gimp

GIMP is a powerful raster image editing program, and commonly used for photo retouching, image composition, and general graphic design work. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. Backlinks gtk

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · Kristian Alexander P

gtk

GTK, or the GIMP Toolkit, is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application suites GTK was initially made by the GNU Project for GIMP, but it is now a very popular toolkit with bindings for many languages. This article will explore the tools used to configure the GTK theme, style, icon, font and font size, and also detail manual configuration. ...

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · Kristian Alexander P

khal

Khal Khal is a standards based CLI and terminal calendar program, able to synchronize with CalDAV servers through vdirsyncer. configuration [calendars] [[personal]] path = /home/alexforsale/.calendars/* type = discover color = auto [locale] timeformat = %H:%M dateformat = %Y-%m-%d longdateformat = %Y-%m-%d %a datetimeformat = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M longdatetimeformat = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M [default] default_calendar = alexarians@gmail.com Code Snippet 1: khal configuration

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · Kristian Alexander P

mpd

MPD (music player daemon) is an audio player that has a server-client architecture. It plays audio files, organizes playlists and maintains a music database, all while using very few resources. In order to interface with it, a separate client is needed. Backlinks ncmpcpp

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · Kristian Alexander P

ncmpcpp

Ncmpcpp is an mpd client (compatible with mopidy) with a UI very similar to ncmpc, but it provides new useful features such as support for regular expressions for library searches, extended song format, items filtering, the ability to sort playlists, and a local filesystem browser. To use it, a functional mpd must be present on the system since ncmpcpp/mpd work together in a client/server relationship.

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · Kristian Alexander P

neovim

Neovim is a fork of Vim aiming to improve the codebase, allowing for easier implementation of APIs, improved user experience and plugin implementation. Neovim inspired editors like Helix.

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · Kristian Alexander P

Personal knowledge management

Personal knowledge management (PKM) is a process of collecting information that a person uses to gather, classify, store, search, retrieve and share knowledge in their daily activities and the way in which these processes support work activities. Backlinks Molecular Notes: Principles · Reasonable Deviations org-roam zettelkasten

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · Kristian Alexander P

ripgrep

ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool written in Rust, that recursively searches the current directory for a regex pattern. By default, ripgrep will respect gitignore rules and automatically skip hidden files/directories and binary files. (To disable all automatic filtering by default, use rg -uuu.) ripgrep has first class support on Windows, macOS and Linux, with binary downloads available for every release. ripgrep is similar to other popular search tools like The Silver Searcher, ack and grep. ...

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · Kristian Alexander P

rofi

Rofi is a window switcher, run dialog, ssh-launcher and dmenu replacement. Rofi is mainly used on Xorg, but a patch has been made available so it can also be used in wayland.

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · Kristian Alexander P

rust cargo

Cargo Cargo is the Rust package manager. Cargo downloads your Rust package’s dependencies, compiles your packages, makes distributable packages, and uploads them to crates.io, the Rust community’s package registry. You can contribute to this book on GitHub.

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · Kristian Alexander P