Technological and coding misadventures!
The enhanced session mode offers improved performance, hardware utilization, and features like copy & paste in the VM. To enable this in Ubuntu (or other OS), specific configurations and software installations are needed. Steps include VM setup, Ubuntu installation, XRDP & XORGXRDP installation, and configuring the VM server for enhanced session mode. Continue reading
Alright, nothing like multi-OS environments so you can prepare for the maximum number of issues that might come up. My recent issue is re-opening some virtual machines, originally created on Windows 10, and now with intent to use them on Linux. When trying to open these existing virtual machines I’ve gotten the following error: Kernel... Continue reading
I mentioned, since I’d run into this problem, a while back in my post “Oh, exFAT Doesn’t Work on Linux” which then includes a fix. Here’s a slightly more updated fix for the same and another fix for mounting just the Windows 10 partition if you have a Windows 10 System Drive (i.e. the drive... Continue reading
In bash, the shell reads one or more startup files. Here’s the details about what’s what and which is run when. /etc/profile is executed automatically at login. The file from the list of ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, or ~/.profile are then executed at login. ~/.bashrc is executed by every non-login shell, but if sh is used to... Continue reading
In 1979 Unix v7 started being distributed with the original Bourne Shell. Simply, it’s a program that sits at /bin/sh and runs in the terminal. You may ask, what’s the difference between a shell and the terminal? Continue reading
