Posts with Tag: script

Targeted download of MAME Roms...

Targeted download of MAME Roms...

Posted on 13th Oct 2024

Downloading all of MAME ROMs, is not useful, as many of them don't worth, as games or the emulation is not good. Also, each of us, has his personal preferences on which games he likes, remembers from his youth and has that nostalgia feeling. So, i wanted a way to download, almost, specific games, wh...

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...

Hitting an auction/buy with BASH

Hitting an auction/buy with BASH

Posted on 4th Oct 2024

Disclaimer... You shouldn't abuse the idea/script, cause this would cause problems to the server, the product page and the creator/maker of the product. For the same reason, i don't post any URLs. Recently i found a product i really liked and wanted to buy on Tindie. The problem was, that the...

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...