Linux Desktop Entry and Icons
December 14, 2024
If you manually install applications on a Linux desktop you may have to create a desktop entry file so your desktop environment knows about the application and how to launch it. Desktop entries have an `icon` setting that is used to tell the desktop environment what icon to display for the application. However, you may find that just setting `icon=icon.svg` may not be enough to ensure the application's icon is desplayed correctly. This post explains an issue I had getting the icon setup correctly when using the wezterm appimage on my laptop.
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Raspberry Pi Image Mount
December 28, 2023
Documentation on how to mount an OS image for and add an ssh public key.
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TP Link TL-WN725N USB WiFi Configuration in Linux
March 25, 2019
Learn how to setup the TL-WN725N USB wireless adapter in Linux from the command line. These instructions use wpa_supplicant and Arch Linux.
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5 Steps to Extend a Linux LVM Volume
December 7, 2017
This post details how to extend a Linux LVM volume without requiring a reboot. This works from the command line in both CentOS7 and Ubuntu
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HowTo: Self Hosted WordPress on Ubuntu 16.04LTS
March 17, 2017
Here we're going to look at setting up WordPress on your own server, or a cloud VPS, running Ubuntu 16.04LTS. There are *free* options for hosting your own site that are better than paying for a cheap host. Read more to find out how...
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The Linux TOP Command
January 30, 2017
The Linux TOP command provides valuable monitoring and troubleshooting information. However, there is a lot of information in a very condensed format and it can be tricky to sort through what is important and what isn't. Click to learn more about TOP.
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QuickPost: What version of Ubuntu am I running?
January 21, 2017
Want to verify which version of Ubuntu you're running from the command line? There are a few ways, but the best way is the lsb_release command. Click the link to see how.
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NGINX, ALPN and HTTP/2 on CentOS7
December 14, 2016
By now we've all heard about the fancy new lightning fast HTTP/2 protocol, right? Fortunately, the latest versions of NGINX support HTTP/2. Unfortunately, most distributions are still stuck on OpenSSL < 1.0.2
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Install certbot on Amazon Linux
December 13, 2016
There is no packaged version of certbot for Amazon Linux so we have to download and set it up manually. Running it the first time will install all dependencies and should then work to create and renew certificates. Unfortunately, the first run on Amazon Linux gives us and error instead of a working certbot. :(
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