After installing dwm from Suckless on my WSL Kali environment, I ran into an issue where I couldn’t move the tiles from one tag to another. To be more specific, I couldn’t move a tile to tags 2, 3, and 6. I couldn’t figure out why until I tried debugging…

I have been trying to use dwm tile Window Manager from Suckless with the Kali installation on a Windows 10 machine. But I kept running into issues. I tried using .xinitrc and other ways, but nothing worked until I discovered the file xstartup /usr/lib/win-kex/xstartup. From there, you can change startxfce4…

In your /sys directory, you can get the status and capacity (percentage of power left) of your device’s battery. For the status: $ cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status Unknown Discharging Charging Full For the capacity (percentage of power left in the battery): $ cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/capacity This gives you a number. You might have more than one battery on your device. You can find the list by doing this:

On some Linux distributions, you can use: $ authconfig — test | grep hashing But it doesn’t always work; here are some other ways to get the hashing algorithm: From PAM (Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules): $ cat /etc/pam.d/common-password | grep -i ^password | grep -v # | grep -i pam_unix.so…

Recently I kept getting this error: podman run — rm — net=host — name=container container error creating container storage: the container name “container” is already in use by “31d7724324lks3019908d896we22ece4f7db78162db4c8faab60725dbd4e1”. You have to remove that container to be able to reuse that name.: that name is already in use I tried…

The Error : # bsdtar -xpf ArchLinuxARM-rpi-latest.tar.gz -C root bsdtar: Ignoring malformed pax extended attribute bsdtar: Ignoring malformed pax extended attribute bsdtar: Ignoring malformed pax extended attribute bsdtar: Ignoring malformed pax extended attribute bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. So, I was just trying to untar Arch Linux tar gz file, but then I ran into this strange error. It turns out it was ‘libarchive’ that was too old. Here is how you solve this:

To start you need another device to get the Starbucks Captive Portal DNS IPs. For example with my iPhone I go to Settings > “i” in the circle on the right of “Starbucks WiFi” > Configure DNS Step by step… with little images :~)

I installed a while back PyCharm on my Linux laptop with Snap. Back then the windows manager that I was using was Gnome. Everything looked fine. But I got tired of using Gnome. I found it to be very memory greedy and buggy, at times. Also, the Gnome file manager…

I was recently helping a family member with recovering some data from their backup files. It turned out that the backups were stored in multiple ZIP files. They were hundreds of them. So how was I to list the content of all these ZIP files so that I could then…