Articles tagged with "X11"

1. Opening vim in a new terminal

   By default, when you open vim it runs on the current terminal. When running X11, I want to start it in a new terminal.

2. Command-line versus GUI program

   TL;DR

   When you are exploring a problem, in general first write a command-line program whenever possible.

   It will take less effort to write then a full-blown GUI.

   Introduction

   Recently I wrote a program to remove the protection from ms-excel files.

   The original version was written as a command-line program. Later I re-used the relevant code for a GUI program for use on ms-windows. This was mainly for the benefit of some colleagues who are not comfortable with using the command-line.

   In this article I want to contrast the two programs.

3. Creating a screenshot in X11

   Creating a screenshot from a terminal, using standard UNIX tools.