Category: Linux

Step CA: Add Auto-Renew to Host certificates

In the previous post, I discussed how to set up SSH CA and use it to access remote hosts. In that, I briefly mentioned auto-renewal abilities. This is a crucial step to take as usual certificates by SmallStep only last for about a month. The renewal process is quite easy, just the following line. In… Continue reading Step CA: Add Auto-Renew to Host certificates

Some useful Zsh extensions I use for simplifying Tmux

Tmux a command line based way of handling terminal panes. Its a very useful tool that I use whenever I open a terminal. Despite the utility of the said application, its interface is verbose and unwieldy. To combat that, I made some aliases and a zsh completion function that makes using Tmux a whole lot… Continue reading Some useful Zsh extensions I use for simplifying Tmux

How to set track pad settings on arch systems with libinput

My laptop when running Linux never enables click on tap by default. Given the heavy press required for clicking, this was a real hindrance to using the track pad. I also wanted to enable Natural Scrolling as I had gotten used to it. In Shell, type xinput list to get a list of devices and… Continue reading How to set track pad settings on arch systems with libinput

Want any window to work like Guake? Appearing and disappearing with a hotkey? Use this script

Requirements Linux, Mac has a nifty tool for this, which inspired this script X11 (X Window System), wmctrl doesn’t work with Wayland awk for text processing wmctrl for manipulating windows You should be able to get awk and wmctrl in your package manager of choice. You can clone the gist by this command After you… Continue reading Want any window to work like Guake? Appearing and disappearing with a hotkey? Use this script