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Here's a few of the micro-hacks that I've hacked up in the past.
A 2-line script to chroot into Debian when logging in as a certain user on FreeBSD.
I didn't have an IDE, so I just made a script called
ide
which runs Vim, and then compiles the code and makes it executable.This thing, called
demoronize
, which does what it says in the commentsI just keep those ones for historical value, but there's one hack I use every day. My keyboard doesn't have a function key (Fn), so I use the Super/Windows key instead.
I have
xdotool keyup Super_L keyup Super_R keyup F4 key XF86Sleep
bound to a custom keyboard shortcut. It unpresses the keys used for the shortcut (Super + F4), then presses the sleep key.