Tuesday 23 October 2012

Installing Sigil (Ubuntu 13.04)


To install Sigil, in a terminal, type...
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sunab/sigil-git
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sigil

Monday 8 October 2012

Change ripping bitrate in K3b

Go to Settings>Configure K3b>Plug-ins>K3b external audio encoder  and edit the configured encoder line by inserting your chosen bitrate before the -h. See example.
lame -r --bitwidth 16 --little-endian -s 44.1 -b 192 -h --tt %t --ta %a --tl %m --ty %y --tc %c - %f

Wednesday 3 October 2012

Stop Totem Saving Your History

To permanently remove the recent file list from totem, edit /usr/share/totem/totem.ui as root and change the following line: (Change square brackets with angle brackets.)
[separator name="recent-separator"/]
[placeholder name="recent-placeholder"/] 
to:
[!--[separator name="recent-separator"/]
[placeholder name="recent-placeholder"/]--] 
N.B. Remove the part that you added to reactive history.