Paul Sutton

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LxTerminal on LinuxMint 21.2

While the terminal application on LinuxMint is nice. I prefer to use LxTerminal (which I think is the default in Debian). I have made this video to illustrate how to install a different terminal within LinuxMint.

Once done, you can unpin the terminal application from the panel.

This can also be done from the software centre, but it makes sense to do this from the terminal as it is a terminal application being used.

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LibreOffice 7.4

Just downloaded and installed LibreOffice 7.4.3. The following instructions and video should illustrate the process. I did make a few errors and corrected them during the video.

  1. Download the latest .deb from LibreOffice website
  2. Copy to a sensible location and switch to that location 2a. In Debian you can right click on the graphical file manager and **Open Terminal Here.
  3. Extract the .tar.gz file **tar -xvf file.tar.gz
  4. Switch to root using **su -i ** (unless you want the path error shown in the video
  5. Navigate to where you extracted the .tar.gz file
  6. type **dpkg -i *.deb

This SHOULD install everything, set up Libreoffice and place components on the menu system.

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#LibreOffice,#Debian11,#Installation,#Terminal,#BASH,#Office


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Tilde – text editor

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Tilde is a nice, curses based text editor. It is useful for if you are at the console or terminal in Linux and want a menu driven editor.

tilde

While other tools are more command driven (nano, emacs, vi, vim and joe to name a few). Tilde is being mentioned for those of you who may find it useful

As you would expect with a modern editor, tilde has support for syntax highlighting.

Tilde Syntax Highlighting

Which is really useful for programming or editing website code for example.

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#YearOfTheFediverse,#Linux,#TextEditor,#Editor,#Text, #Tilde,#Programming,#SyntaxHighlighting,#console, #terminal

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Ansi Weather 2

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Further to my previous post on ansi weather

I wrote this, which asks for your location, and displays the weather.

echo "where do you live ?"
read location
ansiweather -l $location

In my previous post I was trying to use sed to clean up the output, this isn't needed as the -a option removes the colour coding from the output

ansiweather -a false -l Plymouth, UK >> weatherinfo.txt

Produces

Weather in Plymouth => -10 °C – Wind => 1.72 m/s NNW – Humidity => 62 % – Pressure => 1028 hPa

Which is far better.

so our new shell script is

1 #send weather info to Mastodon
  2 # current date
  3 date > weatherinfo.txt
  4 # current weather
  5 # use -a false to remove colour from output, set location, output to a file
  6 ansiweather -a false -l Plymouth, UK >> weatherinfo.txt
  7 # output to console too
  8 ansiweather -a false -l Plymouth, UK
  9 #send to Mastodon
 10 toot post < weatherinfo.txt
 11 # done
 12 echo done

So the final output to Mastodon is

Final Output

There are more options in the READ.me file

Thank you to Noisytoot for helping with this.

If you now combine the 2nd script with the one I have at the top of this page you should be able to input your location, then get the local weather.

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tmate

tmate — terminal multiplexer with instant terminal sharing

tmate is a useful Linux application. Lets say you need some help with fixing a problem. You need to be able to share your terminal with a trusted party, so that person, can help you within a shared terminal.

You can load tmate by :

  • opening a terminal
  • typing tmate at the terminal window

You are presented with a screen, similar to that shown below. At the bottom, you get a unique a link, which you can give to the other party.

tmate

At the bottom you get something like this

[tmate] ssh session: ssh ALw*************QjF@l.tmate.io

I have added some *** so I am not putting my own system security at risk, but it is essentially a long lost of characters.

This only shows for a while however. You need to copy / paste this link in to an e-mail / irc or whatever your using to send it to a colleague who is going to help, so DO NOT post to a public forum.

You can see what that person is typing, and if any passwords need entering you can do that yourself and the other person can carry on with helping you.

At times this can be a really useful tool to help solve issues.

You are strongly advised to read the man page for this before use.

#Linux,#tmate,#terminal,#multiplexer,#technical.#support.


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