Performing Mouse Clicks with only the Keyboard in iMac

iMac when used with bluetooth Apple keyboards and mouse has a faintly annoying problem of the inability to use the mouse if it doesn’t automatically gets connected to the system. A possible remedy and workaround for this is to use keyboard keys for mouse control. Press F8 (or F7 in the Macbook) key on the keyboard to enable switching the command palettes in the settings window. Use the Tab to scroll up and down in the command palette....

 April 1, 2025  •   1 min  •   97 words  •   Suyog Garg

Issues with Zotero and working them out!

A log of Zotero issues, I have encountered. Date: 2025/03/18 Issue: Zotero freezes, items don’t load and the application doesn’t respond. Reason: Possibly due to adding too many feeds and the syncing issue. Date: 2025/03/18 Issue: Zootmoov didn’t sync recent files. Solution: Select affected files, right click$ \rightarrow$ Move them to directory with Zootmoov

 March 18, 2025  •   1 min  •   54 words  •   Suyog Garg

Accessing Remote Computing Clusters using Open-SSH

General guidelines You basically have three entities you want to interlink and provide bidirectional access. Personal computer Remote computer Github or Gitlab a/c server A copy of all my ssh keys is stored in ~/Dropbox/ssh-access-keys/ Generate SSH Key Pair SSH public and private keys can be generated by: ssh-keygen -t ed25519 In the prompt for putting in the password, leave it blank and just press “Enter”, if ya don’t want to have a password-protected file....

 March 18, 2025  •   4 min  •   678 words  •   Suyog Garg

Access VS Code via the Terminal

To access and open VS Code directly from your terminal, do the following: Open your Bash or zsh profile. open ~/.zshrc Add path to the VS Code application to your PATHS variable. # Add Visual Studio Code (code) export PATH="$PATH:/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin" Reload your updated terminal profile. source ~/.zshrc You can now open VS code by running code xxx from anywhere in your computer. References: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/mac

 March 17, 2025  •   1 min  •   66 words  •   Suyog Garg

Customize Linux Terminal!

A good way to prettify and enhance the outlook of a linux bash terminal is to use synth-shell. Do: git clone --recursive https://github.com/andresgongora/synth-shell.git cd synth-shell sudo chmod +x setup.sh ./setup.sh Additionally, neofetch can be installed on top synth-shell to further enhance the way in which the system summary is presented on the log-on screen. However, this requires root access to use apt, yum or dnp package manager. Since for remote clusters the root access is usually not available, this is optional....

 March 14, 2025  •   3 min  •   458 words  •   Suyog Garg