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Pop-up message upon low disk space

For reasons which I am not going to explain here, the root partition of my eeePC (running Ubuntu Intrepid) has gone dangerously low on disk space. Usually, I have about 250MB to 300MB remaining in the partition. But twice now, the free disk space went below 50MB, and once almost at zero. When the disk [...]

Posted 19 December 2008 § Ubuntu Linux ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Pidgin notification balloons

A while back, I posted about installing pidgin-plugin-pack to enhance the functionalities of Pidgin. Since then, I have discovered an additional plugin, which is not part of the plugin pack. This plugin is called “pidgin-libnotify”. It creates notification popup balloons to inform you about activities, such as new incoming message, buddy sign in/off, etc. To [...]

Posted 18 September 2008 § Ubuntu Linux ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , ,

Scripting popup balloons

In normal daily usage, Ubuntu has pretty reached the point where the graphical user interface (GUI) could accomplish almost everything. Yet, the underlying Linux command line interface (CLI) is still very much alive. Sometimes, it is simply more efficient to use CLI when you want to accomplish something. You could learn and use this powerful [...]

Posted 16 September 2008 § Ubuntu Linux ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,