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Wanna-Be Sys Admin...
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:07 pm
Guest
Baho Utot wrote:

Quote:

Well you are wrong I think Sid knows exactly what he is doing, not
only that, he posts very relevent information that all linux users can
benefit greatly from.

I whole heartedly agree that he is the most awesome, skilled and
valued member of this news group.


So you agree he should kill himself, too, right? Wink
--
Not really a wanna-be, but I don't know everything.
 
Wanna-Be Sys Admin...
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:50 pm
Guest
Baho Utot wrote:

Quote:
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:08:34 -0700, Wanna-Be Sys Admin wrote:

Baho Utot wrote:

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:17:41 -0700, Wanna-Be Sys Admin wrote:

Baho Utot wrote:

So you agree he should kill himself, too, right? ;-)

No, just take a chill pill for 50 years

Well, I am going to stick with he should kill himself, it's just
faster
and more effective. Just squash the bug now and get it over with
sort of view.

But that colud be messy, Why should someone have to clean that up?

Nature has a way of taking care of those things on its own. He will
be reclaimed.

Are you sure nature will want to "take care" of this?

I don't think it would be a good thing to impose onto mother nature,
as she just might get mad and you shouldn't mess with mother nature.

Well if you insist...You can claim him, although I don't know why you
would want too.


Okay, those are all valid points. So, should we start a super fund to
launch the retard into deep space? Atomic incineration is equally
appealing, but I don't want to think that some day someonemight breath
in those toasted, dusty molecules that are bound to be left over or
bound to some other element (and who knows what sort of scary stuff
that could create).
--
Not really a wanna-be, but I don't know everything.
 
Maxwell Lol...
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:36 pm
Guest
jellybean stonerfish <stonerfish at (no spam) geocities.com> writes:

Quote:
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:18:18 +0200, Sidney Lambe wrote:

It runs off lists in /etc/menu that contain command lines enclosed in
double quotes (or the name of a submenu, see the commented notes in the
script).

Just fill them in with the commands you usually run. Don't need to run
kde in order to run the apps that come with it. All you need is a
minimal X install. Window manager and x-term.

You are insane. It is easier to remember the first couple of letters and
hit tab, then it is to remember a random letter for a command.

And if you really wanted to, you could create a directory that has
links to a set of 26 executables (or so), and change the searchpath
while running the script to ONLY use that directory.

When you press tab, you will only match the 26 executables in the
searchpath.

Alan/Sid's script requires someone to
(a) move their eyes from the bottom of the terminal window to the menu
(b) scan the menu, looking for the name of the probram that is available
(c) Find the letter associated with that program
(d) type in the letter.

As Jellyfish says, the approach described here eliminates 3 of those 4 steps.

If the files needed a real searchpath, you could have a wrapper script
that prepends the proper searchpath, and then executes the proper program.




..
 
Maxwell Lol...
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:39 pm
Guest
Sidney Lambe <sidneylambe at (no spam) nospam.invalid> writes:


Quote:
No point in reading those.

Reality is so hard to grasp, eh?
 
Sidney Lambe...
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:21 pm
Guest
Sidney Lambe <sidneylambe at (no spam) nospam.invalid> wrote:

[delete]

Quote:
! - 200 30:[Dan C ] /+-Re: Improved Menu Script
2! - 100 30:[Wanna-Be Sys] | `-

3! - 100 41:[Wanna-Be Sys] +->
4! - 200 16:[Maxwell Lol ] +->
5! - 100 39:[Maxwell Lol ] +->
6! - 200 6:[Maxwell Lol ] `->
7

I know those names. They don't know anything worth knowing, are
incredibly dishonest, complete cowards, and utterly harmless.

Which is why they have to create sockpuppets and talk
to themselves most of the time.

Like me, most people don't even bother reading their articles.

None of them know anything about shell scripting. Takes a bit
of study to learn to shell script and they never shut their
sewer mouths long enough to study anything.

No. Don't tell me what they posted. I couldn't care less.
I have dumped thousands of articles from them and will
dump thousands more.

While the poor clueless feebs imagine that they are harassing
me.

Why don't they have lives? Why don't they seek the help of
good therapists? I don't know. And I don't care.

I think they want me to track them down.

Can't imagine why I'd waste my time doing that. I've already seen
a fat mentally ill creep sitting in front of a computer posting
malicious garbage on the Internet. It wasn't a pleasant sight and
I have no desire to repeat it.

Sid
 
jellybean stonerfish...
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:05 pm
Guest
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:06:51 -0400, Baho Utot wrote:

Quote:
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:34:06 +0000, jellybean stonerfish wrote:
KISS.

Please don't tll me you just kissed Sid

Keep It Simple Stupid


I still think you just wanted to kiss Sid Smile

OK, you outed me.
 
Baho Utot...
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 3:08 am
Guest
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:50:33 -0700, Wanna-Be Sys Admin wrote:

Quote:
Baho Utot wrote:

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:08:34 -0700, Wanna-Be Sys Admin wrote:

Baho Utot wrote:

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:17:41 -0700, Wanna-Be Sys Admin wrote:

Baho Utot wrote:

So you agree he should kill himself, too, right? ;-)

No, just take a chill pill for 50 years

Well, I am going to stick with he should kill himself, it's just
faster
and more effective. Just squash the bug now and get it over with
sort of view.

But that colud be messy, Why should someone have to clean that up?

Nature has a way of taking care of those things on its own. He will
be reclaimed.

Are you sure nature will want to "take care" of this?

I don't think it would be a good thing to impose onto mother nature, as
she just might get mad and you shouldn't mess with mother nature.

Well if you insist...You can claim him, although I don't know why you
would want too.


Okay, those are all valid points. So, should we start a super fund to
launch the retard into deep space? Atomic incineration is equally
appealing, but I don't want to think that some day someonemight breath
in those toasted, dusty molecules that are bound to be left over or
bound to some other element (and who knows what sort of scary stuff that
could create).

What if some alien civilization found him and reconstructed or revived
him and sent him back?

As pissed as they may become after they reconsituted him, they would be
sure start an invasion, a war of the worlds. Who could blame them?


--
GNU/Linux runs on IBM mainframes and on the world's fastest supercomputers
Windows supercomputers on the other hand are called botnets. <grin>
 
The Natural Philosopher...
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 6:55 am
Guest
Baho Utot wrote:
Quote:
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:50:33 -0700, Wanna-Be Sys Admin wrote:

Baho Utot wrote:

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:08:34 -0700, Wanna-Be Sys Admin wrote:

Baho Utot wrote:

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:17:41 -0700, Wanna-Be Sys Admin wrote:

Baho Utot wrote:

So you agree he should kill himself, too, right? Wink
No, just take a chill pill for 50 years
Well, I am going to stick with he should kill himself, it's just
faster
and more effective. Just squash the bug now and get it over with
sort of view.
But that colud be messy, Why should someone have to clean that up?
Nature has a way of taking care of those things on its own. He will
be reclaimed.
Are you sure nature will want to "take care" of this?

I don't think it would be a good thing to impose onto mother nature, as
she just might get mad and you shouldn't mess with mother nature.

Well if you insist...You can claim him, although I don't know why you
would want too.


Okay, those are all valid points. So, should we start a super fund to
launch the retard into deep space? Atomic incineration is equally
appealing, but I don't want to think that some day someonemight breath
in those toasted, dusty molecules that are bound to be left over or
bound to some other element (and who knows what sort of scary stuff that
could create).

What if some alien civilization found him and reconstructed or revived
him and sent him back?

As pissed as they may become after they reconsituted him, they would be
sure start an invasion, a war of the worlds. Who could blame them?


well he certainly isn't of this world, so guardedly I support the idea

of sending him to another one.

But since he hasn't even ,mastered this one, I fear for his abilities to
make it on the next Wink
 
The Natural Philosopher...
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 6:56 am
Guest
Maxwell Lol wrote:
Quote:
Sidney Lambe <sidneylambe at (no spam) nospam.invalid> writes:


No point in reading those.

Reality is so hard to grasp, eh?
Reality is for those who cant handle drugs.


Sadly Sidney is equally at sea with either.
 
Wanna-Be Sys Admin...
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 4:21 pm
Guest
Baho Utot wrote:

Quote:
What if some alien civilization found him and reconstructed or revived
him and sent him back?

As pissed as they may become after they reconsituted him, they would
be sure start an invasion, a war of the worlds.  Who could blame them?

Good point, we don't want to start an inter-stellar war.
--
Not really a wanna-be, but I don't know everything.
 
TJ...
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 6:28 pm
Guest
Sidney Lambe wrote:
Quote:

Anyone can write shell scripts and no one requires
your approval in the matter.

Sidney, anyone can use KDE or Gnome, and no one requires YOUR approval

in the matter, either. Some of us LIKE being brainless minions of vast
corporate conspiracies. It makes us feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

I have an idea. Suppose you do what YOU want, and leave the rest of us
alone to do what WE want.

TJ
--
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

J.R.R.Tolkien
 
Rahul...
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:03 am
Guest
Sidney Lambe <sidneylambe at (no spam) nospam.invalid> wrote in
news:slrnhbk86v.pni.sidneylambe at (no spam) evergreen.net:

Quote:
If you don't like my scripts, Chris, feel free
to print them out on stiff cardboard, roll them
into a cylinder, and insert them in your fat ass.


I've always wondered about printing stuff on stiff cardboard. Are there
printers around that will do that? Or do people print to a medium and then
transfer a latent image?

--
Rahul
 
Rahul...
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:33 am
Guest
Michael Black <et472 at (no spam) ncf.ca> wrote in
news:Pine.LNX.4.64.0909281500310.12533 at (no spam) darkstar.example.net:

Quote:
I also had an ASCII chart like that, and one magazine printed the
needed values for branching with 8bit CPUs (which I admit anyone could
have calculated) and I printed that out and glued it to a piece of
cardboard. That would have been about 30 years ago, when I was using a
KIM-1.



Thanks! I was just curious of the printing options. Not that I am
interested in any of the other "rolling" and "stuffing" operations that
Sidney, the OP, was interested in.

--
Rahul
 
Michael Black...
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:04 pm
Guest
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Rahul wrote:

Quote:
Sidney Lambe <sidneylambe at (no spam) nospam.invalid> wrote in
news:slrnhbk86v.pni.sidneylambe at (no spam) evergreen.net:

If you don't like my scripts, Chris, feel free
to print them out on stiff cardboard, roll them
into a cylinder, and insert them in your fat ass.


I've always wondered about printing stuff on stiff cardboard. Are there
printers around that will do that? Or do people print to a medium and then
transfer a latent image?

There was a time, decades ago, when I wanted to have the commands for

various bits of software at hand. All I did was print to paper, then
glue the paper to a piece of cardboard. I guess I used a gluestick,
and was sure to run it carefully around the edges of the paper so it
wouldn't come undone.

I also had an ASCII chart like that, and one magazine printed the needed
values for branching with 8bit CPUs (which I admit anyone could have
calculated) and I printed that out and glued it to a piece of cardboard.
That would have been about 30 years ago, when I was using a KIM-1.

Michael
 
Michael Black...
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 3:13 pm
Guest
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Rahul wrote:

Quote:
Michael Black <et472 at (no spam) ncf.ca> wrote in
news:Pine.LNX.4.64.0909281500310.12533 at (no spam) darkstar.example.net:

I also had an ASCII chart like that, and one magazine printed the
needed values for branching with 8bit CPUs (which I admit anyone could
have calculated) and I printed that out and glued it to a piece of
cardboard. That would have been about 30 years ago, when I was using a
KIM-1.



Thanks! I was just curious of the printing options. Not that I am
interested in any of the other "rolling" and "stuffing" operations that
Sidney, the OP, was interested in.

I suspect if you found thinner cardboard, you could print right to it.


I bought some business card stock a few years ago, and it went through
my HP 4P laserjet with no problem. If you could live with cardboard of
that smaller thickness, and find it somewhere, it would work. It would

Michael
 
 
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