Tag: cli
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How to change urxvt terminal emulator colors
urxvt is a fast, lightweight terminal emulator that supports unicode. It is also very customizable. In this walkthrough, you’ll learn how to customize the color scheme of urxvt. Installation To install in Ubuntu use: sudo apt install rxvt-unicode Setup Configuration for urxvt is done in the ~/.Xresources file. If you don’t have one, you can…
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Personal wiki using Vimwiki
I’ve dabbled in many different productivity systems over the years in an effort to organize my personal/work tasks/notes/writing. These include using methods and services such as: Disparate plain text files Simplenote Wunderlist Catch Microsoft To-Do Evernote Trello Wekan Each of the above listed services addresses one, but not all of the items that I need…
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Alpine Mail setup with Gmail
Why would you use a command line mail client when the GMail web client is accessible from anywhere and has a myriad of useful features?
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Check the weather from the command line
This video tutorial will show you how to retrieve the weather via the command line using curl and the website https://wttr.in/ https://wttr.in/ https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in To retrieve the weather type the following at your command line: curl wttr.in To add as an alias: sudo vim .bashrc alias wtr=’curl wttr.in’ source .bashrc