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Fluxbox/Openbox - calendar in menu

Posted 08-23-2009 at 04:05 PM by lumak (Lumak's Guide to Random Things)
Updated 08-24-2009 at 10:58 PM by lumak

Tags calendar, fluxbox

MOVED: added this to the fluxbox wiki as "Calendar Menu" updates may be posted here or there.

Here is a nifty thing to include a calendar printout in your fluxbox menu. It currently coded in bash and is very crude. The print out only looks best when your menu is left justified and the text is mono spaced. An optional fix for this may be to convert spaces to underscore (not yet implemented).

create a directory ~/.fluxbox/cal and place the attached script...

Attached Files

	updatecal.sh.txt (3.5 KB, 777 views)
	updatecal-0.2.sh.txt (10.4 KB, 814 views)

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Fluxbox - Terminal Window PC Game Style

Posted 08-22-2009 at 02:26 AM by lumak (Lumak's Guide to Random Things)
Updated 08-27-2009 at 09:13 PM by lumak

Tags fluxbox, fps terminal

MOVED: I added this to the fluxbox wiki under "Category:Configuration howtos" Any changes may go on either. Enjoy.

Warning. I tried this on my much older 32 bit laptop and it didn't respond that quickly to toggling the consoles. I'm guessing that long bit of code for the key command actually takes more processing than I thought.

OK I realized I could make xterm (any terminal?) act like the command console in a FPS game. So here are all the settings...

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open_term.txt (1.6 KB, 680 views)

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