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Problem: A program might have few dependencies and might have a small disk size, but how many libraries and sub-libraries does it use? How much memory does it and all its libraries actually take?
Usability
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unclutter will do this automatically, but there is an easy way to do it manually with xsetroot -cursor
Software for running a program.
You probably want Application launchers
more coming later, either here or in other topics
A dark theme is less hard on the eyes. I wonder if it lowers power usage for your display.
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Simple Openbox themerc — easily edited to darken your window manager, such as the title of windows.
Note to self: This page is regular and not BlogText
Just some ideas from the old website.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/
now http://www.html-tidy.org/
Tidies HTML and XML.
Geany has a number of plugins, and there is spell checking in their main plugins bundle. Installing was easy.
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JDownloader is a download helper. It helps bypass various wait screens like the Firefox SkipScreen add-on, probably breaking terms of use and all that goodness.
Unfortunately, it’s Java.
My TODO list is big. More annoyingly, it’s not really one TODO list. I have notes scattered throughout my computer: in text files; in a local knowledgebase; in program source.. and in this case in the rc.xml configuration file for Openbox.
Inspired by my previous post on Firefox’s about:blank, I decided to take some time to investigate changing my desktop background colour.
