Volume 51 April, 2011 e17: Create Your Own Custom Themes e17: Running Ecomorph, Part 2: Settings e17: Tips & Tricks Video: Part 3 ­ Converting Files With MyMencoder Video: Part 4 ­ MyMencoderDVD Removing A Logo With Avidemux Using Scribus, Part 4: Layers Game Zone: Pipewalker Plus Rudge's Rain: Making Music More With PCLinuxOS Inside! WindowMaker on PCLinuxOS: Working With Icons Burning CDs Over The Internet With Or Without An ISO Alternate OS: Icaros, Part 2 Firefox Add­on: Video DownloadHelper Learning rtmpdump Through Examples TTaabbllee OOff CCoonntteennttss by Paul Arnote (parnote) 3 Welcome From The Chief Editor 4 e17: Running Ecomorph, Part 2 ­ Settings The holidays have finally come and gone, the 6 Using Scribus, Part 4: Layers packages have all been unwrapped, the Christmas tree and other holiday decorations are coming down, 7 Screenshot Showcase and a new year is upon us. Texstar and the The PCLinuxOS name, logo and colors are the trademark of 8 Video: Part 3 ­ Converting Files With MyMencoder PTCexLsitnaru. xOS Packaging Crew are busy putting the 12 ms_meme's Nook: Top Of My Desktop new tool chain to good use, working on getting the PTChLeiNnEuWxOPSCL2in0u1x0OSreMleagaaszeinneeisaaremrotnothclyoomnlpinle tion. The 13 Double Take & Mark's Quick Gimp Tip upudbalicteatsiocnocnontitnaiuneingtoPCroLlilnuoxuOtSa­rtealanteadmmatzeirniagls.pIat icse, with 14 e17: Create Your Own Custom Themes litpeurbalisllhyehdupnrimdraeridlysfoorfmneemwbearsnodf tuhpedPaCtLeindupxOaSckages community. The Magazine staff is comprised of volunteers 20 Screenshot Showcase bferocmomtheinPgCaLvinauixlOabSlecoemvmeurnyityw. eek. 21 Video: Part 4 ­ MyMencoderDVD TVhisisit musoonntlihne'samt hattgp:a//zwiwnwe.pccolovsemrafge.caotmures snow covered 25 Screenshot Showcase photos from ms_meme. On the inside, the contents This release was made possible by the following volunteers: 26 Alternate OS: Icaros, Part 2 are hot enough to melt that snow. To start off, we 28 Screenshot Showcase taCkheieaf Eldoiotokr:bPauclkArantotneo(ptaabrnloeten)ews of 2009, and all thAastsihsatasnthEadpiptoersn:eAdndwreitwhSctoricmkp(Suttriinckgto,oP),CMLeienmuaxwOS, 29 Rudge's Rain: PCLinuxOS Makes Music LCinounxs,ualtanndtsF: OArSchSie.APrevtaelro,KTeimllyRocboinstoinnues his 31 Burning CDs Over The Internet Without An ISO File CAormtwmorka:nSdprLogingye, TInimtetrhf,aMcaerkISnztororadcyolumn, with part 32 e17: Tips & Tricks foMuargoazfihneisLcaoyonutitn: upainrngotsee, Mrieeesm. Gawa,rmysL_m. Remaetl,ifSf,trSickr.too cHoTnMtinLuLeasyohuits: GmaalernchSetahmroaun gh the alphabet of 37 Remove Video Logos With Avidemux computer languages, taking a look at Guile in his 38 Screenshot Showcase CSotamffp: uter Languages A to Z series. Hootiegibbon Neal Brooks ms_meme 39 WindowMaker On PCLinuxOS: Working With Icons cGhaltesnwSeitahmPanCLinuxOS MaMgarzkinSzeo,raindythe Behind The 41 Screenshot Showcase SPcaetrniceksHocronleukmern, where weDacrorenltJinohunesttoon get to know thGeuyfoTlakyslowr ho work so diligMeenetlmyabwehind the scenes to 42 Forum Foibles: Around The World With PCLinuxOS mAankderewPCHuLffinuxOS the quaGlitayryLLin. Ruaxtldiffi,sStr.o that it is. We take a look at the recent e­book explosion, 45 Game Zone: Pipewalker Contributors: 47 Firefox Add­ons: Video DownloadHelper wphsetrarengmerany of the e­bookDraenaiedl eMresißo­Wutilhoenlmthe market ruLnubosnRLeinduexk, in the Book AWguosrtmin Js. VUenrditeeg:alATn E­Book 49 Screenshot Showcase ELxopnglotosmion. You may be suArrpchrieseAdrevaatlojust how much 50 Learning rtmpdump Through Examples free e­book content you can find out in the digital 54 Retroshare: The Secure Social Network reTahelmP,CiLfinyuoxuOSjuMstalgoaoziknefoisr riet.leased under the Creative 60 Screenshot Showcase Commons Attribution­NonCommercial­Share­Alike 3.0 MUenepomrtaedwlihceansset.raSnomscerriibgehtds aSrpe reosgegrvyed's. Glass Panel 61 More Screenshot Showcase TCuotopyrriiaghltv©id2e0o11f.or the PCLinuxOS Magazine, 2 WWeellccoommee FFrroomm TThhee CChhiieeff EEddiittoorr Ah! Spring has arrived. The winter snows are kernel modules and drivers will have to be rebuilt should be released very soon, and a new ISO of melting. The foliage, plants and trees return from against that new kernel, so the first boot into the new Phoenix and Phoenix­Mini (renamed Phinx, which dormancy. Flowers bloom. The unmistakable kernel may take as long as five to ten minutes I'm told is a baby Phoenix) with Xfce 4.8 should also C­R­A­C­K of a wood bat on the leather hide of a (depending on the processor speed of your be released fairly soon. Meanwhile, Gnome users baseball permeates the crisp Spring air as America's computer), as those modules and drivers are rebuilt. are waiting with abated breath for the forthcoming favorite summer pastime, baseball, begins to get its Once you've verified that the new kernel works well release of Gnome 3.0, which we talked a bit about season underway. In fact, this on your computer, you can go last month. Already, there are rumblings among month's cover from Assistant into the PCLinuxOS Control Gnome users, praising some of the design decisions Editor Meemaw celebrates, in Center and change the boot the Gnome developers made, while lamenting yet grand Tux style, the annual options to make the new kernel others. The Gnome 3.0 "drama" is definitely going to beginning of the baseball the default, so you won't have to be interesting to watch as it plays out. season. Look closely. Of course, scroll down to select the new there is a PCLinuxOS touch kernel each time you boot your Since we've mentioned Gnome 3, Slax has put out a added in. In case you couldn't computer. Your old kernel will call to any packagers who might be willing to help tell, your Chief Editor is a big remain available to you, until package the new Gnome 3.0. If you have RPM baseball fan. Go KC Royals! Hey (and if) you decide to remove it, packaging skills and are willing or able to help, get in ... at least all teams start off the via Synaptic. contact with Slax by sending him a private message season tied for first place. I just on the PCLinuxOS forum. It's unsure how soon the wonder how much fun the Also new in the repos is KDE new Gnome 3.0 will be available to PCLinuxOS season will be come mid­ 4.6.1. This upgrade will reset users. There is some wisdom in holding back a bit September, as the division races your KDE desktop back to the and seeing how the fallout settles, much as was are being decided. default settings, so you will likely done when KDE 4.0 hit the scene. Since the Gnome have to re­apply your favorite 3.0 developers didn't seem to learn anything by With PCLinuxOS, there's another wallpaper and KDE widgets on watching the KDE 4.0 release fiasco, I would look for race, of sorts, being played out. your desktop. While you can history to repeat itself with the Gnome 3.0 release. Texstar and the rest of our save a copy of your old .KDE That's what is going to make the Gnome 3.0 release dedicated developers have folder and re­apply your settings fun to watch; it's where KDE users were at roughly a released the 2.6.37 Linux kernel that way, it may not be a bad year and a half to two years ago when KDE 4.0 was to the repos. They are continuing idea to start afresh with the rolled out. to work on the 2.6.38 kernel, as default settings, and rebuild all of we speak. Remember that kernel your preferences by hand. Think Well, enough from me. I hope you enjoy yet another upgrades are not automatic. You have to specifically of it as a way of doing some Spring cleaning to your issue of The PCLinuxOS Magazine. We've tried, as install them, and reboot to access them. If the new KDE desktop, and getting rid of unneeded "stuff." usual, to deliver as many articles as we can, that kernel doesn't work on your machine, don't despair. appeal to as many different tastes and user levels as Your old kernel will still be used with the default Grub If you've been following on Twitter and ident.ca, then we can. So until next month, I wish each and every boot loader entry. You will have to scroll down in you may have read that the new, long­awaited Xfce one of you peace, tranquility, serenity, and Grub to boot into the new kernel. Also remember 4.8 is nearing realization under PCLinuxOS. The prosperity. that the first time you boot into a new kernel, all the upgrade packages are currently being tested. They 3 ee1177:: RRuunnnniinngg EEccoommoorrpphh,, PPaarrtt 22 -- SSeettttiinnggss by Darrel Johnston (djohnston) As mentioned in the previous article, the e17 Shown below are the animation settings chosen for Dropshadow module is not activated if you want to closing the main menu, a popup or dropdown menu. run Ecomorph. Ecomorph's Drop Shadow settings Explode is enabled by default. To enable a random An entire magazine could be written on the are in the section shown below. effect, set the "Animation for selected match" area to possibilities for the Ecomorph settings. I'm only Random. In the "Animation random pool" area, going to cover some of them here. I'll only delve into select which effects you want included, then change some which smurfslover and Agust have not already the option from "None" to "Random". covered in the forum. In the Ecomorph Window Move/Resize section, the only option is the window opacity level. Use the slider to set the level. NOTE: To anyone who may notice that my two CPUs are running at close to 100%, as indicated in the gkrellm panel, it is not due to running Ecomorph. Ecomorph uses very little system memory or CPU cycles. The reason for the high CPU usage is that I am running folding@home in the background. That task basically utilizes all unused CPU cycles. The Open, Close and Minimize window animations have a lot of options. Shown below are the settings for the animation done when opening the main menu window.