Taller de Estilos y Plantillas en LibreOffice Writer

La semana pasada participé en el IV Congreso Latinoamericano de LibreOffice. Fue un gran evento y tuve la oportunidad de conocer en persona a mucha gente de la comunidad. Estoy infinitamente agradecido con todos ustedes, especialmente aquellos que compartieron su conocimiento conmigo y pacientemente contestaron mis preguntas. Mi reconocimiento y agradecimiento a Mau y a … Leer más

Anécdota de la ventana que no aparecía

Les cuento una tontería que me pasó ayer.

Iba a ir a trabajar a la oficina (normalmente trabajo desde casa) pero antes quería entrar así rapidillo al Slack a ver algo de la misma oficina. Abro la laptop, se despierta, meto clave, le doy click al iconito en el área de notificaciones (junto al reloj en el Windows) para que apareciera la ventana del Slack pero no sale ninguna ventana.

Qué raro… Lo intento de nuevo, nada.

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Poda: finds similar directories

I invite you to try Poda. I made this to find similar directories among multiple storage locations (or hampers as I call them in the program). The typical use case is to find out whether I find whether I have duplicate or similar directories in my laptop, the other laptop, NAS, flash drives, etc. I may have made a backup of a flash drive on my laptop and not sure what has changed where. Or even within the same storage!

[Update: There was a mistake in the use of dirdupes.py below. A sort filter was missing. It is now corrected.]

The way it works is that you first get the index of each hamper. For example, you may have four hampers:

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Calculating values for the Xfce Sensors Plugin

The top panel on my Xfce session showing multiple sensors and how it shows too many distracting colors.

I extensively use the Xfce panel to monitor my system. I like having a picture of its state without having to launch any diagnostic tool. This proves to be quite useful! Also, should my computer experience a sudden problem and not respond anymore, I can glance at its last state before rebooting.

I have never liked the excess of colors that is present on the bar, though:

The top panel on my Xfce session showing multiple sensors and how it shows too many distracting colors.
The top panel on my Xfce session showing multiple sensors and how it shows too many distracting colors. Taken from My laptop was broken into.

This takes away from noticing effortlessly whenever something out of the ordinary is occurring. So I put everything (or as much as possible) in gray shades. I managed to change its appearance quite easily:

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