Show and Tell Linux on the Desktop
Event Details
Show & Tell Linux on the Desktop
- Hosted by Spencer Krum
- From Minnesota Linux Desktop User Group
Our first meetup in a while! 2019 Year of Linux on the Desktop!
We’ll do show-and-tell style ‘what can you do with Linux’ as well as tips and tricks for Linux on the Desktop. I’m working on locking in a more formal presentation but haven’t confirmed it yet!
Event Notes
Linux Tools
fwupd - daemon allows session software to update device firmware on the local machine. [website] [github]
GNU Recutils - GNU Recutils is a set of tools and libraries to access human-editable, plain text databases called recfiles. [website] [video]
termux - Terminal emulator and Linux environment for Android. [1] [website] [play store] [github] [wiki]
screen - full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes (typically interactive shells). [man] [gnu]
Zsh - extended Bourne shell with a large number of improvements, including some features of Bash, ksh, and tcsh. [website] [wiki] [Oh-My-Zsh]
git-sh-prompt - bash/zsh git prompt support [github]
ShellCheck - open source static anaylsis tool that automatically finds bugs in your shell scripts. [website] [github]
Linux Tricks
We talked about a number of tricks, but not all were recorded
# Disable shell history from being saved
unset HISTFILE
# Problem 1: Remove execute capability from file which removes most obvious way
# to change execute bit on file.
sudo chmod -x "$(which chmod)"
# Solution 1: Use 'install' to set mode properties
sudo install -m 755 -T '/bin/chmod' '/tmp/chmod'
sudo /tmp/chmod +x '/bin/chmod'
Zsh features
- interactive multiline history
- RPrompt - prompt on right hand side
- Live colorization - actively updates text colors based on text patterns
- zmodlod - loads plugins
