Linux forum: Burning a regular CD in Ubuntu

I do not care for brasero.
Option #1 is go to Tools and remove or disable all plugins (this from ubuntu forums).
Option #2 is what I would do.
(The idea is to replace brasero with something better, of which K3B is a good choice)
at the command line, enter "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get purge brasero"; then
a) simply install k3b -- "sudo apt-get -f install k3b" OR
b) install all possible dependencies of k3b prior to a) with "sudo apt-get build-dep k3b"
Then, to make another option is available, "sudo apt-get -f install wodim"
After which I would perform "sudo apt-get autoclean"
Reboot with "sudo apt-get init 6" and see if the K3B program functions as desired.

You may want to look into how to use "wodim" to burn from the command line, as well (#3).

That just opens manual page for brasero.
Brasero is simply in start menus.

Or if you like CLI so much then simply:
brasero
You can add & in end of like to detach it from terminal window:
brasero &

Xfburn is another option -- lighter and quicker than K3B, it is preferred by many (as evidenced by a recent poll in LF). And besides, the dependencies are less (XFCE vs. KDE for K3B), so less disk space is needed. The downside? Not as pretty and not as many options as K3B and K9Copy.

K3B beats the tar out of every other OSS burner software on Linux, it's that or Nero makes a Linux version http://www.nero.com/enu/linux4.html

The codecs are legal for the end user to install themselves, they just can't be packaged into the release by the distribution without the distros paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in licensing fees per codec due to craptacular copyright laws in the US.

The same is the reason Mesa is still stuck with OpenGL 2.1, while most of OpenGL 3.3 and 4.1 can be implemented, core components can't be included without paying ludicrous amounts of money http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/plain/docs/GL3.txt Not to mention that we have S3 Texture Compression implemented, but they aren't allowed to build it in even though it's pretty much a requirement for all modern games and in older games give a very good improvement in performance.