Programming

This is mostly a museum of programs, scripts and helpers I wrote. You might find some of them funny or useful. Some are very old, hopelessly useless, completely arcane and I should probably be ashamed of them. Oh well...

• mnt a simple shell wrapper of udisksctl that presents a TUI menu for the user to select a filesystem to mount/unmount using UDisks2.
• ucw My favourite Czech keyboard mapping for X use (this shell-script version to load the keymap if you are not root or don't want to install it to the proper system xkb directory). Written probably by 0rfelius, but I had to modify it a little This one simply works for me, there may be other variants around :-)
  Note: nowadays this is part of most distributions, just use setxkbmap us,cz -variant ,ucw -option -option grp:caps_switch -option grp:switch
• csv2abo a perl script to generate mass-payment bank orders in the "ABO" format used by most Czech banks.
• kdmflexiserver a simple shell script to allow non-KDE users to get the "Switch User" functionality of KDE/KDM
• ps2pdf_papersize a simple shell wrapper of ps2pdf which allows to set the output page size to any standard (a0, a1, a2, a3, a4, ...) size, a landscape variant thereof or an arbitrary paper size specified in millimetres
• typekeys.c A simple program that reads standard input and translates it to keypresses pushed into the kernel through uinput. Can be used e.g. to easily feed output of serial barcode/rfid readers or remote controls into applications as keystrokes. A sample ascii keymap is here.
• stereowars - - a network, 3D (anaglyph), space game for the X Window System.
• Blockout - My first (and only so far) java applet. A variation of the evergreen brick game in 3D
• Lemmings Revival - My 1999/2000 school project. Another old and popular game.
• links-2.1pre17-cookies-save.patch This makes the Links browser save the cookies on quit. This patch was made by Pasky, but his version only worked with ancient versions of links -- this is just modified to patch cleanly to modern versions of links.
• links-2.1pre17-no-proxy.patch With this patch, you can prevent the Links browser from using a proxyserver for addresses matching a certain string(s).
• twici_escape.diff Allows metacharacters in TwicI to be escaped with a backslash
• daemonize.c A very simple wrapper that can run any program in background as a daemon, detach from the terminal, redirect the output to a log file and change the UID. It's not perfect, but works for me. NB: there is another program called daemonize that does the same thing and is probably more mature. Google for it.
• pam_abl.patch A patch that makes pam_abl work for me on Debian Etch and does a couple more tweaks to better suit my needs.
• Workaround for S4 mini (i9195) losing network with Lineageos