I always had the problem that I couldn’t decide if I should use autostart to start things like kmail and kopete. On the one hand I don’t want to start 10 apps manually at 7am but on the other hand I really hate that everything autostarts in other situations like restarting KDE because of debugging [...]
Posts Tagged ‘kdialog’
Semiautostart
Posted in FLOSS, tagged autostart, bash, kde, kdialog, linux on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
KDE notifications + MPD
Posted in FLOSS, tagged bash, kde, kdialog, linux, mpd on February 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
To get mpd to show the currently playing song, one can easily use kdialog: which triggers a KDE notification popup for 3 seconds. Not very pretty, but it’s simple and can be triggered via xbindkeys or something similar.

