Gnome-shell is the thing; /me is back to gnome again. Almost 4 days without ratpoison, that’s the longest since 2007 I had small stints with XFCE and musca in the middle. Folks on Arch, get it from [gnome-unstable]. Here’s a post describing the process. Just note that, you must add the entry at before [extra], … Continue reading »
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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 »
Input hotplugging and usb mouse
After loosing few matches on FICS on time control, poor me realized that it’s the mouse which matters when you’ve 10-20 seconds to mate. So I got myself an usb mouse and we’ve some new adventure. Ok, plugged in the usb mouse, checked that lsusb recognizes it. A dmesg suggested only a generic “low speed” … Continue reading »
A wrapper for osd_cat
Few months ago, we discussed about a mail notification method for fetchmail/procmail and mutt combo. As you can see in that post, the script we wrote to handle notification was dependent on ratpoison. Well it makes life bit tough for my non-ratpoison X sessions. I thought it would be a good idea to make the … Continue reading »
