My current Desktop

2007-07-16

Screenshot

Because the default window-manager in Gnome (Metacity) refuses to adhere to the contemporary X standards for window movement and resizinging, or even make it possible to, I decided to give the beryl 3D windowmanager a try.

These are the standard way of moving and resizing windows under X:

• Alt+Mouse1="move window"
• Alt+Mouse3="resize window"

Beryl is absolutely beautiful. And I think I'll actually stick with it for a while.

• Gnome Theme = Gorilla
• Beryl Emerald Theme = frame (by pomalin)

Scalable Vector Graphics

2007-07-15

Slackware DVD-cover

I created this normal-size DVD-coverimage using inkscape 0.45 on Ubuntu 7.04. Designing this cover was a great opportunity to learn a little more about SVG.

Link to the actual Scalable Vector Graphics file:

slack-dvd-cover.svg.

A point not to be forgotten is that the penquin-graphics and the Slackware-button were not created by me. The Slackified Tux-image was taken from the Slackware propagande site: http://www.slackware.com/~msimons/slackware/grfx/ and the Slackware button was found somewhere on the internet.

Oh... lest I forget - the background tile was snatched in its entirety from the slackware website. It's all more of a composition really...

Emacs - Edit MACroS

2006-10-23

Emacs Configuration

Emacs can be hard to handle at times. And I have a tendency to forget my personal configuration whenever I reinstall Linux so I'm putting my emacs-configuration on my webpage. For future reference.

Emacs Config-File

Quite a bit of it is probably just standard ubuntu-configuration. Look to the comments for guidence.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

Fetchmail

2006-10-23

Fetchmail

Fetchmail is a commandline tool for downloading your emails from a remote server to your localhost. Since the graphical configuration tool never worked for me under ubuntu I was forced to manually configure fetchmail, this is not particularly difficult but I keep forgetting the proper formatting. so...

Fetchmail Config-File

http://fetchmail.berlios.de/

FVWM2

2006-10-23

FVWM2 Configuration

I can't remember how many times I've started over from scratch with this one! I always misplace this configuration file but only after spending hours on makin FVWM2 do something cool. This time... Things are going to be different.

FVWM2 Config-File

I my case this file is supposed to reside withing the "~/.fvwm/" directory. Emacs inspired.

http://www.fvwm.org

Two more...

2006-10-23

TWM & CTWM

Two lightweight WindowManagers

These windowmanagers are perfect for use on a resource hungry system. There is some kind of zen-like beauty about them that makes me want to use them every now and again.

TWM Config-File  --   CTWM Config-File

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twm

http://ctwm.free.lp.se/

GTK/Metacity Configuration

2006-10-25

gtk2 & metacity Configuration

I love this gtk2-theme! It makes the desktop warmer and easier on the eyes

gtk-theme:

cde-motif

GTK2-cde-motif.tar.gz

window-border: mist (gnome-builtin)

background:The-Good-Times-1.jpg (kde-builtin)

http://art.gnome.org

Palm related script

2006-10-25

Palm scripts

I figured I'd throw in the scripts I use with my palm tungsten e. You never know when you are going to need stuff like this.

palm-mail.sh Script that I use to:
1. start fetchmail
2. start pop3d
3. establish a ppp connection to the palm.
4. let the palm download the mail.
5. then kill pop3d & pppd.

palm-ppp.sh
Basically a script I use to connect the palm to the internet through the desktop machine using ppp.

Both of these scripts are based on different things I picked up on the internet and they are not very well written - but they do the job.