Gold Flake Linux

Chrome's App Launcher in i3 window manager

2014-12-22T10:00:00.001+05:00

create a link to the following script in an executable path.
after opening google-chrome launcher, xdotool is used to generate i3 key-binding for floating a window

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/google-chrome --show-app-list
xdotool key shift+super+space

Prayer Times

2013-04-25T14:52:00.000+05:00

A simple shell script that will fetch prayer times from raajeislam.com.

Fajr : 4:42
Sunrise : 5:55
Duhr : 12:08
Asr : 3:21
Maghrib : 6:13
Isha : 7:27

--> #!/bin/bash
wget -O /tmp/prayertimes http://raajjeislam.com/prayertimes/ &>/dev/null

awk '
BEGIN{
FS="(>)|(<)";
}

/(Fajr|Sunrise|Duhr|Asr|Maghrib|Isha)<\/div>/ {
printf("%-8s: %s\n", $5,$9);
}

' /tmp/prayertimes

How to remove overlay scrollbars in ubuntu

2013-04-10T11:15:00.000+05:00

sudo apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar*

Dolphin filemanager now supports sorting by file metadata

2012-08-21T08:18:00.000+05:00

With the recent KDE 4.9 update, KDE's file-manager - Dolphin has received a host of new features . Among the notable additions it has received is the displaying of and the ability to sort and group files by their meta-data properties.

Dolphin now allows you to show any kind of metadata like ratings, tags, image-sizes beside each file.

You can now sort images by orientation. You can sort text-files by the count of words or lines in them. You may sort audio files by artist, album or duration of the track. You can sort files by permissions, owner and group properties or sort by tags or ratings that you have previously given to the files.

All these features will be available to Konqueror as well as other applications which uses Kparts component framework

Thanks to the KDE team for implementing these features, the time taken in searching and organizing files will be greatly reduced.

VIM Adventures

2012-04-29T10:48:00.002+05:00

VIM is a popular Linux Text editor. Not a text editor as in Windows notepad, but can be used as a fully fledged IDE. Numerous plugins are available which extends the functionality of VIM to the extent that FTP client, mail readers and even a Tetris game is available in the form of a VIM plugin.

VIM uses combination of commands to navigate around the editor and performing text editing and programming/system/IDE functions, targeting to be mouse-free and lessen the burden in doing repetitive text editing functions.

VIM Adventures is a nifty little fantasy adventure game giving you a head-start in the VIM learning curve.Click the link below to start the fun.

http://vim-adventures.com/

Reset gnome-settings

2012-04-01T10:42:00.000+05:00

rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity

VIM-tips everywhere.

2012-03-09T11:49:00.002+05:00

Install vimtips fortune cookies and vimtips plugin for vim

First install fortune if you don't already have it.

sudo apt-get install fortune-mod

Download vimtips fortune datafile

wget http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=871 -O vimtips.tar.gz

Move fortune datafiles and included vim plugin to respective directories

cp vimtips vimtips.dat /usr/share/games/fortunes

cp vimfortune.vim ~/.vim/plugin

Now when you start VIM it will display vim tips. you can view vim-tips any time by issuing :TIPS

vim tips in a gui

create s script vimtips.sh with the following code. make it executable with 'chmod +x vimtips.sh' . then just click on it to view vimtips on a zenity dialog.

fortune vimtips|zenity --text-info --width=550 --height=550

vim tips on opening the command-prompt

type 'fortune vimtips' at the end of '~/.bashrc'
You can also use the same command to view vimtips anytime in the terminal.

Installing GNOME 3.2 in Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-17T06:17:00.001+05:00

Ubuntu 11.10 comes default with Unity Shell. If you prefer GNOME/ want to try out GNOME 3.2( Released on September). you can install it from the Ubuntu repositories by installing gnome-core, gnome and gnome-shell packages.

See GNOME3.2 release notes here

Remove Mint branding in Firefox

2011-08-05T03:21:00.007+05:00

Ugly and irritating re-branding of Google search result page will surely bother you if you use Firefox in Mint. Follow the steps below to get the visual appeal back in search results.

Go to "Manage Search Engines" and delete Google. Click "get more search engines", and search for "informative Google search". After installing this search engine your search results will include suggestions, related terms, and more options for all types of searches.

To remove Mint-branding from searches done though location bar, replace "/usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/en-US/google.xm" with the following code.Now restart firefox, and get the google-branding back.

<SearchPlugin xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
<ShortName>Google</ShortName>
<Description>Google Search</Description>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
<Image width="16" height="16">data:image/x-icon;base64,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</Image>
<Url type="application/x-suggestions+json" method="GET" template="http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?output=firefox&amp;client=firefox&amp;qu={searchTerms}"/>
<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.google.com/search">
  <Param name="hl" value="en"/>
  <Param name="q" value="{searchTerms}"/>
</Url>
</SearchPlugin>

better control and monitor pulse-audio with padevchooser

2011-07-29T22:19:00.007+05:00

Here is a power-user tool for extra control of pulse-audio services than for example what Kmix might give if you are using KDE 4.x . My gripe with Kmix is that it doesn't provide a way to increase maximum volume above the 100% limit, unlike the gnome volume control.If you've tried maxing out alsa mixer, restarted pulse-audio server and still the volume is way too low than what you might have had by default in another Distribution, or in windows, it probably is a problem with pulse-audio.

padevchooser comes to the rescue. Install it along with the following controls for better control of pulse-audio. once installed, start it by choosing Applications->Multimedia->PulseAudio Device Chooser.

sudo apt-get install padevchooser pavucontrol pavumeter paman

If you want to start the system-tray widget on start-up click the widget->Preferences and choose"Start applet on session login".

Preview all cowsay ascii arts

2011-07-04T22:23:00.000+05:00

cd /usr/share/cowsay/cows;for i in *; do cow=`echo $i|grep -ioE '[a-zA-Z_\-]*'`;cowsay -f $cow ; done|more

How to remove Kubuntu

2011-01-17T01:02:00.001+05:00

Tried out KDE4.6 RC2 and found it a bit buggy still.

for i in akonadi-server akregator amarok amarok-common amarok-utils apport-kde apturl-kde ark bluedevil cdparanoia cdrdao docbook-xsl docbook-xsl-doc-html dolphin dragonplayer gdebi-core gdebi-kde gnupg-agent gnupg2 gtk2-engines-qtcurve gwenview hal hal-info ibus-qt4 icoutils jockey-kde k3b k3b-data kaddressbook kamera kate kcalc kde-config-gtk kde-config-touchpad kde-window-manager kde-zeroconf kdebase-bin kdebase-data kdebase-runtime kdebase-runtime-data kdebase-workspace kdebase-workspace-bin kdebase-workspace-data kdebase-workspace-kgreet-plugins kdegraphics-libs-data kdegraphics-strigi-plugins kdelibs-bin kdelibs5 kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-plugins kdemultimedia-kio-plugins kdepasswd kdepim-groupware kdepim-kresources kdepim-runtime kdepim-strigi-plugins kdepim-wizards kdepimlibs-kio-plugins kdesudo kdm kdoctools kfind khelpcenter4 kinfocenter klipper kmag kmail kmix kmousetool knm-runtime knotes konsole kontact kopete kopete-message-indicator korganizer kpackagekit kppp krdc krfb krosspython ksnapshot ksysguard ksysguardd ksystemlog ktimetracker ktorrent ktorrent-data kubuntu-debug-installer kubuntu-default-settings kubuntu-desktop kubuntu-docs kubuntu-firefox-installer kubuntu-konqueror-shortcuts kubuntu-netbook-default-settings kubuntu-notification-helper kvkbd kwalletmanager language-selector-qt libakonadi-contact4 libakonadi-kabc4 libakonadi-kcal4 libakonadi-kde4 libakonadi-kmime4 libakonadiprivate1 libao-common libao4 libattica0 libaudio2 libbluedevil1 libboost-program-options1.42.0 libcln6 libclucene0ldbl libdbusmenu-qt2 libdebconf-kde0 libdirectfb-1.2-9 libepub0 libflac++6 libgif4 libgpgme++2 libgps19 libhal-storage1 libhal1 libibus-qt1 libilmbase6 libindicate-qt0 libiodbc2 libk3b6 libkabc4 libkatepartinterfaces4 libkblog4 libkcal4 libkcddb4 libkdcraw8 libkde3support4 libkdecorations4 libkdecore5 libkdepim4 libkdesu5 libkdeui5 libkdewebkit5 libkdnssd4 libkephal4 libkexiv2-8 libkfile4 libkholidays4 libkhtml5 libkimap4 libkimproxy4 libkio5 libkipi7 libkjsapi4 libkjsembed4 libkldap4 libkleo4 libkmediaplayer4 libkmime4 libknewstuff2-4 libknewstuff3-4 libknotifyconfig4 libkntlm4 libkonq5 libkonq5-templates libkontactinterface4 libkopete4 libkparts4 libkpgp4 libkpimidentities4 libkpimtextedit4 libkpimutils4 libkpty4 libkresources4 libkrosscore4 libkrossui4 libksba8 libkscreensaver5 libksgrd4 libksieve4 libksignalplotter4 libktexteditor4 libktnef4 libktorrent-l10n libktorrent2 libkunitconversion4 libkutils4 libkwineffects1a libkworkspace4 libkxmlrpcclient4 liblastfm0 libloudmouth1-0 libmailtransport4 libmessagecore4 libmessagelist4 libmicroblog4 libmimelib4 libmng1 libmodplug1 libmpcdec6 libmsn0.3 libmysqlclient16 libnepomuk4 libnepomukquery4a libokularcore1 libopenexr6 libotr2 libpackagekit-glib2-14 libpackagekit-qt-14 libphonon4 libplasma-geolocation-interface4 libplasma3 libplasmaclock4b libplasmagenericshell4 libpolkit-qt-1-0 libpoppler-qt4-3 libprocesscore4a libprocessui4a libqalculate5 libqapt-runtime libqapt1 libqca2 libqca2-plugin-ossl libqgpgme1 libqimageblitz4 libqjson0 libqt4-dbus libqt4-designer libqt4-help libqt4-network libqt4-opengl libqt4-qt3support libqt4-script libqt4-scripttools libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-mysql libqt4-sql-sqlite libqt4-svg libqt4-test libqt4-xml libqt4-xmlpatterns libqtcore4 libqtgui4 libqtscript4-core libqtscript4-gui libqtscript4-network libqtscript4-sql libqtscript4-uitools libqtscript4-xml libqtwebkit4 libreadline5 libsolid4 libsolidcontrol4a libsolidcontrolifaces4 libsoprano4 libssh-4 libstreamanalyzer0 libstreams0 libsyndication4 libtag-extras1 libtaskmanager4a libtelepathy-qt4-0 libthreadweaver4 libts-0.0-0 libvirtodbc0 libvncserver0 libweather-ion4a libxcb-shape0 libxcb-xv0 libxine1 libxine1-bin libxine1-console libxine1-misc-plugins libxine1-x libzip1 mysql-client-core-5.1 mysql-common mysql-server-core-5.1 network-manager-pptp-kde odbcinst odbcinst1debian2 okular okular-extra-backends openoffice.org-kde openoffice.org-style-oxygen oxygen-cursor-theme oxygen-icon-theme oxygen-icon-theme-complete packagekit packagekit-backend-aptcc phonon phonon-backend-xine pinentry-gtk2 pinentry-qt4 plasma-dataengines-addons plasma-dataengines-workspace plasma-desktop plasma-netbook plasma-scriptengine-javascript plasma-scriptengine-python plasma-widget-facebook plasma-widget-folderview plasma-widget-kimpanel plasma-widget-kimpanel-backend-ibus plasma-widget-kubuntu-feedback plasma-widget-menubar plasma-widget-message-indicator plasma-widget-networkmanagement plasma-widget-quickaccess plasma-widgets-addons plasma-widgets-workspace plymouth-theme-kubuntu-logo plymouth-theme-kubuntu-text polkit-kde-1 printer-applet python-kde4 python-packagekit python-qt4 python-qt4-dbus python-sip qapt-batch quassel quassel-data rekonq shared-desktop-ontologies smartdimmer software-properties-kde soprano-daemon system-config-printer-kde systemsettings tsconf ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-extra update-manager-kde usb-creator-kde userconfig virtuoso-minimal virtuoso-opensource-6.1-bin virtuoso-opensource-6.1-common ; do sudo apt-get remove --purge -y "$i"; done

2011-01-02T12:25:00.000+05:00

sudo apt-get install xfce4-goodies
:D

Use apt-get behind a proxy

2010-12-26T14:43:00.000+05:00

/etc/apt/apt.conf:
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://x.x.x.x:port";

nautilus-script to hide files.

2010-12-03T20:39:00.001+05:00

#!/bin/bash

for i in "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS"
do
file=`echo $i|grep -oE '[^/]+$'`
path=`echo $i|grep -oE '^.+[/]'`
mv "${path}${file}" "${path}.${file}"
done

Using a proxy server for internet in the command prompt

2010-10-07T08:34:00.003+05:00

Either type into the prompt. or put at the end of .bashrc file:

export http_proxy=http://username:password@proxyserver.net:port/
export ftp_proxy=http://username:password@proxyserver.net:port/

automate taking screencaps

2010-08-28T20:19:00.004+05:00

Scenario: You want to take screen-shots of an application at regular intervals ( every 5 minutes ) and save it in a folder. The files are renamed with the current date and time.
There are many uses of this. If you want to archive graphs, or if you want to to monitor usage of the applications etc.

First you need to get the window-ID of the application window that you want to monitor:
run:

xwininfo

this will create a crosshair cursor,which when you click on the application will extract the ID.

Pass this window id into the following script. i have given 0x3a000, which is the windowID of the application i wanted to monitor.

Linux makes your life easy.

while [ 1 ]; do sleep 600;import -window 0x3a0004c -quality 40 /home/ishu/snaps/`date +%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S`.jpg; done

Google and T-Mobile Introduce Phone With PC Features

2008-09-24T00:27:00.000+05:00

In the latest of a string of challenges to Apple’s popular iPhone, Google and T-Mobile on Tuesday introduced the first mobile phone powered by Google’s Android software, which they hope will bring PC-like features to millions of cellphone users.

Automounting partitions

2008-05-11T20:14:00.004+05:00

For somereason Ubuntu doesnt automount my partitions and I've to click in Places for it to be mounted.
Incase anyone else has this prob and needs help. Hope this helps.

1)First we need to find where the partitions are in the partition table and the filesystem type.
sudo blkid
or

fdisk -l
vol_id [device]

2)then for each entry create a mountpoint in /media
e.g: mkdir Movies Work
chown User :Group Movies
for Ubuntu both user and group will be your login name.

3)then edit fstab
sudo vim /etc/fstab

e.g: for /dev/sda8 we get the UUID from "blkid" comand. "/media/Movies" is the mount point we created, then filesystemtype mount options etc.

#/dev/sda8
UUID=f32ca5ac-8155-477a-9124-b1ae43ac876d /media/Movies ext3 auto,user,exec,rw,async 0 0

Wine 1.0-rc1 Released

2008-05-10T07:23:00.004+05:00

After 15+ years in development the first release candidate of Wine released. Wine is a Software application which allows Unix-like ( Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD etc ) operating systems to execute programs written for Windows. It currently runs a large collection of Windows apps . -http://appdb.winehq.org/ . The final release will be on the 16th anniversary

Ubuntu Hardy Heron Released

2008-04-24T20:46:00.002+05:00

http://www.ubuntu.com/

i386: http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.04/ubuntu-8. ...
amd64: http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.04/ubuntu-8. ...

my KDE4 desktop

2008-04-07T23:13:00.003+05:00

Blue plasma theme with Analog clock, twitter and Picture plasmoids.

The KDE Plasma team is inviting everyone to participate in a contest to create Plasma themes from which a select few will be chosen to be included as a part of the upcoming KDE 4.1 release. This is a great opportunity to contribute to a very visible component of the KDE project, the Plasma desktop.
This is a good opportunity of exposure for the talented graphic desighners here in Maldives as well.

pidgin: view contacts by email

2008-04-02T05:22:00.001+05:00


#!/bin/bash
cd ~/.purple
sed -r '/<buddy/,/<\/buddy/s/(.*)<name>(.+)<\/name>/&\n\1<alias>\2<\/alias>/g' blist.xml >abclist.xml
mv abclist.xml blist.xml

How to change keyboards in Ubuntu ( How to type in Thaana )

2008-03-21T23:08:00.006+05:00

Add `keybord indicator` item to the panel.

Right click on the item and go to `Preferences`.

Click `Add` and select `Maldives`.

Now just click on the keybord indicator item to select Maldives and type away.

KDE4 on gnome

2008-03-16T18:15:00.002+05:00

This is how it looks like when I run a KDE 4.1 trunk build on gnome.