Category Archives: Tips and Tricks

Vim is still sexy!

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: April 18th, 2009
NOTE: This post is not about the editor war — so please don’t try to start one either. I use vim as my editor of choice. As I note above, to each his own editor. However, Vim is not what one would call a “sexy editor”. After all, it has been around (in some shape [...]
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How to simulate Compiz’s screenshot plugin in KDE4

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: March 5th, 2009
I used to run Compiz with KDE 3.5 and I quite liked that setup. Compiz was fast, highly (a bit too much, perhaps) configurable, and came with a great set of plugins. One of my favorite plugins was the screenshot plugin — basically it allowed me to capture arbitrary regions of the screen with a [...]
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