I always thought that Xplanet is one of those ancient X apps that work despite being totally outdated, with aliased edges and overall painful graphics. Turns out I was more than half wrong. It's derived from xearth which has been around since 1993. Xplanet itself seems to have been around since at ...

Previews for Pygments syntax highlighting styles.

The README of the PicoPygments plugin (active in this blog) repository, which uses Python-Pygments and a variety of CSS styles for code block syntax highlighting. README can be ahead of the official repo.

Venerable and versatile XTerm. Carrying cruft from four decades. I am a big friend of lightweight terminal emulators - I want them to pop up immediately, without having to run a daemon. Despite all its baggage, xterm is extremely fast. Change the Window Icon (pixmap) The default icon is absolutely h...

The situation Sometimes you want to change the icon an application displays e.g. in the panel but cannot for some reason. Changing the icon theme does not help, and the application has no means of telling it to use another icon. Changing the icon referenced in the software's .desktop file (usually ...

Symlink to README.md of the repository of the tagblog theme (as seen in this blog), with screenshots and instructions. Warning: can be ahead of the official repo.

This cost me several hours of my life, so I'm putting it here never to be forgotten: To improve performance, Firefox 69 and later will disable loading of userChrome.css and userContent.css by default. Your CSS customizations are not going away; all you will need to do is set the pref toolkit.legacy...

Conky is good for displaying things on the desktop. But it has a few disadvantages: There's no option to continuously show the output of a command (or file), like tail -f or dmesg -w, and update conky's output as that output grows. [X] Some internal conky commands measuring system resources are bug...