Chewy7324

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What Tweak, Program, ... changes a Desktop Environment from unusable to great for you?

I have used Linux on and off for 15 years. I consider myself a casual user and stuck to the mainstream DEs (mostly KDE, XFCE and some Cinnamon). Gnome has been a hurdle for me before and after the big version 40 changes, I couldn’t get my head around how they handled the workspaces and workflow. At some point I I tried out an...

Chewy7324,

I don’t think Gnome, KDE and XFCE support moving workspaces between monitors. They only support moving windows between workspaces and monitors.

Sway/i3 have a single set of workspaces while most DEs have a set for each monitor. On these DEs switching between workspaces applies to all monitors.

Is there any way I can make an old XMMS plugin work in any modern player?

Long story short, I learned there is an XMMS release of a plugin I use in Winamp for music playback (mp3PRO). Sadly, I recoded most of my music to mp3PRO back in the day, and now I’m stuck using Winamp, even on Linux. I like the player, wouldn’t change it, but I wanted to switch to something native, like Audacious or Qmms....

Chewy7324,

At some point you’ll have to use a new codec, even if it’s in 10 years. So it might be a good idea to download the music instead of converting.

Soulseek with Nicotine+ seems to be a good way to download music. Or streamrip/deemix with a (temporary) Deezer/Tidal subscription supports high quality audio.

Chewy7324, (edited )

KDE fixed a lot of Wayland bugs over the last months and especially with the upcoming launch of Plasma 6.0, so I’d give it a try again now or in half a year.

Nvidia also constantly fixes the problems with their Wayland support so it’s only getting better. Debian doesn’t have recent enough packages to have a good KDE Wayland experience.

Gnome Wayland doesn’t support features like vrr/adaptive sync or tearing, so it isn’t a good gaming experience. Otherwise it’s great.

Chewy7324, (edited )

Are youtube ads in Firefox on iOS blocked? They are with uBlock on Firefox Android, but iirc Firefox on iOS doesn’t support extensions.

New to Linux, have a few questions

I currently use Windows 10 and I’d like to try out Linux. My plan is to set up a dual boot with OpenSUSE tumbleweed and KDE Plasma. I’ve read so many different opinions about choosing a distro, compatibility with gaming and Nvidia drivers, and personal issues with the ethos of different companies like Canonical. I value...

Chewy7324, (edited )

If you notice issues with Wayland screen sharing or flatpak file manager not opening, try uninstalling Gnome/KDE. The xdg-desktop-portals for different desktops sometimes don’t work correctly while concurrently installed. If you don’t notice issues, it should work fine.

Chewy7324,

I have been working on Fly-Pie for more than 3 years now and I am very happy with the result. However, I have always wanted to create a similar application for the desktop in general. This is why I started this project.

Chewy7324,

This project is currently in a very early stage of development. Kando is not yet a functional menu but rather a prototype which demonstrates the feasibility of the concept.

Since Kando is still in early development, it might be a good idea to look at the Gnome Extension Fly-Pie. It’s from the same developer and it looks like Kando will be similar.

Chewy7324,

Any program should have a man page, even if it only lists all options. My point is that a blog post helps some people to learn about a program. For example a post often highlights the most important options of a software.

Chewy7324,

Cal-/CardDAV support in Gnome is awesome. There was no way for me to use the integrated Gnome Calendar.

Chewy7324,

Thanks. Interesting, I didn’t know this was possible.

Chewy7324, (edited )

The big advantage for me is that lact runs as a (systemd) daemon. This is more convenient for me than having to autostart CoreCtrl.

A disadvantage of the daemon is that it can’t be packaged on flathub.

Enable and start the service (otherwise you won’t be able to change any settings):
sudo systemctl enable --now lactd
You can now use the GUI to change settings and view information.

LACT has an API over an unix socket.

github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT/blob/…/API.md

Chewy7324,

Gnome libadwaita apps only change between dark and light mode, which probably can be derived from COSMIC DE’s settings quite easily.

For Qt I’m not sure how it looks by default, but since System76 wants to support multiple toolkits anyway, I guess they’ll have a solution ready.

Chewy7324, (edited )

Iirc Gradience punches a hole in the flatpak sandbox for xdg-config/gtk-4.0, which usually is in .config. This makes it work and isn’t a security problem.

Gnome Shell is unaffected because it doesn’t use GTK.

Chewy7324,

I’ve used zsh for it’s support for posix sh and have my config. But I find fish to be faster with the features I want and it has those features ootb.

Maybe I’ll give zsh another try.

Chewy7324,

wlroots is a library that can be used to implement a compositor like KWin or mutter (GNOME). In practice wlroots is used in Sway, Hyprland, river, and more.

What wlroots-based compositors, KWin, and mutter share is that they implement a similar set of the display protocol Wayland. E.g. KWin and Sway implement the Wayland extension wlr_layer_shell

Chewy7324,
  • wp-fractional-scale-v1 to allow clients to submit buffers with a non-integer scale factor matching the output.

This hopefully means Sway and similar will support real fractional scaling for applications, not just the compositor fractional scaling we already have.

But I don’t know much about application support. Qt and Electron might support it; GTK 4 does not, possibly in a future version).

wayland.app/protocols/fractional-scale-v1

  • tearing-control to allow clients to opt-in for tearing page-flips.

That’s great for those who need it. Anyone with a modern display should probably just use variable refresh rate (vrr), but even today some devices don’t support it. E.g. there’s been 240Hz laptops without vrr.

wayland.app/protocols/tearing-control-v1

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