The Zash Blag » gui

“sudo gedit” must die!

zash — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:00:02 +0000

Why is it that so many Ubuntu guides tell you to do sudo gedit /path/to/somefile when there is a sudoedit command? An editor, like Gedit, doesn’t need to run as root, ever.

This is so much better and safer:

SUDO_EDITOR=gedit sudo -e /path/to/somefile

This will …

Copy the file to /tmp/
Invoke gedit as your user
Update the original file if you changed the temporary file

It would of course be really useful if gksudo had this built in already, and could be used in a nice way by nautilus-gksu.

Liferea vs tiny screen

zash — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:26:22 +0000

I use Liferea for RSS-feeds. I also have a craptop with a tiny screen (1024×576px).

Liferea - Normal view

I think there is room for optimizing this, more spatial perhaps?

Liferea - wide view

This could use some miller-columnification.

Optimally, I would like to have this:

Single pane
Oldest unread post first
Headlines which expand when clicked

Damn you Ctrl+W

zash — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:28:45 +0000

Don’t know how many times I accidentally pressed Ctrl+W when I wanted to delete a word in some non-terminal app, instead closing it and losing all the text I’ve written. Now I found out you can do this:

gconftool --set /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme \
  --type string Emacs

Then Ctrl+W does what it should!