Daniel Escoz Darkhogg

Icon Theme Support

Theming is a big part of the Linux desktop experience, and icon themes are a great way of customizing it to look how you want. Applications provide their own icons as fallback, but the way their menus, lists, file explorers and other interface elements is in the end dictated by the icon theme selected by the user.

The icons on the notification area are also part of this theming, and it's pretty nice to see icons looking consistent with a theme, particularly when they draw attention to themselves in a homogenous way instead of each application using different approaches.

Get Icon Theme in Every Desktop

If you've ever tried to manually look for the current icon theme, you've probably come to the (correct) conclusion that it's simply impossible to do it in a portable way: each desktop environment in existence stores that information in a different place, and it's none give out that info in a common way.

In order to find out the current icon theme then, we first need to find out the current desktop environment and only then we can get the current icon theme in a desktop-dependent way. To do that, we can use the following environemnt variables:

XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP: contains the name of the current session name.
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP: contains a :-separated list of current desktop names.

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=55918

Reboot to {OS}

This a collection of notes and files used in my quest to create "Reboot to Windows" and "Reboot to Linux" scripts (and desktop shortcuts) for Linux and Windows respectively that automatically reboot my system and instruct rEFInd to auto-select the appropriate OS entry.

General Information

The key for achieving this is to modify the EFI Variable PreviousBoot with GUID 36d08fa7-cf0b-42f5-8f14-68df73ed3740, which rEFInd uses to store the last entry selected in the menu and, if using the + default entry, will be used to select the default OS. By doing this, we trick rEFInd into booting the OS we choose without having to be physically there to press the keyboard.

Keybase proof

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I am darkhogg on github.
I am darkhogg (https://keybase.io/darkhogg) on keybase.
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To claim this, I am signing this object:

Factorio Server on Dokku

This document and associated files describe a very simple procedure to push a Dokku application that will launch a Factorio Multiplayer Server. This are the actual files used to launch my Factorio server, so you should trust that it works.

Dokku Setup

Werebot HexChat Helper

This simple Python script will make a few repetitive tasks easy when playing Werebot. What it does is:

Sends any Werebot commands directly to the bot, which prevents the disclosure of your role by accidentaly sending a command at the wrong time and makes it easier to use commands at night (i.e., when the channel is fully muted).
Automatically joins any of the official Werebot channels when the bot invites you, particularly useful for auto-joining the werewolf channel.

To install it, you will need both HexChat and Python 2.7 installed. Download and install them from https://hexchat.github.io/downloads.html. When installing HexChat, be sure to select and install the Python 2.7 plugin.

	import usb.core
	import usb.util
	import binascii

	VENDOR = 0x046d
	PRODUCT = 0xc084
	INDEX = 0x0001
	REQUEST_TYPE = 0x21
	REQUEST = 0x09
	VALUE = 0x0210

	{
	"n1_s1": [
	[1]
	],
	"n2_s1": [
	[2]
	],
	"n3_s1": [
	[3]
	],

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# -- coding: utf-8 --
	from __future__ import print_function, division

	import multiprocessing as mp
	import os
	import sys


	KEYPOINTS = (