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Automating Ubuntu desktop with xdotool

Beginning from Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, xdotool is added into the repositories. Xdotool is an application that allows you to control various X11 elements from the command line. In other words, you could change a window’s size, send keystrokes to an application, move and click the mouse, etc. So what? I could imagine that being able [...]

Posted 09 December 2008 § Ubuntu Linux ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Automating windows arrangement on desktop

Recently, I have been working on the Debian NSLU2. During the process, I usually have at least three terminal windows opened in my Ubuntu PC. In the beginning, these terminal windows were randomly placed on the desktop, usually on top of each other and getting in the way. After awhile, I would have to manually [...]

Posted 02 December 2008 § Ubuntu Linux ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Maximising desktop of eeePC with Ubuntu

My Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex desktop on eeePC 900 currently looks like this. Eh? That is nothing but the wallpaper? Well. it should actually look like this. But of course, the panels are hidden! By default, the gnome-panels took up 24px each. With two panels, you are out of 48px. The eeepc 900 small screen is [...]

Posted 30 October 2008 § Ubuntu Linux ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,