Posts in Category: terminal

MPV in Android with Termux

MPV in Android with Termux

Posted on 5th Mar 2025

Below is a script, for use in Termux, to launch MPV via the terminal/termux and watch videos. For the script to work properly, you have to install MPV-Android, preferably from not Google Play, use FDroid instead. Install it and make sure to allow it to use the sdcard for accessing files. Also, k...

One script to Update them all...

One script to Update them all...

Posted on 5th Feb 2025

I regularly use apt to update/upgrade system packages, but i usually forget to update snap packages/apps or github repositories or appimages... For the last one, i haven't found a global solution, but for the others, i did. Below is a simple script, that will update and upgrade your system, based...

Search the Internet with DMENU

Search the Internet with DMENU

Posted on 21st Jan 2025

As i showed in a previous post, with fzf, we can also use dmenu as a method to input text. It's not that difficult, but tricky yes. So, with this method, i built a BASH script, to search the Internet with the search engines i prefer, from everywhere i am at the desktop. No need to pull the termi...

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...