wallpaper manager

2018-12-24 1 min read Linux

So, I have been looking for a wallpaper manager with some features like:

  1. automatically change wallpaper from my directory list

  2. Get wallpapers from internet

Possibly display time and a quote.

 

Variety does all of that. From variety website :

Variety is a wallpaper manager for Linux systems. It supports numerous desktops and wallpaper sources, including local files and online services: Flickr, Wallhaven, Unsplash, and more.

Where supported, Variety sits as a tray icon to allow easy pausing and resuming. Otherwise, its desktop entry menu provides a similar set of options.

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Useless use of cat awards

2010-06-25 22 min read Linux

<a href="http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#cat">Here you will find some useless use of cat command in linux. Really interesting and quite informative.

Useless Use of Cat Award

If you&#8217;ve been reading <a href="news:comp.unix.shell">comp.unix.shell or any of the related groups <a href="news:comp.unix.questions">(comp.unix.questions inter alia) for any amount of time, this should be a familiar topic.

I made this web page on the topic primarily so I&#8217;d have a simpler URL than one of those ghastly Deja News searches to hand to people. I&#8217;ve tried to reconstruct Randal&#8217;s standard form letter from looking at his postings <a href="http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#forms">(see end) and added some comments of my own.

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Let the cow speak what you want it to – ascii art with cowsay

2010-06-11 1 min read Fedora

A picture is worth a thousand words. So here&#8217;s the thousand word posting.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/cowsay.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-829" title="cowsay" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/cowsay.jpg" alt="cowsay" width="209" height="300" />

To install it, just execute:

sudo yum install cowsay

It does install a couple of other timepass things like cowthink and animalsay. So, here are some more screenshots:

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/animalsay.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-830" title="animalsay" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/animalsay.jpg" alt="animalsay" width="161" height="167" />

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/animalsay-1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-831" title="animalsay-1" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/animalsay-1.jpg" alt="animalsay-1" width="363" height="187" />

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AndreaMosiac.. The way to create a mosaic.

2010-04-30 1 min read Linux

<a href="http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/download/" target="_blank">Download from here, AndreaMosaic. It us cinoketekt free for personal use and does just what the name says, creates mosaic. I tried this on Linux and was flawless with wine. Good show 🙂

Here&#8217;s how to use it:

Start AndreaMosaic

<img class="size-full wp-image-657" title="andreamosaic" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/screenshot-andreamosaic2.jpg" alt="andreamosaic" width="585" height="477" /><div class="zemanta-pixie">and select your base file by clicking on the &#8221;+&#8221;:<img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/pixy.gif" alt="" />

<div class="zemanta-pixie">

<img class="size-full wp-image-658" title="andreamosaic" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/screenshot-andreamosaic.jpg" alt="Base image" width="585" height="477" />

<div class="zemanta-pixie">And now select the images that would tile to give you the base image. Click on select tiles:
<div class="zemanta-pixie"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-659" title="tiles" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/tiles.jpg" alt="tiles" width="602" height="452" /> <div class="zemanta-pixie"> <div class="zemanta-pixie">To start off, click on ok and then create mosaic on the initial window and you get your first mosaic. Here&#8217;s an example: <div class="zemanta-pixie"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-660" title="mosaic" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/mosaic.jpg" alt="mosaic" width="450" height="319" /> <div class="zemanta-pixie"> <div class="zemanta-pixie">There are various settings you can tweak to get different effects, so enjoy 🙂

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Jokes – many to be downloaded once..

2010-04-11 1 min read Bash Fedora Linux

All work and no fun makes Jack dull boy. So lets do something for fun. Here is a one liner I wrote sometime back.  The original idea is not mine and I don&#8217;t remeber where I got the idea from but it was some other one liner that I was browsing for some oracle query. Anyway here&#8217;s the one liner to get lot of jokes in one file.

#!/bin/bash
for i in `echo 000{0..9} 00{10..99} 0{100..999} {1000..1600}` ; do links -dump http://www.robsjokes.com/$i/index.html | sed &#8217;/Random Joke/,/Next Joke/!d&#8217; | sed &#8217;/^$/,/^$/!d&#8217; » ~/Rob.jokes ; echo &#8217;%&#8217; » ~/Rob.jokes ;echo $i; done

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