Posts in Category: script

Small script for selecting your favorite Internet radio stations...

Posted on 9th Oct 2024

I have a small selection of Internet radios i like to listen to. Storing them in a program or a playlist (.m3u) is not my thing, cause in the past, either i lost it, changed programs/streaming applications or the file got corrupted. But my scripts, have a special care... i store them separately and...

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...

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...

Launch ISO ROMs from file manager Linux/Ubuntu

Launch ISO ROMs from file manager Linux/Ubuntu

Posted on 2nd Oct 2024

Customize your file manager to launch an emulator when you double click an ISO file. Normally, double clicking an ISO file opens a file archive program which is useless! This way we can use our file manager as a very easy way to launch ROMs and our favorite emulators, with just a double click, thu...