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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.

Shellcheck with "less" preserving the colored formatted output

Posted 10-25-2024 at 10:56 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 10-25-2024 at 10:59 PM by the dsc

Tags shellcheck

Code:

#!/bin/bash

# Create a temporary file
temp_file=$(mktemp /tmp/shellcheck.XXXXXX)

# Run shellcheck with script, directing output to the temporary file
script -q -c "shellcheck ${1}" "$temp_file"

# Display the output using less, preserving colors
less -r "$temp_file"

# Clean up the temporary file
rm "$temp_file"

I had an earlier version of this, an one-liner...

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Openbox' rc.xml can do some conditional evaluations that may allow for keybindings to react different depending on the window that's focused

Posted 10-21-2024 at 11:31 AM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 10-21-2024 at 11:32 AM by the dsc

Tags netflix, openbox

I think that I might have wanted to be possible for one thing or another, several times ever since I've started using Openbox (a long time ago, almost right before the final version came out), but I thought such thing would most likely involve some external script to handle most of it, which I don't recall whether I even ever tried to implement for anything. It would have been probably something very specifically developed to a given use-case rather than something more readily adaptable to more...

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Wrapper-script to launch a browser in private/incognito mode if keys control or shift are being held (thought for Openbox menus)

Posted 05-20-2024 at 12:47 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 05-20-2024 at 12:48 PM by the dsc

Tags openbox

While one can do something even more efficient with pure keybindings, or maybe merely first launching the normal window and then a private one, I thought that it was interesting. AFAIK it can't be done purely on Openbox' menu's functionalities alone.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
xinput query-state 9 2>/dev/null | grep "key\[50\]=down\|key\[62\]=down\|key\[37\]=down\|key\[105\]=down" && incognito="--incognito"

echo ${incognito/--} | aosd_cat

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Fix Google Chrome's ugly thick transparent-but-shadowed borders on compositors such as picom

Posted 05-10-2024 at 09:20 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 05-10-2024 at 11:05 PM by the dsc

Tags bug/feature, chrome, compton, openbox, picom

By adding this on the "shadow exclude" section:

Code:

"argb && (override_redirect || wmwin)"

Source:

https://github.com/chjj/compton/issu...mment-45407446

They've decided to once again reinvent the same GUI in the latest version of Chrome, but with some added dysfunctionalities or incompatibilities with more or less standard compositor configurations. Its context menus all of a sudden had a rather thick transparent...

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Circumventing some questionable webdesign practices with keybindings

Posted 02-12-2024 at 08:12 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)

Tags openbox

Some sites seem to assume you'd rather roll the mouse wheel than click and drag the scroll bar, so there's none. Sometimes you can even scroll down with the arrow keys, but that can be somewhat messy, with different sites chosing different parts to have been focused and thus they won't necessarily answer the way you'd expect consistently.

But one can "fake" the mouse wheel with the keyboard and xdotool.

On Openbox, I've just set up:

Code:

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