How to take a picture every 5 minutes with Cheese

On our last party, I started using my old webcam to make a picture every 5 minutes to document the fun we were having. I used camorama, which has a build in feature to do exactly that. Today I wanted to do the same with the webcam on my girlfriends netbook. UNR comes with Cheese, [...]

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Semiautostart

I always had the problem that I couldn’t decide if I should use autostart to start things like kmail and kopete. On the one hand I don’t want to start 10 apps manually at 7am but on the other hand I really hate that everything autostarts in other situations like restarting KDE because of debugging [...]

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KDE notifications + MPD

To get mpd to show the currently playing song, one can easily use kdialog: which triggers a KDE notification popup for 3 seconds. Not very pretty, but it’s simple and can be triggered via xbindkeys or something similar.

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Delete the currently playing song in MPD

As with Amarok it’s not possible to delete the currently playing song in the MPD with any client I know. So again here’s my script. This time with a lot more error control ;) Also set the config variable where you want to move your trashed music files: File: .bashrc Har! TIP: Use xbindkeys if you need [...]

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Delete the currently playing song in Amarok

A little bash script takes care of deleting the current song, you just have to setup a shortcut somewhere. And set the config variable where you want to move your trashed music files: File: .bashrc bash is so powerful, it’s always a pleasure ;)

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