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TheGrandNagus, (edited ) in Automated testing of GNOME accessibility features – GNOME Accessibility

Love that they’re making these accessibility improvements as an open platform that other DEs can also leverage. Linux and Linux programs are going to become a lot more accessible to people because of this foundational work.

Compliments to the gnome devs and to the STF, accessibility is something very important that understandably doesn’t usually receive much development.

sxan, in Does Nix's break from FHS cause problems?
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Gobolinux enters the room.

Gobo’s been around and doing its alternative thing, successfully, for 20 years, so no. It’s not a problem.

mvirts,

Oh I remember trying this, I should give it another go!

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Eh. I didn’t personally find that the upheaval added much, and it interfered with my muscle memory working with FHS systems… which are everything else. It didn’t add, like, BeOS-levels of drastic benefit in exchange for being so divergent. And it obviously never caught on anywhere else.

Just my experience.

MattMckenzy, in Any C# devs want to share their setup?

I’m a professional and hobbyist C# .NET dev and I recently made the switch to a full Linux environment at home. I’ve gotten a great workflow setup with just VSCode and some extensions. I’ve actually found some ways to improve my workflow with VSCode vs Visual Studio and I’m glad I made the switch. The only thing I really miss is the phenomenal diagnostics and profiling I would get with a full Visual Studio install, but I’m getting used to using cli dotnet tools to replace that as well.

If you’re going the VSCode route, feel free to ask me more questions on useful extensions or workflow tweaks!

chris,
@chris@programming.dev avatar

What process do you use to sign your binaries?

MattMckenzy,

I haven’t really distributed any binaries yet, everything I work on is just FOSS at github.com/MattMckenzy.

However, I did look into packaging my HomeCast project in my own debian apt repository. It’s still unsigned at the moment, but when I get to it I imagine I’ll just use dpkg and gnupg2 however I need to.

ViciousTurducken, in GNOME Network Displays Adds Support For Chromecast & Miracast MICE Protocols

Can it cast to a Roku device?

Matt,

Roku supports Miracast, so it should work.

Daeraxa, in What are your thoughts on a possible NixOS without systemd?

GNU Guix?

BlanK0, (edited )

GNU Guix, definitely going to check out! I think also most of the packages I have are foss, for non-foss I have flatpak anyway 🤔👍

terminhell, in GNOME Network Displays Adds Support For Chromecast & Miracast MICE Protocols

Finally. Was something I’ve missed when I was using other distros with kde.

spittingimage, in Thinking about making the big switch – recommend me a distro!
@spittingimage@lemmy.world avatar

Linux Mint is my daily driver. I enjoy tinkering, but I also want a distro that doesn’t need it when I get home from work and just want a vodka tonic and some memes.

sudneo, in How do I create a docker container with custom programs inside?

Each container, by default, runs in a separate network namespace. You can use docker CLI to create specific networks that can be shared with other containers, or use docker-compose for it. Technically, for processes outside containers you can still use the same network of that container by running the inside the network namespace of the ‘VPN’ container (for example running them with unshare). However, I wouldn’t recommend this, as containers are supposed to run mostly isolated workload and not for this kind of use-case. But yeah, technically it’s feasible.

possiblylinux127, in When do I actually need a firewall?

Firewalls are necessary for least privilege. You only give something access that needs access.

Additionally you should not port forward and especially not port 80.

c0mbatbag3l,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah like JFC the most insecure way to access the Internet let’s just open it up to the whole world.

toothbrush, in Created a Java Application for Easy '.desktop' File Creation
@toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Don’t most desktop environments already have this?

If you want to include this as an option when right clicking the desktop, you will probably need to patch this into the DE of your choice, however I think at least KDE has an option for custom right click actions.

ScottE,

Yep, all desktop environments have this - whatever text editor is handy. :⁠-⁠)

MrOzwaldMan, (edited )

I see, I didn’t know KDE had that, does KDE allow java apps to be used as the right click action? As for GNOME, I’m still trying to figure it out.

Until then, I will post the link to the app in the future. It needs some beautification, and quality of life changes so you and the others can use it as you use sudo apt update and upgrade to update your PCs.

toothbrush,
@toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Yes, it works with any command.

leopold, (edited )

For KDE right click menus, you need to use service menus: develop.kde.org/docs/apps/dolphin/service-menus/

These are used by Plasma and most KDE apps that deal with files.

Krusader has a more powerful system for this called UserActions, but they’re exclusive to Krusader and afaik Krusader is also compatible with service menus, so these are much less portable: docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/…/useractions.html

yianiris,
@yianiris@kafeneio.social avatar

A window manager is enough with any customizable drop menu, can open a file manager of choice, create a folder or file, no desktop is needed.

worker ~/.Desktop

or whatever filemanager one is using

@toothbrush @MrOzwaldMan

QuazarOmega,

Don’t most desktop environments already have this?

An environment agnostic tool isn’t a bad thing though, it already exists as PinApp, though I’m guessing OP is doing this more as a learning project

MrOzwaldMan,

Damn, i didn’t know this existed. Welp, at least I know how to manipulate the system from code.

QuazarOmega,

Don’t be discouraged, doing something from scratch is always a great learning opportunity and even if this isn’t the first iteration of such a tool there is room improvement, for instance, I don’t think any of the tools that allow creation .desktop shortcuts interface with any context menu as yours would do in the future, so that could be a cool feature to show off!

jenny_ball, in Good Nix OS series: five articles for new users.
@jenny_ball@lemmy.world avatar

everyone here will hate me for bringing this up, but i tried to install nixos on hyperv, but wasn’t able to.

null,

YOU BASTARD

possiblylinux127, in Windows NT Sync Driver Proposed For The Linux Kernel - Better Wine Performance

Honestly this is the kind of thing we needed from React os. It would of been nice to be able to run the react is kernel in the background and then have wine make calls to it.

library_napper, in YSK: Proton users can create feature requests and vote on Linux features
@library_napper@monyet.cc avatar

Why would you use UserVoice instead of GitHub?

Adanisi, (edited ) in What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?
@Adanisi@lemmy.zip avatar

Writing and running a script to delete the first 2 characters from all files and folders recursively.

It started backtracking to my home folder. :/

siha,

at’s a funny story, hope you got everything backed up

olutukko, in What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

I dont remember what I did when I was stoned. The next day I tried to do normal sudo dnf install and it doesnt recognize any command anymore. I tried restarting it and I cant login anymore because the login scripts dont work. Not that funny but just happened and weirdest way I have broke it

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