Firefox – Where did my pinned tabs go ?

August 12, 2021 by Charlie Leave a Comment

Firefox Pinned Tabs

Firefox provides the ability to “pin” a tab, so it stays in a fixed spot to the left of your browser. I use this for my email and other messaging apps:

Disappearing Tabs

However, sometimes for some inexplicable reason, the pinned tabs disappear after shutting down Firefox and starting again. They are supposed to start automatically if you have selected “Restore Previous Session” in Settings->General.

Restore Your Pinned Tabs

How go get them back ? Simple, just like any other Window or tab that has been closed, you can reopen them through the History menu. Open the History menu (if the Menu is not showing right click on the top bar and select “Menu Bar”). From there, click on “Recently Closed Tabs” or “Recently Closed Windows”. Find your lost tab or window and click to open.

Creating a Shortcut to Windows Terminal (Or Any Other App That Doesn’t Show Shortcut Option)

May 6, 2021 by Charlie Leave a Comment

Pic of Console - Nathana Reboucas - Unsplash

Weirdly, Windows Terminal does not allow you to create a shortcut – there’s no obvious way to find the executable (normally by right clicking on the icon, then selecting Properties, then open File Location).

Secret Revealed: Open Shells:Appsfolder

Thanks to a post by Scott Hanselman for pointing out that you can do it by the following:

Steps to Create Windows Terminal Shortct

Press the Windows Key and R to open the run dialog (Win-R).
Type “shell:AppsFolder”, press Enter.
This opens a “secret” folder which holds all your app icons.
Find the Windows Terminal or other App you want to create a shortcut for, right click and click “Create a shortcut” in the right click menu if you want it created on the desktop. Alternatively, as you are right clicking, drag the icon to the folder you want the shortcut, release, selecting “Create Shortcuts Here”.

Simplest Wireguard Setup Ever

March 26, 2021 by Charlie Leave a Comment

Wireguard

Wireguard is the newest way to setup a VPN for your home servers. What will this do for you ? It allows you to access your Raspberry Pi or other local servers located at home behind your router (or even your router itself) from outside your network by simply using a Wireguard client (either on a mobile phone or using a computer). You then access your local servers with the same ip addresses you do at home. For example, if my router is 192.168.1.1., I can be half way around the world and type in “192.168.1.1” and get my router control panel.

A recent podcast of Linux Unplugged “Back to the Freedom Dimension” had some really useful information on Wireguard and some interesting use cases. Paraphrasing one of the hosts, Wireguard is like having a very long ethernet cable into your home router.

The simplest method I have found to install Wireguard on Raspberry Pi is to use Docker following this post from The Digital Life.

Here is the somewhat modified docker compose file I use:

Wireguard Docker Compose file



version: "2.1"
services:
  wireguard:
    image: linuxserver/wireguard
    container_name: wireguard
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
      - SYS_MODULE
    environment:
      - PUID=1001
      - PGID=1001
      - TZ=[*Insert Your TZ Database name from  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones*]
      - SERVERURL=[Insert Your Dynamic DNS domain name pointing to local server, e.g., www.mylocalserver.com] #optional
      - SERVERPORT=42842#optional
      - PEERS=1 #optional
      - PEERDNS=auto #optional
    volumes:
      - ./config:/config
      - /lib/modules:/lib/modules
    ports:
      - 42842:51820/udp
    sysctls:
      - net.ipv4.conf.all.src_valid_mark=1
    restart: unless-stopped

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version: "2.1"

services:

wireguard:

image: linuxserver/wireguard

container_name: wireguard

cap_add:

- NET_ADMIN

- SYS_MODULE

environment:

- PUID=1001

- PGID=1001

- TZ=[*Insert Your TZ Database name from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones*]

- SERVERURL=[Insert Your Dynamic DNS domain name pointing to local server, e.g., www.mylocalserver.com] #optional

- SERVERPORT=42842#optional

- PEERS=1 #optional

- PEERDNS=auto #optional

volumes:

- ./config:/config

- /lib/modules:/lib/modules

ports:

- 42842:51820/udp

sysctls:

- net.ipv4.conf.all.src_valid_mark=1

restart: unless-stopped

Now it’s just a matter of typing “docker-compose up -d” and you have a running wireguard instance. Set up the clients as described in The Digital Life post.

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