in the name of zero

they could have gone all the way… but no… they mellowed down the ending into a mediocre open-ended love drama. THE NERVE! i hate the scriptwriters for messing with my heart like this!

.. i finished watching the last episode of book3 a while ago… rocks! at last, there is peace.

i got annoyed because i have four extra keys on my laptop keyboard that doesn’t
work as expected when i’m in gentoo. i’m callin’ them “compaq keys” coz i dont
know what they are called and its tiresome to know anyway…

in windows vista:

compaq key1: starts a program ‘dvdplay’ i think…
compaq key2: toggles the volume on or off
compaq key3: lowers the volume
compaw key4: does the opposite of key3

so i modified my keymap settings so that compaq keys2-4 are mapped to function keys
F13-F15 (i only have F1 to F12…)

-- .Xmodmap --
keycode 160 = F13
keycode 174 = F14
keycode 176 = F15

and my corresponding .fluxbox/keys file

 -- snip --
	
# windows key
Mod4 x  :maximize
Mod4 d  :ShowDesktop
Mod4 a :ExecCommand aterm +sb -tr -trsb -fg darkgray -fade 50%
Mod4 w :ExecCommand audacious
Mod4 e :ExecCommand /usr/bin/emelfm2
Mod4 b :ExecCommand /usr/bin/firefox
Mod4 y :ExecCommand /usr/bin/gaim
Mod4 m :ExecCommand /usr/bin/sylpheed
Mod4 v :ExecCommand /usr/bin/gvim
	
# laptop keymap
F13 :ExecCommand /bin/bash ~/.mykbd
F14 :ExecCommand /usr/bin/amixer sset PCM 5%-
F15 :ExecCommand /usr/bin/amixer sset PCM 5%+
	
 -- snip -- 

now, volume on/off toggling presented a mild challenge mainly because i didn’t
find implicit mute/unmute capability in amixer’s man page. so i did a little bash
mojo to get the desired functionality i want.

.mykdb

#!/bin/bash
SYSMIX=`which amixer`
GET_SPKR_STAT=$SYSMIX
STATUS=`$GET_SPKR_STAT get Speaker | grep -i off`
	
if [[ -z $STATUS ]]; then
        $SYSMIX sset Speaker off 1> /dev/null
else
        $SYSMIX sset Speaker on 100% 1> /dev/null
fi  

it took me a whole goddamn 10 minutes to figure out that [[ ]] needs a space
separator on its expression field.

lesson learned. seriously, don’t do bash, brainfuck, and perl when you are sleep
deprived.