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Just annotations of little "how to's", so I know I can find how to do something I've already done when I need to do it again, in case I don't remember anymore, which is not unlikely. Hopefully they can be useful to others, but I can't guarantee that it will work, or that it won't even make things worse.
My previous attempt with a "counting" system didn't work, so I've tried a different approach. For any given process, it will check if it's running, if it is, it creates a temporary file with its name on a temporary work folder; if it isn't, it...
If you wish to have more than 9 tabs on the new tab page, you just have to
- open the config page > in the url bar, type "about:config"
- agree that you're doing this at your own risk
- search for the word "tab", you'll get a bunch of entries
- change the value of browser.newtabpage.columns for your desired number of columns (for instance 4)
- change the value of browser.newtabpage.rows for your desired number of rows
while true ; do
wmctrl -l | grep -i "youtube\|vimeo" && xscreensaver-command -deactivate
sleep 5m
done
Perhaps it would be more elegant to have something that somehow works more accordingly to xscreensaver's time rather than this thing that has smaller cycles just to play it safe.
Won't work for embedded videos, though, as "youtube"...
I'm not really a fan of flash, but since I'm trying to switch from Chrome to Iceweasel, which seems to be less sluggish in my machine, and I don't like the idea of using a plugin from the late 90s when I have to, I decided to try the wrap-around trick/plugin I've found. It seems to be working normally, as fas as I can tell.
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