In this second part we will show you how to get the same effect with devilspie, like we did with Tilda. With devilspie we will have more control over the placement and the behavior over the terminal window. What is Devilspie? “Devil’s Pie can be configured to detect windows as they are created, and match [...]

There are two popular ways of configuring a Linux terminal to work transparently over a wallpaper, without any borders, menu bars or toolbars. This is very popular among developers because of it’s practical and coolness factor. I personally use it to view source-codes or get an interactive process status of my system with htop. Something [...]

Youtube-dl is a python based platform independent command line tool to download any videos from youtube. In ubuntu, it’s already in the repo just download it using apt-get; others can download it from the authors website http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/. The instructions is pretty straight forward. In the terminal type, youtube-dl “youtube_video_address” this will save the video in [...]

Bblog or Bashblogger uses a combination of standard unix applications such as vi, ls, sed, mv to perform the task of blogging from the terminal. Bblog uses vi by default but the configuration file can be edited to use other more convenient editors like, pico, nano or emacs. Bash Blogger themes are generated with CSS, [...]