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	DotDev Offline \| 10-11-2013, 06:30 PM \| #1

Have you ever found or used a Git that catered to your needs, but didn't have a place to tell anyone about it ... well now there's a thread for that, post your useful gits that you would like people to know about or that would benifit others.

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Poor Man's Spotify
Description: Search and stream music

	kirby Offline \| 10-11-2013, 07:01 PM \| #2

I haven't used it myself, but in browsing about I found ack, basically grep on steroids specifically for searching code, looks very nice.

	DotDev Offline \| 15-02-2014, 10:49 AM \| #3

I've always found LDM as a useful Git

	z3bra Offline \| 17-02-2014, 08:24 PM \| #4

I stumbled upon http://git.2f30.org the other day. Full of nice programs

BANGARANG, MOTHERFUCKER

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	Bones Offline \| 02-04-2014, 12:58 PM \| #5

https://github.com/pidsley
https://github.com/dkeg
https://github.com/wuxmedia
https://github.com/machinebacon
https://github.com/DebianJoe

	berk Offline \| 02-04-2014, 03:43 PM \| #6

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If you work with MPD, Last.fm, or ii (the irc client) quite often, you'll find some useful tools in here:

https://github.com/berkoz

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	ajac Offline \| 02-04-2014, 11:31 PM \| #7

http://git.suckless.org/ [awesome, useful, SIMPLE software]
http://github.com/baskerville/ [bspwm & sxhkd]

	z3bra Offline \| 03-04-2014, 03:58 AM \| #8

You made me discover `sxhkd`. How does it compare to `xbindkeys` ? Is that better ?

BANGARANG, MOTHERFUCKER

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	ajac Offline \| 03-04-2014, 03:34 PM \| #9

@z3bra ive only used sxhkd, it works by reading a simple config file that has its own (relatively simple) syntax

	z3bra Offline \| 03-04-2014, 04:03 PM \| #10

xbindkeys seems to have exactly the same syntax. Hence the question, how is sxhkd better ? does it re-read the file when you update it ? Or use less resources ? I can't see anything on the repo

For reference, my.xbindkeysrc looks like this:

Code:
"urxvt"

    Mod4 + Return

"dwb"

    Mod4 + w

Okay I finally tested it. Here is the comparition:

Code:
# config files complexity:

$ wc *rc

 23  34 333 sxhkdrc

 24  36 373 xbindkeysrc

 47  70 706 total

# pretty much the same. sxhkd does not need quotations when

# passing arguments to the command. That's the only advantage

# resources used by each program

$ ./xbindkeys -f xbinkeysrc

$ ps -eo pcpu,pmem,size,vsize,args | grep xbindkeys

 0.0  0.0   312  15868 ./xbindkeys -n -f xbindkeysrc

$ ./sxhkd -c sxhkdrc

$ ps -eo pcpu,pmem,size,vsize,args | grep sxhkd

 0.0  0.0   308  15656 sxhkd -c sxhkdrc

# nothing interresting here. They use (almost :P) exactly the same resources

# last point: doing their job

# here are the config file used:

$ cat xbindkeysrc

"urxvt"

    Mod4 + Return

"dwb"

    Mod4 + w

"~/bin/menu.sh"

    Menu

"amixer set Master toggle"

    XF86AudioMute

"~/bin/popup volume"

    XF86AudioMute

$ cat sxhkdrc

mod4 + Return

    urxvt

mod4 + w

    dwb

Menu

    ~/bin/menu.sh

XF86AudioMute

    amixer set Master toggle

XF86AudioMute

    ~/bin/popup volume

# They both start the first four command without problem.

# BUT, only xbindkeys start the last command. It means that sxhkd can't bind

# multiple functions to the same hotkey.

Winner is: `xbindkeys` !

I use the "double function" a lot. Because I use multiple computers, some have media hotkeys, some don't.
So I need a fallback key on those systems.

Also, I use this feature to pop a notification while I'm performing an action. Some that I can level the volume up, and display a nice text in a corner to see the current value.

Sorry sxhkd ! Nice try though :)

BANGARANG, MOTHERFUCKER

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	ajac Offline \| 04-04-2014, 11:27 PM \| #11

@z3bra lol! nice comparison! i believe sxhkd is a dependency of bspwm which is why people use it

	dkeg Offline \| 05-04-2014, 09:27 AM \| #12

^that. @z3bra, great comparison tests! Thanks for that.

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