus during my presentation. Cloning the display is of course a better choice for…
Got my cheap used X61 but the touchscreen is way off. I tried to calibrate it with this and this post but it just doesn’t work in my case. To be fair, xinput-calibrator suggested by the posts is very useful. Just the calibrated data is not registered. After some more search, find the command xsetwacom….
Just installed another 12.04 to a X61 tablet from ebay. It is one of my favorite machine as I can write notes on that and it is cheap ($150 from ebay). And with xournal, I don’t even need to print out stuff and rescan if I need to sign some document (just use the annotate…