Lucian Adrian Grijincu's questions

During voice / video conversations I would like to mute/unmute the microphone without having to go through all these steps each time:

• Sound indicator, Sound preferences, Select Input, Mute or unmute the microphone.

I'm looking for either:

• an application that can do this from the command line,
• a way I can assign a keyboard shortcut that can mute/unmute the microphone

I want access to two networks:

• a PPPoE network: for external computers (www, etc.)
  • IP(dhcp), DNS, default route
• a LAN for access to other local computers (local file sharing)
  • IP(dhcp), no DNS, only LAN route

Both networks are setup through the same Ethernet connection.

One way of accessing both networks at the same time is to connect to PPPoE from network-manager, and add the LAN info by hand:

• add an IP on eth0
• add a route for traffic to that network

I can configure two distinct connections in NetworkManager, but because both are on the same physical (Ethernet) network, selecting one of them makes the other one disconnect => can't have both of them at the same time.

Is there a way to have both of the active simultaneously?