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X11 forwarding on WSL2 More info here ~/.bashrc export DISPLAY=$(awk ‘/nameserver / {print $2; exit}’ /etc/resolv.conf 2>/dev/null):0 export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 Windows links for linux apps in WSL Adds linux GUI application menu to a windows toolbar https://github.com/cascadium/wsl-windows-toolbar-launcher Related posts: Access...
Settings of my Windows terminal are getting stashed for saving another day :p
Background images, styling to the terminal windows.
Windows sandbox is available in Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise. Does not feel good to be left out with Home edition.
Now easily enable sandbox on Home edition.
Attempts to access GUI desktop environment on Windows using WSL.
Stuck with no Visual Studio or a .net programming IDE?
May be this can save you when you only want to compile a .net project.
In your search of a Linux terminal on Windows you might have stumbled across projects such as cmder and WSL. There are many more projects like those. Personally for me this was the only configuration (in this post) that ended...
You will find a few similarities with Homebrew (https://brew.sh/) and linuxbrew (http://linuxbrew.sh/). Chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org/) is a similar package manager for windows. Installation Installation command is a little weird than other OS. Inside an administrative command prompt, type below >”%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe” -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command “iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString(‘https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1’))” && SET “PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin”...
Here is how to save putty session on your windows machine Registry location of putty sessions HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Simontatham Exporting registry to .reg file regedit /e “%userprofile%\desktop\putty-registry.reg” HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Simontatham To import? “Double click” More Turbocharge PuTTY with 12 Powerful Add-Ons – Software...
Location of hosts files on Windows and Unix Operating system Windows > %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts Unix $ /etc/hosts Format <ip-1> <host-1> <host-2> <ip-2> <host-3> <ip-3> <host-4> Related posts: Crontab quick reference
This security measure could frustrating when you connect and disconnect a lot to the same (or many) terminal server. To get rid of it and to be able to use saved credentials in this situation you need to configure the...
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