I made a Ventoy USB last night (Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian). It’s a really simple process that I’ll definitely be exploring further (and maybe blogging about). Redid again today with a bigger USB and 10 distros plus a Windows 10 installer. Imagine carrying 50 distros on one USB. The future is here!
This looks like something I might want to do at some point. https://ubuntu.com//blog/transcribing-user-interviews-with-amazon-transcribe Also it has the commands for creating MP3s from video files, which I always forget: ffmpeg -i infile.mp4 outfile.mp3
Add exec xcompmgr -c -f -nto your i3 config file. Also install xcompmgr if you don’t already have it.
Looks like Synergy has been forked and the new version (Barrier) is available for most platforms. I’ve tried this out for about half an hour and it seems to work really well. https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/releases This might be the solution to some of the cable switching I have to do when I’m working from home.
This is what I add to my i3 config file to sort out screen locking: bindsym mod4+l exec “i3lock -t -i /path_to_file.png” exec –no-startup-id xautolock -locker “i3lock -i -t /path_to_file.png”
Native multi-cursor support for Atom doesn’t work out of the box on Linux. This is what I add to enable it. https://atom.io/packages/multi-cursor
I like this a lot and it’s currently occupying a terminal window in all of my Linux machines. https://github.com/aristocratos/bashtop
One thing I like about snaps is that they update themselves now and again without me having to worry about them. There are some I do want to be bang up to date though (multipass is one), so I’ve added this command to the update script on all my Ubuntu machines: sudo snap refresh
I’ve started looking at scripting Multipass deployments. Adding this to my installation script gets me one container, and this can be adapted for more. multipass launch focal –name ubuntu-ltsmultipass exec ubuntu-lts — wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/p5jjsbvuuskeotl/deploy_ubuntu_wsl.shmultipass exec ubuntu-lts — sudo mv deploy_ubuntu_wsl.sh /usr/local/bin/multipass exec ubuntu-lts — sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/deploy_ubuntu_wsl.shmultipass exec ubuntu-lts — deploy_ubuntu_wsl.shmultipass stop ubuntu-lts I … Read more
When you log in for the first time you’ll be asked to choose a modifier key (I chose ALT). The keyboard shortcuts below use $mod to refer to that modifier. Open a terminal window – $mod + Enter Open a different application – $mod + d then type the application name (eg firefox) Open (or … Read more