utility_scripts: a collection of miscellaneous scripts for use on my GNU/Linux laptop

• autopape.sh: a simple script to endlessly loop through each image in a directory and set said image as the desktop wallpaper for a specified time period. Both the command used to set the wallpaper and the time interval between wallpaper changes can be specified with optional flags & arguments. Uses feh --bg-fill & an interval of 1m by default.

• bluetooth-off.sh: script for disabling Bluetooth with bluetoothcl on a system that uses runit as its init system (such as Void GNU/Linux).

• bluetooth-on.sh: Same as bluetooth-off.sh but for enabling Bluetooth.

• bluetooth_dmenu.pl: Perl script that allows the user to select a Bluetooth device to connect to via dmenu.

• bluetooth_info.pl: Perl script to display information about connected Bluetooth devices. Designed to be used with polybar.

• bspwm_window_count.sh: script for listing the number of open windows on the current "desktop" (workspace) with the bspwm window manager. Primarily for use in status bars as indicator that windows may be hidden behind another when in floating or monocle mode.

• clean_files.sh: script that loops through each file in a directory, opens each file with the mimeopen utility, and prompts the user to decide whether or not to delete the image.

• clean_papes.sh: loops over files in a directory, setting each the as the desktop wallpaper, and prompts the user to save the file to the wallpapers directory or delete it.

• defn: shell script to look up word in dictionary file in the format: word:\tdefinition\n.

• ensure_connected.sh: script to remedy my broken WiFi, which has an issue of disconnecting unpredictably and then requiring several attempts to reconnect as if the password supplied were incorrect despite it not being changed since the initial connection. This script checks if the WiFi is connected at regular intervals, and if not will keep trying to reconnect until successful. Reads WiFi network name from a config.env file and uses the hashed password already store by NetworkManager. file_previewer.sh: a script for generating terminal file previews, for use in the terminal file manager lf. Uses the mimetype utility to identify the filetype and generates an appropriate preview (text, ASCII image, etc).

• fzfplay.sh script that allows a music file or directory to be selected via fzf to be enqueued with umpv.

• hide_bar.sh: script for hiding & unhiding the polybar bar on the bspwm window manager.

• hugo_post.sh: simple script to create a new Hugo post with the directory structure /content/blog/Post Title/index.md instead of the default /content/blog/Post Title.md created when you run the command hugo new content.

• karaoke.pl: script that fetches lyrics for music files from the LRCLIB API and saves them to *.lrc files.

  • If you use beets to manage your music library, you can make this script run automatically on an album once imported by adding the following lines to your beets config.yaml:

  plugins: hook # append to your pre-existing plugin list if using other plugins
  
  hook:
    hooks:
      - event: album_imported
        command: '/path/to/script/karaoke.pl "{album.path}"'

• list_manual_pkgs.sh: one-line script to list only the names of packages manually installed with the xbps package manager (the default Void package manager).

• music_dmenu.sh: script to play a specific artist, album, or track selected with dmenu.

• play_music.sh: simple script to play music albums based off the supplied artist & album name.

• qutebrowser_search.sh: script that finds all the search engines defined in the qutebrowser config.py configuration file and makes them available for searching via dmenu, i.e. allow web searching with qutebrowser without having to wait for it to start up before you start your search.

• qutebrowser_dmenu.pl: script that constructs a dmenu menu of all search engines defined in the qutebrowser configuration file for searching without first launching qutebrowser.

• repos_checker.sh: script to find all of the Git repositories in the current directory & its sub-directories and display each found repository's git status.

• screenshot.sh: screenshot script for both Xorg and Wayland with selection that both saves the image file and adds the image to the clipboard, and notifies the user via notify-send.

• stdin_to_notis.sh: scripts that reads from stdin and sends each line as a system notification. Intended for use when a program that outputs to stdout is called from a non-terminal or graphical program, making the stdout output inaccessible. The output can instead be piped into this script to make it readable as a system notification.

• stopwatch.sh: simple stopwatch script that counts the elapsed time in seconds, and displays it in the format HH:MM:SS.

• shuffle_music.sh: script to enqueue all the music in a library in a random order.

• sync_music.sh: script to sync my Android phone's music library to the contents of my ~/media/music/ directory, i.e. copy my music library from my laptop to my phone.

• vimshot.sh: script to take a wait a few seconds before taking a screenshot to the filepath in the clipboard, for use as part of my LaTeX note-taking workflow in Vim: create the figure environment, copy the file name, invoke this script, and select the region in the source material to be screenshotted.

• webcam.sh: one-line script that uses the video viewer program mpv as a webcam by using /dev/video0 as its video file source.

• wifi_dmenu.sh: script to connect to an available WiFi network with a dmenu prompt of the screenshot via notify-send.