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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...
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...
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...
Posted on 1st Jan 2025
What is this? This is a small script to quick find Firefox bookmarks, in Linux, using DMENU or/and FZF What you will need... For this to work, you need to have installed the following: firefox ;) sqlite3 dmenu or fzf How it works... The trick part of all this to work is the actua...
Posted on 27th Dec 2024
This is a theme for the whiptail linux tool, that creates menus in the terminal. It's similar to dialog. I made it for a project of mine, but because there aren't many themes out there, i share it for anyone who might find it useful. whiptail doesn't have a config file for its colors. You hav...
I have seen a similar implementation of a CD command for bash/linux that used a method to store a kind of DIR bookmarks and i...
Let see how we can use fzf for getting an input from the user... and i don't just mean to choose from a list of...
...or how to play games from a linux machine, from the terminal ;) Hackberry Pi, has a square screen, which makes it perfect for Gameboy...