Localtime is a small, light-weight go daemon for keeping the timezone up-to-date. It uses geoclue2 and systemd-timedated to do all the heavy lifting so it’s able to run with minimal privileges. See the project page for more information.

Yet another screenshot. This time with bspwm and bar (rendered with overkill).

I have been working on a project I call overkill for the past few months or so. It’s is a publish-subscribe framework (or a functional-reactive programming framework if you want to use the latest buzz word) for collecting and distributing information on a local machine. Personally, I use it to generate my status bar (hence the name, overkill). See the project page for more information.

I have finally got around to making a git repository for my configuration files.

Here they are: http://github.com/Stebalien/dotfiles

Caveat lector: I wrote this post in high school; it’s likely outdated and poorly written.

Although I no longer use packagekit, I still have my apturl script so I thought I would post it. This script will allow you to open apt:// scripts with packagekit. (Just save this to a file, mark it executable, and tell your browser to open apt scripts with it).

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/gpk-install-package-name $(echo $* | sed -e 's/apt:\/\?\/\?//')

Caveat lector: I wrote this post in high school; it’s likely outdated and poorly written.

cdd: cd and list the files.

function cdd(){ cd $*  ls --color}

changelog: get the change log for a program

changelog() {
    log=/usr/share/doc/"$*"/changelog*
    if [ -r $log ]; then
        less $log
        unset log
    else
        log=/usr/share/doc/"$*"/CHANGELOG*
        if [ -r $log ]; then
            less $log
        fi
    fi
}

mkdircd: make a directory and move in.

function mkdircd() {
  mkdir $* cd ${!#}
}

Caveat lector: I wrote this post in high school; it’s likely outdated and poorly written.

I have been trying Arch Linux in VirtualBox and will probably switch when I get around to it (or at least duel boot along with Ubuntu).

Here is what it looks like so far; if you have any questions about tools, configs, etc., ask and I will post.

Caveat lector: I wrote this post in high school; it’s likely outdated and poorly written.

Every time I logged in, conky would start up before nautilus loaded the desktop. This caused conky to load as a floating window that stayed on top of all other windows. I have finally gotten around to fixing this problem.

Here (gone, email if found) is a simple python script that waits for nautilus to load the desktop before starting conky.

I stored the script referenced in this post in a paste-bin and now it’s gone. Live and learn…

This script is probably very inefficient but it gets the job done.

Caveat lector: I wrote this post in high school; it’s likely outdated and poorly written.

For those who don’t know, Caffeine is a small program for Linux that lets a user prevent his or her computer from entering a power save state. If a user wishes, he or she can even configure caffeine to automatically inhibit power-saving when watching a flash movie, or running VLC, Totem etc. For more information, visit its website here.

As a user of both Caffeine and the new Humanity icon theme (the default icon theme in karmic), I made a very basic gray-scale version of the Caffeine icon. You can download it here.

> Caveat lector: I wrote this post in high school; it’s likely outdated and poorly written.

Annoyingly, as karmic has mostly switched to Upstart, it does not include a service manager. While I hope that the gnome service-manager will be updated to include support for upstart soon I have, for the interim, written a very simple service manager.

Be warned: When I say “very simple” I mean “very simple, noob unfriendly, and potentially dangerous”. While it should not harm your computer, I make no guarantees because it is my first PyGTK program and was written in my spare time over a couple of days. A word of warning, the code is very messy and inefficient (understatement).

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