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The following command tells the available commands for keyboard input. mplayer -input cmdlist The keyboard shortcuts to mplayer are stored in two locations - /etc/mplayer/input.conf and ~/.mplayer I prefer editing the /etc/mplayer/input.conf. Assign shortcuts to aspect aspect ratio switching as follows switch_ratio e.g. a switch_ratio 1.3333 # 4:3 s switch_ratio 0 # switches back to original aspect ratio b switch_ratio 1.7777 # 16:9 ratio put his at the end of /etc/mplayer/input.conf.

bc is a simple but powerful command line calculator in Linux. It can do many simple calculations that a handheld calculator could do. But first make sure it displays the required accuracy. scale=10 for 10 decimal places of accuracy. Read the rest here . http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2544

Recent releases of Ubuntu mounts external USB HDD in userspace and hence it does not set the executable bit on the drive. As a result if I try to run softwares or scripts installed in the external HDD I have to pmount it manually. So I wrote a small script which would - 1. verify that drive is mounted. 2. it is not empty(from a previous manual mount unmount cycle) 3. then unmount the drive and re-mount it in userspace with the executable bit set. I wanted this script to be minimal. So I did not make it complicated which accepts a drive LABEL from the user and uses it. Just replace your drives LABEL in place of "passport-2" in the second line of the script. So if your external drive is called Sandisk replace passport-2 with Sandisk. If it turns out that the script fails due the use of $LABEL, then replace all $LABEL in the entire script with your drive label manually. ================================== #!/bin/bash $LABEL=passport-2 cd /media # check if $LABEL exists if [ ! -...

The LaTeX package for Linux is the texlive package. The normal install of texlive is huge due to the documentation included can go upto 500MB itself. A leaner latex is what we all desire. It is not possible from inside Synaptic. Use this command to install latex without docs. sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends texlive texlive-pstricks texlive-fonts-extra prosper