My preferred approach: /etc/wsl.conf inside the distro.
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disable colours in Emacs
- https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AngryFruitSalad
- http://catb.org/jargon/html/A/angry-fruit-salad.html
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/angry_fruit_salad
- http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/2002/09/05/unix_tip_disable_colors_in_ema.html
- https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/108257/how-do-i-stop-emacs-from-colouring-the-text-of-the-file-i-am-editing#108272
To disable colouring in your current buffer, toggle font-lock-mode off with this command (my ad-hoc solution):
M-x font-lock-mode
To disable font-lock-mode “permanently” – see above!
You may still find coloured remainders – but it’s not as bad any longer.
Continued:
One day I suddenly noticed what should have been obvious from the beginning (in that environment):
$ echo $TERM xterm-256colorNow it was clear how to disable colours effectively in a non-GUI Emacs:
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the “less” utility and UTF-8
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less_(Unix)
- http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/faq.html#intl
- https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/263959/how-can-i-paginate-a-utf-8-file-and-see-the-right-characters
- https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/less.1.html#NATIONAL_CHARACTER_SETS
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how to access a Linux desktop from Windows via RDP
- https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/remote-control-linux-windows/
- https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/windows-remote-desktop-connection-custom-configurations/
- https://www.ubuntupit.com/how-to-install-and-use-xrdp-server-remote-desktop-on-linux-system/
- https://duckduckgo.com/?q=xrdp+session+xvnc+%22login+failed+for+display%22
- https://superuser.com/questions/1143359/xrdp-session-login-failed-for-display-0
- https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/issues/1412
- https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/473209/connect-directly-to-xvnc-started-by-xrdp#473275
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deprecated Linux networking commands and their replacements – net-tools vs iproute2
- https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/mastering-linux-network/9781784399597/ – Mastering Linux Network Administration (PacktPub) !!!!!
- https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/mastering-linux-network/9781784399597/ch02s04.html !!!!!
- https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/linux-networking-cookbook/9780596102487/ – O’Reilly
- https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/linux-network-administrators/0596005482/ – O’Reilly
- https://dougvitale.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/deprecated-linux-networking-commands-and-their-replacements/ – great article showing how to do modern Linux networking on the command line
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/iproute2 – includes a rather compact but useful (mapping) table
- https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/iproute2
- https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/iproute2_examples
- https://lartc.org/howto/
- http://www.policyrouting.org/iproute2.doc.html
- https://www.lisenet.com/2013/finding-open-ports-and-listening-services-on-linux/
- https://www.lisenet.com/tag/netstat/
- https://linuxize.com/post/check-listening-ports-linux/ – how to check for listening ports in Linux (“ports in use”)
package / suite net-tools (including netstat) replaced (in the early 201x) by package / suite iproute2.