CP737! XQTRs bits and bytes...
Posted on 2nd Oct 2024
I really liked the arcade games back in the 80s-90s and still enjoy playing them in MAME, with a keyboard or a gamepad. But nothing beats the feeling of an arcade stick. For a long time, i wanted to buy or make one, for my self, but i was mostly been hesitated, because of the various models, the big...
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...
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...
Posted on 2nd Oct 2024
Below is a theme for the dialog command, of Linux, that lets you build GUI menus in the shell. Feel free to use it and edit, as you like ;) A preview of it... To use it, save it as .dialogrc in your home directory. # # Run-time configuration file for dialog # # Types of values: # # Number...
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...
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...
Often, there are times, that i want to share a text (link, command, search term etc) to my phone, from my main computer PC. For...
This is not a post of mine. The original source/site, is being closed and managed to source it from the Wayback Machine. It also maybe...