Posts with Tag: dmenu

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...

Quick find Firefox Bookmarks...

Quick find Firefox Bookmarks...

Posted on 1st Jan 2025

What is this? This is a small script to quick find Firefox bookmarks, in Linux, using DMENU or/and FZF What you will need... For this to work, you need to have installed the following: firefox ;) sqlite3 dmenu or fzf How it works... The trick part of all this to work is the actua...

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...

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...