Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Category: <span>Tips</span>

Writing to be read.

Here’s my point (TL;DR*): Write to be read.** Where do I get off? As you read this, don’t forget: I’m speaking from experience as a bad writer of email! I’ve made every mistake I point out here, and most of them countless times over. I have lots of room to improve as a writer. But in the same …

Autotitles in screen.

This comes in really handy in ~/.screenrc: shelltitle ‘$ |bash’ Then add this in ~/.bashrc: export PROMPT_COMMAND='[ “$TERM” == “screen” ] && echo -n -e “\033k\033\\\”‘ Restart screen in a fresh bash session and enjoy. UPDATE: I stupidly screwed up the screenrc line because I did it from memory instead …

You can ring my bell.

I’ve been using xchat-gnome on Fedora for quite a while. It’s been my default chat client because the way it notifies about private or channel messages fits well with my workflow. However, recently I’ve wanted more often to encapsulate my chat in a screen session along with my other work. …