/blog/tags/gnome/ falkp.no/blog (Gnome) Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 28 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/posts/bluedo/ Sat, 28 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/posts/bluedo/ <p>Lock your desktop, mute music or run any other command when leaving your PC. There are dozens of apps like this. This one just aims to make it beautiful, modern and easy.</p> <p><img src="bluedo.png" alt="logo"></p> <p><a href="https://github.com/Thor77/Blueproximity">Blueproximity</a> was a program to do this, but it never worked great for me, and has since rottened. This project was inspired, but I trid making it Gnome-ish. That means simple, limited options, but does the job.</p> <p>The idea is to monitor bluetooth reception from a paired device (i.e. a phone), and perform actions based on signal quality. In an office this works good for locking / unlocking your session when you&rsquo;re away.</p> <p><img src="bluedo1.png" alt="bluedo screenshot"></p> <p>Easy install from pip. See more screenshots and read instructions at <a href="https://github.com/ways/bluedo">gitlab</a>.</p> /blog/posts/argos_gnome_shell_extensions/ Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/posts/argos_gnome_shell_extensions/ <p><a href="https://github.com/p-e-w/argos">Argos</a> is a free GNOME version of <a href="https://github.com/matryer/bitbar">BitBar</a>. Both lets you run any script to create an icon in the panel (or Mac OS X Menu Bar). You can see lots of plugins here: <a href="https://getbitbar.com/">BitBar plugins</a>.</p> <p><img src="renegade-host.png" alt="One renegade host"></p> <p>This screenshot shows the hosts file, opened from the argos extension. The extension is shown as a notebook icon with the number of unknown entries.</p> <p>It complains on forgotten entries in your <code>/etc/hosts</code> file. See <a href="https://gitlab.com/larsfp/argos-hosts">Argos-hosts</a> for more info.</p>