pathief

pathief, 1 year ago

I don’t follow said communities, I just stick to lemmy. I just use the software

pathief, 1 year ago

It’s probably not what you’re looking for but I’ve been using Hyprland and it’s working mostly file. Using waybar works great.

pathief, 1 year ago

After spending a ton of time migrating CentOS machines I have to say anything red hat related.

pathief, 1 year ago (edited 5 months ago)

I’m very happy to report that I found a solution to the problem: keyd. It’s amazing.

• GitHub project here
• Credits for finding it

Instructions on the github project are crystal clear, but I’ll leave some instructions below for Arch Users

yay -S keyd

sudo systemctl enable keyd && sudo systemctl start keyd

Now you can configure the /etc/keyd/default.conf file to your hearts desire. keyd is very feature rich, check the man page to see everything you can do. You can even add layers to your keyboard. Very sweet.

My personal configuration so far (I will definitely expand it later when I bump into more problems)

<span style="color:#323232;">[ids]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">*
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[main]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">' = oneshotm(apostrophe, ')
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[apostrophe]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">a = a
</span><span style="color:#323232;">b = macro(space backspace apostrophe space b)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">c = macro(backspace G-,)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">d = macro(space backspace apostrophe space d)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">e = e
</span><span style="color:#323232;">f = macro(space backspace apostrophe space f)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">g = macro(backspace apostrophe space g)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">h = macro(space backspace apostrophe space h)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">i = i
</span><span style="color:#323232;">j = macro(space backspace apostrophe space j)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">k = macro(backspace apostrophe space k)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">l = macro(backspace apostrophe space l)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">m = macro(backspace apostrophe space m)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">n = macro(backspace apostrophe space n)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">o = o
</span><span style="color:#323232;">p = macro(space backspace apostrophe space p)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">q = macro(space backspace apostrophe space q)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">r = macro(backspace apostrophe space r)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">s = macro(backspace apostrophe space s)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">t = macro(backspace apostrophe space t)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">u = u
</span><span style="color:#323232;">v = macro(space backspace apostrophe space v)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">w = macro(backspace apostrophe space w)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">x = macro(space backspace apostrophe space x)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">y = macro(backspace apostrophe space y)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">z = macro(backspace apostrophe space z)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>

After editing /etc/keyd/default.conf make sure you run sudo keyd reload

pathief, 1 year ago

Thank you! It’s not exactly what I wanted but at this point I’m just happy to have a solid workaround to my problem that works everywhere.

pathief, 1 year ago

I’m using an Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2. Not most people’s cup of tea but I’ve grown used to it and it’s hard for me to swap to anything else now :P

pathief, 1 year ago (edited 6 months ago)

I love US keyboards for coding, it really improves the experience. Typing in portuguese, however, is not a good experience. The default american layout has the ~ key in a really bad spot. Typing à or ã is REALLY uncomfortable/weird. Fortunately, my keyboard has that key on the right side of the keyboard instead of the left, which greatly improves the experience.

The .XCompose file I linked in the main post is perfect and works great on X11. If you’re not yet on Wayland you can use it and have a great experience.

pathief, 1 year ago (edited 5 months ago)

I rarely had to hit space, honestly. My keyboard doesn’t have a key specifically for caps lock, a control key is there instead. I quite like it.

I’ve been trying to make a switch for the compose key but it’s hard to kick decades-old muscle memory heh

pathief, 1 year ago

I had to set a ton more. Without the ozone flags my electron apps flicker and have this sync problem that appears to eat letters while I type them. Different electron apps use different configuration files, it’s a mess.

I wouldn’t consider my setup to be complex enough for the amount of trouble I had to make the system work under Wayland.

I’m using an Nvidia GPU, I’m sure things would be more streamlined if I had something else.

pathief, 1 year ago

If you just use the VPN consider moving to Mullvad! I really loved their service but ended up moving to Proton because I use all their services.

pathief, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

If you use apt-get you aren’t using snaps, you are unaffected.

Snap is a format created by Canonical which has a really funky proprietary back end. The default application store in Ubuntu uses this format and has been plagued with an impersonation problem. Since everyone could submit snaps there was a lot of spyware posing as legit software. My main gripe was when the snap store just decided to unilaterally close and update my Firefox while I was using it.

Linux Mint does NOT have snaps and even had a debian based version. Pretty neat

pathief, 1 year ago

apt uses debians packages and debian repositories. Unless they recently created an alias or something, it should install debian packaged version!

pathief, 1 year ago

Yes, that is correct.

pathief, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

My first attempt was to flash the stock LineageOS and then install the microg packages from the fdroid store. I didn’t manage to get that fully working, the microg self-check would have a lot of fails due to version mismatches. I never figured out why. A lot of applications complained about the lack of play services and warned me they wouldn’t work, microg was clearly not installed properly.

Then, I flashed the “LineageOS for MicroG” ROM, which is a LineageOS fork with microg already installed. I had to enable all microg services but the self-check was 100% successful out of the box. No warnings about the lack of play services, everything was mostly working. I installed all software from Fdroid when possible and Aurora Store when not possible.

Push notifications were a bit of a struggle at first but they did work. I still didn’t get notifications to work on Telegram, but “Telegram FOSS” fork seemed to work okay. For GPS/Maps I used Waze (which is technically owned by Google) and it worked flawlessly. I assume you can use other GPS application, I just didn’t do my research on this one. For email I am using Proton Mail, which worked as expected.

The problematic apps were banking/financial apps, which I guess most people can live without. I’m confident the apps would work with microg but simply refused to even start. In Portugal our interbank network developed an application called “MBWAY”, which is really ingrained in the portuguese population. Most people use it. It has a ton of cool functiontionality such as sending money to other people just by using the phone number (instantly and without fees), replacing your ATM/food cards for payments and generating virtual credit cards for online shopping.

I use MBWAY way too much (pun intended), and just decided I didn’t want to live without it. I ended up flashing stock LineageOS and their GAPPS package, which contains the play services and play store app. I still install most stuff from the Aurora and Fdroid store. The banking/financial apps are now working.

pathief, 1 year ago

I think the apps would work without Google Play services but they refuse to boot without it. Unfortunately since these are banking and finance apps the only alternative is not to use them.

I own a Poco F2 Pro, ROM support is somewhat limited. CalyxOS is insupported, it seems. When this phones starts dying I’ll probably give GrapheneOS a shot!

pathief, 1 year ago

You are not supposed to be an inanimate object. You’re supposed to listen, acknowledge, talk about the topic at hands. Empathize, ask questions to better understand the problem. Show interest in your significant other, show them you care about what is upsetting them.

Sometimes people get stuck on the “have you tried the most basic and simplest answer?” questions and it’s frustrating as hell. You can just ask “wanna brainstorm about it?”, at least you’re setting the mood in the right direction.

pathief, 1 year ago

Seems like it’s still pretty green :/

pathief, 1 year ago

Your description didn’t persuade me to try it, friend.

pathief, 1 year ago

Yeah, I share the feeling. Not sure if the problem lies on Wayland or Nvidia but hopefully if Wayland becomes the standard they’ll address the elephant in the room!

pathief, 1 year ago

It’s a corporate app so it’s harder to reach the actual end user.