Posts in Category: terminal

Whiptail Orange theme...

Whiptail Orange theme...

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...

Trackpad to Keyboard emulation (Hackberry Pi)

Trackpad to Keyboard emulation (Hackberry Pi)

Posted on 26th Dec 2024

As you may know, i have a Hackberry Pi, which has a trackpad. The trackpad it self, is excellent to use in GUI but it has no use at plain TTY terminal, which is what i use most, while operating the Hackberry. So, i had to found a way, to emulate the trackpad movements into keyboard keys, to use in...

DELTREE command in Python

DELTREE command in Python

Posted on 18th Dec 2024

One of the most useful commands when i used DOS, was deltree. Quickly and easy, deleting large areas of the hard disk, with no point of return... In Linux, there isn't such a command, or perhaps, it's a bit disguised, but never the less, it hasn't the features of the original deltree command or...

Heatwave - Framebuffer, frequency scanner

Heatwave - Framebuffer, frequency scanner

Posted on 24th Nov 2024

After PySpecSDR, which is awesome! :) i had to make also a frequency scanner. Because the range in a frequency scanner is usually large, this time i used the framebuffer for graphic display, as a terminal would be too small. And thus... HeatWave created! All information about it can be found o...

Use FZF as text input...

Posted on 30th Oct 2024

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 items, as fzf does normally. With the proper arguments/paramaters of fzf we can use it, as an input function, where the user, would be able to type anything, not just select a choice and...