More GNU screen Tweaks

I had a little time yesterday afternoon at lunch and last night while watching MNF to work on a few things I’ve had on the back burner. In a nutshell, I’ve wanted to further tie things together in screen with some kind of menuing. GNU screen allows users to set up keybindings to launch new [...]

Update on my BSD blog

I’ve written an update on my BSD blog. I’m only going to add the same appeal here that I made there relating to the recent hurricanes:
I’m grateful my friends and family have mostly been spared the worst of the damage. There are many people, though, who will need assistance getting their lives back together or [...]

A Quick Ratmen Tutorial

This is in response to linuxam’s question about ratmen, which I also use in other window managers.
First, you have to keep in mind that ratmen isn’t a menu program in the normal sense of the word. It’s basically a command line invocation, which is why users get the general command syntax when typing ratmen. This [...]

Trimming Initial Resource Drain in DSL

This is using the stock DSL 2.4.31 kernel, which is more bloated than my custom per-machine kernels.
Before ensuring extraneous processes aren’t started and extraneous modules aren’t loaded at boot:

Actually, that’s with ntfs and reiserfs removed from /etc/filesystems and (to make damn sure) modprobe -r for each in bootlocal.sh (DSL’s rc.local hack, made necessary by the [...]

Experimenting with mksh in DSL

I’ve been experimenting with shells (which will be the subject of my next productivity tip) while playing with DSL and dslcore. I’m looking for something that’s still responsive and “snappy” while providing more features than ash. Nothing against ash. It’s functional. Minimally functional.
If dslcore has a shell with a little more flexibility and power, maybe [...]

Productivity Tips : cron, at, scripting

I originally was going to do this in separate posts, but with my schedule getting crazier, I decided to combine a couple things into one post.
Every user should learn how to use cron and at. These are daemons that automate tasks; the main difference between them being that cron is used for repeating events [...]

screenrc, ratpoisonrc

Looking through more of my stats, it’s apparent I’m getting more hits for (a) jwm themes and (b) content related to GNU screen and ratpoison/dwm.
Here are current versions of my .screenrc and .ratpoisonrc files. Neither is extremely lengthy because I’ve streamlined my app selection and dmenu makes launching things a lot easier than setting up [...]

More of My Stuff, More GPL, No More Community

In addition to compiling gpg (etc.) yesterday afternoon, I went ahead and grabbed the last GTK1 sources for Sylpheed and compiled with gpg support.

I compiled all the above to /opt so I could submit for MyDSL. That may or may not occur now. I asked yesterday that my submissions licensed under GPL be withdrawn from [...]

Weekend Screenshot

I’ve had more than enough of dealing with difficult and irrational people over the last day or two. I’m going to kick back and compile some stuff, enjoying my freedom to compile code for my own use as I see fit and not being forced, coerced, manipulated, or limited to a developer’s ideas of what [...]

My Low-End Set Up

I’m finding set ups that really work well for me and my low-end hardware. My present little piece of ancient computing nirvana is the following environment:

running gnu screen within X (kdrive from DSL)
using vifm by itself and within vim
elinks most of the time, Opera when I need graphics
snownews for rss
mplayer (no gui) to stream audio

This isn’t my [...]