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Comment on Tutorial: How to Color Man Pages & How It Works by satish

satish — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:13:12 +0000

Nice tutorial with good explanation. Thanks for sharing it.

Comment on Tutorial: How to Color Man Pages & How It Works by Craciun Dan

Craciun Dan — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 07:42:36 +0000

Thank you for sharing the way ‘most’ works. It seems like a good alternative, however it isn’t installed by default on my distribution.

Comment on GNOME 3: How to Change the Wallpaper from Command-Line by Jabba Laci

Jabba Laci — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:34:24 +0000

Type “crontab -e”, then add the following line:

* * * * * /path/to/this/script.py

Save and exit; it’ll install this new cronjob. Then your script will be called once in every minute.

Comment on Tutorial: How to Color Man Pages & How It Works by Morvan

Morvan — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:17:50 +0000

Good morning.

Nice work, Craciun Dan.

As depicted by Eman, a simple ‘export PAGER=”most”’ did the trick, with “Most” installed, of course.
Besides this, you can treat of “mostsh” lines in a file called .mostrc – this file will be scanned by MOST program.
My .mostc, as a tiny example, contains this:

export PAGER=”most”
color normal brightcyan black
color status white blue
color underline brightgreen black
color overstrike yellow black
…

Your care with explanation (did be dessication?) of what code does is technically flawless. Is that way we can help people to learn and like code.
Write ever for all us.

Morvan, User Linux #433640.

:-)

Comment on Top 10 News Readers for Ubuntu (Overview & Screenshots) by Rich Steiner

Rich Steiner — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:03:41 +0000

I find it interesting that the term “newsreader” has changed to mean rss readers. Why not call them rss readers?

Comment on Tutorial: How to Color Man Pages & How It Works by Craciun Dan

Craciun Dan — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 05:17:36 +0000

Thank you! :)

Comment on Tutorial: How to Color Man Pages & How It Works by Craciun Dan

Craciun Dan — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:41:52 +0000

OK I’m glad we cleared that out :) Thanks for the kind words, it’s nice to see it helps.

Comment on Tutorial: How to Color Man Pages & How It Works by John

John — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:41:25 +0000

Excellent article, thanks! Very well explained, and fantastic level of English as a second language.

I note that no one was actually offended by your title, it was only a fear of offending that made you change it. I wish the PC crowd in the US would not export their hangups and shortcomings to the rest of the world! But I digress…

Looking forward to more articles of the same quality!

Cheers!

Comment on Tutorial: How to Color Man Pages & How It Works by Larry Cafiero

Larry Cafiero — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:13:44 +0000

Craciun Dan — That’s fine, and you could also go with “Coloring Man Pages . . . ” or something like that. Like Anon says, it’s a great tutorial and I’d hate to see the attention be drawn away from its goodness by the title.

Again, keep up the great work.

Comment on Tutorial: How to Color Man Pages & How It Works by Dean

Dean — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:32:31 +0000

So just put “Man pages” as “Manpages” and everyone will be happy & fine.

Comment on Tutorial: How to Color Man Pages & How It Works by Craciun Dan

Craciun Dan — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:31:00 +0000

I changed the title, and I hope it is OK now. I believe it sounded a little weird, hopefully now all discussions not related to the content will be avoided. I’m not from the U.S., nor from an English-speaking country (Romania, anyone? :) Please tell me if this is appropriate or if I should change it again.

Comment on Tutorial: How to Color Man Pages & How It Works by anon

anon — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:00:15 +0000

Dan:
It’s a nice article, thanks for writing it.

Even if unintended, the title can definitely be misconstrued. While it’s unfortunate that first reactions are associated with the racial interpretation, which obviously you do not mean based on the context of the article and an understanding of what a ‘man page’ is, you may consider weighing whether or not a very simple title change is a reasonable price to pay for not having all of the comment conversation detracting from the actual, excellent content of the article.

Comment on Top 10 News Readers for Ubuntu (Overview & Screenshots) by John Smith

John Smith — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:11:09 +0000

I have tried all of these rss news readers and none of them are good.

Liferea is the only one that comes close to being acceptable.

I finally moved all of my rss reading to google reader.