Tag: linux

Make Auto-type work in kitty under Wayland

Being a big fan of KeePassXC project I am making use of virtually all the features it provides. One of the features I use really often is the global Auto-type feature. I use it for providing passwords into ssh sessions and into ansible when becoming a super user. The correct pass…

Solution to tracepath no reply

Consider tracepath as a network diagnostic tool: tracepath peterbabic.dev The output might be surprising: 1?: [LOCALHOST] pmtu 1500 1: _gateway 0.748ms 1: _gateway 0.676ms 2: 192.168.66.1 …

Gnome Shell 40 upgrade

Performing my mundane periodic software package upgrade on a laptop I did not expect anything spectacular to happen. The Informant did not stopped the upgrade due to some breaking news. There was no problem with mirrors, key signatures, cyclic dependencies or incompatible package…

Arch news pacman hook tip

Part of the Arch Linux system maintenance is to actively read latest news. Mostly anyone who uses Arch has come across this piece of advice: read the news before updating! In other words, before running the dreaded sudo pacman -Syu command, one should be prepared to act upon any …

Why I use losetup instead of udisksctl

Accessing raw filesystem image partitions without the need to specify the offset and size manually # udisksctl sudo pacman -S udisks2 man 1 udisksctl # losetup sudo pacman -S util-linux man 8 losetup udisksctl Root permissions are not required udisksctl loop-setup --read-only -…