overview for Samueru

Linux Directory Structure - FHS by Samueru in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] Samueru@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 weeks ago

I'm pretty sure sbin originally meant static binaries and not system binaries lol

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Vimium like plugin for firefox with favicon support? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by Samueru@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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I know vimium works in firefox, however I ran into this 4 year issue: https://github.com/philc/vimium/issues/3674

Is there an alternative that doesn't have that issue?

SUSE Requests openSUSE to Rebrand by Samueru in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] Samueru@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago

Introducing openSUSA

My fellow software engineer, It's the year 2024... by Samueru in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] Samueru@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago

Shameless flex

40 years later, X Window System is far more relevant than anyone could guess by Samueru in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] Samueru@lemmy.ml 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yes, I spent a while reading the documentation on how to pin workspaces to certain monitors only for hyprland to tell me that it is deprecated.

Also an issue I noticed is that you can't move floating windows between displays with the move left/right commands, move left/right moves the floating window to the left or right of the display and no more, meaning that the window gets stuck at the border of the display and doesn't move more.

Also I couldn't figure out how to make hyperland run several commands in a row with one keybind, or how to filter windows with expressions, something that I do a lot on my i3config .

And my biggest issue, and this one seems to be with wayland in general is that it seems that it is impossible to set my displays to extended more, that is turn the 3 displays that I have into a single display which I use with some games.

i3 isn't perfect either, I actually had to fork it and apply a patch that fixes and issue that I have that hasn't been merged yet either.

I will list all my issues with sway anyway, hopefully somebody out there notices it and fixes them:

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8000

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8001

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8002

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8191

And all these bugs are the result of less than 2 days in total of use of sway, there is likely more that I haven't run into.

I also had an issue that affected xfce4 apps, but that issue ended up being a dbus-broker issue that only happens on wayland for some reason lol

40 years later, X Window System is far more relevant than anyone could guess by Samueru in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] Samueru@lemmy.ml 29 points 3 months ago

I have a feeling I will be on i3 for many many years given all the issues that I've had with sway.

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Anyone using wayland with $XDG_CACHE_HOME set? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Samueru@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I'm a i3 user that has been trying to migrate to sway.

I use it with these environment variables:

export XDG_DATA_HOME="$HOME/.local/share"
export XDG_STATE_HOME="$HOME/.local/var/state"
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.local/config"
export XDG_CACHE_HOME="$HOME/.local/var/cache"

Which gives me a clean home with only ~/.local for my dotfiles.

And issue that I've noticed that I haven't been able to fix is that every time that I start sway, hyprland and also the alpha of cosmic is that I get a new ~/.cache directory created in my home that contains a mesa_shader_cache directory.

Btw in the middle of writing this post I just ran into another bug, thunar for some reason decided to steal my key presses from the web browser, and even though I had the browser window focused as I have sway configured to change the border color of the window with focus, thunar was like nope wtf.

Thank you all for the help, ended up opening a bug report at sway: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8191

Do all DEs store the trash in the same place? by Samueru in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] Samueru@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There is usually misunderstanding behind this type of questions. for example "why isn't ilike on macos where it is ~/.Trash" and then one has to explain what XDG_DATA_HOME is and why it makes sense for trash to be there (And that it doesn't have to do with the desktop environment as well).

Or op just lost something important thinking that the trash was somewhere else.

Manjaro 24.0 Wynsdey released by Samueru in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] Samueru@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago

Interesting that manjaro got kernel 6.9 before arch.

Suggestions for filesystem. by Samueru in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] Samueru@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 months ago

Btrfs

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Vim Lands XDG Base Directory Specification Support (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Samueru@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Team-Kodi PPA officially retired, switches to Flatpak by Samueru in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] Samueru@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is really bad lmao.

flatpak is bloated mess. It basically installs a whole distro onto your existing distro.

That person is also lying very badly by saying that appimages bloat the system... they are actually even smaller than native packages due to their compression (like for example the entire libreoffice suite being 300 MiB while a native package is 600 MiB).

This is the space that flatpak takes to install firefox, just firefox: https://imgur.com/a/WRcRWIL

While this is 15 appimages, that includes libreoffice, kdenlive and two web browsers: https://imgur.com/a/YxjUYdt

EDIT: After being accused of misleading people by @BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world I decided to install firefox, libreoffice and kdenlive to flatpak, just those 3 applications, because I was told sure the deduplication was going to do miracles:

~~https://imgur.com/ExH84gV.png)~~

)~~6.2 GIB WTF** (15 appimages was 1.2 GiB once again kek, how can flatpak be this bad lmao)~~

EDIT2: This actually isn't the real size, I moved the flatpaks to their own partition and checked that instead:

Alright I just moved flatpak to its own partition and checked the size of the partition instead:

with firefox, kdenlive and libreoffice:

Disk (/var/lib/flatpak) 2.69 GiB / 19.12 GiB (14%) - ext4

That’s much better now. But still twice the size that 15 appimages took.

This is with now having firefox librewolf brave kdenlive and libreoffice:

Disk (/var/lib/flatpak) 3.40 GiB / 19.12 GiB (18%) - ext4

Still though, the appimages take less space. A by a large margin.

Flatpak is just a bloated mess, even with deduplication:

And this is what flatpak uses with just firefox installed:

Sorry for misleading people, turns out flatpak doesn't use near 3X as much as 15 AppImages when it just has firefox installed (which once again those 15 AppImages use 1.2 GIB). It just uses 1.35GiB when it has a single app kek.

On top of that flatpak is not terminal friendly, you have to start everything with flatpak run org.etc.etc (this also breaks scripts that expect the simple binary name in PATH).

Flatpak is also non XDG base dir compliant, and they said over and over that they wont fix that issue: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak.github.io/issues/191

This person is complaining that appimages suck because you have to put the desktop entry yourself, when apps like am or zap and appimagelauncher do it for you lmao. (And at least am also makes a symlink in PATH so it fully integrates the appimage unlike flatpak ever will)

EDIT: That github link is really bad, it even links this article for saying that sanboxing with appimages isn't secure:

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html#firejail

WHEN THAT VERY LINK SAYS THAT FLATPAK ISN'T GOOD EITHER, it even calls out the flatpak devs for it.

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - Reference Poster / Cheatsheet [Dark mode in details] by Samueru in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] Samueru@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

We need something like this for home, I hate that programs like steam and firefox place themselves directly into home instead of ~/.config and ~/.llocal.

I even move my personal themes to /usr/share/themes because not everything works with ~/.local/share/themes and needs a ~/themes directory instead.

What are your Microsoft Windows hidden gem apps by Samueru in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] Samueru@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

Foobar2000, it is the only windows app that I miss.

Deadbeef is close but it is missing several features, it can't even encode using more than 1 cpu core lol.

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Couldn't resist (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by Samueru@lemmy.ml to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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How to undo xrandr --setmonitor extended? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Samueru@lemmy.ml to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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I have this command on my i3wm configuration, which extends the 3 displays that I have into a single one for games.

bindsym $mod+Shift+k exec "xrandr --setmonitor extended auto DP-1,DP-2,DP-3"

The only issue that I have is, once I'm done, how do I revert back to having the displays individually? This has been driving me crazy.

Searching on internet all that I've managed to find is using xrandr -s 0, which actually just turns off my other displays.

And what is worse is that if I then manually turn the displays back on, THEY ARE STILL EXTENDED "xrandr -s 0" does not even reset that lol.

So far what I have to do to revert the changes is to log out of my current session.

SOLUTION: THE COMMAND IS: xrandr --delmonitor extended

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How can I turn this shell script into a single line command? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by Samueru@lemmy.ml to c/linux4noobs@lemmy.world

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Here is the script, which is a hack that I use with i3wm, I already converted most of it to a single line and it still works:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

is-leaf-node() { i3-msg -t get_tree | jq 'recurse(.nodes[]?, .floating_nodes[]?) | select(.type == "con" or .type == "floating_con") | select(.focused == true) | .nodes == []';}; parent-type() { i3-msg -t get_tree | jq -r 'recurse(.nodes[]?, .floating_nodes[]?) | select(.nodes[]?.focused == true) | .type' ;}; if [ "$(is-leaf-node)" == "true" ]; then i3-msg focus parent, focus parent; else i3-msg focus child, focus child; fi

Here is where I'm stuck:

The script needs the #!/usr/bin/env bash to work, it is the only script that I have that needs it.

Changing it to #!/usr/bin/env bash; does not work, it has have a second line for it to work.

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Theme issues when starting i3 session with startx instead of lightdm. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by Samueru@lemmy.ml to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

4 comments fedilink

I'm trying to migrate from lightdm to just using startx to start my i3 session.

First I had issues with kdeconnect working which were fixed by replacing exec i3 with exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session i3 in the xinitrc.

Now even though the apps works it is not following the system theme, I checked qt5ct and it is telling me that QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME is not set to qt5ct.

But I do have export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct on my ~/.profile it seems the file is not being read but I have no idea on how to fix it.

What is a fun gadget you have purchased that has added value to your life? by Samueru in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] Samueru@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

Koss KSC75, I've been using them for almost 10 years now.