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Cool things I learned recently.....tools, tips & tricks...please add your own

Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 2:58 pm
by BitterTruth
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Some cool tools I learned about whilst doing some troubleshooting:

1) dm-tool (tool to communicate with the LightDM display manager. Gives you info about your session)

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dm-tool list-seats
gives you output similar to:

loginctl

but whilst booted into sysv (loginctl will only work when booted with systemd)

2) xfce4-power-manager --dump (lets you see what your user is authorised to in terms of power management)

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~$ xfce4-power-manager --dump
---------------------------------------------------
       Xfce power manager version 1.6.5
With policykit support
With network manager support
---------------------------------------------------
Can suspend: True
Can hibernate: True
Authorised to suspend: True
Authorised to hibernate: True
Authorised to shutdown: True
Has battery: True
Has brightness panel: True
Has power button: True
Has hibernate button: True
Has sleep button: True
Has battery button: True
Has LID: True
****xfce4-power-manager --debug let's you see even more detailed info/settings but the power manager must not be running:
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/faq

3) qdbusviewer (graphical tool that let's you explore the D-Bus settings on your system - i.e. to see the settings that an app is exposing for other apps to interact with)

I think the command line version (qdbus) is installed by default, but the qdbusviewer needs 3 dependencies (make sure to get the dev-tool packages and not just the ones apt installs)

4) grep tool can be used to SEARCH WITHIN FILES WITHOUT OPENING THEM
e.g. here I am searching my autostart directory to see which applications are autostarting but don't show up in the menus like in 'SESSION & STARTUP'

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~$ grep -R 'NoDisplay=true' /etc/xdg/autostart
/etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop:NoDisplay=true
/etc/xdg/autostart/spice-vdagent.desktop:NoDisplay=true
/etc/xdg/autostart/xdg-user-dirs.desktop:NoDisplay=true
/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.desktop:NoDisplay=true
/etc/xdg/autostart/onboard-autostart.desktop:NoDisplay=true
/etc/xdg/autostart/zz-at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop:NoDisplay=true
/etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop:NoDisplay=true
/etc/xdg/autostart/cleanup-notifier-mx.desktop:NoDisplay=true
/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-secrets.desktop:NoDisplay=true
/etc/xdg/autostart/geoclue-demo-agent.desktop:NoDisplay=true
/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.DiskUtilityNotify.desktop:NoDisplay=true
/etc/xdg/autostart/user-dirs-update-gtk.desktop:NoDisplay=true
PLEASE ADD YOUR OWN (THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE RECENT)

Re: Cool things I learned recently.....tools, tips & tricks...please add your own

Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 4:52 am
by remfan1994
ever read the vim manual? it's really powerful and has many robust features. for example, if you have the courage you could almost use its windowing system as an alternative for screen/tmux.
attached is a screenshot

Re: Cool things I learned recently.....tools, tips & tricks...please add your own

Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 5:22 am
by Adrian
Not sure if it fits your proposed theme, but I've been trying to play with new tools that replace regular tools, for example:
- install "zoxide" and use "z" or alias that to "cd" for changing directory.
- use "exa" insead of "ls"
- use "dfc' instead of "df', or use "duf" instead of "du"
- actually, talking about shell commands, even use "fish" shell instead of "bash". Autocompletion is so good.
- not really related to the theme, but a very cool app "magic-wormhole" for sending files from one computer to another, or "croc" alternative. Talking about moving/syncing files, "syncthing" is great.

Re: Cool things I learned recently.....tools, tips & tricks...please add your own

Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 11:25 am
by BitterTruth
@Adrian It's all good. Anything that helps with your workflow or that you've found to be useful or a more efficient way of doing things is all good.

@remfan1994 A bit too powerful for me, lol. I find it hard to get my head around it (I tired a few times) but since I don't do a lot of coding/scripting, I stick to nano. Anything different you're doing with it?

Re: Cool things I learned recently.....tools, tips & tricks...please add your own

Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 11:48 am
by thomasl
Good idea, this. Could/should throw up some interesting things. Here's a collection of stuff I very much rely on... a little CLI oriented.

https://github.com/sharkdp/fd : replacement for find command (not as many options, but easier to use and superfast). fsearch is similar but has a GUI: https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch

https://github.com/wummel/patool and https://github.com/moonpyk/dtrx : quick and easy archive extraction

https://github.com/ms-jpq/sad and https://github.com/chmln/sd : file search and replace

https://github.com/veeso/termscp : terminal file transfers. Also https://rclone.org/ for (almost) everything cloud-related.

https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep : faster, more powerful grep

Nothing (IMO) beats zsh and its completion: https://zsh.sourceforge.io/

Then there's espanso for system-wide text expansion. This is the app I install first (OK, after zsh ;) ): https://github.com/federico-terzi/espanso It does a lot more than simple text expansion, also supports regex expansions and interactive forms. Not the easiest proggy to get to grips with, but enormously powerful.

https://github.com/Alexey-T/CudaText : superb multi-platform text editor

http://www.disk-editor.org/ : powerful raw disk editor.

Re: Cool things I learned recently.....tools, tips & tricks...please add your own

Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 12:08 pm
by Adrian
Yeah, forgot, I use dtrx too, I think we added by default to MX.

I also use "ack" as a modern alternative for "grep", I mean I can use grep -R for recurrent searches but for some reason ack seems to do a faster/better job, if nothing else it saves me 4 characters to type :grin:
Nothing (IMO) beats zsh and its completion
I tried zsh before fish and it's nice but fish has I think better autocompletion out of the box, and in general the experience OOTB is better, I can get zsh to do pretty much what fish does, but I need a hefty .zshrc file. zsh has the advantage for being more compatible with bash, fish is its own animal that's not POSIX compatible but it does have some nice features like having lazy functions that are loaded only when used, and "abbr" which are nicer than aliases (an abbreviation expands the command automatically at the prompt so you have a nice history with the full command not with a maybe weird abbreviation).

Re: Cool things I learned recently.....tools, tips & tricks...please add your own

Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 1:22 pm
by thomasl
Adrian wrote: Sun Jul 14, 2024 12:08 pmI tried zsh before fish and it's nice but fish has I think better autocompletion out of the box, and in general the experience OOTB is better, I can get zsh to do pretty much what fish does, but I need a hefty .zshrc file.
I agree that zsh needs quite some TLC before it does what it's supposed to do. But its completion engine is just amazing... and, once you've understood how it works (not trivial alas), writing own completions is pretty straightforward.

I did try fish but I just found it "strange" ;) Too much bash, I suppose.

Re: Cool things I learned recently.....tools, tips & tricks...please add your own

Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 2:27 pm
by rokytnji.1

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harry@antiX:~
$ sudo ps_mem.py ; pstree -a; pinxi -bop
 Private  +   Shared  =  RAM used	Program

152.0 KiB +  32.5 KiB = 184.5 KiB	seatd
192.0 KiB +  15.5 KiB = 207.5 KiB	gpm
220.0 KiB +  39.5 KiB = 259.5 KiB	init
304.0 KiB +  27.5 KiB = 331.5 KiB	acpid
296.0 KiB +  43.5 KiB = 339.5 KiB	cron
352.0 KiB +  75.5 KiB = 427.5 KiB	dbus-launch
264.0 KiB + 175.5 KiB = 439.5 KiB	pipewire-start
372.0 KiB +  97.5 KiB = 469.5 KiB	icewm-session
372.0 KiB + 124.5 KiB = 496.5 KiB	udevil
428.0 KiB + 105.5 KiB = 533.5 KiB	rpc.statd
520.0 KiB +  32.5 KiB = 552.5 KiB	rpc.idmapd
476.0 KiB + 100.5 KiB = 576.5 KiB	rpcbind
160.0 KiB + 538.0 KiB = 698.0 KiB	saned (2)
484.0 KiB + 413.0 KiB = 897.0 KiB	avahi-daemon (2)
764.0 KiB + 179.5 KiB = 943.5 KiB	gconfd-2
644.0 KiB + 333.5 KiB = 977.5 KiB	devmon
824.0 KiB + 335.5 KiB =   1.1 MiB	desktop-session
832.0 KiB + 464.5 KiB =   1.3 MiB	at-spi-bus-launcher
876.0 KiB + 454.0 KiB =   1.3 MiB	getty (6)
  1.2 MiB + 337.5 KiB =   1.6 MiB	upowerd
924.0 KiB + 710.0 KiB =   1.6 MiB	sudo (2)
  1.6 MiB +  21.5 KiB =   1.7 MiB	sshd
  1.3 MiB + 347.5 KiB =   1.7 MiB	dbus-daemon (3)
  1.7 MiB +  26.5 KiB =   1.7 MiB	smartd
  1.5 MiB + 383.5 KiB =   1.9 MiB	bash
  1.8 MiB + 105.5 KiB =   1.9 MiB	connmand
  1.5 MiB + 718.5 KiB =   2.2 MiB	pipewire-pulse
  2.1 MiB + 171.5 KiB =   2.3 MiB	bluetoothd
  2.0 MiB + 701.5 KiB =   2.6 MiB	cupsd
  2.4 MiB + 323.5 KiB =   2.7 MiB	udevd
  2.6 MiB + 510.5 KiB =   3.1 MiB	slimski
  3.2 MiB +  13.5 KiB =   3.2 MiB	haveged
  4.3 MiB + 482.5 KiB =   4.8 MiB	conky
  4.9 MiB + 374.5 KiB =   5.2 MiB	at-spi2-registryd
  4.6 MiB +   1.3 MiB =   5.9 MiB	pipewire
  4.9 MiB +   1.3 MiB =   6.2 MiB	wpa_supplicant
  7.0 MiB +   2.3 MiB =   9.3 MiB	icewm
  6.1 MiB +   4.3 MiB =  10.4 MiB	roxterm
 11.7 MiB +   1.6 MiB =  13.3 MiB	wireplumber
 16.6 MiB +  10.6 MiB =  27.2 MiB	cmst
 47.4 MiB +  16.6 MiB =  64.0 MiB	Xorg
 57.7 MiB +  28.3 MiB =  86.0 MiB	python3.11
990.4 MiB + 130.8 MiB =   1.1 GiB	firefox-esr (13)
---------------------------------
                          1.4 GiB
=================================
init
  ├─acpid
  ├─at-spi-bus-laun
  │   ├─dbus-daemon--config-file=/usr/share/defaults/at-spi2/accessibility.con
  │   └─3*[{at-spi-bus-laun}]
  ├─at-spi2-registr --use-gnome-session
  │   └─2*[{at-spi2-registr}]
  ├─avahi-daemon
  │   └─avahi-daemon
  ├─bluetoothd
  ├─cmst -m
  │   └─2*[{cmst}]
  ├─conky
  │   └─7*[{conky}]
  ├─connmand --nodnsproxy
  ├─cron
  ├─cupsd -C /etc/cups/cupsd.conf -s /etc/cups/cups-files.conf
  ├─dbus-daemon --system
  ├─dbus-daemon --syslog-only --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7--sess
  ├─dbus-launch --autolaunch 2ff1413f6a34c2770db9fc6b66225605 ...
  ├─devmon /usr/bin/devmon --exec-on-drive desktop-defaults-run -fm "%d"...
  │   └─udevil --monitor
  ├─firefox-esr
  │   ├─Isolated Web Co -contentproc -childID 14 -isForBrowser-prefsLe
  │   │   └─20*[{Isolated Web Co}]
  │   ├─Isolated Web Co -contentproc -childID 15 -isForBrowser-prefsLe
  │   │   └─19*[{Isolated Web Co}]
  │   ├─Isolated Web Co -contentproc -childID 16 -isForBrowser-prefsLe
  │   │   └─19*[{Isolated Web Co}]
  │   ├─Isolated Web Co -contentproc -childID 21 -isForBrowser-prefsLe
  │   │   └─20*[{Isolated Web Co}]
  │   ├─Privileged Cont -contentproc -childID 2 -isForBrowser-prefsLen
  │   │   └─19*[{Privileged Cont}]
  │   ├─RDD Process -contentproc -parentBuildID 20240703222632-pre
  │   │   └─3*[{RDD Process}]
  │   ├─Socket Process -contentproc -parentBuildID 20240703222632-pre
  │   │   └─4*[{Socket Process}]
  │   ├─Utility Process -contentproc -parentBuildID 20240703222632-san
  │   │   └─3*[{Utility Process}]
  │   ├─Web Content -contentproc -childID 22 -isForBrowser-prefsLe
  │   │   └─11*[{Web Content}]
  │   ├─Web Content -contentproc -childID 23 -isForBrowser-prefsLe
  │   │   └─11*[{Web Content}]
  │   ├─Web Content -contentproc -childID 24 -isForBrowser-prefsLe
  │   │   └─11*[{Web Content}]
  │   ├─WebExtensions -contentproc -childID 1 -isForBrowser-prefsLen
  │   │   └─19*[{WebExtensions}]
  │   └─127*[{firefox-esr}]
  ├─gconfd-2
  ├─getty --noclear 38400 tty1
  ├─getty 38400 tty2
  ├─getty 38400 tty3
  ├─getty 38400 tty4
  ├─getty 38400 tty5
  ├─getty 38400 tty6
  ├─gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t exps2
  ├─haveged
  ├─pipewire-pulse
  │   └─2*[{pipewire-pulse}]
  ├─pipewire-start /usr/local/bin/pipewire-start
  │   └─pipewire
  │       └─2*[{pipewire}]
  ├─python3 /usr/lib/apt-notifier/modules/apt-notifier.py
  │   └─3*[{python3}]
  ├─rpc.idmapd
  ├─rpc.statd
  ├─rpcbind -w
  ├─saned -a saned
  │   └─saned -a saned
  ├─seatd -g video
  ├─slimski -d
  │   ├─Xorg -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/slimski.auth vt07
  │   │   └─4*[{Xorg}]
  │   └─desktop-session /usr/local/bin/desktop-session icewm
  │       └─icewm-session
  │           └─icewm --notify
  │               └─roxterm
  │                   └─bash
  │                       └─pstree -a
  ├─smartd --pidfile /var/run/smartd.pid
  ├─sshd
  ├─udevd
  ├─upowerd
  │   └─2*[{upowerd}]
  ├─wireplumber
  │   └─4*[{wireplumber}]
  └─wpa_supplicant -u -s -O /run/wpa_supplicant
System:
  Host: antiX Kernel: 6.1.42-antix.1-amd64-smp arch: x86_64 bits: 64
  Desktop: IceWM v: 3.6.0 Distro: antiX-23_x64-full Arditi del Popolo 27
    August 2023
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 2429J62 v: ThinkPad T530
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: 2429J62 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI-[Legacy]: LENOVO v: G4ET62WW (2.04 ) date: 09/13/2012
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 39.5 Wh (83.2%) condition: 47.5/47.5 Wh (100.0%)
CPU:
  Info: dual core Intel Core i5-3360M [MT MCP] speed (MHz): avg: 1197
    min/max: 1200/3500
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
  Display: server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus gpu: i915 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.2 vendor: intel mesa v: 22.3.6 renderer: Mesa Intel HD
    Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2)
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network driver: e1000e
  Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 52.15 GiB (17.5%)
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 57.37 GiB used: 13.56 GiB (23.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-2: /home size: 95.56 GiB used: 38.59 GiB (40.4%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda3
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda1 size: 600 MiB fs: vfat
  ID-2: /dev/sda4 size: 141.25 GiB fs: ext4
Info:
  Memory: total: 12 GiB note: est. available: 11.39 GiB used: 1.8 GiB (15.8%)
  Processes: 170 Uptime: 35m Shell: Bash pinxi: 3.3.35-1
harry@antiX:~
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Re: Cool things I learned recently.....tools, tips & tricks...please add your own

Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2024 4:33 am
by BitterTruth
Here's a link to a talk by Michael W Lucas on Sudo and how to use it's many many features:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0purspHg-o

Hint: It's not a replacement for su (which is how most distributions based on the 'buntus' expect you to use it)

@rokytnji.1 NIce. Thank you.

Re: Cool things I learned recently.....tools, tips & tricks...please add your own

Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2024 8:33 am
by rokytnji.1
Old but new app. It comes with some preinstalled themes. My screenshot shows app with theme disabled.

Image

Re: Cool things I learned recently.....tools, tips & tricks...please add your own

Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2024 9:40 am
by oops
To find files and folders not belonging to the user or the group of the user:

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find $HOME ! -user $USER -type f

find $HOME ! -group $USER -type f
( correction after with: sudo chown user:user /Myfolder/Myfile ... chown -R --> for recursive behavior))

Re: Cool things I learned recently.....tools, tips & tricks...please add your own

Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2024 12:06 pm
by oops
# To show the module changes, for example: from kernel 6.1.78 too 6.1.96, for my PC:

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diff="https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.1"

echo "" ; date ; cat /proc/cmdline ; inxi -SCxxx ; echo "" ; wget -q -O - wget -q -O - $diff.96 $diff.95 $diff.94 $diff.93 $diff.92 $diff.91 $diff.90 $diff.89 $diff.88 $diff.87 $diff.86 $diff.85 $diff.84 $diff.83 $diff.82 $diff.81 $diff.80 $diff.79  | grep -A2 'Date:' | grep -v 'Date:\|^$\|^--' | grep -we $(echo "$(echo $(cat /proc/modules | cut -d\  -f1) | sed 's/\ /\ -we\ /g')") | sort

Re: Cool things I learned recently.....tools, tips & tricks...please add your own

Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2024 3:23 pm
by BitterTruth
Quick terminal calendar:

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 ~$ cal
     July 2024        
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  
    1  2  3  4  5  6  
 7  8  9 10 11 12 13  
14 15 16 17 18 19 20  
21 22 23 24 25 26 27  
28 29 30 31


For a full year:

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~$ cal 2024
                            2024
      January               February               March          
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  
    1  2  3  4  5  6               1  2  3                  1  2  
 7  8  9 10 11 12 13   4  5  6  7  8  9 10   3  4  5  6  7  8  9  
14 15 16 17 18 19 20  11 12 13 14 15 16 17  10 11 12 13 14 15 16  
21 22 23 24 25 26 27  18 19 20 21 22 23 24  17 18 19 20 21 22 23  
28 29 30 31           25 26 27 28 29        24 25 26 27 28 29 30  
                                            31                    

       April                  May                   June          
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  
    1  2  3  4  5  6            1  2  3  4                     1  
 7  8  9 10 11 12 13   5  6  7  8  9 10 11   2  3  4  5  6  7  8  
14 15 16 17 18 19 20  12 13 14 15 16 17 18   9 10 11 12 13 14 15  
21 22 23 24 25 26 27  19 20 21 22 23 24 25  16 17 18 19 20 21 22  
28 29 30              26 27 28 29 30 31     23 24 25 26 27 28 29  
                                            30                    

        July                 August              September        
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  
    1  2  3  4  5  6               1  2  3   1  2  3  4  5  6  7  
 7  8  9 10 11 12 13   4  5  6  7  8  9 10   8  9 10 11 12 13 14  
14 15 16 17 18 19 20  11 12 13 14 15 16 17  15 16 17 18 19 20 21  
21 22 23 24 25 26 27  18 19 20 21 22 23 24  22 23 24 25 26 27 28  
28 29 30 31           25 26 27 28 29 30 31  29 30                 
                                                                  

      October               November              December        
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  
       1  2  3  4  5                  1  2   1  2  3  4  5  6  7  
 6  7  8  9 10 11 12   3  4  5  6  7  8  9   8  9 10 11 12 13 14  
13 14 15 16 17 18 19  10 11 12 13 14 15 16  15 16 17 18 19 20 21  
20 21 22 23 24 25 26  17 18 19 20 21 22 23  22 23 24 25 26 27 28  
27 28 29 30 31        24 25 26 27 28 29 30  29 30 31

Re: Cool things I learned recently.....tools, tips & tricks...please add your own

Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 3:56 am
by LinuxSpring1
Kwrite, part of the KDE Plasma application suite, can open all the log and text files which have been compressed using GZip or BZip2. So for example if you have configured the logrotate to compress the log files then those compressed log files can be directly opened up, without the need to use Ark/bzip2/gzip to decompress them.

Just open KWrite, navigate to File > Open.
In the location/path enter the directory where the compressed log file is located
Select the compressed file and click on open

Caveats
  • This will not work with log files or text files that have been compressed with zip or rar or 7z file format
  • If you have a archive file that has multiple files inside the archive then this will not work.

Re: Cool things I learned recently.....tools, tips & tricks...please add your own

Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2024 7:44 am
by davidy
By accident I found that clonezilla will make a bootable image of your hibernating pc. The only real trick other than going from hibernation and booting directly into clonezilla is to make sure your backup location is at the root of the drive and whatever you do, let it finish. You can pull the flash drive out once you hear the horns with the 'ps' flag (playsound) option. Also, once you've made the backup and you reboot out of hibernation you will have to boot again to see the backup folder you made. Strange but true.

Re: Cool things I learned recently.....tools, tips & tricks...please add your own

Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2024 8:33 am
by siamhie
BitterTruth wrote: Mon Jul 15, 2024 3:23 pm Quick terminal calendar:

@BitterTruth I've switched to using ncal. It highlights the day you're on.

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-b      Use oldstyle format for ncal output.

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-w      Print the number of the week below each week column.
*the highlighted day doesn't show in the forum code tags
ncal.png
ncal-2024.png

Re: Cool things I learned recently.....tools, tips & tricks...please add your own

Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2024 8:41 am
by siamhie
Speaking of calendars. Here's a couple I have picked up along the way for conky.

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conky.config = {
alignment = 'top_right',
    background = false,
    border_width = 1,
    cpu_avg_samples = 1,
    default_color = 'white',
    default_outline_color = 'white',
    default_shade_color = 'white',
    double_buffer = true,
    draw_borders = false,
    draw_graph_borders = true,
    draw_outline = false,
    draw_shades = false,
    extra_newline = false,
    font = 'mono uralic:bold:size=10',
gap_x = 0,
gap_y = 0,
    maximum_width = 225,
    net_avg_samples = 2,
    no_buffers = true,
    out_to_console = false,
    out_to_ncurses = false,
    out_to_stderr = false,
    out_to_x = true,
    own_window = true,
    own_window_class = 'Conky',
own_window_argb_visual = true,
own_window_argb_value = 0,
own_window_colour = '000000',
own_window_transparent = true,
    own_window_type = 'desktop',
    show_graph_range = false,
    show_graph_scale = false,
    stippled_borders = 0,
    update_interval = 0.5,
    uppercase = false,
    use_spacer = 'left',
    use_xft = true,
	own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
}


conky.text = [[
${execpi 60 DJS=`date +%_d`; cal | sed s/"\(^\|[^0-9]\)$DJS"'\b'/'\1${color #FFFF00}'"$DJS"'${color}'/}
${voffset -30}
]];
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conky.config = {
alignment = 'top_middle',
    background = false,
    border_width = 1,
    cpu_avg_samples = 1,
    default_color = 'white',
    default_outline_color = 'white',
    default_shade_color = 'white',
    double_buffer = true,
    draw_borders = false,
    draw_graph_borders = true,
    draw_outline = false,
    draw_shades = false,
    extra_newline = false,
    font = 'dejavu serif:size=12',
gap_x = -30,
gap_y = 50,
    maximum_width = 1280,
    net_avg_samples = 2,
    no_buffers = true,
    out_to_console = false,
    out_to_ncurses = false,
    out_to_stderr = false,
    out_to_x = true,
    own_window = true,
    own_window_class = 'Conky',
own_window_argb_visual = true,
own_window_argb_value = 0,
own_window_colour = '000000',
own_window_transparent = true,
    own_window_type = 'desktop',
    show_graph_range = false,
    show_graph_scale = false,
    stippled_borders = 0,
    update_interval = 0.5,
    uppercase = false,
    use_spacer = 'left',
    use_xft = true,
	own_window_hints = 'sticky',
}


conky.text = [[
$color${execpi 36000 /home/siamhie/.conky/R8/horical.sh}${color}
${voffset 1}${goto 260}${color}${hr 1} ${voffset 10}${goto 260}${color}${hr 1}
${color 00ffff}${voffset -70}${goto 46}${font rock salt:bold:size=14}${time %A}${font rock salt:bold:size=14}${goto 175} ${color 5BED1B}${voffset 0}${time %d}$color
${color 00ffff}${voffset -15}${font rock salt:bold:size=14}${goto 46}${time %b}${font rock salt:bold:size=14}${goto 175}${color}${voffset 0}${time %Y}$color${voffset -120}

]];
the accompanied horical.sh script.

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#!/bin/bash
# a script to display a horizontal calendar on conky (hence the name horical :D)
# if you need to ask something, contact me via email nhianho@gmail.com
TODAY=`date +%d`
TOPLINE=" "
OVER=" "
REST=" "
# -------- This part is to find out the number of days in a month to display-----------#
a=`date +%-Y`
e1=`expr $a % 400`
e2=`expr $a % 100`
e3=`expr $a % 4`
if [ $e1 == 0 ]
  then c=1
  elif [ $e2 == 0 ]
  then c=0
  elif [ $e3 == 0 ] 
  then c=1
  else c=0
fi
p=`date +%-m`
# if the current year is not a leap one, c = 0
if [ $c == 0 ] 
  then
	if [ $p == 2 ]
	then b=28 # this is the number of days in Febuary 
	elif [ $p == 11 ] || [ $p == 4 ] || [ $p == 6 ] ||  [ $p == 9 ]
	then b=30
	else b=31
	fi
  else
	if [ $p == 2 ]
	then b=29 # the number of days in Febuary in a leap year
	elif [ $p == 11 ] || [ $p == 4 ] || [ $p == 6 ] ||  [ $p == 9 ]
	then b=30
	else b=31
	fi
fi
#--------------------- The bottom line which displays the days of month ----------#
i=1
if [ $TODAY -ne 1 ]
then
    while [ $i -lt $TODAY ]; do
        if [ $i -lt 10 ]
        then
            OVER="$OVER 0$i"
        else
            OVER="$OVER $i"
        fi
        i=$[$i+1]
    done
fi
i=$[$i+1]
if [ $TODAY -ne $b ]
then
    while [ $i -ne $[$b] ]; do
        if [ $i -lt 10 ]
        then
            REST="$REST 0$i"
        else
            REST="$REST $i"
        fi
        i=$[$i+1]
    done
    REST="$REST $b"
fi
#------------- the top line which displays the abbreviated weekday names-------#
k=`date +%u`
j=`date +%e`
f=`expr $j % 7`
if [ $k -lt $f ]
then 
	y=$[$k+8-$f]
else
	y=$[$k-$f+1]
fi
while [ $b -gt 0 ]; do
    case "$y" in
    1) TOPLINE="$TOPLINE Mo";;
    2) TOPLINE="$TOPLINE Tu";;
    3) TOPLINE="$TOPLINE We";;
    4) TOPLINE="$TOPLINE Th";;
    5) TOPLINE="$TOPLINE Fr";;
    6) TOPLINE="$TOPLINE Sa";;
    7) TOPLINE="$TOPLINE Su";;
    esac
    b=$[$b-1]
    y=$[$y+1]
    if [ $y -eq 8 ]
    then
        y=1
    fi
done
echo '${goto 270}''${font mono:Bold:size=10}'$TOPLINE | sed 's/Su/${color red}Su${color}/g' | sed 's/Sa/${color red}Sa${color}/g'
echo '${goto 270}''${font mono:bold:size=10}''${color C28C3A}'$OVER '${color 5BED1B}'$TODAY'${color}'$REST
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Re: Cool things I learned recently.....tools, tips & tricks...please add your own

Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2024 6:00 pm
by m_pav
rokytnji.1 wrote: Mon Jul 15, 2024 8:33 am Old but new app. It comes with some preinstalled themes. My screenshot shows app with theme disabled.
+1, much improved overall, but the themes make the results pages almost unreadable so I too disabled the themes. The information under various sections is very nicely presented now and the benchmark tests make more sense overall. My Ryzen 5 5600G, which is slighted against the Ryzen 5 5600X got better results in all tests, so it must have a rather aged database to start with.

My addition to the list would have to be the Live Remaster tools for those who might want to update a fully featured Live USB made with our LUM without having to download a snapshot and creating another, though I do not recommend it be done with slow USB drives, always use a faster unit that can achieve a minimum sustained 65+ MBPS write speed, or a USB-SSD.

Combine the above with the MX Live USB Maker and after mounting an updated L-USB, you can make a clone of it as a secondary backup, and use a different sized flash drive. In the attached image, I am cloning a 128GB USB-SSD to a 256GB Ultra-fast regular USB Flash drive that will hold a sustained write speed of 120MBPS.
Note: in steps 8, 9 & 10, I am allocating 10% of the drive space (~25GB) for the Live USB and the remaining space for cross-platform storage.

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Re: Cool things I learned recently.....tools, tips & tricks...please add your own

Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2024 12:33 am
by LinuxSpring1
siamhie wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 8:41 am Speaking of calendars. Here's a couple I have picked up along the way for conky.

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conky.config = {
alignment = 'top_middle',
    background = false,
    border_width = 1,
    cpu_avg_samples = 1,
    default_color = 'white',
    default_outline_color = 'white',
    default_shade_color = 'white',
    double_buffer = true,
    draw_borders = false,
    draw_graph_borders = true,
    draw_outline = false,
    draw_shades = false,
    extra_newline = false,
    font = 'dejavu serif:size=12',
gap_x = -30,
gap_y = 50,
    maximum_width = 1280,
    net_avg_samples = 2,
    no_buffers = true,
    out_to_console = false,
    out_to_ncurses = false,
    out_to_stderr = false,
    out_to_x = true,
    own_window = true,
    own_window_class = 'Conky',
own_window_argb_visual = true,
own_window_argb_value = 0,
own_window_colour = '000000',
own_window_transparent = true,
    own_window_type = 'desktop',
    show_graph_range = false,
    show_graph_scale = false,
    stippled_borders = 0,
    update_interval = 0.5,
    uppercase = false,
    use_spacer = 'left',
    use_xft = true,
	own_window_hints = 'sticky',
}


conky.text = [[
$color${execpi 36000 /home/siamhie/.conky/R8/horical.sh}${color}
${voffset 1}${goto 260}${color}${hr 1} ${voffset 10}${goto 260}${color}${hr 1}
${color 00ffff}${voffset -70}${goto 46}${font rock salt:bold:size=14}${time %A}${font rock salt:bold:size=14}${goto 175} ${color 5BED1B}${voffset 0}${time %d}$color
${color 00ffff}${voffset -15}${font rock salt:bold:size=14}${goto 46}${time %b}${font rock salt:bold:size=14}${goto 175}${color}${voffset 0}${time %Y}$color${voffset -120}

]];
the accompanied horical.sh script.

Code: Select all

#!/bin/bash
# a script to display a horizontal calendar on conky (hence the name horical :D)
# if you need to ask something, contact me via email nhianho@gmail.com
TODAY=`date +%d`
TOPLINE=" "
OVER=" "
REST=" "
# -------- This part is to find out the number of days in a month to display-----------#
a=`date +%-Y`
e1=`expr $a % 400`
e2=`expr $a % 100`
e3=`expr $a % 4`
if [ $e1 == 0 ]
  then c=1
  elif [ $e2 == 0 ]
  then c=0
  elif [ $e3 == 0 ] 
  then c=1
  else c=0
fi
p=`date +%-m`
# if the current year is not a leap one, c = 0
if [ $c == 0 ] 
  then
	if [ $p == 2 ]
	then b=28 # this is the number of days in Febuary 
	elif [ $p == 11 ] || [ $p == 4 ] || [ $p == 6 ] ||  [ $p == 9 ]
	then b=30
	else b=31
	fi
  else
	if [ $p == 2 ]
	then b=29 # the number of days in Febuary in a leap year
	elif [ $p == 11 ] || [ $p == 4 ] || [ $p == 6 ] ||  [ $p == 9 ]
	then b=30
	else b=31
	fi
fi
#--------------------- The bottom line which displays the days of month ----------#
i=1
if [ $TODAY -ne 1 ]
then
    while [ $i -lt $TODAY ]; do
        if [ $i -lt 10 ]
        then
            OVER="$OVER 0$i"
        else
            OVER="$OVER $i"
        fi
        i=$[$i+1]
    done
fi
i=$[$i+1]
if [ $TODAY -ne $b ]
then
    while [ $i -ne $[$b] ]; do
        if [ $i -lt 10 ]
        then
            REST="$REST 0$i"
        else
            REST="$REST $i"
        fi
        i=$[$i+1]
    done
    REST="$REST $b"
fi
#------------- the top line which displays the abbreviated weekday names-------#
k=`date +%u`
j=`date +%e`
f=`expr $j % 7`
if [ $k -lt $f ]
then 
	y=$[$k+8-$f]
else
	y=$[$k-$f+1]
fi
while [ $b -gt 0 ]; do
    case "$y" in
    1) TOPLINE="$TOPLINE Mo";;
    2) TOPLINE="$TOPLINE Tu";;
    3) TOPLINE="$TOPLINE We";;
    4) TOPLINE="$TOPLINE Th";;
    5) TOPLINE="$TOPLINE Fr";;
    6) TOPLINE="$TOPLINE Sa";;
    7) TOPLINE="$TOPLINE Su";;
    esac
    b=$[$b-1]
    y=$[$y+1]
    if [ $y -eq 8 ]
    then
        y=1
    fi
done
echo '${goto 270}''${font mono:Bold:size=10}'$TOPLINE | sed 's/Su/${color red}Su${color}/g' | sed 's/Sa/${color red}Sa${color}/g'
echo '${goto 270}''${font mono:bold:size=10}''${color C28C3A}'$OVER '${color 5BED1B}'$TODAY'${color}'$REST
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The horizontal calendar looks awesome. Need this on my desktop too. A few questions though.
  • In the conky script the value of maximum_width = 1280 is given. I am assuming that this is for screens with resolution of 1280X780 and not for screens with resolution of 1920X1280. Is that correct?
  • In the conky script the value of update_interval is 0.5. Considering that this needs to be updated only once every day, can it be changed to a higher value?
This is a great conky script. Will defintely incorporate it. Thanks @siamhie .

Re: Cool things I learned recently.....tools, tips & tricks...please add your own

Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2024 2:04 am
by siamhie
LinuxSpring1 wrote: Mon Sep 02, 2024 12:33 am
The horizontal calendar looks awesome. Need this on my desktop too. A few questions though.

[*] In the conky script the value of maximum_width = 1280 is given. I am assuming that this is for screens with resolution of 1280X780 and not for screens with resolution of 1920X1280. Is that correct?

Maximum width of window in pixels for the conky. http://ifxgroup.net/conky.htm#maximum_width

I've turned on borders to give you an idea of where everything lines up.
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[*] In the conky script the value of update_interval is 0.5. Considering that this needs to be updated only once every day, can it be changed to a higher value?
Update interval in seconds. Fractions of a second are allowed using a decimal point. http://ifxgroup.net/conky.htm#update_interval

This one you can remove as there is nothing being updated for 24 hours.

Re: Cool things I learned recently.....tools, tips & tricks...please add your own

Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2024 10:05 am
by siamhie
@LinuxSpring1 The size of the calendar conky is 1001 pixels wide by 89 pixels tall.

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Re: Cool things I learned recently.....tools, tips & tricks...please add your own

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 7:55 am
by LinuxSpring1
There is a very good alternative to the find command in KDE Dolphin. There is KFind that is integrated inside Dolphin. KFind is very close to the pre Windows 7 find file search box. KFind can be launched from Dolphin or from the KDE Application Menu. It has ability to search for files using wildcards, patterns, date, size, owner and others. Off course it is not as powerful as using find in the terminal but has a good decent search options.

So for someone looking for a GUI alternative to find try out KFind.
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