Ratpoison and dmenu

I came across dmenu while setting up Musca. This nifty utility which takes a list of strings as input and creates a menu from it. Why use it? Super fast in providing auto complete suggestions for the list of strings Better looks and more customizable than the default ratbar It is quite easy to set … Continue reading »

New mail notification with Procmail

Problem: I have my local mail setup with mutt, fetchmail and procmail. And I would need a way to run an arbitrary script when new mail arrives and _not_ loose the mail from my inbox. Solution: Procmail supports a nice feature called nesting. With nested blocks a procmail recipe can be assigned more than action. … Continue reading »