Sometime back I posted about terminal.sexy – make your teminal sexy. I personally use URxvt terminal and hence need the xrdb files to apply the theme. It’s pain to go to the website everytime I want to change my theme and hence I wrote a python script that can use the github repo and convert the files to xrdb files. Here is the link to the script:
terminal.sexy script for xrdb
Color Scheme for Gnome Terminal and Pantheon Terminal – here is the github page
Viewing XML files can be daunting with tracking mentally where the tag starts and where it ends. So, I ended up with the following alias to help me view xml files
xmllint --format - | pygmentize -f 16m -O style=native -g
Lot of times I find myself of VM that does not correctly resize the screen display and that is literally nuisance. So, here is quick and dirty fix for this.
First you need to find out information about your display with following command:
xrandr -q
And you will see output like this:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
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Virtual-0 connected primary 1920×1080+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1024×768 59.92 +
1920×1200 59.88
1920×1080 59.96*
1600×1200 59.87
1680×1050 59.95
1400×1050 59.98
1280×1024 59.89
1440×900 59.89
1280×960 59.94
1280×854 59.89
1280×800 59.81
1280×720 59.86
1152×768 59.78
800×600 59.86
848×480 59.66
720×480 59.71
640×480 59.38
Virtual-1 disconnected
Virtual-2 disconnected
Virtual-3 disconnected
Simple, just install and run the following
sudo yum install system-switch-displaymanager-gnome system-switch-displaymanager-gnome
I wanted to open some X applications on my Fedora 11 local display over the ssh connections. I have used this in the previous versions of the Fedora and was looking to do the same in F11. Here are the things that can be done to enable this :
Allow tcp connections to X server by removing -nolisten in the X server. Set the following parameter in the gdm.conf
DisallowTCP=false
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export DISPLAY=$(echo $SSH_CLIENT |awk '{print $1”:0.0”}’)
Explanation:
SSH_CLIENT contains the IP and the port of the client machine. So we need to export (Client IP):0.0 for the display on the client machine. If the above is put in .bashrc or .bash_profile or .profile, then the DISPLAY variable will be set based on the client machine.
