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This article describes a tiny framework consisting mainly of bash scripts to feed the gnuplot with live data. Different examples ar...

As we know Ubuntu has switched to the new "shiny" init system called systemd since the release 15.04. But the integration of th...

Since around a year or two I've been using i3 tiling window manager together with the xfce4 services as my desktop environment and ...

As I started to use the i3 window manager I wanted to have a visual feedback on sound volume change events. Usually it's done by a d...

I have previously described the process of minimal Xubuntu Desktop installation with versions 13.04 and 13.10. Now it's time to in...

I have performed a clean install of the newest Xubuntu distribution and I like the result. They have reacted to the bug reports I poste...

One new feature planned for the Xubuntu 13.10 release is the multi-monitor support integrated into XFCE desktop. Previously one would hav...

I have previously compared performance of the three most popular interpreted languages - Perl, Python and Lua ( part1 , part2 ). The next ...

Sometimes I want to redirect bash output directly into an X application for further editing. Normally this is done using a temporary file ...

As far as people show interest in this topic I decided to perform an additional measurement to the one I performed in Part 1 . This time...