Enable chinese input under English locale on Ubuntu

Set up input method for X Window

ubuntu 7.10

sudo im-switch -z en_US -s InputMethodName

ubuntu 8.04

im-switch -z en_US -s InputMethodName


Play mame on Debian

1. xmame is the arcade game machine emulator for UNIX/X. SDL means Simple DirectMedia Layer, is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer.

sudo apt-get install xmame-sdl

2. run emulator with roms, there is two ways,
# -rp rompath
# -fullscreen
specify the name of game

xmame.SDL gamename

or

specify the filename

xmame.SDL *.zip

3. press Left Shift + PageUp / PageDown to increase/decrease scale