5 Mar
2006
5 Mar
'06
8:44 p.m.
Brian Dunn wrote:
Thanks again, lau. You've help me sort through the
bazillion options
out there and i'm now bedazzling myself with the glamor of fluxbox...
so fresh, yet so clean.
For a while i was frustrated by the absence of a good dockapp alsa
mixer, then i discovered the beauty of the .fluxbox/keys file. Mod4
+, rear speakers louder. Mod4 -, rear speakers quieter. sweet.
amixer provides no mute toggle for rear out of an emu10k1. so i wrote
this goofy script and bound it to Mod4 m.
# Check if the Wave Surround level is already 0
VOL=`amixer sget 'Wave Surround' | grep 'Front Left:' | cut
--delimiter=' ' --fields=6`
if [ $VOL -gt 0 ]; then
#mute
#store the current wave surround volume in VOL
LASTVOL=`amixer sget 'Wave Surround' | grep 'Front Left:' | cut
--delimiter=' ' --fields=6`
#turn the sound all the way down.
amixer sset 'Wave Surround' 0
echo $LASTVOL > ~/.lastvol
else
#unmute
amixer sset 'Wave Surround' `cat ~/.lastvol`
fi
is this like a really dumb way to add a mute toggle? This is like my
first real bash script, so any suggestions are welcome. Here i'll get
the ball rolling: i should learn to use sed or awk so i don't have to
pipe grep and cut together.
well, thanks to ya'll my computer is looking and sounding sweeter
than ever and it's oh so customized.
God Bless,
Brian
Perfectly fine way to get Fluxbox to do what you need. I've been using
it for years and remain completely satisfied by the efficiency and
productivity of working in this environment. I'll share one thing with
you on the chance that you find MC (Midnight Commander) as useful and
powerful as I do. First the entry from my ~/.fluxbox/keys file that
brings it up with a "Mod1 f" in Eterm with everything turned off - no
window frame, no title bar, no menu bar, no scroll bars, and with
transparency:
Mod1 f :ExecCommand Eterm --trans --borderless --scrollbar off
--buttonbar off --geometry 100x44+185+65 --font 10x20 --foreground-color
white -e mc >/dev/null 2>&1
Then the ~/.mc/ini [Colors] section that sets up transparency and other
good display colors for the various file types:
[Colors]
base_color=normal=white,default:directory=white,default:marked=yellow,default:selected=gray,white:executable=brightgreen,default:link=lightgray,default:stalelink=brightred,default:special=brightblue,default:device=magenta,default:editnormal=white,default
Ok, that requires scrolling from here to the next state, but no real
problem. Anyway, what this will give you when you press Mod1 f is the
magic appearance of MC "floating" in the middle of your Fluxbox screen
with only the program's contents visible. Everything else is
transparent and the rest is simply superimposed on the screen. If you
do a ctrl-o to "shell out" of MC you'll see the command prompt eerily
floating on the screen near the upper left. Executing any command with
standard output will have that text simply scroll upon the screen, again
floating against a transparent background with no window, no frame, no
title, no menu, no scroll bars, nothing but the content.
Sorry, but I still find that very cool, and along with 3DDesk where my 4
workspaces zoom out to a carousel which whirls around allowing me to
choose and zoom back into whichever one I need just at a push of Mod1 3,
are the two things I always show a prospective "convert" whenever I demo
one of my systems.
Frank