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Offline RSS Readers on Linux

Building an RSS reader must be some kind of rite of passage. Everybody has probably started one at one point. (Hey, I’ve done it too.) It seems easy enough, right? Unfortunately, it is pretty...

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Syndicated 2012-06-22 12:24:18 from The Daily Build

Quick & Dirty “sniffer” for when you don’t have tcpdump

I recently needed a way to test if packets were reaching a linux device I’m testing. The device didn’t have tcpdump installed, so I didn’t have a real sniffer. Fortunately all I...

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Syndicated 2012-06-09 00:55:08 from The Daily Build

Don’t Forget dmenu

When you install i3 on Ubuntu via apt-get install i3-wm, it should come with dmenu, but it doesn’t. Dmenu is a handy launcher that you can (by default) invoke with mod-d, then start typing the...

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Syndicated 2012-05-19 00:03:03 from The Daily Build

Moving Through i3 Workspaces

The default i3 config file only has commands to move to a specific numbered workspace (e.g. mod-1, mod-2). For better or worse, I’m in the habit of “traveling” through the workspace...

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Syndicated 2012-05-16 12:07:25 from The Daily Build

Getting dnsmasq, virtual machines (libvirt), and vpn to inter-operate

Fixing Dnsmasq to Work With Libvirt There’s a bug written in the Ubuntu tracker (and in Fedora too, I think) about running dnsmasq and libvirt at the same time. Basically, libvirt runs an...

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Syndicated 2012-05-15 11:43:50 from The Daily Build

Controlling Audio with i3

As I mentioned in the last post, I’ve switched to the i3 window manager. After fixing the Caps Lock key, the next order of business is getting the audio keys on my multimedia keyboard to...

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Syndicated 2012-05-12 12:52:46 from The Daily Build

Making Caps Lock an Additional Control in XWindows

Background: I just built a new computer, and “upgraded” to Ubuntu 12.04. I’ve been a fan of Ubuntu for a long time (first Debian, then Ubuntu because of the faster / more...

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Syndicated 2012-05-11 11:49:20 from The Daily Build

GTK3 Example Code

Over the past year or so I’ve been doing a fair bit of GUI programming — both in ${DAYJOB}s and otherwise. Until just recently most of my GUI experience has been with wxWidgets (and most...

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Syndicated 2012-05-07 09:38:18 from The Daily Build

User Interface Hall of Fame

A long, long time ago, I talked about a poor user interface. This is the follow-up “good user interface” post that I promised. I’d like to talk about Anki, which is a flashcard...

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Syndicated 2012-05-06 02:38:05 from The Daily Build

User Interface Hall of Shame

I’m taking MIT’s 6.831: User Interface Design and Implementation through their free OpenCourseWare website. One of the homework assignments is to find two examples each for the “UI...

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Syndicated 2012-02-22 15:06:11 from The Daily Build

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