HOWTO Make Audacity import MP3 files in Fedora

By default, in recent Fedora versions, when you attempt to import an MP3 file in Audacity, it returns this error:

“This version of Audacity was not compiled with MP3 files support.”

To resolve this issue first remove "audacity" package:

Next – add RPMFusion repository:

And the last step – install "audacity-freeworld" package:

Done and done!

HOWTO Watch webcam video in your ASCII terminal

Just use this magic string:

This will render webcam video in color ASCII. For black and white version use -vo aa option.

Of course, mplayer package should be installed.

HOWTO Fedora 16 won’t shutdown

Seems like you need to install ACPI service:

HOWTO Disable tap-to-click in Ubuntu

Open Terminal window and type:

sudo gpointing-device-settings

Then on General tab click “Disable tapping and scrolling”

HOWTO Change/add keyboard layout in XFCE / Fedora

Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-system-setup-keyboard.conf

“XkbOptions” specifies a keyboard combination to switch keyboard layouts.
Other available options: alt_shift_toggle, shifts_toggle, ctrl_alt_toggle, lwin_toggle, rctrl_toggle etc.

From: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/xfce-how-to-change-the-keyboard-layout-322374/