patrick96MC

Hey everyone :)

I have just published a blog post talking about polybar now accepting donations and a bit about future plans.

I would love to hear what you think about this.

We currently have a discussion on GitHub about adding more functionality to colors in polybar.

The discussion is around having support for more colorspaces and possibly the ability to modify colors (like increasing color brightness and stuff).

But first I would like to hear from the community about how they currently use colors in their polybar config and what kind of features they would really like to have when it comes to using colors in polybar. Please comment below with your thoughts.

Cheers

-- Patrick

TL;DR: Is there a program that can keep track of files that were installed to the root file system without the distro's package manager (for example with sudo make install)? If no, would you use it if it existed?

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I am always uneasy when I have to compile a program from source and then install it, because I am basically adding file to my root file system that are not tracked by any package manager, and unless I remember exactly which files were installed, it would be a pain to remove that package in the future. Furthermore, there isn't an easy way to tell which programs were actually installed that way.

I know about checkinstall and I use it when I'

I already knew that if test ...; then and if [ ... ]; then were equivalent. But when reading the Google Shell Style Guide, I found out that there actually is an /usr/bin/[ executable. So if [ -n "$str" ]; then is nothing more than the shell executing the command [ with the arguments -n "$str" ] and checking its exit code. No fancy shell syntax, just calling other commands.

Most shells have their own built-in version of [ (just like with time), but your system most likely also has the /usr/bin/[ executable.

Also another TIL: [ is a valid filename

EDIT: This is not only bash, but it was the only suitable fla