

            NoTails.. Tails Menu


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Source Code and Detailed Article about NoTails.. Tails Menu

https://gamelink.gr/#NoTails-Tails-Menu


Detailed Article

https://gamelink.gr/blog/What-is-the-NoTails-Tails-Menu-and-how-to-Have-Windows-Partition-on-Tails-OS


Copy of source code can be found on github 

https://github.com/RebelStreamers/NoTails..Tails-Menu


The NoTails.. Tails Menu offered to you as a FREE AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY software as described in GNU AGPLV3 License.


# What is the NoTails.. Tails menu ?

 
NoTails.. Tails menu is an automated and very useful bash - zenity menu script to use it with the well known Tails OS, a Live USB Stick Anonymizer OS (Operating System that is loaded from a USB stick) and executes a dozen of bash scripts that exist inside the NoTails..Tails-Files folder with the exception it is designed to work only to all Linux OSes with compatible terminals. This fact is the reason of the NoTails word usage because it means [Not only for Tails a].. Tails Menu and it is a play of words (logopaignio) because it designed to work if you have or haven't Tor installed to your Linux Desktop too!


Of course all the functionalities of this menu designed to be compatible with Tails OS first and when there is high diversity situation on Linux just ignored to avoid the damage of your Desktop OS like the theming of desktop or the choosing of language that the 1st Script has for Tails OS, but ... in one case (the 2nd script) the upgrade of OS allowed to Debian Linux and blocked to Tails because the upgrade may create problems on Tails OS and not in Debian Desktop. So if you are looking for a mouse clicking update / upgrade way for your Debian Desktop you just found one.


But the most significant improvement that the NoTails.. Tails menu brings is that you are typing only one time your amnesia (sudo) password on Tails OS and user sudo pass on Linux Desktops and nobody can read it even you run any of the script inside the NoTails..Tails-Files folder alone!


## Installation and Usage of NoTails.. Tails Menu


The easiest way to use the NoTails.. Tails Menu after you download it is to extract it inside the Persistent folder and run the NoTails-Tails-Menu.sh after you do it executable with right click and with the left click after on Run as a Program.


But this is not the Best or correct way to run NoTails.. Tails Menu because it opens another one unnecessary terminal in the background something that it bugs the menu after the first usage because of the mechanism of sudo this zenity script uses.


So, if you transfer the hidden folders and files inside the DotFiles-Files folder that you can find inside the NoTails..Tails-Files folder to your Tails OS ... Dotfiles ( they are hidden because this is the mature of these files and you can reveal them by pressing Ctrl + H ), you can activate the Dotfiles folder from inside the Persistent Storage program and after the copy of these files and a reboot of the Tails OS you will find 4 new programs inside the category Other.


Here is the time to warn you that if you have already activate the Dotfiles folder from the Persistent Storage that you should aware for the existence of the same program desktop links to not overwrite the older links but this will never happen if it is the first time you activate the Dotfiles folder.


You can find the new entries after restart of the Tails OS and every time you are login after to 

Applications > Other

for the 6th version of Tails OS &

Apps > Other 

for the 7th version of Tails OS 


The NoTails.. Tails Menu menu entry from [ Apps > Other ] opens the NoTails-Tails-Menu.sh without any terminal in the background this time. The 2nd menu entry, the doublecmd-gtk is still for my opinion the best alternative Total Commander for Linux even it is a gtk2 program. You can install doublecmd-gtk with the 2nd script after you connect to Tor Network. The 3rd simple corrects an appearing problem of the auto-type on KeePassXC but it is not functional in Wayland yet and many devs are trying to find a fix. I left it as a menu entry so you have it ready for the case there will be a fix in the future. And the 4th app executes the standalone version of the 5th script without asking any sudo password because it is just a mini download zenity script for files and videos. The YWC download zenity script is using the yt-dlp, wget and curl for your downloads and accepts parameters as input. 


The NoTails-Tails-Menu.sh, i tried to be as easy can be in reading and to changes and for this reason all the scripts can be executed alone as well and to Linux Desktop too!.


But what NoTails.. Tails Menu helps most of all is that you put the Administrator Password once at the beginning and the only if you close it and reopen it. Something that heavy Tails OS users will appreciate it since with only one record in the main's menu list and one script inside menu's folder will be able to add as many scripts they want to always have with them gathered in only one folder and not scattered within Persistent's folder!


Also, regarding security Amnesia's or your sudo passwords in Linux is not displayed in terminal or in any way unless you enable the terminal's debugging mode, providing a solution to Linux Sysadmins for their own sudo scripts!


Well and above all ... Safe and Secure crypto (εν κρυπτώ) Web Surfing, Always!


## License to use


The license to use the NoTails.. Tails Menu is the AGPLV3 and you can read either from the copy inside the zip file or online: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-v3.0.en.html


Copy of the License exists in English (agpl-3.0.txt) and in Greeks (gpl_el.txt) inside the folder NoTails..Tails-Files of the zip file of NoTails.. Tails Menu.
