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GNU Screen, Window Manager.

Alexandru — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:54:08 +0000

GUI is for the weak. Meet my window manager, GNU screen:

0. Build screen from source to fix the slowdown when scrolling in a vertical split.

1. This is my .screenrc with keyboard shortcuts and a nifty status bar. –help?

Control + Up:  previous split screen

Control + Down: next split screen

Control + Left:  previous screen window

Control + Right: next screen window

F1: kill current tab

F2: write paste buffer to file

F3: split horizontally

F4: split vertically

F5: remove single split

F6: remove all splits

F7: urlview pulls URL's from your current output, very useful

F8: new tab

F9: resize split +1 line

F10: resize split -1 line

2. Install screen_ssh.sh so your window title automatically renames to your ssh destination. To have the title revert after closing your shell follow this.

3. color = readability. Install color wrapper to colorize your terminal output.

4. Yakuake is the best terminal emulator. Configure these shortcuts:

Shift + Left: previous shell

Shift + Right: next shell

F11: full screen

F12: drop down

Slow madwifi + Debian upgrade

Alexandru — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:22:53 +0000

Upgrading from a 18.6 to a 26.2 kernel in Debian Sid broke madwifi due to high-latency packet response (up to 25000 ms) and high packet loss (40%.) Downgrading to madwifi stable (0.9.4) or trunk (07/31/08) resulted in same behavior.

Reverting back to the 18.6 kernel and installing madwifi stable (0.9.4) resulted in proper function.

sshfs instead of ftp

Alexandru — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:47:43 +0000

Got an ssh account on a machine? Don’t waste time retrieving a file, editing it, and uploading it manually.

sshfs user@target:/directory /mnt/point

You can then edit the file locally and, when saved, will do so across the ssh pipe.

.xbindkeysrc KB4000LCD

Alexandru — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:46:04 +0000

## KB4000LCD Keyboard

# mute button
“amixer sset Master toggle”
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# stop button
“amarok -s”
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# forward track button
“amarok -f”
m:0×10 + c:153

# back track button
“amarok -r”
m:0×10 + c:144

# play/pause button
“amarok -t”
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# volume knob clockwise
“amixer sset Master 1+”
m:0×10 + c:176

# volume knob counterclockwise
“amixer sset Master 1-”
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# web back
“xvkbd -text “\[Alt_L]\[Left]“”
m:0×10 + c:234

# web forward
“xvkbd -text “\[Alt_L]\[Right]“”
m:0×10 + c:233

# web search
“xvkbd -text “\[F6]“”
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# web refresh
“xvkbd -text “\[F5]“”
m:0×10 + c:231

# web stop
“xvkbd -text “\[Esc]“”
m:0×10 + c:232

# bottom home
“firefox http://www.google.com/ig”
m:0×10 + c:130

# bottom email
“firefox http://www.gmail.com”
m:0×10 + c:236

# bottom star
“firefox http://www.myspace.com”
m:0×10 + c:230

# bottom media
“vlc”
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# power
“shutdown -P now”
m:0×10 + c:222

# moon
“shutdown -h now”
m:0×10 + c:223

# sun
“shutdown -r now”
m:0×10 + c:227

# monitor
“xvkbd -text “\[Ctrl_L]\[Alt_L]\[L]“”
m:0×10 + c:198

# calculator
“gcalctool”
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