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Uzbl Browser

June 9th, 2009 Comments

Recently I have found uzbl while trying to look a vimperator(firefox) replacement that didn’t waste so much resources and be as slow as
firefox has gotten. Well we will have firefox 3.5 that would solve several of these issues and even then I will keep using uzbl for my
main browsing needs.
Uzbl is another webkit based browser [...]

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Awesome-WM settings and workplace setup

December 6th, 2008 Comments

It has been quite a while since I uploaded a screenshot for my “desktop” environment, it hasn’t changed much but I have tweaked it a bit and spent some time upgrading it to today Awesome git clone.

Awesome is a great tiled window manager that is completely configurable, basically it gives you the tools to write [...]

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Setting my desktop backgrounds from Flickr

December 2nd, 2008 Comments

Well I’m now trying to publish here some of the tools I use and write everyday to customize my desktop, most of them are simple hacks, this time it’s a way to set your desktop background from a Flickr feed that is requested to be filtered using some tags.
Heres the code:

#!/usr/bin/python

 

import feedparser

import urllib

import random

FLCKR_API = [...]

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Repositorio publico de Valkertown

June 10th, 2008 Comments

Bueno acabo de terminar el repositorio público de valkertown.
La Lista de Repositorios, la escribi utilizando gitpython y Django.
Por el momento hay dos repositorios e ire añadiendo y anunciando nuevos.
El primero es Aura, un programita inspirado en cdargs para manejar destinos favoritos de ssh y tener una terminal dedicada a la sesión de ssh.
El segundo [...]

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Adios a fluxbox

June 2nd, 2008 Comments

Despues de muchos años de usar fluxbox como mi manejador de ventanas , decidi dejar la buen fluxbox en pro del algo inestable awesome.

Sigo extrañando a gkrellm, pero me ha ido bien en general. Me ha tocado hacer muchas cosas a mano y todo ha salido de los repos git de los desarrolladores directamente, [...]

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