Monthly Archives: January 2019

Touchpad enable/disable script and shortcut on Ubuntu 18.10

Posted on January 29, 2019 by SoCRaT

If your laptop doesn’t have a working switch for turning on/off your touchpad, then this post is for you. Create a script called disenable_touchpad.sh and add the following code to it: !/bin/bash state=$( gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events ) if [ … Continue reading →

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How to fix Ubuntu dock still visible while screen is locked on 18.04 and 18.10

Posted on January 27, 2019 by SoCRaT

A very stupid bug that has been there for quite a while! Luckilly the fix has been released recently into the proposed repository for both Bionic & Cosmic (Disco as well). Just enable the proposed updates from Software & Updates … Continue reading →

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Fix QT Apps scaling issue on hidpi screens on Ubuntu

Posted on January 21, 2019 by SoCRaT

On my 5k screen, all QT apps look very tiny, such as keepassxc and Virtualbox. The best solution I found was adding the following to your .profile to autoscale at a ratio of 2 (you can change it to your … Continue reading →

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How to kill all processes accessing a filesystem on Ubuntu

Posted on January 21, 2019 by SoCRaT

This is not really safe, ok 😀 ? Do it at your own risk lsof | grep /filesystem_name | awk ‘{print $2}’ | xargs kill -9 That’s it, Enjoy!

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How to use hydra to test/crack ssh credentials for a list of servers

Posted on January 20, 2019 by SoCRaT

To install hydra on Ubuntu: sudo apt install hydra Simply, to start our test/attack, we have a list of usernames, list of passwords and list of servers: hydra -L users.txt -P passes.txt -u -M hosts.txt ssh -o Report.txt Where: users.txt … Continue reading →

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