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For IRC try Xchat
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Mer already comes with advanced backlight but you may also want to install tablet-battery-monitor

Revision as of 13:54, 2 May 2009

Here are some ideas to help you get some useful things running on Mer. They can all be installed via apt-get install

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Sound

Sound currently (0.12) only works with alsa, not pulseaudio so:

 apt-get install alsa-base

gnome-alsamixer works as a volume control

For music playback try xfmedia with xine-backend it uses the least cpu and supports playlists.

Video

dragonplayer, plays videos.


Internet

Of course, midori is already present but you may want to try arora, another browser.

For IRC try Xchat

Tablet Hardware

Mer already comes with advanced backlight but you may also want to install tablet-battery-monitor