From time to time, I feel like tweaking my CTWM configuration file for Linux. What I have is delightfully old school — big borders, sharp corners, window buttons that look like they’re out of the 1980s. (That’s not far off.) “Industrial brutalism,” I called it. Maybe I should add a Conky? I thought. Conky isContinue reading “Tweaking the Settings”
Category Archives: Linux
Resurrecting a Long Lost Linux Mint Application
I “vibe coded” a Linux application into existence. When I spoke with a hiring manager on the phone a few weeks ago, he suggested that I dip my toes into the AI waters, maybe take one of my coding projects for Diamond and rework that with AI assistance. I went in a different direction, takingContinue reading “Resurrecting a Long Lost Linux Mint Application”
Cold Enough to Exterminate Your Winnebago
A pretty day today. Pity about the bloody cold. The streets have been sprayed with chemicals, so there’s apparently more wintry precipitation on its way. Joy. A few months ago, while looking for Doctor Who desktop wallpapers, I found this amusing wallpaper — iExterminate. It is, exactly as you see above, a Dalek, wearing earphonesContinue reading “Cold Enough to Exterminate Your Winnebago”
Occasionally Clever
Occasionally, I have a good idea, and occasionally, I can make it work. Case in point. Sometimes I will use an old and obscure window manager for Linux called WMX. It’s minimalist and spartan. No panels, no background, barely a menu. It can launch a terminal and scroll through workspaces. You can set up aContinue reading “Occasionally Clever”
Customizing XScreenSaver
Who doesn’t love a good screensaver? I’ve been a fan of 3D Pipes going all the back to Windows 95, and I hypothetically might possibly have hacked my computer at Diamond using a Linux live USB to put 3D Pipes onto that Windows 10 machine. Possibly. I can neither confirm or deny. On Linux Mint,Continue reading “Customizing XScreenSaver”
Five Below’s Peanuts Snow Water Speaker
I needed to go to the grocery store this afternoon, and after I went next door to Five Below to have a look around. Today being Halloween, they had their Christmas sections set up, and as I was on my way out the door, something caught my attention. The Peanuts Snow Water Speaker. Snoopy inContinue reading “Five Below’s Peanuts Snow Water Speaker”
Fun with Virtual Machines
Normal people do not run Emacs or build XMMS, a multimedia player, from source in a Linux Mint 5 virtual machine, but, my friends, I am not normal people. FWIW, I’m listening to WFMT’s “Vince Guaraldi’s Christmas Gift to Jazz,” an hour-long program with some Guaraldi music and covers of his music for A CharlieContinue reading “Fun with Virtual Machines”
Gentle Waves
Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 released this week, and I upgraded my two machines on Friday. I’ve still been toying with the WMX window manager, and as I did with EndeavourOS, I integrated Rofi menus into the workflow, using the scripts created by Aditya Shakya (and available on GitHub here. I made a custom colorContinue reading “Gentle Waves”
The Dying Days of Windows 10
These are the dying days of Windows 10. It doesn’t really bother me; I made my transition to the land of Tux (the penguin) and Xenia (the transfem fox), in other words, Linux, several years ago, in fits and starts, then much more firmly after the ransonware attack on Diamond. Oh, my computer has WindowsContinue reading “The Dying Days of Windows 10”
And Now, EndeavourOS
It took a little elbow grease to get the WMX window manager working on EndeavourOS, but after the experimentation to make the window frames dark instead of light it wasn’t anything difficult at all. And since my EndeavourOS setup runs the i3 window manager, I had rofi already installed, so I set up a launcherContinue reading “And Now, EndeavourOS”