https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/ Recent content on Addy's Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en Addy Mon, 26 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/about/ Mon, 26 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/about/ Introduction Hi! I’m Addy! Just a student, a worker, and a Linux Enthusiast. I love metal, cat, linux, playing guitar, design, customizing desktop, more metal, reading, climbing mountain, fishing, watching movie, anime, and even more metal. I write articles in this blog when I have some freetime and not lazy. I write some knowledges I have about Linux, and probably I will also expand the theme of this blog with my adventures in my life. https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/my-openbox/ Tue, 29 Jan 2019 20:42:05 +0700 https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/my-openbox/ Introduction This post is an explanation about my Openbox configurations and how to use them. Openbox is my favourite window manager, and it’s the first window manager I use. At first, I didn’t even know how to make Openbox worked. When I installed it and ran it, I just got a blank black screen and didn’t even know how to launch any application. I followed several guide but couldn’t understand it, I gave up. https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/hugo/ Tue, 22 Jan 2019 18:09:57 +0700 https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/hugo/ Introduction According to its GitHub README, Hugo is a static HTML and CSS website generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, ease of use, and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates and renders them into a full HTML website. Hugo relies on Markdown files with front matter for metadata, and you can run Hugo from any directory. This works well for shared hosts and other systems where you don’t have a privileged account. https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/urxvtd/ Mon, 21 Jan 2019 20:28:52 +0700 https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/urxvtd/ Introduction According to the manual page, URxvtd is same with URxvt but runs as a daemon that can open multiple terminal windows within the same process. Advantages of running a urxvt daemon include faster creation time for terminal windows and a lot of saved memory. The disadvantage is a possible impact on stability. If the main program crashes, all processes in the terminal windows are terminated. How To Use Start The Daemon From my Urxvt Configurations, nothing needs to be changed. https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/scrot/ Tue, 15 Jan 2019 19:44:16 +0700 https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/scrot/ Introduction According to Wikipedia, Scrot is a minimalistic command line screen capturing application. It allows substantial degree of flexibility by specifying parameters on command line, including the ability to invoke a third-party utility to manipulate the resulting screenshot. When I installed Debian, I started from minimal install. So it didn’t come with any screenshot taking app by default, then I installed scrot. I just thought that scrot was quite enough for my necessity. https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/privacy/ Wed, 02 Jan 2019 20:11:40 +0700 https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/privacy/ Summary Addy’s Blog (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://addy-dclxvi.github.io website (hereinafter referred to as the “Service”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data. Our Privacy Policy for Addy’s Blog is based on the Privacy Policy Template from Privacy Policies. We use your data to provide and improve the Service. https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/lemonbar-conky/ Wed, 19 Dec 2018 17:18:27 +0700 https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/lemonbar-conky/ Introduction According to its GitHub page, Lemonbar (formerly known as bar) is a lightweight bar entirely based on XCB. Provides full UTF-8 support, basic formatting, RandR and Xinerama support and EWMH compliance without wasting your precious memory. I use Debian, and Lemonbar is available in Debian repository since Stretch, so just install it normally. 1 sudo apt-get install lemonbar It just a bar. It doesn’t come with any module like in Polybar by default. https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/my-fluxbox/ Sun, 16 Dec 2018 10:45:56 +0700 https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/my-fluxbox/ Introduction This post is an explanation about my Fluxbox configurations and how to use them. Fluxbox is my second window manager after Openbox. They are pretty similar because both are derived from Blackbox window manager. Some differences between Openbox and Fluxbox are.. Fluxbox uses plain text of configuration files instead of XML. Fluxbox comes with a panel called Fluxbox Toolbar. The panel can contain taskbar, workspace indicator, workspace switcher, system tray, and clock. https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/bitmap-fonts/ Thu, 06 Dec 2018 20:56:34 +0700 https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/bitmap-fonts/ Introduction This is a post about several bitmap fonts I modify from M+, Tewi, Lemon, & Siji. At first I modify them because I can’t find any bitmap font that suitable for my personal preferences. I want a small bitmap font that can fit in 6x10 bounding box, but placed inside 6x12 bounding box for extra line spacing. I want extra line spacing for readability reason. I know I can add line spacing in URxvt configuration. https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/dunst/ Sun, 02 Dec 2018 13:19:24 +0700 https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/dunst/ Introduction According to the Dunst website Dunst is a lightweight replacement for the notification daemons provided by most desktop environments. It’s very customizable, isn’t dependent on any toolkits, and therefore fits into those window manager centric setups we all love to customize to perfection. When I installed Debian, I start from minimal install. So, I don’t have any notification by default. Then I choose Dunst. If you already have other notification daemon and want to try Dunst, Just simply add Dunst to your autostart. https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/configuring-ncmpcpp/ Sat, 01 Dec 2018 21:34:30 +0700 https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/configuring-ncmpcpp/ Introduction ncmpcpp is an mpd client. In short, it’s the frontend of mpd. The actual music player is mpd, but managing mpd with barehand is not possible. So, the most common way to control mpd is using ncmpcpp, to list the library, arranging the playlist, choosing the music, and other actions. mpd + ncmpcpp duo usually also paired with mpc for control. info Don’t forget that ncmpcpp is a terminal applications. https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/configuring-urxvt/ Fri, 30 Nov 2018 21:44:11 +0700 https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/configuring-urxvt/ Introduction URxvt is a customizable terminal emulator forked from rxvt. Features of rxvt-unicode include international language support through Unicode, transparency, the ability to display multiple font types and support for Perl extensions. URxvt is one of the most popular terminal emulator in UNIX world, especially on Unixporn. It’s well known for being lightweight and riceable. But just like any other software in UNIX world, it’s ugly out of the box. https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/fish-shell/ Fri, 30 Nov 2018 18:16:14 +0700 https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/fish-shell/ Introduction Most of GNU/Linux distros use bash as the default terminal shell. But there are many aftermarket alternatives of cli shell for it. And my favourite is fish, the friendly interactive shell. Some of my favourite features of fish are: Command suggestion, usually based on history. Hit right arrow or Ctrl+F to complete it. Tab autocompletion, type several letter then hit Tab several times to see the options. https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/autogenerate-openbox-menu/ Tue, 27 Nov 2018 18:44:21 +0700 https://addy-dclxvi.github.io/post/autogenerate-openbox-menu/ Introduction With regard to Openbox Menus, there are two types: static menus and dynamic menus. Dynamic menus are also known as pipe menu. In this article, I will explain how to use pipe menu to generate applications list easily. Because, writing our applications list manually to menu.xml will be exhausting. I use Debian by the way. So some command line in this article, like how to install packages, will use Debian way.