So I've heard, but I don't use vim, so learning all that stuff to navigate firefox seems like a pain.
Totally worth it. Admittedly, I started switching to vim just before installing vimperator, but I still had to learn most of the commands, and it's worth spending a day or two. Vim-like keyboard control is even better than mouse gestures .
And yes, couple it with a tiling WM like awesome for an insanely, well, awesome experience. There are days I don't even use the mouse at all.
Though don't listen to me, I'm a vim nut nowadays 8-)
What is exactly is the text you want to put there? Because that's basically what Conky does; puts text on the desktop. Dynamic text, static text, you should be able to work anything in using Conky.
Also, I switched to using Vimperator, it's actually pretty cool. It works well with the hide tabbar plugin, because now it actually shows the tabbar. The only thing that annoys me with it is that I want the bottom cmdline to only show up when I'm using it. Yes, I'm that anal.
Basically I want to display notes, rss feeds (I have Twitter working but haven't had any luck with Facebook), and generic system info (kernel, username, uptime, cpu, ram, hdd space left and used, etc.).
Hmm, so how would I go about using .py scripts? Specifically to show what I'm hearing with Banshee.
Also, is it possible to have 2 different conky processes running at the same time, each with its own specific config? I'm thinking about having one for system info, music, etc., and another one for notes.
What about having text along more than one line? Is there a command for that?
Different conky configs are done by opening conky with: conky -c myconkyconfig
.py scripts are run by having python installed and then: python myscript
Inside conky I think that's still: exec python myscript
What do you mean having text along more that one line? Do you mean so that each line extends all the way to the other edge of the screen? You can do that, have a look at the link Joe posted, there are quite a few that does that.
I'm plotting a move to Ubuntu full time, but would love some replacements for a few non-multiplatform things:
1: Powertoy Calculator. It's pretty much a command line calculator, with an input similar to that of a graphing calculator.
2: Process Explorer. I really like its interface. I can get by with the process manager that ships with Ubuntu and the many derivatives of top, but would like something closer to PE.
3: Notepad++. Kate will probably do, but something built for gnome would be nice.
4: Filemon. I like being able to watch what programs are doing with files so I can identify problems more easily.
5: A good IRC client. xchat was big the last time I used Linux regularly, but I'm sure something has dethroned it by now.
6: A development environment on the level of simplicity of Visual Studio or SharpDevelop, with a focus on the GUI builder. Monodevelop and Gambas aren't anywhere close.
For the other 99%, I seem to have moved almost entirely to open source over the last 5 years without realizing it.
I'm plotting a move to Ubuntu full time, but would love some replacements for a few non-multiplatform things:
1: Powertoy Calculator. It's pretty much a command line calculator, with an input similar to that of a graphing calculator.
Have you taken a look at speedcrunch? It has support for variables, built-in functions, tab-completion, and history. It's also cross-platform.
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1: Have you tried just calc? edit: speedcrunch. Calc is waaay basic.
2: I only use htop, so I don't know. I'm not that fond of it though.
3: Leafpad will work, gedit with extensions is awesome.
4: Maybe systemtap? http://stapgui.sourceforge.net/ for the gui, original is CLI only.
5: xchat is still a viable choice, but there are just tons. It's probably going to come down to preference.
6: Eclipse?
I'm plotting a move to Ubuntu full time, but would love some replacements for a few non-multiplatform things:
1: Powertoy Calculator. It's pretty much a command line calculator, with an input similar to that of a graphing calculator.
Have you taken a look at speedcrunch? It has support for variables, built-in functions, tab-completion, and history. It's also cross-platform.
Wow, how'd I not know about that? Goodbye, powertoy calculator. I've found a new lover.
1: Have you tried just calc? edit: speedcrunch. Calc is waaay basic.
2: I only use htop, so I don't know. I'm not that fond of it though.
3: Leafpad will work, gedit with extensions is awesome.
4: Maybe systemtap? http://stapgui.sourceforge.net/ for the gui, original is CLI only.
5: xchat is still a viable choice, but there are just tons. It's probably going to come down to preference.
6: Eclipse?
I've never given Eclipse that close a look. I'll definitely dive into it when I switch over.
In short, conky is fucking amazing. It's only drawback is you can't interact with it; it can only display.
Granted, this also keeps its footprint awesomely low.
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Improv > Yeah, there's really no way to interact directly with conky, but you can pipe text files and such to it, so if you're a little handy with bash you can write a couple of scripts that will then interact with conky for you. I never really bothered. I also found that I didn't ever really read the info displayed there (save for the new email and such), it was mostly just showing off for people.
XChat is very much just XChat, there's not really that much in the way of innovation where IRC clients are concerned and it can pretty much match mIRC feature to feature.
Pretty much all text editors for Linux have syntax highlighting and auto indent. GEdit is the obvious choice for GNOME and it comes with it by default anyway, but frankly even vim has syntax highlighting.
XChat is very much just XChat, there's not really that much in the way of innovation where IRC clients are concerned and it can pretty much match mIRC feature to feature.
Pretty much all text editors for Linux have syntax highlighting and auto indent. GEdit is the obvious choice for GNOME and it comes with it by default anyway, but frankly even vim has syntax highlighting.
I'm liking Java so far. It's very comfortable coming from C#, and it'll actually run on other platforms without a third party runtime (as with C#, mono, and .net).
Is there any way for vimperator to show me the first couple of lines in a thread on this board like when I hover over the thread title with the mouse? I tried ;;, but that just focuses it.
5: A good IRC client. xchat was big the last time I used Linux regularly, but I'm sure something has dethroned it by now.
If you don't mind using a terminal client (you shouldn't, they really are very comfortable and fast), I recommend either irssi or weechat. Irssi is more configurable and if you put some heart into it, it works amazingly. On the other hand, weechat has really, really good defaults. I personally use weechat but the decision is really just a matter of preference.
As far as GUI clients go, I am very partial to x-chat and can recommend it, though it has a few quirks.
So I'm playing videos over the network by opening them from a mounted Samba drive with VLC. The problem is that there's a lot of glitches and increasing the cache doesn't seem to help at all. Should I be using a different media player, using some sort of streaming software, or what?
What happened to my panel?
I'm using Eeebuntu with removed window decorations using compiz and the panel is usually set to hide. I tried to move a window with alt-click, missed (shut up), and seemed to have grabbed the panel. It is now missing. I even restarted to see if I could find it again. I couldn't. It seems that the left edge of my screen is no jagged. I've tried to pull the panel out of it, but I can't seem to.
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Haven't seen any problems with flash at all on my end in Ubuntu 9.04.
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64-bit Flash 10 is pretty solid. It just uses more CPU than is perhaps necessary.
Ditto. No problems with it at all.
32-bit Flash routinely brings my laptop to its knees when loading multiple instances (I'm looking at you, guardian.co.uk), but it is a teeny tiny tablet with a mobile Celeron processor and 256MB of RAM. I would not be in the least surprised if there are more powerful mobile phones.
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And yes, couple it with a tiling WM like awesome for an insanely, well, awesome experience. There are days I don't even use the mouse at all.
Though don't listen to me, I'm a vim nut nowadays 8-)
Hmm, can you do it with conky? I'm not a conky expert and don't really know how to work with it, sorry. :oops:
Also, I switched to using Vimperator, it's actually pretty cool. It works well with the hide tabbar plugin, because now it actually shows the tabbar. The only thing that annoys me with it is that I want the bottom cmdline to only show up when I'm using it. Yes, I'm that anal.
edit: try working off of something like this:
background yes use_xft yes xftfont HandelGotD:size=8 xftalpha 0.5 update_interval 1.0 total_run_times 0 own_window yes own_window_type normal own_window_transparent yes own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager double_buffer yes minimum_size 170 5 maximum_width 190 draw_shades no draw_outline no draw_borders no draw_graph_borders yes default_color aaaaaa default_shade_color red default_outline_color green alignment top_right gap_x 5 gap_y 5 no_buffers yes uppercase no cpu_avg_samples 2 override_utf8_locale no TEXT SYSTEM ${hr 2} ${alignc 42}${font Arial Black:size=16}Hare Krishna!${font} ${voffset 2}${font Arial Black:style=Bold:size=12}#!${font} CrunchBang Linux ${alignr}08.10.01 ${font OpenLogos:size=16}u${font} Kernel: ${alignr}${kernel} ${font StyleBats:size=16}A${font} CPU: ${cpu cpu0}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu0 8,60} ${font StyleBats:size=16}g${font} RAM: $memperc% ${alignr}${membar 8,60} ${font StyleBats:size=16}j${font} SWAP: $swapperc% ${alignr}${swapbar 8,60} ${font StyleBats:size=16}q${font} Uptime: ${alignr}${uptime} PROCESSES ${hr 2} NAME $alignr PID CPU ${top name 1} $alignr ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top name 2} $alignr ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top name 3} $alignr ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top name 4} $alignr ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top name 5} $alignr ${top pid 5} ${top cpu 5} ${top name 6} $alignr ${top pid 6} ${top cpu 6} ${top name 7} $alignr ${top pid 7} ${top cpu 7} ${top name 8} $alignr ${top pid 8} ${top cpu 8} HD ${hr 2} ${voffset 4}${font Pie charts for maps:size=14}7${font} ${voffset -5}Root: ${alignr}${fs_bar 8,60 /} ${font Pie charts for maps:size=14}7${font} ${voffset -5}Global: ${alignr}${fs_bar 8,60 /home/karlos/global} KEYBINDINGS ${hr 2} Alt+F2$alignr Run Dialog Alt+F3$alignr Alt Menu Super+space$alignr Main Menu Super+t$alignr Terminal Super+f$alignr File Manager Super+e$alignr Editor Super+m$alignr Media Player Super+w$alignr Web Browser Super+g$alignr Graphics Editor Super+l$alignr Lock Screen Super+v$alignr Volume Control Super+x$alignr Logout PrtSc$alignr Screenshot NETWORK ${hr 2} ${voffset -6}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}O${font} Up: ${upspeed eth0} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E} ${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}U${font} Down: ${downspeed eth0} kb/s ${alignr}${downspeedgraph eth0 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E} ${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}N${font} Upload: ${alignr}${totalup eth0} ${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}T${font} Download: ${alignr}${totaldown eth0} ${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}a${font} Local Ip: ${alignr}${addr eth0}http://travist120.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/the-first-conky-twitter-client-zomg/
And also for facebook:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1254740.html
Also, is it possible to have 2 different conky processes running at the same time, each with its own specific config? I'm thinking about having one for system info, music, etc., and another one for notes.
What about having text along more than one line? Is there a command for that?
PS - Thanks for the links everyone!
.py scripts are run by having python installed and then: python myscript
Inside conky I think that's still: exec python myscript
What do you mean having text along more that one line? Do you mean so that each line extends all the way to the other edge of the screen? You can do that, have a look at the link Joe posted, there are quite a few that does that.
1: Powertoy Calculator. It's pretty much a command line calculator, with an input similar to that of a graphing calculator.
2: Process Explorer. I really like its interface. I can get by with the process manager that ships with Ubuntu and the many derivatives of top, but would like something closer to PE.
3: Notepad++. Kate will probably do, but something built for gnome would be nice.
4: Filemon. I like being able to watch what programs are doing with files so I can identify problems more easily.
5: A good IRC client. xchat was big the last time I used Linux regularly, but I'm sure something has dethroned it by now.
6: A development environment on the level of simplicity of Visual Studio or SharpDevelop, with a focus on the GUI builder. Monodevelop and Gambas aren't anywhere close.
For the other 99%, I seem to have moved almost entirely to open source over the last 5 years without realizing it.
1: Have you tried just calc? edit: speedcrunch. Calc is waaay basic.
2: I only use htop, so I don't know. I'm not that fond of it though.
3: Leafpad will work, gedit with extensions is awesome.
4: Maybe systemtap? http://stapgui.sourceforge.net/ for the gui, original is CLI only.
5: xchat is still a viable choice, but there are just tons. It's probably going to come down to preference.
6: Eclipse?
Wow, how'd I not know about that? Goodbye, powertoy calculator. I've found a new lover.
I've never given Eclipse that close a look. I'll definitely dive into it when I switch over.
In short, conky is fucking amazing. It's only drawback is you can't interact with it; it can only display.
Granted, this also keeps its footprint awesomely low.
So did MS just copy Java almost verbatim for C#? Even the exception handler is familiar.
Improv > Yeah, there's really no way to interact directly with conky, but you can pipe text files and such to it, so if you're a little handy with bash you can write a couple of scripts that will then interact with conky for you. I never really bothered. I also found that I didn't ever really read the info displayed there (save for the new email and such), it was mostly just showing off for people.
It did work wonders at that, though.
XChat is very much just XChat, there's not really that much in the way of innovation where IRC clients are concerned and it can pretty much match mIRC feature to feature.
Pretty much all text editors for Linux have syntax highlighting and auto indent. GEdit is the obvious choice for GNOME and it comes with it by default anyway, but frankly even vim has syntax highlighting.
I'm liking Java so far. It's very comfortable coming from C#, and it'll actually run on other platforms without a third party runtime (as with C#, mono, and .net).
irssi within a screen with nicklist.pl, nickcolor.pl & some friendly aliases. Do not get scared away by the fact it's in terminal.
Geany is amazing. It's one of the first programs I always install.
If you don't mind using a terminal client (you shouldn't, they really are very comfortable and fast), I recommend either irssi or weechat. Irssi is more configurable and if you put some heart into it, it works amazingly. On the other hand, weechat has really, really good defaults. I personally use weechat but the decision is really just a matter of preference.
As far as GUI clients go, I am very partial to x-chat and can recommend it, though it has a few quirks.
I'm using Eeebuntu with removed window decorations using compiz and the panel is usually set to hide. I tried to move a window with alt-click, missed (shut up), and seemed to have grabbed the panel. It is now missing. I even restarted to see if I could find it again. I couldn't. It seems that the left edge of my screen is no jagged. I've tried to pull the panel out of it, but I can't seem to.
It works, but is still prone to crashing. I use it in a separate browser that's dedicated for viewing flash content.
Trust me.
For some reason, I still love Konqueror as my main browser
Because Chromium is sexy.
And it has a ridiculously fast javascript rendering engine, though that doesn't do anything for flash.
Silly panel.
Really though, sudo bash olly olly oxen free panel should have made it pop back up.
It's simply fast. Firefox drags a lot on my netbook (901).
Ditto. No problems with it at all.
32-bit Flash routinely brings my laptop to its knees when loading multiple instances (I'm looking at you, guardian.co.uk), but it is a teeny tiny tablet with a mobile Celeron processor and 256MB of RAM. I would not be in the least surprised if there are more powerful mobile phones.
Since what works for me works for you, I'm willing to try it the other way.