Check your session type – wayland or X11

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:

loginctl list-sessions
# The above command will show you all the sessions. Note the session number for your session

loginctl show-session <session number> -p Type

Add files to dropbox with single curl command

I have been thinking of posting this for sometime now. This is very useful, when you are working on a different Linux box and want to upload a file to dropbox.

 

So, before you run this command, you need to create your auth token in Dropbox developer API page. Once that is done, need to change the 2 parameters in command below. Export your Access token and run the below command.

Here is the command:

tar cvzf /tmp/backup.tgz <folder of your choice>
curl -X POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer $OAUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
    --header "Dropbox-API-Arg: {\"path\": \"/<dropbox path>/$(hostname -s)/$NOW.tgz\"}" \
    --header "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" \
    --data-binary @/tmp/backup.tgz

Running dnsmasq with NetworkManager in Fedora

Here is a good link to do this:

https://fedoramagazine.org/using-the-networkmanagers-dnsmasq-plugin/