Posts with Tag: terminal

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...

BASH fetch?

BASH fetch?

Posted on 10th Jan 2025

I don't know why there are too many implementations that look like neofetch and why they are so complicated. I mean, i just saw one, using python and being tenths of files and hundreds lines of code. Why? Because of the ASCII logo? Anyway... if you want a quick way to see a complete summary of s...

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...