Alen's Tech Tips

Reduce the path length in Linux Terminal

Posted on March 9, 2022

Lately I have been struggling with the strange scenario… of having to deal with too long a path. The trouble is the folder I’m mostly deeling with is too deep in. The prompt in the terminal gets too long, it ends up getting too cluttered. It makes it very difficult... [Read More]

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Create an alias in Mac OS Terminal

Posted on February 25, 2022

Aliases can be handy while using Terminal in Mac OS. Alias is a shortform that we can use to execute a bigger more complex query. [Read More]

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Keyboard Shortcut to Toggle Hide/Display the Dock in MacOS

Posted on January 25, 2022

Recently, I started working on Mac OS. I have been trying to learn the keyboard shortcuts in mac. [Read More]

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Keyboard Shortcut Switch between Virtual Desktops in Mac OS

Posted on January 25, 2022

Here’s another one for Mac OS. [Read More]

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Keyboard Shortcut Move Windows Across Monitors

Posted on November 26, 2021

Did you know that you could move windows across monitors using your keyboard? [Read More]

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How To Add Git Bash to Windows Terminal

Posted on August 4, 2020

Windows Terminal is a new product offering by Microsoft, using which we can access various command line offerings both by Microsoft and Linux. [Read More]

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Keyboard Shortcut - Select System Tray Icon

Posted on February 12, 2019

We use the System Tray for a multitude of things. To check the date and time To check the battery status To connect to Wi-Fi and the list goes on… [Read More]

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Keyboard Shortcut - Select System Date/Time Dialog

Posted on February 12, 2019

Did you know that you could bring up the Date/Time dialog in System Tray using a keyboard shortcut (and not the mouse). [Read More]

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Keyboard Shortcut - Open items in the Taskbar

Posted on August 26, 2018

Did you know that you could use the keyboard to open items in your taskbar? It’s pretty simple. [Read More]

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Shutdown Command in Windows

Posted on June 23, 2018

We always use the Start Menu for shutting down. What if we could run a command to shutdown the computer. [Read More]

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