virsh won’t let me query information, but I do know the vm names I wish to start and I have a simple ssh shell on the host machine. So lets give it a shot.

Animated aquariums are nice and all, but how about an animated ascii art aquarium? Bonus points for embedding your aquarium into your desktop!

If you have two or more monitors, whenever you first open your terminals, you may find yourself opening more than one and rearranging their placement. Over time you may notice you’re performing the same repetitive task of relocating each window to it’s rightful place. It only takes a minute or two to create panel icons for opening each window using geometry settings defining width, height, and upper left hand coordinates for future placement. If you keep your panel icons in order, whenever you want to open a new one, you’ll know exactly which button to press.

Run nautilus-actions-config as a regular user

My perfect setup at work is two mrxvt’s side-by-side to handle all my terminal needs.  Here’s the string I use to run ‘em just like I like ‘em.  The 110×75 geometry is for two windows taking up most of the space on one screen of my 3200×1200 display, leaving the …