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Whiptail (online tutorials etc.)

Post author:ManyRoads
Post published:August 2, 2019
Post category:Dialog Tools tutorials

This list is under development. Please let me know of good online tutorials. A Example of whiptail menu with function Shell scripting adventures (Part 3, Terminal-based dialog boxes: Whiptail) How…

Zenity (online tutorials etc.)

Post author:ManyRoads
Post published:August 2, 2019
Post category:Dialog Tools tutorials

This list is under development. Please let me know of good online tutorials. Zenity - GUI for Shell Scripts Zenity – Creates Graphical (GTK+) Dialog Boxes in Command-line and Shell…

Yad (online tutorials etc.)

Post author:ManyRoads
Post published:August 2, 2019
Post category:Dialog Tools tutorials

This list is under development. Please let me know of good online tutorials. YAD (Yet Another Dialog) Multiple-item data entry with YAD YAD- Yet another dialog (Wiki) a detailed Yad…

tdrop (terminal drop-down function)

Post author:ManyRoads
Post published:July 30, 2019
Post category:Linux Tiling Window Managers

Are you looking for a nice tool to create drop-down terminal functionality (not all terminals support this natively)? If so, you might find tdrop of interest. It is extensively tested…

cli-visualizer (Install)

Post author:ManyRoads
Post published:July 21, 2019
Post category:Knowledgebase Linux

If you enjoy music visualization and are looking for a terminal based visualizer. cli-visualizer is a good option that is easy to install, even though it is not accessible in…

Building a bspwm desktop (a guide)

Post author:ManyRoads
Post published:July 20, 2019
Post category:Knowledgebase Tiling Window Managers tutorials

This posting will be/is superseded, in large part, by the following series: An adventure creating a single user environment with 4 desktops. Let me begin by noting that there are…

locales ‘Repair’

Post author:ManyRoads
Post published:July 15, 2019
Post category:Linux

If you manage to bork your system locales in Debian, here's a fix that works for me. Open a terminal window and enter the following in sequence... sudo apt-get purge…

Restore LightDM Username drop-down

Post author:ManyRoads
Post published:July 7, 2019
Post category:Knowledgebase Linux

This fix is courtesy of @oops. If you are like me and prefer the username to be available in a drop-down on lightdm Here's what you need to do to…

Kindle won’t connect

Post author:ManyRoads
Post published:July 5, 2019
Post category:Linux

If like me you use a Kindle eBook reader, you may have experienced an Error sending books to & from the Kindle (I use Calibre for that.). If you are…

binary space partitioning window manager (bspwm) Resources

Post author:ManyRoads
Post published:June 27, 2019
Post category:Tiling Window Managers

In an effort to consolidate informative resources related to my two major binary space partitioning window manager (bspwm) projects, I plan to maintain an archive of useful assets here. If…