Tips & Tricks


Do you know

1. that there is a Speech synthesiser in Linux Fedora core 6 ?


 To try out
  echo "hi festival" | festival --tts
  cat test.txt | festival --tts

Above command will read out the contents of the test.txt file using the speech synthesizer

2. that you can capture the current screen on your desktop using a tool
 
       - Open the Applications -> Accessories -> Take a screenshot,
       - This will popup a dialog with the captured screenshot and it will ask for a filename , give the filename and you have the          .png file there !!

3. that the linux detects your USB hard drives and digital camera automatically (it's plug n play        functionality)
 

4. how to install MP3 player in linux ?
 
     As root user, try this command
     yum install xmms

5.  that you can use virtual terminals on Linux (meaning multiple session in text mode)
 
     Press Ctrl-Alt-F1/F2/F3/F4/F5/F6
     combinations and you will have multiple sessions of user running parallely.

     To switch back to Graphical User Mode, press again Ctrl+Alt+F7

6.  you have burn CD/DVD's on Linux
 
     invoke the following utility on the terminal prompt
     $ k3b &