Misc tips

Here are some miscellaneous tips and links that I’ve found useful.

Degree sign °

AltGr + Shift + 0

Starting programs to the tray in Linux

Discord

discord --start-minimized

Source

Mattermost

mattermost-desktop --hidden

Source

Signal

signal-desktop --start-in-tray

Source

Networking

SMB shares on Linux

Create the mount point:

sudo mkdir /mnt/share-path

Create the credentials file:

sudo mdkdir /root/smb
sudo nano /root/smb/credential-filename

Fill in the credentials:

user=your-username
password=your-password
domain=your.domain.name

Run sudo nano /etc/fstab and add a line in the end for the mount config:

//server-ip-or-hostname/share-name /mnt/share-path cifs credentials=/root/smb/credential-filename,uid=your-local-username,vers=3.1.1,seal,noexec,noauto 0 0

The parameters are:

  • uid: the local user that will access the mounted share as the user specified in the credentials file
  • vers: SMB version. Use the highest whenever possible.
  • seal: encrypt the connection
  • noexec: don’t allow execution of programs on the network drive for security
  • noauto: don’t mount the share automatically (remove this to mount automatically)

Then you can mount with

sudo mount /mnt/share-path