Ah, PulseAudio. A brief description for those unfamiliar with it: As described on the PulseAudio page: PulseAudio is a sound system for POSIX OSes, meaning that it is […]
Control Pulseaudio from the Command Line – Ruby Script
For reasons far too tedious to go into here1 I needed to control PulseAudio’s volume (and toggle mute) from the command line. I eventually found a Ruby script […]
Updated conkybar – with commented scripts
The setup in question I got some comments when posted a few screenshots of my current conky bar, which I’ve optimized a bit since the last time I […]
Simpe BASH wrapper script to test if you’re online or not
This falls squarely in the “small annoyances” category. More and more wifi hotspots will let you connect – but not access anything until you log in. Sometimes, I […]
Get external IP address at hotspot – with some error checking
In my conky setup, I call a file inet_test. It’s a bash script, made executable and called by conky. The core of it is getting an address from […]
Informative, unobtrusive, minimalistic conky bar
I use conky to make a nice informative bar across the top of my screen (click to embiggen): Lots of cool, useful info I like to have at […]