I have been using Linux since I was in my second year of undergraduate. My experiments with the dotfiles (configuration files) also started at the same time. For the uninformed, in Linux, it is common to configure a lot of settings and configurations within dotfiles. Dotfiles are files in a Linux user’s home directory that begin with a dot or a full-stop character. This dot indicates to the operating system that these files are used to store the settings of programs like vim or shells like bash or fish to name a few.

If I have to define 2017 in one word, that would be amazing. This year has been a life-changing year for me. I learned a lot of new things, had some excellent experience in the company of amazing people, had a great time in my academic life and SSL. 2017 has been a very significant year for me, and I want to record this memory by documenting some of the most amazing things that I learned and experienced this year.

In this post, I will write about the procedure to correctly setup SSH and GPG agents in the i3 window manager. To follow this post, you need to have ssh-keys and your private GPG keys ready. If you do not already have these keys with you, I will describe the process of creating the keys. SSH Generating an SSH key pair provides you with a public key and a private key.

Recently, I got a chance to set up ALM Octane on one of my university servers for a course project. From the support page of ALM Octane: ALM Octane is a web-based application lifecycle management platform that enables teams to collaborate easily, manage the product delivery pipeline, and visualize the impact of changes. Precursor My department insists on using open-source software (a plus point, indeed!). But ALM Octane has Oracle DB/MSSQL as a dependency.

When viewing Hindi content in any browser in Arch Linux, the rendering looks weird. before applying the fix It doesn’t look good, right! I’ll try to fix this issue in this post. You might need to install the appropriate font support in Arch Linux before applying this fix. The suitable package for installing Indic Language support is ttf-indic-otf. Now go to /usr/share/fonts/TTF and take the backup of two fonts FreeSans.