For all those who used to keep complaining about the bottom panel of Gnome which used to show a list of windows, you can get it back with bmpanel2 (there are lot of other options too, but this one is light.). You can have themes for the panel also.
And the best part about using gnome-shell is that I always getting a feeling that I now have more space on the Desktop. And, thus conky looks good too on the Desktop. Here’s a screenshot.
Continue readingQuick tip, you can use any expression for the sed commands in the (). With this trick you can redirect the stdout of 2 commands to the diff command. This might become very useful, if you want to compare 2 files, excluding the first line.
diff <(sed '1d' file) <(sed '1d' file2)
More interesting example is where the string ABC is converted to abc before comparing in the second file with the following command:
Continue readingLast time we got ourselves some conkyrc files from the ubuntu forums. But that scripts gets the files only from the First page of the thread. Lets extend this further and get the script to get all the conkyrc files.
There are some 1048 pages in the thread, I am showing pages 1 to 3 but you can change 3 to whatever number you want 🙂
count=0
for i in {1..3}
do
>.test
>conkyrc
echo "Getting page $i"
curl http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865\&page=$i |\\
sed -n '// d'|\
sed 's##\n-----------------------------------\n\n\n#' \
>conkyrc
dos2unix conkyrc
cp conkyrc .test
while [ $(wc -l .test|sed 's/[^0-9]//g') != 0 ]
do
sed -n '1,/------------------------/ p' .test|sed '$d' >conkyrc.$count
diff .test conkyrc.$count |sed 's/^<.//'|sed '1, /---------------------/ d;2d'>.test
((count++))
done
echo "Files so far are : $count"
done
Continuing from where we left, here is a script that can do all this for you 🙂
curl http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865\&page=$i | sed -n '/\\/pr/ p'| sed '// d'| sed 's##\n-----------------------------------\n\n\n#' >conkyrc dos2unix conkyrc cp conkyrc .test while [ $(wc -l .test|sed 's/[^0-9]//g') != 0 ] do sed -n '1,/------------------------/ p' .test|sed '$d' >conkyrc.$count diff .test conkyrc.$count |sed 's/^<.//'|sed '1, /---------------------/ d;2d'>.test ((count++)) done
This will create couple of conkyrc.files in the current directory. Each of these is one from the web-page that I mentioned earlier. So, enjoy….
Continue readingIf you are looking for some nice conkyrc files, then you can head over to :
In this thread you can see some very nice conkyrc files with screenshots. You can browse through the thread and get the one that you like. But if you are like me and would like to download all of them to see the features and commands in each of them then you would need to copy each of these files and paste them separately. But if you have to do everything manually then there’s not much of being on Linux 🙂
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I was trying to add my skype account on the N900 today and could not add the account. I did not find any option to add the same. After some googling and searching, I found that I need to re-flash my N900.
Continue readingFor this time, I will just give you a link to to bashrc file.
http://hayne.net/MacDev/Bash/aliases.bash
Head over there and see some very interesting aliase’s.