I3-Gaps on paapereira.xyz

Reviewed bookmarks script

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 15:32:24 +0100

Following my previous post I kept improving my bookmarks script.

I simplified the script to use only one bookmark file and defined a structure to help me while searching.

The bookmarks.txt file

It has two sections (just for organization sake), a Quickmarks section for common urls and a Bookmarks section for everything else.

Each line is divided in three parts. A category/name, tags and the url.

 1cat ~/.local/bin/bookmarks.txt
 2
 3>> Quickmarks
 4#
 5#---
 6📚books/Goodreads ...... (reviews) ......... https://www.goodreads.com/
 7📚books/Audible ........ (audiobook) ....... https://www.audible.com/
 8📚books/Kindle_Deals ... (kindle,ebooks) ... https://www.amazon.com/b/?ie=UTF8&node=11552285011&ref_=sv_kstore_5
 9#---
10🟠headspace ............ (meditation) ...... https://www.headspace.com/login
11📶reddit ............... (news,forum) ...... https://www.reddit.com/
12📺youtube .............. (video,stream) .... https://www.youtube.com/
13⭐paapereira.xyz ....... (blog) ............ https://paapereira.xyz/
14#
15-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
16#
17>> Bookmarks
18#
19🏦banking/cgd.pt ..................... (bank) ............ https://www.cgd.pt/
20🏦banking/big.pt ..................... (bank) ............ https://big.pt/
21🏦banking/sodexo ..................... (bank) ............ https://www.sodexobeneficios.pt/
22#---
23#eof

The bookmarks script

With this reviewed script you can also quickly edit the bookmarks.txt file.

Web searching and bookmarks using Rofi

Fri, 02 Apr 2021 15:58:21 +0100

Inspired in a recent DT video and his Gitlab repository, I revamped my websearch shell script I’ve been using with Rofi.

I already had something very similar to this, but I took this opportunity to review the code and to separate my old websearch script into two scripts:

websearch: web searching in an handful of sites
bookmarks: quickly open bookmarks

websearch

This script allows for searching in a number of sites.

You can add your own sites by adding a new ‘options’ line.

betterlockscreen: a simple, minimal lockscreen

Sat, 27 Mar 2021 17:13:39 +0000

betterlockscreen is a simple and minimal lockscreen.

I have been using i3lock, witch conflicts with betterlockscreen, so it will be uninstalled.

To install:

1paru -S betterlockscreen
2cp /usr/share/doc/betterlockscreen/examples/betterlockscreenrc ~/.config

In my case, using i3-gaps, I added to ~/.config/i3/config:

1exec --no-startup-id betterlockscreen -w dim
2exec --no-startup-id xautolock -time 10 -corners 000- -locker "betterlockscreen -l dim"

And reviewed my session key bindings:

Rofi: a window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

Sun, 14 Mar 2021 14:27:52 +0000

Rofi is a window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement.

I’ve been using rofi with i3-gaps since early 2019. I had played with it before, but I’ve been using it daily the last couple of years.

I use it to launch applications, open ssh sessions, with pass and with a set of useful custom scripts.

Installation

You need to install the rofi package. I also installed rofi-dmenu for dmenu compatibility, rofi-pass to use with pass and the extra rofi-emoji and rofi-calc.