How to Install the ‘gnome-shell-extensions-mediaplayer’ Extension

Alex — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:38:58 +0000

The mediaplayer widget found on github, created by eonpatapon – (https://github.com/eonpatapon/gnome-shell-extensions-mediaplayer).

I’ve been searching for a while for a good, solid widget style thing that’ll sit in the top of the gnome-shell panel which can control the music that’s playing in banshee, rhythmbox or whatever else you want to use to play your tunes.

Installation:

1. First you’ll need to grab some dependencies:

sudo apt-get install git gnome-common gnome-tweak-tool

2. Next download the files from the git repository as below (this will download the folder to whatever directory you’re currently in, in terminal):

git clone https://github.com/eonpatapon/gnome-shell-extensions-mediaplayer.git

3. Once it’s finished download (it shouldn’t take too long it’s only about 2.30MB as of writing this guide), you’ll want to install using the following commands:

cd gnome-shell-extensions-mediaplayer
./autogen.sh –prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

4. That’s it, it’s installed. Next you’re going to want to enable it, run gnome-tweak-tool and under extensions slide the newly installed extension to ON and it should appear next to the “Universal Access Settings” in the top right.

GitHub: Agent admitted failure to sign using the key.

Alex — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:52:16 +0000

Upon testing my GitHub setup on my home computer I got the following error after inputting this:

ssh git@github.com

Returned:

Agent admitted failure to sign using the key.
Permission denied (publickey).

You’ll need to run:

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Make sure to enter the passphrase for the ssh key you generated.