Just another of those things I catch myself wondering sometimes, but I don't think that are important enough for the forums.

What if linux had folders for each program, more or less like on windows, but still had its "grab-bag" folders for libraries and whatever that may be used for more than one program, but instead of using it through a "$path", it had a symlink within the program's own folder?

Or perhaps it could use by default through something...

This is just a question rather than a typical blog post. I know blogs aren't really supposed to be used for that, but I think it's justifiable since it's not that important or urgent, even though it has some practical applications. So I'm not "stealing" attention from other users with more pressing matters over there.

The question is basically "what gets more work done":

a) higher CPU usage per process (limiting less or not limiting the usage at...

Is it possible? If it is, it's not obvious in any way, nor documented in the manual.

I think that would be an interesting feature if it currently lacks it. I don't really know, but I think it wouldn't be so much of a huge thing to implement the possibility of running commands such as "openbox-command menu-id-whatever" to make a given menu pop-up; or "openbox-command nexdesktop" so a script could move the view to a different desktop (but perhaps it can be done with...

For a long time I had fantasdic set to respond to a desktop environment keybinding, it would then appear with the result for a query that was made through the clipboard. I don't recall how much of it was its own functionality and how much was some sort of wrap-around scriptery. I'm so used to use computer dictionaries in that way (instead of directly going to them and typing) that to me it's almost useless without this keybinding functionality. And indeed it has been quite some time since it does...

Sometimes you want the computer to shut down after you've finished downloading something or converting some large file into some other format, but you want to go out or go to sleep instead of waiting and checking for it yourself.

For these situations I've come up with two tiny scripts. The first one waits until a file hasn't changed its size on three consecutive intervals of twenty seconds:

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