I am using the terminal a lot on Linux. For my project „pulseaudio-tcp“ (see here for more information) i wanted to have more comfortable command line completion in Bourne Again Shell („Bash“). After having typed in the command name pulseaudio-tcp, when pressing the Tabulator key, i would like to see a list of all possible […]
Articles in Category "Administration"
An Introduction to Programmable Completion in Bash
20. Mai 2025 in Administration, GNU/Linux, Programmierung.
Release 1.0 of pulseaudio-tcp
30. März 2025 in Administration, GNU/Linux, Multimedia, Programmierung.
pulseaudio-tcp now has its first official release. The initial release features the following changes: GUI support with zenity for setup and other user interaction Debian packaging
A simple GUI for basic Package Management with Apt
2. Dezember 2024 in Administration, GNU/Linux, Programmierung, Technik.
The tool presented here, „Simple Apt Update“ (simple-apt-update) is nothing more than a front-end to the non-interactive execution of apt-get update|full-upgrade and apt list –upgradeable. It can look like this:
Utility to search for XDG Desktop Files
3. November 2024 in Administration, GNU/Linux, Programmierung, Technik.
In my previous article Print XDG Desktop Definition for Application i described a way to search the various „applications“ sub-directories of the known XDG data directories for .desktop-files that match certain search criteria. The short shell script from that article is now available as a commandline utility, including the usual bells and whistles such as […]
Getting Alerted on Expiring GPG Keys
3. August 2024 in Administration, GNU/Linux, Programmierung.
GnuPG is a powerful cryptographic tool that enjoys widespread support by F/LOSS mail user agents. However, due to a lack of conventional public key management it is plagued by key-related issues. One such issue is the expiry of GnuPG keys, which often goes unnoticed by affected messaging partners until such time when it actually disturbs […]
Installing r10k on a Foreman Server
4. August 2024 in Administration, GNU/Linux.
The following occurred to me on a recent version of Foreman (i used 3.9) on a recent version of Red Hat, Alma or Rocky Linux 8 (i used 8.9). I wanted to use r10k for management of Puppet environments. When i attempted installation of r10k /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/gem install r10k i got the following error /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/gem install […]
Redirect PulseAudio/PipeWire over TCP/IP network
8. Oktober 2023 in Administration, GNU/Linux, Multimedia, Technik.
If you have two Linux hosts, host1 and host2, both running PulseAudio (or Pipewire with PulseAudio backwards compatibility) and you want host2 to use the speakers on host1, then you can use a PulseAudio TCP server on host1 and a „tunnel sink“ on host2 to do that.
WordPress Plugin to embed Gitea Repositories
29. September 2023 in Administration, GNU/Linux, Programmierung, Technik.
I ported the WordPress plugin providing shortcodes for embedding Gitlab projects into posts and pages to a Gitea version. Below is a usage example, displaying the latest 3 commits and the latest release (if any) from repository „linuxfoo-gitea“ on my Gitea instance: Gitea project linuxfoo-giteaLast 3 commits: by root: 35962433 correct json pat to commit […]