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So, I'm looking for a new terminal, there's a few glitches with yakuake (not dropping down on main monitor anymore, sometimes when I paste in too much text it gets all buggy) and there's some new features I want from it I found in tabby (basically, different themes in different tabs to help orient me faster and avoid issues)

Tabby's shortcut to dock and hide and reappear leads it to disappearing the window, not coming back, and continuing to run several processes. Also, it's really heavy. (electron based?)

I want something that's light and usually disappears without remaining on my task manager (system tray is ok) , unrolls and disappears at a single keyboard shortcut, has multiple tabs, and I can choose whatever colour scheme I want per tab.

Ideally, I will have a list of colour schemes , and each tab will choose the next colour scheme to move to.

Also, generic terminal preference discussion, shoutout, etc thread.

https://apps.kde.org/yakuake/

https://tabby.sh/

God, I hate posting a Reddit comment, but this is huge. Every claim is sourced (I have not verified personally).

Edit: Well, Reddit does what reddit does, it's been removed. Here is a github link: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/985257

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I’ve been in a bit of a coding slump recently due to a constellation of work and personal Stuff™, and in situations like those I enjoy procrastinating by tweaking my desktop setup (do kids still call this ricing?).

One of the small things that’s always annoyed me is that, if I want to input the glorious currency symbol of our great monetary union, I basically need to search for “eur symbol” somewhere and copy-paste it. On a Mac with the Dutch layout, the € symbol can be produced by hitting Option + 2, but on my Linux desktop with the nl(mac) layout1, the closest thing is Right Command + 2 (interpreted by the system as AltGr+2), which gives me a nice ².

In skimming through various docs, forum posts and wiki pages, I ran into an xkb option to change the behaviour for the € symbol specifically, but I also ran into something far more interesting: the Compose key. It turns out that there’s a special key you can use to write custom symbols as a sequence of normal keystrokes.

Announced today was debaudit, a new set of tools and services designed to verify the integrity and reproducibility of Debian source packages.

Debaudit was developed wit hthe intent of helping to secure the software supply chain used to build Debian binary packages. Debaudit consists of upstream2orig, git2dsc, and git2orig. The upstream2orig verifies the upstream tarball found in Debian is a faithful representation of the original source code from upstream. The git2sc helps verify the source packages from the Vcs-Git repository matches the source package in the Debian archive. Lastly, git2orig verifies the original tarball generated from the repository matches the original tarball in the archive.

How to check if you are impacted

To get the version of the sudo package installed, run the following command:

dpkg -l 'sudo*' | grep ^ii

The following table lists the fixed versions of the sudo package in all supported Ubuntu releases:

Release	Package	Fixed version
Questing Quokka (25.10)	sudo	1.9.17p2-1ubuntu1.1
	sudo-ldap	1.9.17p2-1ubuntu1.1
	sudo-rs	Not affected
Noble Numbat (24.04 LTS)	sudo	1.9.15p5-3ubuntu5.24.04.2
	sudo-ldap	1.9.15p5-3ubuntu5.24.04.2
Jammy Jellyfish (22.04 LTS)	sudo	1.9.9-1ubuntu2.6
	sudo-ldap	1.9.9-1ubuntu2.6
Focal Fossa (20.04 LTS)	sudo	Not affected
	sudo-ldap	Not affected
Bionic Beaver (18.04 LTS)	sudo	Not affected
	sudo-ldap	Not affected
Xenial Xerus (16.05 LTS)	sudo	Not affected
	sudo-ldap	Not affected
Trusty Tahr (14.04 LTS)	sudo	Not affected
	sudo-ldap	Not affected

Affected sudo versions

How to address

We recommend you upgrade all packages:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

If this is not possible, the sudo userspace mitigations can be installed directly and does not require a reboot to apply:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install sudo

The unattended-upgrades feature is enabled by default for Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (16.04 LTS) onwards. This service:

• Applies new security updates every 24 hours automatically.
• If you have this enabled, the patches above will be automatically applied within 24 hours of being available.

Note that AppArmor is responsible for some of the sandboxing in container systems like LXC.

Debian updates are available now:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2026/msg00072.html

Fwupd developer Richard Hughes released fwupd 2.1.1 today as a major update of this open-source Linux firmware update utility that introduces numerous new features and extends hardware support.

Fwupd 2.1.1 is a major release that introduces support for updating the firmware on Blestech touchpads, ELAN Haptic MCU devices, FocalTouch devices, Himax touchscreens, HP Engage One G2 Advanced Hubs, KATAR PRO Wireless Gaming Dongles, PixArt touchpads, and Novatek touchscreens.

The list of newly supported hardware introduced in the fwupd 2.1.1 release continues with Lenovo keyboard and mouse accessories, Lenovo Sapphire Folio keyboards, Lightware Taurus HC40 and HC60 devices, Rolling RW101-CAT12 modems, as well as Sunwinon HID devices.

Linux consulting firm Igalia announced this week Moonforge, a new in-house Linux distribution by them based on Yocto and OpenEmbedded.

Moonforge is a new Linux distribution designed to provide a production-ready foundation for embedded and device operating systems. Moonforge is designed around long-term maintainability, flexibility, and extensibility. Moonforge consists as a set of Yocto layers and configuration files for building out immutable, maintainable, and easily updated OS images.

The Fedora 44 Beta release is out today on schedule in working toward the official Fedora 44 release around mid-April.

Fedora Workstation 44 features the latest GNOME 50 desktop components. Or if you are a KDE fan, Fedora 44 delivers on a unified KDE out-of-the-box experience with Plasma 6.6 and is also using the new Plasma Login Manager in place of SDDM. There are also other updated desktop options in Fedora 44 like the Budgie 10.10 desktop.

The Fedora Project released today the beta version of the upcoming Fedora Linux 44 for public testing to give us a glimpse of the new features and report potential bugs.

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.19 kernel series, the Fedora Linux 44 beta ships with the soon-to-be-released GNOME 50 desktop environment for the flagship Fedora Workstation edition, as well as the latest KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment for the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop edition.

Some interesting features in Fedora Linux 44 include Plasma Login Manager as the default login manager on all Fedora KDE variants instead of SDDM, automatic DTB selection for AArch64 (ARM64) EFI systems, and support for the latest Budgie 10.10 desktop environment on the Fedora Budgie spin.

Can't wait for the virus that uses this to replace a windows install with a Linux install that's riced to look like windows. Will the normies even notice?

For those making use of Microsoft's exFAT file-system under Linux, tagged today was exfatprogs 1.3.2 as the newest update to these open-source user-space programs for going along with the Linux kernel's exFAT file-system driver.

Most of the work in exfatprogs 1.3.2 involves improvements to the mkfs.extfat utility for making exFAT file-systems.

Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta announced a new proposal for "A Technology Innovation Lifecycle Process for Fedora." With the help of Google's Gemini AI, Spaleta laid out a proposal to help Fedora make greater accommodations for experimental concepts and building more interest around innovative ideas without a firm commitment to integrate them into Fedora proper until they can be assured of sustainability.

It's a lengthy proposal and ultimately around fostering more innovations in the Fedora space without commiting to shipping and maintaining said features. Spaleta mentioned that this idea came up during a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 11 (RHEL 11) planning meeting at Red Hat that he was sitting in on.