Post of the month: jan 2025

RetroAmber - Retropie theme...

RetroAmber - Retropie theme...

Posted on 29th Jan 2025

Recently i setup a handheld system for retro gaming. The thing was, that every theme i tried, something was a bit off for me. In one, was the fonts, in other the images, in other the style etc. So i gathered elements from various themes, that i liked and combined them to a new theme. Of course i add...

Search the Internet with DMENU

Search the Internet with DMENU

Posted on 21st Jan 2025

As i showed in a previous post, with fzf, we can also use dmenu as a method to input text. It's not that difficult, but tricky yes. So, with this method, i built a BASH script, to search the Internet with the search engines i prefer, from everywhere i am at the desktop. No need to pull the termi...

Dragster...

Dragster...

Posted on 20th Jan 2025

Lately i found my self, looking for ways to make stuff more quickly. One way, for sure is the terminal, but still not everything can be done with a terminal and sometimes is quicker to drag'n'drop something, somewhere, than open a terminal cd to a directory and execute a command. Even with GUI app...

Draw on X11 desktop with python using xlib

Draw on X11 desktop with python using xlib

Posted on 10th Jan 2025

This is a small example on how to draw some text, on a X11 Desktop, with Python and XLib. Nothing fancy... the script can output any text given in the command line and also use colors and a font you prefer. I made it, as a way to display info on the desktop, even when using fullscreen applications l...

BASH fetch?

BASH fetch?

Posted on 10th Jan 2025

I don't know why there are too many implementations that look like neofetch and why they are so complicated. I mean, i just saw one, using python and being tenths of files and hundreds lines of code. Why? Because of the ASCII logo? Anyway... if you want a quick way to see a complete summary of s...