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Musk sports black eye at White House farewell with Trump in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] Prime 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sorry, could you summarize how?

That is the way in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[–] Prime 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It is called windows 2000 explorer and it's great for file operations :) In Linux i have yet to find a really good replacement ;(

*Permanently Deleted* in c/askmeanything@lemmy.ca

[–] Prime 3 points 1 week ago (18 children)

How did this come to be?

If AI is so good at coding - where are the open source contributions? in c/programming@programming.dev

[–] Prime 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Microsoft is doing this today. I can't link it because I'm on mobile. It is in dotnet. It is not going well :)

What are some of your unpopular opinions in math? (not about math) in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] Prime 1 points 2 weeks ago

Matrix multiplication should be the other way around, i.e. not like cascading functions. Oh and function cabbages should also be the other way around :) i prefer to read it not like a manga

What are some of your unpopular opinions in math? (not about math) in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] Prime 1 points 2 weeks ago

Great one!

What are some of your unpopular opinions in math? (not about math) in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] Prime 2 points 2 weeks ago

You are right but that is a dangerous proposal because math is just applied philosophy :)

What does ZFC do that Peano arithmetic can't do? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[–] Prime 1 points 3 weeks ago

To be fair these abbreviations are ubiquitously used.

Lenovo Cuts the Windows Tax and offers Cheaper Laptops with Linux Pre-installed in c/linux@programming.dev

[–] Prime 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

No. If it does not work you can't be sure if it is your fault or the device is broken. This will lead to support costs for the manufacturer

Take screenshot in linux using dotnet in c/dotnet@programming.dev

[–] Prime 2 points 1 month ago

Nice idea. I've had a look and it appears to be embedded in a lot of Qt code that is hard for me to follow and/or use in dotnet :/

Take screenshot in linux using dotnet in c/dotnet@programming.dev

[–] Prime 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It seems this function is missing in MAUI on linux yet :/

To be fair, I think there are almost more GUI frameworks specifically for dotnet on Windows, each of which has been "the standard that everyone should follow" for a year or two, than there are DEs for linux. It's ridiculous how often Microsoft changes their mind.

Take screenshot in linux using dotnet in c/dotnet@programming.dev

[–] Prime 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

scrot does not seems to work on wayland, but it looks very nice for X11. I've also found Flameshot, which claims to work on KDE wayland and, albeit with a forced confirmation dialog, on gnome wayland. I'll update my post if I tested these tools more thoroughly.

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Take screenshot in linux using dotnet (self.dotnet)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Prime to c/dotnet@programming.dev

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I want to take a screenshot. In Windows, that's a simple Graphics::CopyFromScreen call.

In Linux, I feel a little confused on how to do this. It seems there is a principal and stark distinction between X11 and Wayland, so I have to include both code paths. For either, it seems there is quite a lot of boilerplate code, often tagged as 'may break depending on your configuration, good luck'.

Effectively, what I found is recommended most often is to call ffmpeg to let it handle that. I'm sure that works, but I find it rather unpalatable.

I find this strange. Taking a screenshot is, in my mind at least, supposed to be a straightforward part of a standard library. Perhaps it is, and I just completely missed it? If not, is there a good library that works out-of-the-box on most variants of linux?

Update: Thank you all for the input. I eventually went with calling ImageMagick. It is fast, easy to use, well documented, and supports capturing arbitrary displays with little effort.

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Removed post as "job posting" (self.reddit)

submitted 1 month ago by Prime to c/reddit@lemmy.world

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Same post was allowed when the phrasing "... let ffmpeg do the job" is changed to "let ffmpeg handle it". So the removal seems to be purely keyword-based, in a resoundingly stupid fashion.