Installing Openbox

March 24, 2024March 24, 2024 — Uncategorized — 1 min read

sudo apt install openbox obconf

(and for arch:)

sudo pacman -S xorg-xdm openbox xorg obconf

sudo apt install xcompmgr cairo-dock

cd ~/.config

mkdir openbox

cd openbox

touch autostart

nano autostart

xcompmgr & cairo-dock &

sudo logout

sudo apt install nitrogen

Yeah.. I’m using Arch btw.

March 4, 2024March 4, 2024 — Uncategorized — 1 min read

Okay, it’s Archcraft, but still.. Let’s get Vivaldi going.

sudo pacman -S wget
...
wget https://downloads.vivaldi.com/snapshot/install-vivaldi.sh
...
cd Downloads
...
sudo sh install-vivaldi.sh
To uninstall, issue the following as root (or prefaced with sudo):

    /usr/local/bin/remove-vivaldi-snapshot.sh

Time to feed the fish. #ASCIIquarium

April 21, 2023April 21, 2023 — Uncategorized — 1 min read

## Prerequisites ##

sudo apt install libcurses-perl
cd /tmp
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/K/KB/KBAUCOM/Term-Animation-2.6.tar.gz
tar -zxvf Term-Animation-2.6.tar.gz
perl Makefile.PL &&  make &&   make test
sudo make install

## And then ##
#cd /tmp (if you're not already there)
wget --no-check-certificate http://www.robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium/asciiquarium.tar.gz
tar -zxvf asciiquarium.tar.gz
cd asciiquarium_1.1
sudo cp asciiquarium /usr/local/bin/
sudo chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/asciiquarium
asciiquarium

Locales? NO LOCALES!!

March 8, 2023March 8, 2023 — Uncategorized — 1 min read

Having a little

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_MEASUREMENT = “en_GB.UTF-8”,
LANG = “en_US.UTF-8”
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale (“en_US.UTF-8”).
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

?

No worries.

$ sudo locale-gen
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Word of the Day Series I

March 7, 2023March 7, 2023 — Uncategorized — 1 min read

parsimonious pär″sə-mō′nē-əs adjective Excessively sparing or frugal.

Comodo Linux Setup

January 18, 2023January 18, 2023 — Uncategorized — 1 min read

Thank you: https://rahulchandna.com/posts/linux-comodo-antivirus-libssl-error-fix/

Learn to type

January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 — Uncategorized — 2 min read

https://www.makeuseof.com/master-touch-typing-ktouch-linux/

TT:

To install tt on any Linux distribution, run the following commands on a terminal emulator of your choice:

sudo curl -L https://github.com/lemnos/tt/releases/download/v0.4.2/tt-linux -o /usr/local/bin/tt && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/tt
sudo curl -o /usr/share/man/man1/tt.1.gz -L https://github.com/lemnos/tt/releases/download/v0.4.2/tt.1.gz

To start a new typing test on the Linux terminal, run the tt command in this manner:

tt

To specify the number of words you need in the test, use the -n flag followed by the number. The command given below will generate a test consisting of 35 words:

tt -n 35

You can also choose to classify the words into separate groups. For example, if you want to break down 50 words into five groups of 10 words each, you can run the command like this:

tt -n 10 -g 5

In the above command, the -n flag denotes the number of words in each group, and the -g flag denotes the number of groups that constitute the test.

If you don’t prefer typing random words and want something meaningful instead, you can take a typing test with English quotes instead. Here’s how you can do that: