This comes in handy when working at a colo or someplace where you don't have a mouse and then find yourself needing to use X11. Press the following key combo:
Ctrl-Shift-Numlock
Now you can control the mouse pointer using the number pad. The key bindings are:
Flatpak is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux. It is advertised as offering a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in isolation from the rest of the system. Flatpak was developed as part of the freedesktop.org project and was originally called xdg-app …
I always had issues remembering how to create releases. So in order to standardise things, I wrote this script:
So whenever I am ready to release I would then just issue the command:
./ghrelease vX.Y.Z
You obviously need git. But also you would need
github-cli.
Your …
A quick note on how to add icons to menus in a Linux desktop.
/usr/share/pixmaps..desktop file in /usr/share/applications …So I was looking for a way to version control database schemas, but I never found something that worked for me. I found all these options that never seem to match what I wanted:
At the end, I finally began doing the …
This is my op script.
This is stupidly simple script to elevate priviledges in order to manage NFS shares on my QNAP NAS.
The idea is that NFS shares do squash-root so admin access is
disallowed through NFS. This gives a convenient way to issue
root level commands without using …
I have enabled several extensions to my pelican website.
One that I wanted to include was graphviz. So, I searched for one and while I found a few, they somehow, did not work for me.
So I wrote my own: mdx_graphviz.
It is quite straight forward. You just need to …
Since sudo v1.9, it is possible to use the following statements:
#includedir@includedirThis is useful better for adding sudo rules rather than modifying
the /etc/sudoers file.
Make sure that the includedir statement is the LAST entry
in /etc/sudoers and the files in the directory:
This page is used for testing some pelican and markdown extensions I added.
OK, this is awkward... I am not sure if this is needed.
Using del and ins.
test mark tags …
So I gave into the temptation to store "secret" data into a git repository. Of course, to keep things safer, I chose to use an encryption tool. So I tested:
So, I tested git-secret. It seems to work but was in my opinion cumbersome.
Furthermore, the version …
Finally got fedup with github pages and its jekyll static site generator. Essentially things would break without any particular reason and there would be nearly no way to tell what went wrong. I addition, it was not easy to test changes before making them public.
So I switched to pelican …
My ISP provider is KPN. They recently enabled IPv6 in my street. I was using before a IPv6 Tunnel Broker, starting with SixXS and after they went out, with Hurricane Electric. So naturally, I decided to switch to KPN's native IPv6 service.
They provide a /64 prefix, which is reasonable …
These tips are for void linux as that is the distro I am using nowadays.
dconf write /org/mate/desktop/background/picture-filename "'PATH-TO-JPEG'"xbindkeysSome hints and tips foor doing SSL related things:
This command lets you connect to a SSL server (a-la netcat):
cat request.txt | openssl s_client -connect server:443
This is a single command to generate a self-signed certificate:
openssl req -new \
-newkey rsa:4096 …In void Linux, the default is without logging. Most cases it is OK for desktop use.
If you want to enable syslog service in void, you need to install:
socklog-void
Also to let your user have access to the logs, use:
usermod -aG socklog <your-username>
Because I like to have …
The point of this article is to document I workaround that I came up with to handle a HDMI KVM switch.
What happens is that if my Linux PC is turned on while the KVM switch is selecting the other PC, it fails to initialize the display, so when you …
I boot from a USB boot drive using UEFI. Because of the UEFI boot, it just a matter of copying the files from the alpine ISO to a USB thumbdrive VFAT32 partition. Partition may be set to EFI (but this doesn't seem to be required).
Since I would like to …