Sebastian Grans SebastianGrans

Directories with 777 permissions look pretty ugly when you list files (see first example in picture below). This happens if you do ls in /mnt/c/ in WSL.

Simply changing the background to light gray makes a big difference. While I was fiddling around I discovered that I quite like having directories to be orange.

You can change this by simply adding the following line to your .bashrc/.zshrc/etc. Make sure to put it before the line source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh, otherwise the autocompletion will use the default colors. source

Is your zsh really slow when you go to a git repository in /mnt/c/ even though you don't have the git plugin enabled? It's probably because you use a oh my zsh theme that has the git info in it.

A popular theme is robbyrussel which has the git integration built in. In ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/robbyrussell.zsh-theme you will find the following line:

PROMPT+=' $(git_prompt_info)'

Using Expect in Windows

My usecase for Expect is to automatically log in to a device over telnet, so that I don't have to write the password every time.

The easiest way is to simply run the expect script from WSL, but I'm lazy and want to run it directly from PowerShell. Here's how:

Install Expect in your WSL distro
Place your expect sript in your WSL home folder ~/script.expect (remember to make it executable)

I use Darkreader to give any website a dark mode, which I highly recommend. Even with this plugin, there are breif moments when opening links, that the browser displays an entirely white screen. Thankfully, this can be mitigated!

Enable toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets in about:config
Create a folder, /chrome/, in your Firefox profile folder

You can find the folder by going to about:support
On Windows: C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>.default-release\chrome\userChrome.css

Add the following .css files.
Restart Firefox

Mermaid Diagrams

GitHub supports Mermaid diagrams and renders them directly in Markdown files.

They aren't rendered in the preview tab, so it's best to design them else-where. With mermaid.live, for instance.

Example

Here's a basic example of the syntax and the resulting diagram:

Some websites hijack the scrollwheel in order to implement smooth scrolling and other annoying stuff. The following javascript snippet can disable such features.

Create a bookmark, and add the javascript code to the address part of the bookmark. When you stumble upon a hijacking website, you simply click on the bookmark.

You can also use extensions like tampermonkey to automate this process.

Source: https://superuser.com/a/1263145

EDIT: Ignore this. It doesn't seem to work all the time anyway. Disable hardware acceleration in chrome instead.

TL;DR: If your screen gets a green tint when playing full screen videos. Resetting the mouse cursor size to 1 fixes it. The script below does that automatically for you.

When I play videos in fullscreen, I get some strange strange green tint over the video. A quick googling told me that simply resetting the cursor size to it's standard size should fix this. link

This does indeed work, even though my cursor size is always the default. But it only works temporarily...

Digging into the accessibility menu every time it happens is annoying, so I needed a script of some form. Thankfully the Stackoverflow user @Jw C showed me how its done! link

Update

I realized that almost all of these app can be installed easily via Brew. So first step would be to install Brew as instructed on their website.

Then simply run:

brew install iterm2 bettertouchtool bpython brave-browser vscodium vlc google-drive alt-tab git spotify monitorcontrol dozer

	# Copy last command to clipboard
	function cl() {
	$last_command = (Get-History -Count 1).CommandLine
	Set-Clipboard -Value $last_command
	}

	# Copy absolute path of a file or folder to clipboard
	function cap($path) {
	Set-Clipboard -Value (Resolve-Path $path)
	}

	# The bluetooth connection to my stereo started crackling after being connected for a while.
	# Reconnecting to it solved the problem, but got annoying to do manually.
	#
	# Installation:
	# 1. Get the following dependencies
	# * blueutil - https://github.com/toy/blueutil
	# * terminal-notifier (optional) - https://github.com/julienXX/terminal-notifier
	# 2. Find the MAC address of the bluetooth device of interest using `blueutil`
	# * `blueutil --paired`
	# 3. Add the function to your .bashrc (or .zshrc, etc.)