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Happy New Year!

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I wish all of you, your family and friends a happy new year. Hopefully all your wishes and plans will work out!

For me, 2013 will be a very interesting year. I’ve got some nice projects in the pipeline, where most of them are private, unfortunately. However they also include continuing the Game Development Design series and, of course, FlexWorld.

A personal target is to get FlexWorld to a playable state this year. I’m not sure how far we’ll be able to get, due to my occupational situation, but me and Lukas talked about it some days ago (during Christmas vacation) and tried to set the next milestones.

Stay tuned for updates and enjoy 2013!

Screen-casting in Linux using ffmpeg

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This is mainly an updated post of a previous one. The reason why I’m writing another one on that topic is that the old method has stopped working for me.

I’ll just paste my screen-cast recording script here for you guys to use. I guess it’s self-explanatory.

This script will start ffmpeg and record your screen 0. The output file name starts with screencast_ and is followed by the current date and time. Depending on what you record you may also want to increase (or even decrease) the frame rate. MPEG4 is being used as the codec, which should be a good fit in most cases (compresses very well and has a high quality, also perfectly suited for YouTube).

Fix touchpad tapping with Elantech devices and others

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I got a new Asus EeePC netbook that has an Elantech touchpad device installed. It works out of the box with my Debian GNU/Linux installation, however the tapping is not working.

To make it work again you probably have to rebind the TapButtonX settings that are set to 0.

Add it to your session start-up file for persistence. Also check out gpointing-device-settings for various touchpad options.