So you got yourself Xubuntu 11.10 installed and now want to Skype with your USB headset. Great, so you plug in your headset into the USB port, start Skype call a friend (or the test call bot) and BAM – audio out from the speakers and no mic recording in sight! You scratch your head… You dig around the ALSA mixer but nothing, no matter how many “Controls” you select it just wouldn’t happen and this is why ladies and gents Linux is still a basement level 10 paladin player toy OS to brag about on forums.
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Xubuntu 11.10 & Redshift Howto
Posted by ePlus
on December 12, 2011
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Following on from my previous rant/workaround in getting your USB headset to work, it is time to save our eyes by configuring “Redshift. As the developer puts it:
Redshift adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings. This may help your eyes hurt less if you are working in front of the screen at night. This program is inspired by f.lux (read here for the reason why I started this project).
In my case, simply installing it via “Ubuntu Software Center” didn’t work, why should it? It would be too easy then, so anyway.