How to get a “right click, send by email” menu in Nemo file browser:

Create the file:

.local/share/nemo/actions/thunderbird.nemo_action

Just cut and paste this inside that file and you’re done 🙂

[Nemo Action]
Name=Send by Email
Comment=Send by Email the files
Exec=thunderbird -compose to=,"attachment='%U'"
Icon-Name=thunderbird
Selection=notnone
Extensions=nodirs;
Separator=,
EscapeSpaces=false

Source: http://www.badpenguin.org/nemo-action-send-to-email

As a followup of my previous article:

Ubuntu: talking clock every hours

4 years after the previous article, I still need this tool, but I wanted a more “natural” TTS.

So I’m using Voxygen, a natural TTS provider (very good for French), retrieving the generated voice with wget and the following command:

wget --quiet --no-check-certificate -O /tmp/clock_`date +\%-1H`.mp3 "https://www.voxygen.fr/sites/all/modules/voxygen_voices/assets/proxy/index.php?method=redirect&text=il est exactement `date +\%-1H` heures.&voice=Loic"

Here is the script to run every hours:

if [ ! -e /tmp/clock_`date +\%-1H`.mp3 ]; then wget --quiet --no-check-certificate -O /tmp/clock_`date +\%-1H`.mp3 "https://www.voxygen.fr/sites/all/modules/voxygen_voices/assets/proxy/index.php?method=redirect&text=il est exactement `date +\%-1H` heures.&voice=Loic"; fi ; mpg321 /tmp/clock_`date +\%-1H`.mp3 --gain 200

We will be using gnome schedule taks:

Si vous utilisez Ubuntu 12.04, en version alternate, avec les disques chiffrés via Luks, Grub et/ou l’écran de demande de passphrase peut ne pas apparaître (écran vide ou noir).

Il y a un problème de fonts à recopier :

cd /usr/share/grub/

sudo cp *.pf2 /boot/grub

Puis il faut modifier le fichier /etc/default/grub pour coller avec les paramètres suivants (en gras les paramètres à modifier) :

# If you change this file, run ‘update-grub’ afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
#   info -f grub -n ‘Simple configuration’

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash nomodeset”
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=””

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD …)
#GRUB_BADRAM=”0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef”

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo’
GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024x32,1280×1024,640×480
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1280×1024

# Uncomment if you don’t want GRUB to pass “root=UUID=xxx” parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY=”true”

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE=”480 440 1″

Puis lancer la commande :

sudo update-grub