Console keyboard scheme switcher

davor (Davor Babic) — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 04:20:52 GMT

Switches between us and swedish (or any other)
keyboard-scheme in the console. Default is US.



#!/bin/sh

# Keyboard switcher script

# Written in 2006 by Davor Babic 

# This software is realeased into public domain



case $1 in

sv)

    echo "Switching to swedish keyboard layout."

    loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/se-latin1.kmap.gz

    ;;

us)

    echo "Switching to US keyboard layout."

    loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz

    ;;

default)

    echo "None selected. Loading US..."

    loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz

    ;;

esac

Digg/RSS Reader

davor (Davor Babic) — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 04:18:53 GMT

Grabs the RSS-feed from digg.com and reads it out
loud using festival.



#!/bin/sh

# Copyright (c) 2005 Davor Babic 

# All rights reserved.

# Usage of the works is permitted provided that this

# instrument is retained with the works, so that any

# entity that uses the works is notified of this

# instrument.

# DISCLAIMER: THE WORKS ARE WITHOUT WARRANTY.



url="http://digg.com/rss/index.xml"



echo "Parsing RSS..."

curl --silent "$url" | grep -E '(title>|description>)' | \

        sed -n '4,$p' | \

	sed -e 's///' -e 's/<\/title>//' -e 's/<description>/  /' \
<br />	    -e 's/<\/description>//' | head -5 > digg 
<br />echo "Reading..."
<br />festival --tts digg
<br />rm -rf ./digg
<br />echo "Done."
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Console keyboard scheme switcher

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