FreeBSD: script to manage processor speed

I have posted about this before <broken link>. This time, it’s not one script, but many. cpuctl is the script to be used when you want to switch the processor frequency. It goes anywhere you feel comfortable, I put it in ~/bin/. cpucontrol is a wrapper script to sysctl. It’s required, since a common user [...]

awesome: launch custom commands from menu

The menu in the awesome wiki is a good one, yet it has some drawbacks: 1) It’s written in bash. Not all systems have bash. Not all systems have bash in /bin/bash. 2) The menu is stored inside the script itself, which makes it hard to edit. My solution: write a menu file with choices: [...]

MPC aliases for tcsh

mpc commands are quite lengthy, so here’s what I put in my .cshrc: # mpc/mpd control alias mpca ‘mpc search \!* | mpc add -’ # search and add tracks alias mpcc mpc clear alias mpcl mpc playlist alias mpcs mpc stop alias mpcp mpc play I also added some shortcuts to use the WIN+FXX [...]

Default Firefox UI font too big (using awesome)

As said here, to change the default font of GTK+ applications, edit .gtkrc-2.0 in your home directory and add gtk-font-name=”sans-serif 8″ This was somehow automatically tweaked in Xfce. Some of the options are tweaked by setting values in ~/.config/xfce4/Xft.xrdb, but that’s not it: these values set the same stuff as Xorg’s /usr/local/etc/fonts/local.conf (or default.conf). Anyway, [...]

It’s awesome!

I think I’ll be using awesome from now on. It might take some time moving all my settings from Xfce; but probably not, considering how fast I’ve found the settings I had in Gnome “pretty much irrelevant”. One of the issues was flipping back to good old XTerm. This thread on Ubuntu forums was helpful. [...]