Linux
terminal.sexy for URxvt
2019/08/19
Sometime back I posted about terminal.sexy – make your teminal sexy. I personally use URxvt terminal and hence need the xrdb files to apply the theme. It’s pain to go to the website everytime I want …
Color schemes for your terminal
2019/08/12
Color Scheme for Gnome Terminal and Pantheon Terminal – here is the github page https://github.com/Mayccoll/Gogh/
Check your session type – wayland or X11
2019/07/15
With both wayland and X11 in mainstream, its pretty easy to forget if you are running in Wayland or in X11. To check this here are the commands:
Split pcap to multiple files based on number of packets
2019/06/03
Here is a script that can use tshark to split a large pcap to multiple small pcaps inpcap="test.pcap" max=$(tshark -r $inpcap -n -T fields -e frame.number|tail -1) # This is the number of packets in …
libvirt- Create virtual machine with text console only interface
2019/05/27
virt-install is an amazing tool to create VMs. If you have created a config file (Kickstart file – ks.cfg), then its only one line un-attended install. If you are using this on remote host with ssh …
GREP_COLORS – change the colors in the GREP output.
2019/04/22
Today we will look at the variable GREP_COLORS. This variable determines the colour that is used with the grep command. You can look at the man page of the grep command to see what the various options …
copy /proc folder
2019/03/18
Other day, I was trying to copy the proc folder with following command: tar cvzf /tmp/proc.tgz /proc and I found out that all the files in tar were empty. Strange it may seem but lot of people are …
wallpaper manager
2018/12/24
So, I have been looking for a wallpaper manager with some features like: […] automatically change wallpaper from my directory list […] Get wallpapers from internet […] Possibly …
xev – Check the X keyboard events
2018/11/19
xev man page […] xev – print contents of X events […] So other day I was checking why my play key was not working and wanted to check if it maps to one of the X default mappings for the …
Get to your ebooks quickly
2018/11/12
We are using “rofi” here to show the menu. So, lets first install that cat <<EOF >/etc/yum.repos.d/_copr_yaroslav-i3desktop.repo [yaroslav-i3desktop] name=Copr repo for i3desktop owned by …
image viewer tools
2018/10/01
These are some of the image viewers that I know, pick your choice 🙂
ssh – host hopping (with Jump host)
2018/08/20
Most of the times I need to jump hosts with ssh. What do I mean by that. Let me try to explain : Host Hopping If I need to got to host h3 then I need to first login to h1 and from there to host h2 and …