Release 1.0 of pulseaudio-tcp

pulseaudio-tcp now has its first official release. The initial release features the following changes:

  • GUI support with zenity for setup and other user interaction
  • Debian packaging
Gitea project pulseaudio-tcpLast 3 commits: by Tilman Kranz: 3b810ca4 bump version to 1.0 by Tilman Kranz: 9c2f06ab add copyright information by Tilman Kranz: 1b729c63 add debian packagingLatest release: 1.0

 Swallowed By The Machine

Firefox userChrome Adjustments for Connected Browser Tabs

Using userChrome.css, based on the CSS generated by the „Firefox 89 Styling Proton UI“ assistant, i have made some adjustments to the Firefox UI that make browser tabs be more connected, i.e. not look like „floating buttons“. They also are much more compact. Screenshot:

Screenshot of Firefox with multiple browser tabs

Gitea project firefox-user-chrome-cssLast 3 commits: by Tilman Kranz: 879e17ca reformat license and copyright information by Tilman Kranz: 52011e7b Merge branch 'main' of ssh://tk-sls.de:2223/tilman/firefox-user-chrome-css by Tilman Kranz: 6680731d updateThis project has currently no releases.

 Real Problems

 From Alpha To Beta

 A Different Beat

Some electronic beat music featuring vocal sample „Fiona & Maike (Root D)“, part of Ableton Live’s extension pack „Voice Box“:

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A simple GUI for basic Package Management with Apt

The tool presented here, „Simple Apt Update“ (simple-apt-update) is nothing more than a front-end to the non-interactive execution of apt-get update|full-upgrade and apt list --upgradeable. It can look like this:

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Utility to search for XDG Desktop Files

In my previous article Print XDG Desktop Definition for Application i described a way to search the various „applications“ sub-directories of the known XDG data directories for .desktop-files that match certain search criteria.

The short shell script from that article is now available as a commandline utility, including the usual bells and whistles such as option parsing and a manpage. Also, it now supports more exact control over which directives in the desktop files are searched and which are displayed in the search results.

Here is an example searching for any desktop files containing „firefox“ in their „Name“or „Exec“ directives, displaying the „Name“, „Comment“ and „Exec“ directories of each result:

xdg-desktop-search -v -s Exec -s Name -d Name -d Comment -d Exec firefox

The utility is available here:

Gitea project xdg-desktop-searchLast 3 commits: by tilman: aff332d5 change exit codes by Tilman Kranz: 0eb7823f fix some warnings if searchdirs are missing by tilman: f7f760cb Update xdg-desktop-search