Tips/Tricks/Configs

A few tricks and configurations improved my user experience.

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Received disconnect from x.x.x.x port 22:2: Too many authentication failures
- IdentitiesOnly=yes
Size of folder and files in a directory
- du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -hr
How to make active window visually stand out more in Ubuntu 18.04 Gnome 3
- ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css set decoration/ decoration:backdrop and headerbar.titlebar/headerbar.titlebar:backdrop
Tmux copy to clipboard
- Add set -s copy-comand 'xclip -selection clipboard -i' in .tmux.conf (tmux 3.2 and later)
- All of the following doesn't work but gave me some ideas:
- StackExchange, StackOverflow, Clipboard | Tmux Wiki
PulseAudio/Examples | ArchWiki
- Problem I faced: plugin mic also changed the output device from earphones to mic output
- Solution: select an input only profile for the mic card
- set-card-profile <card-name> <profile-name> (reference)
A Guide to Customizing Your tmux conf
- Changing the prefix key, split commands, pane navigation, etc.

Pinout "Sound" to Windows Taskbar
Windows search configuration — remove folders like node_modules in the list of search locations to speed up searches
Start specific Chrome user profile — specify --profile-directory=Default
Filesystems in Windows and WSL
- Path to WSL in Windows: \\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu-20.04
- Path to Windows in WSL: /mnt/c/.

A list of all shortcuts symbols using the Option key, e.g. Option + 2 = ™

This is based on the English US keyboard.
Option + Shift + k is the Apple logo, but I am not able display it here
For the accent key, first press the accent then type the letter. E.g. ã is Option + n then a