Monthly Archive for Oktober, 2011

Openbox pipemenu to control virtual machines of VirtualBox

25. Oktober 2011, 2 Comments, Tags: , .

Openbox, Virtualbox… Coincidence? I don’t know. Anyway, I am a huge fan of VirtualBox, for the virtual machines are extremely fast, stable and nice to control. With the command line tool VBoxManage comes a nice tool for all those CLI-lovers out there. You can literally do anything with it, what the GUI can do. (at least it looks like that)

Now, starting the GUI to start a VM is a bit slow, so VBoxManage startvm "vm" is a huge time- and memorysaver.
Since I work with Openbox, the natural thing for me was to google for a suitable pipemenu. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find one. Long story short: Here is my self-written Openbox pipemenu to control VirtualBox’s VMs. (It can start and stop them, at least.)
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My new emacs setup (no .emacs here, don’t worry)

23. Oktober 2011, 4 Comments, Tags: , .

After having used emacs for a couple of months now, I discovered the emacs --daemon option today and was astonished. Having quite a big emacs config, it takes ages for emacs to start preventing me from using it as the standard editor for config files etc. The --daemon mode starts emacs in the background acting as a server and allows one to create emacs frames using the emacsclient in various ways. EMacs shows up lightning-fast then and becomes an option for the always-to-use text editor.


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