How to mount BIN/CUE - bchunk to the rescue

ISO is definitely the most common CD image type and basically every program will support it. Occasionally, you might come across a disc image in the BIN format. While there are ways to use BIN/CUE’s in Linux, it is much easier to convert them to the standard ISO format.

open up a terminal and type

apt-get install bchunk.

This will install a program called Binchunker.

Binchunker is used in the terminal and is very simple. Navigate to the folder containing the BIN/CUE file and run Binchunker in the following way.

bchunk IMAGE.bin IMAGE.cue IMAGE.iso

Depending on the speed of your machine, the time required will vary. Overall it is very quick and should not take more than a few minutes.

You should now have a standard ISO file that you can use anywhere!

Automate your xsession and repetative tasks :XMacro

Xmacro consists of a few command-line programs that can record and playback mouse moves and key presses from and to xsession.

It also contains and assortment of script commands that can be edited in to the macro script (text file) to tune its performance.
eg. Delay [n] - where n is a number of seconds.

so to start, record a macro by running

xmacrorec2 >newmacro.mac

(where newmacro.mac is the filename that will capture all the recorded info)

then xmacro will ask you set a key that will be presses when you are done recording (a good choice is the escape key)

As soon as you select the key, the recording will being, every mouse move, click and keypress will be recorded until you press the done key.

* note the timings of the above events are not recorded, so you will have to add delay events into the macro file later if your application requires pauses.

When you have pressed the done key, the recording is terminated and you can edit your macro file adding and removing the simple script commands.

To playback the macro file :

xmacroplay -d 10 :0 < newmacro.mac

where "-d 10 " is a delay of 10 microseconds
":0" is the screen to run the macro on

Enjoy!

PS. you can even make the macro run from your desktop or toolbar by making a shell script etc.