Posts in Category: script

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...

Rotate Screen on the fly with XRANDR

Posted on 2nd Oct 2024

First use the XRANDR command to find the monitors connected to your system. Just type xrandr. You will see something like this: Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 16384 x 16384 DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left in...

CD Linux command on steroids!

Posted on 21st Jul 2024

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 really liked it. For a while i used it, but because it was two seperate aliases and very simple i decided to make my own. So this is my implementation of an alternative CD...