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Dr_Willis, in Dock / Panel suggestions

I have seen it with some Dock/panels, but the specific DE/tools you mention is not something I have used.

check the project page for the panel you are using.

saman34265,

Can you confirm the Dock/Panel you have seen, with this option.

Dr_Willis,

docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/…/start

shows the preview feature you mention.

turkelton, in What devices run with free firmware?

X200 Libre ftw

namelivia, in I'm ditching htop for btop, look how cool it is

I used for a bit, I even configured it to open in a separate monitor when booting, it was cool for a while

FutileRecipe,

I used for a bit…

What changed?

namelivia,

It was cool but really I didn’t need to watch all that information

TCB13, (edited ) in Dock / Panel suggestions
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

I would like to see Thumbnails ( preview of current window ) instead of Icons in the Dock / Panel.

Yeah me too, that would be very nice to have. I was able to make what you have without Docklike Taskbar:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3639e58c-eb28-4bd7-970d-a38c88fc4a3c.png

saman34265,

I have tried Window buttons already. For me, it misses : Pin to Dock Super+N shortcut

The activity indicator looks nice , though.

TCB13,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah I also had that “issue” with it. That and the fact that it kinda makes minimized applications transparent for no reason, but when I’m running xfce4 is to have performance and I’m not sure I want to install another extension. Btw, how does Docklike Taskbar play with having the clock, and the status tray on the right? Can it do it?

lemann, in I am trying to edit a game save with an Hex editor but it doesn't allow me to change anything, it's frustrating

Is the hex file not saving with those editors, or is the game just not showing the new value once it’s loaded?

zShxck,

Nono, i cannot input any values, that’s the problem. Anyhow, I tried ImHex and with it I am able to change values now… I don’t know why

ReversalHatchery, in I am trying to edit a game save with an Hex editor but it doesn't allow me to change anything, it's frustrating

I had similar frustrations with a game. It’s very easy to make mistakes while you’re a beginner in editing such files (I don’t know if you are).
One advice is to make sure to keep the data the same length.

If that doesn’t help, observe the file’s structure a bit more. Maybe it uses a checksum somewhere for the data you want to edit, or it is just stored elsewhere and you were editing the wrong thing.
Make a save. Make the data to change (in the shortest time possible) and make a new save. Compare these for what have changed.

But also, what is your problem?
Does the value just don’t change, or the save becomes corrupted?

ReversalHatchery,

Oh and one more thing!

Do you obtain this file from the file system, or do you need to extract it from some kind of a container file, and then implant back the modified version?
SnowRunner’s asset files cannot be edited unless you unpack and repack them with winrar. Anything else (as far as I tried, windows tools at the time) and it won’t work.

zShxck,

Cannot input any value. I tried ImHex and with it I am able to change values now… I don’t know why

Moobythegoldensock, in Linux Poll

Hannah Montana Linux

magikmw, in This week in KDE: Plasma 6 Alpha approaches

Post says it’s ready as a daily driver. I want to help with bug reporting, is it good enough to replace current fedora plasma or should I wait for a beta?

MyNameIsRichard,
@MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml avatar

Well, it’s pre-alpha so expect a lot of problems

CalicoJack, in What distro for a MacBook pro late 2013 15'

Basically anything should work, I had one for a while running Arch + KDE. Wifi doesn’t work out of the box (thanks Broadcom), but once you install the right driver it’s perfectly fine.

Pantherina,

Wl Kernel mod?

CalicoJack,

That works to get it going, but it’s flaky. The older Broadcom chips need either the old reverse-engineered driver, or the old closed source driver Broadcom released.

BennyHill500, in Am I going off the deep end by considering Fedora Silverblue or Kinoite?

If you wanna switch to Silverblue, i would highly recommend the universal blue images, they have a whole bunch of different DE version, specialized versions for example: bazzite for gaming, and they also have framework specific images for most of them.

with ublue i dont have to layer a single package over my basic image (silverblue-nvidia).

All the apps are installed as Flatpak, except the ones that dont have one run on Distroboxes (distrobox is included in ublue images and highly recommended over the default toolbox in silverblue)

universal-blue.org

Maragato, in What has been your experience with Flatpak?
@Maragato@eslemmy.es avatar

For recent machines it works fine, but on older machines it feels slower than non-encapsulated software.

Maragato, in 10 REASONS why Linux Mint is the desktop OS to beat in 2023
@Maragato@eslemmy.es avatar

For a home user with recent hardware in my opinion the system to beat is openSUSE Tumbleweed. It is a stable and rolling distribution, that is, it has the best of both worlds.

AnUnusualRelic, in What devices run with free firmware?
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

The disks still have proprietary firmware, as do several other components though.

Catsrules,

I bet that wireless mouse probably has some code in it.

nxdefiant,

If you’re using an active thunderbolt cable, you wire has proprietary code in it.

smileyhead,

But it’s a closed device with the firmware not being for user to replace.

While BIOS can be updated without opening the computer. Or many WiFi cards require you to load a firmware on them upon boot.

So firmware in the disk is more of a right-to-repair problem rather than free/nonfree software

ShitOnABrick, in 10 REASONS why Linux Mint is the desktop OS to beat in 2023
@ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world avatar

Linux mint at least in my experience seems to be one of those shit just works distros

miss_brainfart,
@miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml avatar

A lot of distros work really well on my laptop, but Mint has always been the only one that works perfectly

CalicoJack,

I don’t use it myself, but it’s been my main recommendation for newbies for years for that reason. No complaints yet, even from the less tech-literate.

Churbleyimyam, in What has been your experience with Flatpak?

I’ve gone back to using packages from my repo. I was all-in with flatpaks for a while because they tend to be more up to date than my distro’s packages and I liked the idea of the sandboxing but in practice I’ve found it a nuisance getting applications to speak to each other and I don’t like all the redundant code bloating my internal drive. The thing that really did it for me though was the other day when I had to restore my system from a Timeshift backup. It took an hour and a half to restore a recent backup, with well over 90% of that time showing as flatpak stuff.

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