The purpose of this script was to aid creating “rotating” brushes with Gimp. I often use them to create “stamp” brushes (e.g. grunge brushes) without every stamp looking the same. But the script of course can also be to create real rotating brushes like clocks, arrows, logos, whatever. And, yes, you also can create rotating GIFs very easily this way. Just save as a *.gif.

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I was looking for a way to change the volume using the multimedia keys on my keyboard. There are quite a few programms that should do the job, but all of them where running as a daemon (background process). In my opinion this is unneccesary because I need to raise/lower/mute the volume only once in a while. Therefore I wrote a quick’n'dirty bash script using ALSA’s amixer and the osd_cat utility.

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