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diff --git a/desktop-docs/gnome-intro/c0205.html b/desktop-docs/gnome-intro/c0205.html deleted file mode 100644 index 404acf26..00000000 --- a/desktop-docs/gnome-intro/c0205.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,366 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> -<HTML -><HEAD -><TITLE ->Multimedia applications</TITLE -><META -NAME="CREATOR" -CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet version 1.05"><META -NAME="form" -CONTENT="html"></HEAD -><BODY -><TABLE -WIDTH="515" -BORDER="0" -CELLPADDING="0" -CELLSPACING="0" -><TR -><TH -COLSPAN="3" -ALIGN="center" ->Introduction to GNOME</TH -></TR -><TR -><TD -WIDTH="10%" -ALIGN="left" -VALIGN="bottom" -><A -HREF="c0204.html" ->Prev</A -></TD -><TD -WIDTH="80%" -ALIGN="center" -VALIGN="bottom" ->Chapter 2. A tour of some GNOME applications</TD -><TD -WIDTH="10%" -ALIGN="right" -VALIGN="bottom" -><A -HREF="c0206.html" ->Next</A -></TD -></TR -></TABLE -><HR -ALIGN="LEFT" -WIDTH="515"><H1 -><A -NAME="I(GNOME-INTRO)C(2,CHAPTER)(5,SECT1)" ->Multimedia applications</A -></H1 -><H2 -><A -NAME="I(GNOME-INTRO)C(2,CHAPTER)(5,SECT1)(1,SECT2)" ->Electric Eyes (ee)</A -></H2 -><P ->Electric Eyes is a very - sophisticated and feature-rich viewer for graphical images. - Electric Eyes can be invoked from the panel or by typing - <P -CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT" -><TT -CLASS="PROMPT" ->$ </TT -><TT -CLASS="USERINPUT" -><B ->ee filename &</B -></TT -></P -> - </P -><P -> Electric Eyes has its own manual with several screenshots, - available in the GNOME help system, so I will not attempt to - describe its myriad features here. I will only mention that - to "get going" you probably do not want to invoke - <B -CLASS="COMMAND" ->ee</B -> with no options, but rather you want - to invoke it directly on an image file or on several files, - or even a directory with several images.</P -><P -> Once Electric Eyes is running you can bring up all the menu - options by clicking the right mouse button, as shown in - <A -HREF="c0205.html#EE-MENU" ->Figure 2-13</A ->. The most interesting options are - probably those available Edit - submenu. - </P -><DIV -CLASS="FIGURE" -><P -><B -><A -NAME="EE-MENU" ->Figure 2-13. Electric Eyes: right mouse button menu</A -></B -></P -><P -><IMG -SRC="pix/ee-menu.gif"></P -></DIV -><H2 -><A -NAME="I(GNOME-INTRO)C(2,CHAPTER)(5,SECT1)(2,SECT2)" ->GNOME mixer (gmix)</A -></H2 -><P -> GNOME also has some sound programs; one of them is a mixer - application. A mixer allows you to control how your - computer's sound card handles sound from various inputs: - using sliders you can block out some sound inputs while - raising the gain on others, just like the mixer console in - a live music PA system.</P -><P -> You can invoke the GNOME mixer from the panel or by typing - <P -CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT" -><TT -CLASS="PROMPT" ->$ </TT -><TT -CLASS="USERINPUT" -><B ->gmix &</B -></TT -></P -> - </P -><P -> In <A -HREF="c0205.html#GMIX" ->Figure 2-14</A -> you can see a screenshot of - <B -CLASS="COMMAND" ->gmix</B -> running on my laptop which runs - GNU/Linux with GNOME and has a Sound Blaster card. You will - notice that some channels are stereo while others are mono. - For each stereo channel there is a - Lock button which ensures that the - right and left channel will have the same gain. You will - also notice that there are mute - buttons to completely ignore a certain channel. - </P -><DIV -CLASS="FIGURE" -><P -><B -><A -NAME="GMIX" ->Figure 2-14. GNOME mixer: basic screenshot</A -></B -></P -><P -><IMG -SRC="pix/gmix.gif"></P -></DIV -><BLOCKQUOTE -CLASS="NOTE" -><P -><B ->NOTE: </B -> If you have trouble running <B -CLASS="COMMAND" ->gmix</B -> you - might want to make sure that sound is properly configured - for you. With older versions of Linux you might have to - re-configure and build the kernel with support for your - sound card. With recent distributions (such as Red Hat - 5.x) you can run <B -CLASS="COMMAND" ->sndconfig</B -> to select - and enable your sound card at runtime. - </P -></BLOCKQUOTE -><H2 -><A -NAME="I(GNOME-INTRO)C(2,CHAPTER)(5,SECT1)(3,SECT2)" ->GNOME CD player (gtcd)</A -></H2 -><P ->Another GNOME sound application is a nice CD player - which allows you to play compact discs if your computer has - a CDROM drive. You can invoke <B -CLASS="COMMAND" ->gtcd</B -> from - the panel or by typing - <P -CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT" -><TT -CLASS="PROMPT" ->$ </TT -><TT -CLASS="USERINPUT" -><B ->gtcd &</B -></TT -></P -> - </P -><P -> Here are some screen shots which show you how you can use - <B -CLASS="COMMAND" ->gtcd</B -> and what it can do. The first one - (<A -HREF="c0205.html#GTCD" ->Figure 2-15</A ->) shows me blasting the Pixies - <A -NAME="I(GNOME-INTRO)C(2,CHAPTER)(5,SECT1)(3,SECT2)(2,PARA)(1,FOOTNOTE)" -HREF="#FTN.I(GNOME-INTRO)C(2,CHAPTER)(5,SECT1)(3,SECT2)(2,PARA)(1,FOOTNOTE)" ->[1]</A -> song <I -CLASS="CITETITLE" ->Here Comes Your Man</I -> - in my headphones as I write these words. - <DIV -CLASS="FIGURE" -><P -><B -><A -NAME="GTCD" ->Figure 2-15. GNOME CD player: basic screenshot</A -></B -></P -><P -><IMG -SRC="pix/gtcd.gif"></P -></DIV -> - </P -><BLOCKQUOTE -DIV="FOOTNOTES" -><P -><A -NAME="FTN.I(GNOME-INTRO)C(2,CHAPTER)(5,SECT1)(3,SECT2)(2,PARA)(1,FOOTNOTE)" -HREF="c0205.html#I(GNOME-INTRO)C(2,CHAPTER)(5,SECT1)(3,SECT2)(2,PARA)(1,FOOTNOTE)" ->[1] </A ->The Pixies are an excellent punk group. I seldom - listen to punk rock, but I enjoy them.</P -></BLOCKQUOTE -><P -> The GNOME CD player also allows you to dowload information - from the impressive <I -CLASS="FIRSTTERM" ->network Compact Disk - DataBase</I -> (CDDB); in <A -HREF="c0205.html#GTCD-CDDB" ->Figure 2-16</A -> you can see how to tell - <B -CLASS="COMMAND" ->gtcd</B -> to connect to the database server at - <TT -CLASS="LITERAL" ->www.cddb.com</TT ->. - </P -><DIV -CLASS="FIGURE" -><P -><B -><A -NAME="GTCD-CDDB" ->Figure 2-16. GNOME CD player: using the CD database</A -></B -></P -><P -><IMG -SRC="pix/gtcd-cddb.gif"></P -></DIV -><P -> Once you have downloaded the information from CDDB you can - then select songs or movements from the CD by name, using - the Goto button, as shown in <A -HREF="c0205.html#GTCD-TRACK-LIST" ->Figure 2-17</A ->.</P -><DIV -CLASS="FIGURE" -><P -><B -><A -NAME="GTCD-TRACK-LIST" ->Figure 2-17. GNOME CD player: selecting a track from the - list</A -></B -></P -><P -><IMG -SRC="pix/gtcd-track-list.gif"></P -></DIV -><HR -ALIGN="LEFT" -WIDTH="515"><TABLE -WIDTH="515" -BORDER="0" -CELLPADDING="0" -CELLSPACING="0" -><TR -><TD -WIDTH="33%" -ALIGN="left" -VALIGN="top" -><A -HREF="c0204.html" ->Prev</A -></TD -><TD -WIDTH="34%" -ALIGN="center" -VALIGN="top" -><A -HREF="book01.html" ->Home</A -></TD -><TD -WIDTH="33%" -ALIGN="right" -VALIGN="top" -><A -HREF="c0206.html" ->Next</A -></TD -></TR -><TR -><TD -WIDTH="33%" -ALIGN="left" -VALIGN="top" ->General purpose applications</TD -><TD -WIDTH="34%" -ALIGN="center" -VALIGN="top" -><A -HREF="c02.html" ->Up</A -></TD -><TD -WIDTH="33%" -ALIGN="right" -VALIGN="top" ->System and configuration programs</TD -></TR -></TABLE -></BODY -></HTML ->
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