I’m running Ubuntu 20.04 via WSL on my Windows 11 PC. Today I got this distracting message when I tried to do an apt update Is codeblocks obsolete? Either way. the repo has to go. It took me a while to find the command to remove codeblock repo from my distrubution. Here it is for …
( It would mean the world if you would consider following @colhountech on twitter. It won’t cost you anything but it gives me great encouragement to continue writing these posts) If you run your own AD / DNS servers for internal network resolution, an annoyance with WSL2 / Ubuntu is that you can’t ping or …
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Some lessons about running a X11 Desktop Environment on WSL. What I’m using today: Windows 10 Professional WSL 1.0 – about to switch to fast ring to get WSL-2 Pengwin Linux Distro – From Microsoft App Store X410 X11 Display Server running on Windows 10 Once Pengwin and X410 were installed, I needed to install …
The audible bell in bash can be really annoying espcially if you are like me and use filename completion ( Tab-Tab) a lot. Here is how you turn it off. Edit the /etc/inputrc global resource file for bash, and disable audible bell. You just need to delete a single comment character on line 21 of the rc file. You …
( It would mean the world if you would consider following @colhountech on twitter. It won’t cost you anything but it gives me great encouragement to continue writing these posts) As I wait for the Linux on Ubuntu on Windows feature to arrive in this month Windows 10 update, I decided to add the Ubuntu fonts to Windows 10 …
