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    Pulse audio remove, use alsa!


    2010 - 02.24

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    Posted in Geek | 2 Comments »

    I don’t know about you but I’m a little narked at Ubuntu forcing the PulseAudio issue. It sucks; big sweaty nut sacks worth of sucks!

    I’ve seen a whole bunch of threads saying “don’t remove it, it’ll destroy your soul and rape your nasal passages” but that’s a load of tosh. I’ve removed it on Ubuntu 9.04, 9.10 and Mint Linux Gloria (8) without any issues. Actually, by removing it and going back to ALSA I now have a working sound in Skype, Urban Terror and WormUx where as I never did before.

    Here’s what you do:

    Fire up Synaptic
    Quick Search for Pulse
    Remove PulseAudio, it’ll remove a ton of dependencies
    Quick Search for Alsa
    Install gnome-alsamixer and alsa-oss

    Click apply. Reboot your PC and it should still start up with sound. Skype will need to be reconfigured to use ALSA but the games will automatically have audio again.

    Remove/Delete Gnome shortcuts from Places menu


    2010 - 01.17

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    I’ve noticed this one boggling a few people and a few are frustrated that you can’t just right click and delete from the Gnome Panels Places menu.

    To remove the shortcuts which are actually stored as bookmarks within Nautilus (the Gnome file manager), click Places, then click Home Folder. From the dropdown list, click Bookmarks and then click Edit.

    Changes you make here directly affect the Places dropdown.