Post of the month: oct 2024

Hitting an auction/buy with BASH

Hitting an auction/buy with BASH

Posted on 4th Oct 2024

Disclaimer... You shouldn't abuse the idea/script, cause this would cause problems to the server, the product page and the creator/maker of the product. For the same reason, i don't post any URLs. Recently i found a product i really liked and wanted to buy on Tindie. The problem was, that the...

My DIY Arcade Stick...

My DIY Arcade Stick...

Posted on 2nd Oct 2024

I really liked the arcade games back in the 80s-90s and still enjoy playing them in MAME, with a keyboard or a gamepad. But nothing beats the feeling of an arcade stick. For a long time, i wanted to buy or make one, for my self, but i was mostly been hesitated, because of the various models, the big...

XFCE|Add text plugin with weather and more…

XFCE|Add text plugin with weather and more…

Posted on 2nd Oct 2024

Lets add some weather information to our XFCE panel/status bar and have a result like this… First we have to install the Generic Monitor plugin/widget to our XFCE installation. To do so, just give the following command in a terminal: sudo apt install xfce4-genmon-plugin Edit the panel prefere...

BASH Script for getting HEX/ANSI color values, with DMENU

Posted on 2nd Oct 2024

I had some spare time, because of the Christmas holidays and thought to make a simple script, for getting the hex/ansi values of the main 16 colors used in DOS and various BBS stuff, like ANSI drawing and MODs. It uses DMENU for selection and also XCLIP to copy the color code into the clipboard. Y...

Cyan theme for DIALOG / Linux

Cyan theme for DIALOG / Linux

Posted on 2nd Oct 2024

Below is a theme for the dialog command, of Linux, that lets you build GUI menus in the shell. Feel free to use it and edit, as you like ;) A preview of it... To use it, save it as .dialogrc in your home directory. # # Run-time configuration file for dialog # # Types of values: # # Number...