Md. Riazul Hasan Rahat riazul701

WSL2 with GUI using Xvnc

Note

If you want to use pure WSLg, you can try the new WSLg (XWayland) tutorial or the WSLg (Wayland) tutorial.

In this tutorial, we will setup GUI in WSL2, and access it using VNC. No additional software outside WSL (like VcXsrv) is required, except, of course, a VNC Viewer (RealVNC, TightVNC, TigerVNC, UVNC, etc, all of them might work flawlessly).

The key component we need to install is the desktop metapackage you want (GNOME, KDE, Xfce, Budgie, etc) and tigervnc-standalone-server.

For this setup, I will use Ubuntu (20.04, 22.04 and 24.04 are working), and install GNOME Desktop. Since the key components aren't bound to Ubuntu or GNOME, you can use your favorite distro and GUI. Check the [Sample

How to enable rsync through ssh on a Windows machine

To install the OpenSSH on the Windows machine, follow these tutorials:

gist - Manage your gist like a pro

All your notes, scripts, config files and snippets deserve version control and tagging!
gist is a simple bash script for gist management. It is lightweight(~700LOC) and dependency-free! Helps you to boost coding workflow.

Getting Started
Dependencies
Basic Commands
Update and clone gists from Github

Note: This works all except for the shell script part. Need to figure that out. You can do it interactively just not from the command prompt.

Install Git
Install Git Bash via Git Tortoise install
Added HOME=/c/Users/$USERNAME to C:\Program Files\Git\etc\profile
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32232978/change-the-location-of-the-directory-in-a-windows-install-of-git-bash
Download rsync.exe from https://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/rsync-3.2.3-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst use 7-zip to decompress
See https://blog.tiger-workshop.com/add-rsync-to-git-bash-for-windows/
Put rsync.exe into C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin
Open Git Bash and create a key file using ssh-keygen

Google App Script CRUD

Inspired by this gist.

Getting Started

Create a new App Script project.
Paste the content of the file google-app-script-crud.gs in the default Code.gs file.
Create a new Spreadsheet.
Copy the Spreadsheet ID found in the URL into the variable SHEET_ID located in line 1 of your file.

True Color (24-bit) and italics with alacritty + tmux + vim (neovim)

This should make True Color (24-bit) and italics work in your tmux session and vim/neovim when using Alacritty (and should be compatible with any other terminal emulator, including Kitty).

Testing colors

Running this script should look the same in tmux as without.

curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/lifepillar/09a44b8cf0f9397465614e622979107f/raw/24-bit-color.sh >24-bit-color.sh

Getting realtime output using Python Subprocess

A convenience module for shelling out with realtime output

Credit: Largely taken from https://www.endpoint.com/blog/2015/01/28/getting-realtime-output-using-python

The Problem

The PATH is an important concept when working on the command line. It's a list of directories that tell your operating system where to look for programs, so that you can just write script instead of /home/me/bin/script or C:\Users\Me\bin\script. But different operating systems have different ways to add a new directory to it:

Windows

The first step depends which version of Windows you're using:

If you're using Windows 8 or 10, press the Windows key, then search for and

	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	Script to Initialize my custom powershell setup.
	.DESCRIPTION
	Script uses scoop
	.NOTES
	NOTE Will configure the Execution Policy for the "CurrentUser" to Unrestricted.

	Author: Mike Pruett
	Date: October 18th, 2018

	$ echo '{"foo":"bar"}'\| sed s/\"/'\\\"'/g
	# {\"foo\":\"bar\"}