Disable video and audio preview in Brasero disk burner

Brasero disk burner has a new feature to show the preview of the video and audio files while choosing them for burning and it sometimes reduces the user’s ability to quickly select files for burning.For people who find the video and audio preview in the Brasero disk burner is annoying then this trick is for you.Brasero disk burner is the default disk burner in GNU/Linux distributions such as Ubuntu,Linux mint, Fedora, etc using the Gnome desktop environment. There’s no option to directly disable the preview viewer in the Brasero disk burner.Fortunately you can disable it using the gconf-editor.

For those who do not know about the gconf-editor , it is something similar to registry editor in windows .Various configurations of the Gnome desktop can be modified using the gconf-editor.to know what more can you do about the gconf-editor visit my previews post about the gconf-editor here.

Now to disable the preview viewer in Brasero open gconf-editor by pressing Alt+F2 while and type in gconf-editor and press enter or open it by typing gconf-editor in terminal.After opening gconf-editor navigate to the

/->apps->brasero->display

in the left pane.Then in right pane there will be a key named viewer under the name column and a checkbox next to it in the value column ,just uncheck it to disable the preview viewer.If you want the previewer again just recheck it.

Alternatively,you can disable it using the command line tool named gconftool.To disable the previewer using gconftool open a terminal and type in the following:

gconftool-2 –type bool –set /apps/brasero/display/viewer false

To re-enable it using gconftool just change the key value in the end of the command to true.

Improve your productivity in linux with these little tricks

your productivity in linux can multiplied with these simple tricks that most new users do not even know of its existence.Some of those lesser known tricks are given here:

• All linux distributions support an extra method of copy/paste by using the middle(scroll) button of your mouse.One drawback of this method is that it only supports copying text.You can use this method by selecting the text you want to copy and by middle clicking where you want it to be pasted.The text can be pasted as many times  as long as the original text remains selected.This method would be helpful if you want to paste the same text multiple times and could be more useful inside the terminal.For example,when you look for solutions to your problem about linux most of them deals with command line, you could just select the commands given and middle click in the terminal.The text can also be copied using ctrl+c and can be paste by clicking the scroll button in your mouse.

• The nautilus file browser can be opened from the desktop by simply pressing “/” (forward slash) key and pressing the enter key.You can also type the path of the folder where the nautilus should be opened.For example to browse /etc folder just press / and type etc,the nautilus will open the etc folder for you.

• Desktop background can be set in linux distributions using gnome desktops such as ubuntu by dragging and dropping the picture in the desktop with the middle mouse button and selecting set as background from the menu that appears.

• Instead of typing the entire path of the file in the terminal window you could just drag and drop the file into the terminal window and the terminal will complete the path name of the file for you.

• TAB key can be used inside the terminal for auto completion of commands.For example to open Firefox from terminal, type fir and press TAB key the terminal will auto complete the remaining for you,this applies to pathnames and filenames.If there is more than one match for what you typed in the terminal, the TAB key displays nothing and when you press the TAB key again it displays a list of possible matches for what you have typed.

Hope this would be useful for most new users out there.If there is something other you want to know just let me know in the comments.