http://dryice.name/blog Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:01:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Contents Why What do we want Accessible with a single key stroke Available on all virtual desktops No Title, No border Transparent background Not shown on task-bar, task switch, or Alt-Tab And finally, nice animation   Why Well we already have many quake like terminals already: Kuake Yakuake Tilda Stjerm But what if you don't like loading the whole KDE libraries to get this? ... http://dryice.name/blog/freebsd/quake-like-terminal-with-fvwm/ While I work on command line, mostly remotely, there're two tools I like very much: settitle and screen. The first one change the terminal titles, so I can know which one to choose when switching among my X windows. The other, screen, well, have got lots of articles about it. ... http://dryice.name/blog/freebsd/settitle-and-screen/ Well the maintainer updated x11/nvidia-driver today and my 7300GS is officially supported. So I decide to find something to push the GPU. I'm not a graphic designer and I don't play 3D games. The only graphic thing I can think off "cool" is a transparent terminal. I've used mlterm and Terminal. The ... http://dryice.name/blog/freebsd/transparent-terminal/ There are many shell interface within Emacs, shell, eshell, and ansi-term can call the shell you like. IMO eshell is the one intergrated with Emacs the most and I use most. The most intergration that the others don't have (to my knowledge) is that we can call lisp functions within the ... http://dryice.name/blog/emacs/eshell/