After trying out a zillion linux  tilling tools, I came to the conclusion that none of them is quite what I want.  What I want is something like Winsplit Revolution. It offers powerful window management using the keyboard but does not stay on the way of those who still want to do stuff with their windows using a mouse like they always did.

I’ve been  playing around with wnck’s python bindings and it’s great fun. I managed to tile two windows side by side by running a small script. This is the most basic tiling operation and, in my opinion, it’s deadly useful.

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My spot at my workplace kind of sucks, a zillion people pass by and hang around right behind me all the time. Besides being a bit distracting, I was allways feeling like someone was looking over my shoulder. When I saw reflections on the shinny border of my screen, the idea of a rear view mirror came into my mind. I imedeatly google it and, as it turns out, such stuff exists and can be bought online.
All the waiting plus shipping and handling fees sort of turned me away from that option though.  So I decided to improvise a solution which turned out to work very well.

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So, my tiny backup script work fine, but I wanted to be able to use it from nautilus’ context menu too. Nautilus scripts allows me to achieve exactly that.
This script will create a timestamped tarball containing select files. The name is composed by a timestamp and the name of the first selected file followed by “.tar.gz”. (more…)