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Polono PL60 Label Printer on Ubuntu/Linux Mint

Cats: command line, label printer, linux, linux mint

By PJ on July 21, 2023


Very smooth setup. Plug in usb and power. Kernel recognized the usb device but no drivers were present. Head over to https://www.polono.com/pages/driver-user-manual Then grab the linux drivers for the PL60. If it doesn’t work, you can grab my local backup … Continued

Ubuntu/Linux Mint – Brother QL-800 Label Printer

Cats: command line, label printer, linux, linux mint, printers

By PJ on June 2, 2021


Holy, this took a while. First thing first, leave the USB off. When you first plug in the power, if the “Editor Lite” light is on, then hold the button until it turns off. Editor Lite causes it to mount … Continued

Ubuntu/Linux Mint and DYMO LabelWriter 4XL Drivers

Cats: command line, label printer, linux, linux mint, printers

By PJ on October 1, 2020


Bit of a headache. Apparently DYMO stopped supporting the drivers because the repo version (and even their downloadable version) do not work. Luckily there are some fine souls updating a fork of the repo. At the time of writing, it … Continued

How to Refresh the Browser from a Bash Script

Cats: bash, command line

By PJ on February 29, 2020


xvkbd -window chromium-browser -text “\Cr” Thanks: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12026953/automatic-web-page-refresh-using-xdotool-not-sending-key-after-window-focus

Script to Set Window Opacity in Linux Mint/Cinnamon

Cats: bash, command line, linux mint

By PJ on October 28, 2019


Simple Usage: So, for example: Here’s the set-opacity.sh script: Modified from a script found in here: https://github.com/smurphos/nemo_actions_and_cinnamon_scripts

Email a Low Disk Space Alert With Mailgun API

Cats: bash, command line, web development

By PJ on March 5, 2019


Here’s how to monitor disk space on your server and use the Mailgun API to send an email alert:

Gulp Watch – Fix ENOSPC Error

Cats: command line, gulp, linux

By PJ on September 20, 2018


Related to the number of files able to be watched by a user. I need to run this on every fresh install!

Simple Pomodoro Timer Bash Script

Cats: bash, command line, keyboard shortcuts, linux, linux mint, pomodoro

By PJ on September 7, 2018


This is a simple timer script, implementing the pomodoro technique for time management. There are tons out there already but I didn’t like how they auto- started breaks. And most lacked shortcut abilities, so that was a dealbreaker. The script … Continued

Linux Mint Beep on Command Line

Cats: command line, linux mint

By PJ on June 12, 2018


Since it seems the beep command is blacklisted in Linux Mint (or rather not loaded by default into the kernel) and it’s ugly af, we can make a better beep.

Connecting to internal machine via ssh ProxyCommand

Cats: command line, linux, ssh

By PJ on May 11, 2018


The AskUbuntu question was: How do I SSH to machine A via B in one command?

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