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Pulseaudio (PCM) Gnome 3 issues

Solution for no sound # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1206764 /root/.pulse/client.conf autospawn = yes # OK, I guess we can consider that a regression in autostart behavior, I’ll re-add # Add /usr/bin/pulseaudio –start “$@” # to /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 script You can start (or restart with pkill pulseaudio) /usr/bin/amd64/pulseaudio –start –log-target=syslog Note: All settings are in /etc/pulse/default.pa Helpful links PulseAudio Examples

How to add a new launcher/shortcut in Gnome 3.x

Adding a launcher shortcut in Gnome 3.x Example of a shortcut is below, place this in one of two places. /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/vlc.desktop [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=MPlayer Name[en_US]=MPlayer GenericName=Media player Comment=Read, broadcast your multimedia streams Terminal=false Icon[en_US]=/opt/SMM/mplayer/share/icons/hicolor/32×32/apps/mplayer.png Exec=/opt/SMM/mplayer/bin/gmplayer TryExec=/opt/SMM/mplayer/bin/gmplayer-org Terminal=false Type=Application Icon=/opt/SMM/mplayer/share/icons/hicolor/32×32/apps/mplayer.png Categories=AudioVideo;Player;Recorder; Keywords=Player;Capture;DVD;Audio;Video;Server;Broadcast; An example of a NetBeans shortcut /usr/share/applications/netbeans.desktop netbeans.desktop [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application …

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Using Solaris10 CDE with a remote X11 and ssh

The tip below is for accessing CDE or Gnome from a remote server, the solution uses SSH protocol as the connection layer for security reasons. If you are using cygwin on Windows to access CDE or Gnome, First you connect with the below commend from one window, this will activate the ssh forwarding. ssh username@remote_host …

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