New GTK and metacity themes from Ian

Here are two themes from Ian.. Link: http://ardchoille42.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-gtk2-and-metacity-themes.html

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/GTK-DarkTurrican.tar.gz">GTK-DarkTurrican.tar

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/GTK-LightTurrican.tar.gz">GTK-LightTurrican.tar

FVWM window manager.

<a href="http://www.fvwm.org/" target="_blank">Home Page of fvwm.

So Now I am trying different window managers. My requirement is simple, alt+tab should allow me to swicht the windows and the window manager should be light but configurable and should show the programs/applications that are installed on my system. The last requirement comes from the fact that I am quite forgetful person and keep forgetting about the application to use for the particular purpose. So Window Manager should not be CPU and Memory hogging like Gnome or KDE but still should be decent and not like &#8221;X&#8221; or hackedbox.

Mod and hack the GNome main menu with automated scripts to create a menu of the directory.

Problem:
I had a directory with very good collection of my scripts and very organized in folders. The structure is something like this, first I have the broad classification of the category. Then I have the name of the tool/script as the name of the directory. All these are perl/python or shell scripts and luckily labelled so with the extension. I want to add these to the GNome main (Applications) menu.
Solution:
Lets take it stepwise:
1)  Add new menu tools to the Applications menu. Go to /etc/xdg/menus
Open the file applications.menu and add the following before

Bash histoy – common history in different terminals

I have been looking to do this for sometime. The bash history is per
session basis and the last session to quit overwrites the bash_history
file and thus all other terminals started between the time last terminal
lasted does not get to write the commands in the history file. Secondly
the history gets cluttered with lot of duplicate entries and entries
with ls and cd commands. So finally I added these to the bashrc file:

Happy New year and invitation to become author.

Wish all of you a happy and prosperous new year.. Now I am opening inivitation for authors. If you like linux and want to write on the same, please register yourself and leave a comment on this post with your username, and as soon as I am back I will do the required.

Once again Happy New Year.

Bash Sub Shells

Taken from <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/bash-sub-shells" target="_blank">here.

<span class=\"c\">#!/bin/bash</span>

<span class="nv">server_cmd</span><span class="o">=</span>server <span class="nv">pid_file</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="k">$(</span>basename <span class="nv">$server_cmd</span> .sh<span class="k">)</span>.pid <span class="nv">log_file</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="k">$(</span>basename <span class="nv">$server_cmd</span> .sh<span class="k">)</span>.log

<span class="o">(</span> <span class="nb">echo</span> <span class="s2">"Starting server"</span> <span class="nb">echo</span> <span class="s2">"Doing some init work"</span> <span class="nv">$server_cmd</span> <span class="c"># server becomes a daemon</span>

<span class=\"k\">while </span><span class=\"nb\">true</span>

<span class="nb"> </span><span class="k">do</span> <span class="k"> if</span> <span class="o">[[</span> -f <span class="nv">$pid_file</span> <span class="o">]]</span>; <span class="k">then</span> <span class="k"> </span>sleep 15 <span class="k">else</span> <span class="k"> </span><span class="nb">break</span> <span class="nb"> </span><span class="k">fi</span> <span class="k"> done</span> <span class="k"> </span>mail -s <span class="s2">"Server exitted"</span> joe@blow.com <<<CRAP