Splitting a GEDCOM family tree

Use PAF (Personal Ancestral File), a free product of FamilySearch, to export a part of your tree.
It's a Windows software. Install through WINE.
PAF has a very good selection mechanism in exporting, and this makes it possible to split a GEDCOM Family Tree.

Workaround with TwinView

ATTENTION! THIS POST IS OUTDATED!

FINALLY:

xsetwacom --set "Serial Wacom Tablet" "TwinView" horizontal
xinput -set-prop "Serial Wacom Tablet" "Wacom Tablet Area" -24780, -12390, 0, 18630
xsetwacom --set "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser" "TwinView" none
xinput -set-prop "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser" "Wacom Tablet Area" -24780, -12390, 24780, 18630

or, sometimes they work with the same settings... still testing... still testing...:

Wacom options

xsetwacom --list
xsetwacom --list --verbose
xsetwacom --list param
xsetwacom --get "[device]" all
xsetwacom set "[device]" "[option]" [parameters]

xinput list
xinput list-props [id]
xinput set-prop "[device]" "[option]" [parameters]

man wacom

gedit /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-wacom.conf

Software checklist

For image editing:

• Gimp
• ImageMagick (convert, mogrify, identify)
  
• mkbitmap in Potrace
  
• DjvuLibre-bin (cjb2, djvm)
  
• PdfJam (pdfjoin)
  
• Ubuntu's ps2pdf12
  
• Ubuntu's pdfimages
• InkScape
• FontForge for fonts
  

For windows programs:

• VirtualBox
• wine

For office stuff:

• OpenOffice
• Gedit

For E-Books:

• Sigil
• Calibre
• Comic2lrf
  

Internet tools:

• Firefox with Sun Java 6 JRE plugin for comfort
  
• Chrome for stability
  
• FileZilla for FTP
• Transmission for Bittorent
• DC++
• Skype
• Seamonkey for HTML editing
  

Viewing /editing media:

• Ubuntu Movie Player
• Mplayer & Mencoder
• SoundConverter with MP3 plugin
• Ubuntu Sound Recorder
  

Burning DVDs, CDs:

• K3B
  

System configurations:

• Terminal
• Gedit
• Nautilus Scripts
  

File manipulations:

• Nautilus
  
• MuCommander
• RSync

Tablet tools:

• Xournal
• Cellwriter
• OnBoard
  

NOTE: Making movies from image files using mencoder / ffmpeg

Here's a site. It describes something I wanted to do / did half a year ago but made no blog-post of it.

What I originally wanted to do was to have a single image as a video, and put some music to it and post it on youtube.

I somehow managed it, but I have no idea anymore how.
And I also found mp3tube, so I don't really need this anymore, if I don't care to have a special picture for my music.

Mplayer is too quiet

Actually my problem was only, that MPlayer's own volume wasn't turned up.
Key 9 and 0 are used for volume - and + on your keyboard.

However, here's the manual on MPlayer volume adjustment.

MPlayer error messages

I get this when I open anything in MPlayer:
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
MPlayer SVN-r1.0~rc3+svn20090426-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing Movie.mp4.
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO: [avc1] 800x440 24bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
[VO_TDFXFB] Can't open /dev/fb0: Permission denied.
[VO_3DFX] Unable to open /dev/3dfx.

To get rid of all of this, do the following:
1.)Turn bluetooth on.
2.) Disable LIRC support.: ~$ sudo gedit /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf and add the line: nolirc=yes
3.) Define X11 as default video output: in ~$ sudo gedit /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf search for the line: # vo=xv,x11 -> uncomment (remove # from the beginning of the line), change to vo=x11, or whatever is the best.