[Gloucs] Topic for next meeting? "Cool hacky scripts"

aecooper at coosoft.plus.com aecooper at coosoft.plus.com
Fri Oct 17 12:44:09 UTC 2008


On second thoughts I'll keep quite on my scripting, done loads, but none
as interesting as these other suggestions. lol

> Andrew Oakley wrote:
>
>> Which reminds me of another hacky-script wot I also wrote, which
>> pipes xclip to aspell to zenity. Add a launcher to the Gnome panel,
>> it tells you whether there's any spelling mistakes in your clipboard
>> text. Instant spellcheck anywhere!
>
> Which reminds me, of my one line bash script to do text-to-speach on
> your clipboard contents, linked to a panel icon, instant text-to-speech
> from any application.
>
> xsel | festival --tts
>
> Blast, that could have a a 60 second talk.
>
> Regards,
> Paul
>
>
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