Creating and using ackrc

ack is a fantastic replacement for grep and probably much more than grep. Here is what the dnf info has to say about ack

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Name         : ack
Architecture : noarch
Summary      : Grep-like text finder
URL          : http://beyondgrep.com/
License      : Artistic 2.0
Description  : Ack is designed as a replacement for grep.

And their websites says -

Designed for programmers with large heterogeneous trees of source code, ack is written in portable Perl 5 and takes advantage of the power of Perl’s regular expressions.

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mussh-run-commands-on-multiple-hosts

mussh allows you to run command/commands on multiple hosts at the same time. If you have farm of server setup with passwordless ssh or with same password (which is generally the case), then using mussh you can either check all the servers for some output or fix something or maybe update all the packages. How cool is that :)

Here is description of this package from dnf repo

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Name         : mussh
Version      : 1.0
Release      : 18.fc35
Architecture : noarch
Size         : 20 k
Source       : mussh-1.0-18.fc35.src.rpm
Repository   : fedora
Summary      : Multihost SSH wrapper
URL          : http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/mussh
License      : GPL+
Description  : Mussh is a shell script that allows you to execute a command or
             : script over ssh on multiple hosts with one command. When possible
             : mussh will use ssh-agent and RSA/DSA keys to minimize the need to
             : enter your password more than once.

terminal.sexy – make your teminal sexy

terminal.sexy is a nice webpage that allows you to select the colors for your terminal and then you can export it in various formats.

Main site : http://terminal.sexy

and for the source code: Github URL

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

Running dnsmasq with NetworkManager in Fedora

Here is a good link to do this:

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

Fedora – dnsmasq with NetworkManager

I have been thinking of writing about this for long time but someone else did and it is nice write-up so here is the link – https://fedoramagazine.org/using-the-networkmanagers-dnsmasq-plugin/

Gnome with i3 on Fedora 29

I have been thinking of doing this for long time, finally I managed to get this working. Here is what you need to do to get i3 with all other gnome services running.

First we will create 2 files, this is actually all you need. In these ones, I copied the original gnome files and just change gnome-shell to i3 to replace my window manager.

11:15:43=>[]> cat /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-i3.session
[GNOME Session]
Name=GNOME + i3
# RequiredComponents=gnome-flashback-init;gnome-flashback;i3;gnome-settings-daemon;
RequiredComponents=i3;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.A11ySettings;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Clipboard;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Color;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Datetime;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Housekeeping;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Keyboard;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Mouse;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Power;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.PrintNotifications;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Rfkill;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.ScreensaverProxy;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Sharing;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Smartcard;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Sound;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Wacom;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.XSettings;
11:15:47=>[]> cat /usr/share/xsessions/gnome-i3.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=GNOME i3
Comment=This session logs you into GNOME + i3
Exec=env GNOME_SHELL_SESSION_MODE=gnome-i3 gnome-session –session gnome-i3
TryExec=gnome-session
Type=Application
DesktopNames=GNOME-Classic;GNOME;

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