Sound setup for Skype on Gentoo Linux
21 Aug
Posted by Nigel Ball as Applications, Connectivity, Drivers, Gentoo, Home, KDE, Telephony
I use Skype extensively for communication with clients as well as low cost international calls. But, I have to admit that every time the configuration of the sound system on my Asus V6J (Gentoo powered) it takes me several days to get the microphone working again (even though it continues to work with every other [...]
It has annoyed me for some time that when I print pages from Firefox on Gentoo my default printer settings were not recognised. However I didn’t spend any time trying to solve the “problem” because it was just an annoyance.
But recently I added a HP Color LaserJet to my office network and found that printing [...]
Yakuake – One key, all desktop access to konsole
21 Oct
Posted by Nigel Ball as Applications, Developers, Home, KDE, Productivity
This isn’t for everyone! However, users like myself and my team involved in software development and testing typically have several konsole terminal sessions open and spend much time switching between applications and terminals. On my machine this is compounded by the need to switch between desktops — you can see from the screenshot that I [...]
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