Yeah, the name sounds cliche but man oh man is this app slick. Compared to some of the others I tried, this one _just_worked_ and had the options I needed, plus more.
sudo apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop
You can select a specific window or an arbitrary area and it compresses to ogv automatically.
Here’s a quick video I recorded in seconds — http://z.nexuizninjaz.com/videos/nst.ogv
Parasite is a program much like Firebug, except this is for GTK based applications.
By opening a program with parasite enabled, you can literally click elements of the GUI to reveal their properties.
The installation is pretty simple, open a terminal, clone the git repo, compile install and run. I like to make a folder for software I checkout from SVN or Git in my home dir so I don’t get things all messy. You need git to clone, so if you don’t have it installed already:
$ sudo apt-get install git-core
Clone it:
$ mkdir ~/git_software && cd ~/git_software && git clone git://github.com/chipx86/gtkparasite
Compile and install it:
$ ./autogen.sh && make && sudo make install
I run 64bit, so I had to do the following command to get things working:
$ sudo cp /usr/local/lib/gtk-2.0 /usr/lib64/ -r
Try it out (prefix an application name with GTK_MODULES=gtkparasite):
$ GTK_MODULES=gtkparasite geditUbuntu Jaunty 9.04 has many improvements on the prior release of Intrepid 8.10, however 2 things were removed that I didn’t agree with. They are pretty easy to change back so I wanted to share them with you all.
I guess the idea behind this change was intended to make updates more obvious… but to power-users like myself, I consider it an annoyance. Every time I’d run apt-get, a “update yo shiz” window would pop up above my terminal and anger me. I’m not the stupid windows user Ubuntu’s starting to treat me like. I just don’t have time for updates that require a restart in the middle of the day when I’m trying to get some work done.
gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false
This would classically restart X… but for some reason they removed this as well?!?! Whatever, here’s how to fix it.
sudo aptitude install dontzap && sudo dontzap –d
