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Fri 26 June 2015

Scripting in Scribus

Posted by ankur in Tech (1078 words, approximately a 5 minute read)

I was looking at automating the creation of some documents and spent sometime discovering how one can use the scripting feature in Scribus. This post summarises some of what I found.

Wed 24 June 2015

pdfpc - now in the Fedora repositories

Posted by ankur in Tech (96 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

pdfpc is now available in the Fedora repositories and can be installed using DNF.

Tue 16 June 2015

Fedora 22 - workstation - Gnome - Do not disturb

Posted by ankur in Tech (221 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

The Gnome 3.16 UI redesign redid the notification area and the "Busy" switch was lost in the process. This post documents a command line way of doing it, as noted on the Fedora workstation mailing list.

Mon 15 June 2015

pdfpc - A presenter console with multi-monitor support for PDF files

Posted by ankur in Tech (151 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

I was looking for a pdf viewer that supported multiple monitors. pdfpc fits just right.

Fri 12 June 2015

Using Vim for C/C++ development efficiently

Posted by ankur in Tech (964 words, approximately a 4 minute read)

Vim is a great editor. Here are some tips and plug-ins that I've collected over the years that will help you use it better while writing C/C++ code.

Fri 29 May 2015

Letter to the Fedora council - is the Fedora community forgetting its primary goal?

Posted by ankur in Tech (802 words, approximately a 4 minute read)

Have we become so engrossed in making an easy to use OS to gain market share that we've forgotten why we make the OS in the first place - as a tool to spread the philosophy of Free and Open Source Software??

Thu 28 May 2015