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Useful Gits - DotDev - 10-11-2013
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
RE: Useful Gits - kirby - 10-11-2013
I haven't used it myself, but in browsing about I found ack, basically grep on steroids specifically for searching code, looks very nice.
RE: Useful Gits - DotDev - 15-02-2014
I've always found LDM as a useful Git
RE: Useful Gits - z3bra - 17-02-2014
I stumbled upon http://git.2f30.org the other day. Full of nice programs
RE: Useful Gits - Bones - 02-04-2014
https://github.com/pidsley
https://github.com/dkeg
https://github.com/wuxmedia
https://github.com/machinebacon
https://github.com/DebianJoe
RE: Useful Gits - berk - 02-04-2014
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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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RE: Useful Gits - ajac - 02-04-2014
http://git.suckless.org/ [awesome, useful, SIMPLE software]
http://github.com/baskerville/ [bspwm & sxhkd]
RE: Useful Gits - z3bra - 03-04-2014
You made me discover `sxhkd`. How does it compare to `xbindkeys` ? Is that better ?
RE: Useful Gits - ajac - 03-04-2014
@z3bra ive only used sxhkd, it works by reading a simple config file that has its own (relatively simple) syntax
RE: Useful Gits - z3bra - 03-04-2014
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 + wOkay 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 :)
RE: Useful Gits - ajac - 04-04-2014
@z3bra lol! nice comparison! i believe sxhkd is a dependency of bspwm which is why people use it
RE: Useful Gits - dkeg - 05-04-2014
^that. @z3bra, great comparison tests! Thanks for that.