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Maximizing Control Over Your Internet Connection

Sun, 18 Feb 2024 07:00:00 GMT

In Germany, fast and high-quality internet is still rare due to lacking infrastructure. As a private customer, it's challenging to get a full internet connection with fixed IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, as well as reverse DNS PTR records. While only a few providers like Vodafone offer such things, other providers require more complicated solutions to do so. Unfortunately, Telekom, a provider of fiber optic connections in Germany, does not offer these options for private customers.

To bypass restrictions, it's advisable to use your own hardware. A VPN with a fixed IP endpoint and reply-to gateway configurations can be helpful. Although Telekom offers a solid modem with the 'Glasfaser-Modem 2,' which in my case allows the use of custom hardware, but my goal was maximum control over the hardware I operate.

Hardware

A separate modem is recommended for an advanced setup.

Fiber Optic Modem - Telekom Standard

Modem: Telekom Glasfaser-Modem 2
SFP Module: Digitalisierungsbox Glasfasermodem

Alternatives

Various options are available, including the following that I found suitable for me.

Firewall

OPNSense Deciso Hardware e.g., Dec740: OPNSense Desktop Security Appliance

Firewall + Accesspoint

Banana-PI BPI-R3 or R4: Banana Pi BPI-R3
- I use it just as a dedicated access point with Open-WRT, but could also act as firewall.

GPON ONU ONT Fiber Module

GPON SFP Transceiver Module with DDM - GPON SFP ONU Stick with Mac: FS.com GPON SFP ONU Stick
- Customized versions available as 1:1 clone of existing hardware with brand, MAC address, serial number, and device number pre-programmed
- It is a nice module that is suitable for many modifications - Doku
More alternatives and documentation: Hack GPON

As the GPON module has a temperature range of -40 °C to 85 °C and gets and stays hot during operation, I recommend a separate housing, e.g. "TP-Link Gigabit SFP Media Converter MC220L". Despite the temperatures, the passive cooling is sufficient in my case even in a closed multimedia distribution box inside of a wall.

GPON Configuration

To configure the GPON module, connect via SSH with a manual IP address in the same subnet. (The module does not require connected fiber.)

ssh ONTUSER@192.168.1.10 -oKexAlgorithms=diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 -oHostKeyAlgorithms=ssh-rsa

The default password is 7sp!lwUBz1.

Configuration Steps

1. PLOAM Password

FTTH 1.7
- Ask the technical hotline
- sfp_i2c -i11 -s "1234567890"
FTTH 2.0 - new "GigabitGeschäftsbereich"
- No password is required
- sfp_i2c -i11 -s ""

2. Set Serialnumber

The serial number here ABCD12345678 can be a fictitious one or correspond to a previous module and must be communicated to the technical service together with the fiber optic ID if changed or new:

sfp_i2c -i 8 -s "ABCD12345678“ uci set sfp_eeprom.default.serial_no=ABCD12345678 uci commit

Create full clone

I have not tested this example

set_serial_number HWTC956EABBA
uci set network.host.macaddr=98:3F:60:00:AB:BA 
uci commit network.host.macaddr=98:3F:60:00:AB:BA 
sfp_i2c -i 0 -s "HUWAWEI" 
sfp_i2c -i 1 -s "HG8010Hv6" 
sfp_i2c -i 2 -s "0001" 
sfp_i2c -i 3 -s "48575443956EABBA" 
sfp_i2c -i 7 -s "HWTC"
fw_setenv sgmii_mode
uci commit 
reboot

Firewall / Router Config

V-LAN and PPPoE configuration is required.

VLAN = 7
QoS = 0

Username / PPPoE: "Anschlusskennung"+"Zugangsnummer"+“0001"+"@t-online.de" Password: 12345678 - yes really, this value is OK

The information can be taken from the letter with the access data from Telekom.

Useful information for Telekom customers

Transitional solution for new fiber optic connections

Telekom offers a transitional solution "Sofort-LTE" for completely new fiber optic connections via the owner management "Bauherrenservice". This is a relatively solid LTE-based Internet access with 30 to 10 mbit.

Telekom hotlines

Phone numbers

Technology: 08003301000
Owner management: 08003304174
Owner service: +498003301903 / +4908002266100 / +498007733888

Information on authentication

Order number (POM = new connection / PSM = existing connection)
Customer number
Own landline telephone number from Telekom
IBAN last 6 digits
Address

macOS - External Keyboard keys are swapped (solved)

Sat, 30 Dec 2023 07:00:00 GMT

Issue

My case:

< and ^ keys are swapped

< Key (right of SHIFT)
^ Key (left of 1)

This is because macOS set the wrong keyboard type (ISO, ANSI, JIS, ..) even if the config wizard shows the right result.

On QMK based keyboards:

KC_NUBS
- ISO: < >
- ANSI: Non-US \ and |
KC_GRV
- ISO: ^ °
- ANSI: ~ ´

macOS default settings

System Settings --> Keyboard --> Change Keyboard Type --> go through the Wizard --> Done.

But for me and a lot of others with external keyboards not from Apple this won't work. In the past I fixed this issue with Karabiner-Elements , but this is more like a workaround as a proper fix. A further option would be to remap the keyboard key's on QMK or VIA Keyboards, but this is crazy and won't work in combination with other operating systems.

Easy Fix

Enforce macOS to indentify the keyboard type without any previous knowledge:

sudo rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist
Remove both keyboard and mouse from the USB ports on the monitor/USB hub.
Reboot

If still not working

sudo plutil -convert xml1 /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist
text edit e.g. sudo nvim /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist
1. change type 43 to 41 (or 43 if there is already a 41 - but change back after reboot.)
2. change all - may after restart new ones getting in
sudo plutil -convert binary1 /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist (Converting back to binary is optional - reboot will also fix this.)
Reboot - with unplugged keyboard.
Repeat until the macOS keyboard detection tool doesn't detect new keyboards after login - .plist get's extended each time.

In my case this was the result after a few restarts and changes:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>keyboardtype</key>
	<dict>
		<key>1031-4176-0</key>
		<integer>41</integer>
		<key>5-41219-0</key>
		<integer>41</integer>
		<key>50504-1133-0</key>
		<integer>41</integer>
		<key>6-41219-0</key>
		<integer>41</integer>
	</dict>
</dict>
</plist>

This should be the result:

Credits

Wifi with OpenWrt

Tue, 24 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT

I have used DD-WRT in the past with Linksys devices and found it very good. So far I have used a Synology router as an access point - but I thought the next wifi solution should be based on open source software. This idea was mainly inspired by the positive experience of using OPNSense with Dec740 as the main router&firewall - I love this device. That's how I came up with the OSS Wifi counterpart OpenWrt.

Banana Pi R3

Clearly one of the best Wifi OpenWrt solutions on the market is the self-build solution with a Banana Pi R3 Board. This is available in complete sets on Aliexpress with great metal enclosures, antennas and everything required (may only a optional TTL USB adapter is missing).

The Wifi power of this devices covers even professional requirements with 4x4 5ghz and 2.4ghz. A powerful ARM CPU, 2GB RAM, 8GB MMC storage and 2SFP slots give a lot of room for a wide range of use-cases.

If you want to wait Banana Pi R4 is also getting around next year - Wifi-7, 4GB RAM, 10Gbit SFP+, USB Power.

Set-UP

Here you can find working set-up notes collected from tutorial sources linked below - with those I got a good base installation on the BPI-R3.

Best tutorials are those:

OpenWrt is available as a stable version 23.05 at the moment of writing which was used for this.

Unzip bananapi_bpi-r3-sdcard and write the image on a micro sd card using:
- on linux: dd if=openwrt-mediatek-filogic-bananapi_bpi-r3-sdcard.img of=/dev/( mmcblk_ OR sd_ )
- on win: https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
- on macOS: https://etcher.balena.io
Insert the SD card into the bpi-r3
To install on NOR (32 MB) (optional):
1. Set the boot switch as 1101 (up,up,down,up)
2. Connect power cord and wait boot (~20s)
3. ssh the device and type: fw_setenv bootcmd "run nor_init ; env default bootcmd ; saveenv ; reset"; reboot
4. Wait reboot and nor flashing (~90s)
5. Disconnect power
To install on NAND (128 MB) (optional):
1. Set the boot switch as 1111 (up,up,up,up)
2. Connect power cord and wait boot (~20s)
3. ssh the device and type: fw_setenv bootcmd "run ubi_init ; env default bootcmd ; saveenv ; reset"; reboot
4. Wait reboot and NAND flashing (~90s)
5. Disconnect power
To install on eMMC (8192 MB) (optional):
1. Set the boot switch as 1010 (up,down,up,down)
2. Connect power cord and wait boot (~20s)
3. ssh the device and type: fw_setenv bootcmd "run emmc_init ; env default bootcmd ; saveenv ; reset"; reboot
4. Wait reboot and eMMC flashing (~90s)
5. Disconnect power
6. Set the boot switch to your favorite location

The images relies on F2FS filesystem.

To create data partition and resize eMMC f2fs, boot on NOR(0000) or NAND(1010) and type (internet connection required):

opkg install cfdisk parted
parted /dev/mmcblk0 -- mkpart f2fs 768MiB -34s resizepart 5 768MiB resizepart 4 67.1M resizepart 3 12.6M 
  # say F to fix gpt global size
reboot

## optional increase the size of the partition /dev/mmcblk0p5 to the max by deleting /dev/mmcblk0p6 partition and resize with:
cfdisk /dev/mmcblk0

## resize filesystem after:
mount /dev/mmcblk0p66 /mnt && umount /dev/mmcblk0p66 && resize.f2fs /dev/mmcblk0p66

## Boot to MMC storage

Now boot on eMMC(0110) and check if it worked !

Background: /dev/mmcblk0p66 is inside of /dev/mmcblk0p5.

OpenWrt The Argon Theme

The Argon theme is the most beautiful looking one available atm of writing.

For OpenWrt 23.05 you can just install it with those commands:

opkg install luci-compat
opkg install luci-lib-ipkg
wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/jerrykuku/luci-theme-argon/releases/download/v2.3.1/luci-theme-argon_2.3.1_all.ipk -O luci-theme-argon_2.3.1_all.ipk
opkg install luci-theme-argon*.ipk

Install the theme config menu luci-app-argon-config to be able to configure the Theme from OpenWrt Luci web UI:

wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/jerrykuku/luci-app-argon-config/releases/download/v0.9/luci-app-argon-config_0.9_all.ipk -O luci-app-argon-config_0.9_all.ipk
opkg install luci-app-argon-config*.ipk

Cooling & FAN

Hint to get it working:

echo 70000 > trip_point_2_temp

OpenWrt GitHub Issue - PWM Fan

CPU and Temp Extension

luci-app-cpu-status-mini

wget --no-check-certificate -O /tmp/luci-app-cpu-status-mini_0.1-5_all.ipk https://github.com/gSpotx2f/packages-openwrt/raw/master/current/luci-app-cpu-status-mini_0.1-5_all.ipk
opkg install /tmp/luci-app-cpu-status-mini_0.1-5_all.ipk
rm /tmp/luci-app-cpu-status-mini_0.1-5_all.ipk
/etc/init.d/rpcd reload

luci-app-temp-status

wget --no-check-certificate -O /tmp/luci-app-temp-status_0.4-2_all.ipk https://github.com/gSpotx2f/packages-openwrt/raw/master/current/luci-app-temp-status_0.4-2_all.ipk
opkg install /tmp/luci-app-temp-status_0.4-2_all.ipk
rm /tmp/luci-app-temp-status_0.4-2_all.ipk
/etc/init.d/rpcd reload

Both Luci plugins are shown on the Dashboard.

Custom Build

OpenWrt Firmware-Selector - BananaPiR3

base-files busybox ca-bundle dnsmasq dropbear e2fsprogs f2fsck firewall4 fstools kmod-crypto-hw-safexcel kmod-gpio-button-hotplug kmod-hwmon-pwmfan kmod-i2c-gpio kmod-leds-gpio kmod-mt7915e kmod-mt7986-firmware kmod-nft-offload kmod-sfp kmod-usb3 libc libgcc libustream-mbedtls logd luci mkf2fs mt7986-wo-firmware mtd netifd nftables odhcp6c odhcpd-ipv6only opkg ppp ppp-mod-pppoe procd procd-seccomp procd-ujail uboot-envtools uci uclient-fetch urandom-seed urngd terminfo cfdisk resize2fs parted losetup fdisk block-mount luci-lib-ipkg luci-compat curl luci-theme-openwrt-2020 libopenssl3 ttyd luci-app-ttyd dbus samba4-server luci-app-samba4 luci-app-commands hostapd-utils btop luci-mod-dashboard wifischedule luci-app-wifischedule ntpd zsh bottom wpad-mbedtls luci-ssl openssl-util luci-theme-material atftp luci-app-advancedsetting luci-app-statistics luci-app-wol

Note:wpad-mbedtls enables WPS features
Note: Package luci-app-commands helps to start WPS with added command hostapd_cli wps_pbc in UI --> makes it available in UI
Note: luci-app-ntpc got removed in v23.05.2 instead ntpd is used but has atm no UI to configure NTP

Optionals

Add: luci-app-sqm for traffic shaping and limitations.
Add: luci-app-dawn for DAWN support which extends 802.11r /k/v support.

Web Terminal SSL support

luci-app-ttyd requires to enable SSL in UI config and a cert and key no ca. But luci-ssl certs require to get converted and linked:

openssl x509 -inform der -in /etc/uhttpd.crt -out /etc/ttyd.crt
openssl ec -inform der -in /etc/uhttpd.key  -out /etc/ttyd.key

(slightly updated 28.03.2024)

Keyboard Guide

Fri, 12 Jun 2020 08:00:00 GMT

I type ~40-70h on different Keyboards every week and in the last years I had used over 25 different ones. I also assembled my own Keyboards. In this post I want to share my favorits for each situation and some tipps.

My Keyboard recommendations

1. „HomeOffice“:

Filco Majestouch Convertible 2 TKL + Majestouch TenKeyPad 2 Professional + Palm-Rest

➕ Design (build quality, default TKL, timeless, matching numpad)
➕ Batteries last like forever
➖ Mini USB

=> Best mechanical TKL/80% (ISO-DE) + Numpad Combo

(* MacOS compatibility - Use Karabiner-Elements to fix layout issues or improve it.)

2. „Special Motivation“ :

HHKB Professional Hybrid Type-S _{(non-printed key-caps)} + Palm-Rest

➕ Custom key-mapping/Layer + non-print Keycaps (also for compatibility with different languages or layouts)
➖ Missing keys - available on the second virtual layer
➖ Availability - until today you can only import it from Japan
⚠️ Perfect for advanced typists which like VIM 😜

=> Best 60% layout - enjoy typing and dream of beeing a happy hacker

3. „Office“ :

Logitech MX Keys + Palm-Rest

➕ Hetrogenic OS support + wireless UEFI/BIOS capable dongles
➕ Well made rubber-dome keys with backlit
➖ Some strange Mappings & Prints ( Key after F12, _€E_€ [ISO/DE]..)
➖ Batteries not changeable

=> Best silent Keyboard for the open-plan office - like a swiss army knife for every kind of tasks

4. „Share/Spare/Couch“ :

Logitech K380 -

➖ A timeless design would be better
➖ Batteries not changeable

=> Best universal mobile solution

5. „Mobile“ :

Apple Magic Keyboard + Studio Neat Canopy

➕ Native Mac Layout
➖ Batteries not changeable
➖ Should be USB-C instead of lightning

=> Best mobile solution for everything with a Apple on it

6. „Game/Fun“ :

Vortex Poker II + PBT Keycaps

➕ 3. programmable custom Layer
➖ Mini USB

=> Good quality/price ratio (Version III available)

7. „Special-Project-X“ :

ErgoDox with DSA Keys

➕ Palm-Rest + Ergonomic Design
➕ Custom Key-mapping and 9-Layer
➖ Many Cables / Mini-USB / Jack-Connectors

=> Build from PCB to Software like you want.

Mechanical Keyboard I would like to test

Palm rest

I can highly recommend to use a matching hight palm rest for adjusting the angle of your wrist to every keyboard.

Spring vs Rubber

If you really need or like to be silent - or you like a really short/soft key-travel - go for Rubber, otherwise I would always recommend mechanical Spring based Key-Switches. With Cherry MX-Brown or equivalent like, you will never make a bad choice - it could make sense to test all of them if you want to build your own keyboard with a diy-kit. If you want to go crazy you can also fine tune all of those MX style switches with lube, custom springs or o-rings. My favorits are the Topre 45g switches in terms of sound and their nice smooth and balanced key-travel, but they are only available in a few expensive Keyboards. The worst choice in my opinion is a rubber key-switch with long key-travel - makes no sense to me.

Layouts

There are those three major base key layouts ANSI, ISO and JIS - But there are still more around like KS, ABTN and others. Which layout you should choose depends on your language and your tasks. It could make sense to go for a ANSI/US layout if you are a german software developer like me. But then you have trouble to map those needed german letters like ü, ö and ä in a quickly reachable way. If you use a JIS key layout you would have up to 109 base Keys (+ additional ones like F1-Fx, arrow keys, numpad, etc.) - so with a bit of work you will get every visual language layout mapped. Regarding the visual layout there are a lot of different language specific "default" printigs available. It's a good decision to use a keyboard with switchable key-caps (like cherry mx, Alps or Topre ) standard to be able to change the visual layout in terms of color, printing, profile and material/texture. On my HHKB keyboard I liked to have a DCS profile, PBT sandy grip and no printings at all to don't get in any conflict between the visual and mechanical layout.

But then we get to the functional layout witch depends on the operating system and language default, but could be customised. There are a lot of alternative layouts like Dvorak, Colmark, or Neo2. You can find a list of alternative en/de layouts here.

If you want to customise or create your own functional layout you could do this with a customizable firmware like QMK (Editor) or with drivers and software like Karabiner-Elements.

And if this isn't still not enough you can also tweak all this by adding additional virtual layers to your layout, that could have also programable macros mapped to some keys.

Upcoming evolutions

Low profile mechanical switches like the FILCO Majestouch Stingray
Beam-Spring with Hall-Effect sense Key-Switches like the upcomming Silo Beam („AI“ typing correction, gas pedal like key press levels)

Recommendations

Take care of your Keyboard

Don’t eat & type and wash your hands. Clean your Keyboard at least every 40h of usage or more often - I use a vacuum cleaner and a microfibre cloth with 70% isopropyl alcohol on it. Use a cloth or a cover to protect your keyboard from dust. In terms of mechanical keyboards, you can also disassemble the keys to clean everything if needed.

Buy the right one or build it

Buy a Keyboard that match the most of your requirements. Buy no garbage and with a plan to use it long term. Don’t buy more Keyboards as devices you own. Don't buy a ANSI layout version only because of a not available ISO version (or vice versa) if you don't want to switch the layout your muscle memory is trained to. And if nothing helps, you can buy all needed parts and assemble your own one. Take a look on e.g. GH80 at GeekHack for a first start - it's easier than it's sounds.

PowerShell Config for Developers

Thu, 19 Mar 2020 09:00:00 GMT

As a Developer in the Microsoft Tech-Stack you may like to work with a powerful shell. On Windows there is the PowerShell 7 - but like nearly every other shell, the base config is not as usefull for development tasks as it could be. This post gives some ideas of how the UI/UX could get improved for those tasks.

Terminal

First of all the old CMD.exe should get retired on your Windows system! I could realy recommend the new Windows Terminal - even though it's in preview state. The newest version recieved one of my last missing features - the mouse support for visual input - now it has nearly all needed features to be a powerfull terminal for PowerShell, WSL and SSH use-cases. But you can use PowerShell 7 and this config also on MacOS and Linux if you want (makes sense in terms of e.g. Dot.Net-Core development, Azure Cloud config,...).

On MacOS I could recommend iTerm 2 on Linux Tilix and as Cross-Platform solution with some performance trade-offs Terminus.

Shell customizing

I use Git all the way for version control of my code, snippets, scripts, notes and documentation. My main Git tool is always a commandline Git. Because of that I like to see the Git status always present in the promt of the main shell I use. On Z-Shell and PowerShell exists well implemented PowerLine themes to present those informations in a clean way. To get this style and also the for me important auto-suggest and history-search feature I installed some modules and customised the PowerShell profile.

PowerShell Configuration

Modules

There are a lot of infrastructure extensions to customize shell's to be able to easy install packages which extend or modify the look of your shell. For Fish-Shell "Oh-My-Fish", for Z-Shell "Oh-My-Zsh" and this Oh-My-Sh** continues with "Oh-My-Posh" for PowerShell.

Install-Module -Name oh-my-posh
Install-Module -Name posh-git -AllowPrerelease

For additional module packages take a look at the Gallery.
There is also a upcomming second "Oh-My-Posh".

PowerShell $Profile config

To create a new profile config use New-Item -path $Profile -type file –force.
You can edit your profile config with every text editor e.g. nano $PROFILE.

Set-PSReadlineKeyHandler -Key Tab -Function MenuComplete
Set-PSReadlineKeyHandler -Key UpArrow -Function HistorySearchBackward
Set-PSReadlineKeyHandler -Key DownArrow -Function HistorySearchForward
Set-PSReadlineOption -ShowToolTips -BellStyle Visual

Import-Module posh-git
Import-Module oh-my-posh
Set-Theme Paradox

May you get an error like PowerShell_profile.ps1 cannot be loaded. ...PowerShell_profile.ps1 is not digitally signed. if so, you should run Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned - This will allow to run any script on the local machine, that has not come from the internet.

PowerLine

For PowerLine support consistent to this setup I could recomend the PowerLine enabled version of the Microsoft Cascadia font "Cascadia Mono PL" configured in your terminal.

Tilix and Zsh on Windows 10

Sat, 01 Feb 2020 09:00:00 GMT

I like all major Operating-Systems for different reasons and tasks. But for me there is only one perfect shell: "Zsh". The Z-shell is for me the right mix of a stable, extendable, modern and universal shell. On MacOS it's already the new default shell and on Linux it's easy to install. On Windows it's also no problem, but to get it working with same smooth expirience like on Linux or MacOS, I use some tools chained together.

To be clear: Yes, Microsoft has a mighty PowerShell, CMD and Git-Bash is also available for Windows. But in my humble opinion - nothing beats a zsh with the power of linux/unix commandline tool repository.

WSL Tuning

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is a great Feature that came with Windows 10. I think every DevOp who is working with more than only Microsoft based Operating-Systems should get firm with it.

If you run WSL, the first decission is which Linux distribution you want to run. All the big ones are available (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, etc.). My choice was Pengwin - it's based on Debian, but it's customised for the use with WSL.

I installed ZSH and OhMyZSH together with a bunch of plugins to achieve a faster input expirience and a better visualization of context.

Visualization and UI/UX in general could be a pain on a terminal. Not every terminal is capeable to render the shell output as it intendet to be or handle all keyboard and mouse input right - and yes mouse input support could be great with TMux, NVim, EMacs or other commandline tools. Regarding the UI you can customize colors and fonts as you want, also in terms of syntax highlighting. The defaults are always reduced to a basic configuration. In my case I like to use Nerd Fonts and a special shell promt that relies on the usage of PowerLine, Lingatures and other font features like icons etc.

Tilix

On MacOS I would always recomend iTerm2, but for Linux I like Tilix. Tilix is a feature rich and fast terminal which does not need a lot of resources to run, but on Windows it isn't available. The default on Windows 10 is still the ugly CMD or as alternative the PowerShell - both terminals are OK if you only require to input/output some letters or run a script, but it's not enjoyable to work with beyond that.

The best Windows native terminal is the new Windows Terminal from Microsoft - it's still in development - maybe there is a first stable release in April 2020 available. But until now it still has a lot of missing features.

The next best terminal running on Windows IMHO is Terminus, but it's a heavy ElectronJS based terminal which needs a lot of resources to run.

The good thing is that it is possible to run Tilix on Windows through WSL and it's not as tricky as it sounds like. You only need the X11 stack and a X Server for Windows. This sounds like a lot of overhead but it realy isn't the case.

As X Window System(X11) I can highly recomend X410 from Choung Networks - it's a fast reliable light weight implementation of X11 for Windows 10.

I use a little trick to hide a default terminal session window in the background through a TMux-Server to show up Tilix. To achive this you only need a link in Windows with this command:

C:\Windows\System32\wsl.exe -d WLinux -- tmux -c "zsh ~/Tilix_WSL-Launcher.zsh"

And in the WSL instance (here WLinux) you only need to place a shell script which will start X410 and Tilix in Windows with no visible startup console:

#bin! zsh
Powershell.exe -Command 'start X410.exe /WM'
tmux new-session -s "Tilix" -n "Console" -d&
tmux send-keys -t Tilix "Display=:0 dbus-launch --exit-with-session tilix&" C-m

Take a look for a nice icon for the Windows link assigned in the properties of it and you are done.

Conclusion

I use this setup since a couple of month and I did't got any issue at all with it. No Bugs no performance issues. Most of the time I'm using Git, SpaceVim/NeoVim, TMux, SSH and other tools - and I'm happy with it (maybe I write another blog post about command-line-Tools, but you can get some inspiration from this awesome collection).

If you like to use my configurations feel free to copy my DotFiles repository on GitHub - but don't blame me for some more dirty hacks in there :wink:. You can also clone it with YADM - a DotFiles Manager I could recoment.

First CursorBeat . . first lines

Sun, 01 Dec 2019 09:00:00 GMT

The cursor beats and running letters mark down the line in the text.app for this static.site powerd Blog.

In the first steps everything here will be about Apps/Tools, Software-Development, DevOps and some storys worth to be told around those topics.

I try to keep everything as short as possible, to be able to read everything quickly, not wasting time.

To be introduced: My name is Adrian Grimm I'm a german Software-Developer and currently the only one who pushes the cursor beating around here.

Blog Design and used technologys could change over time, but as for now this will work - hostet on Github-Pages deployed by Travis-CI - so this is atm the DevOps style to blog. If you want to take a look into the Code behind this - everything will be and stay opensource on Github.

It's done! : CursorBeat.dev Blog is online :tada: - cursor beats - waiting for more key pressed - instructing to move on - leaving signs behind...