Just wondering since I know a lot of people quietly use a screen-area-select -> tesseract OCR -> clipboard shortcut.
- I separate subjects of interest into different Firefox windows, in different workspaces – so I have an extension title them and a startup script parse text to ask the compositor to put them in the correct workspace (lets me restart more conveniently).
- I have automatically-set different-orientation wallpapers for using my 2-in-1 depending on whether I use it in portrait or landscape (kind of just for looks, but I don’t think if anyone else adds a wallpaper change to their screen rotation keybind).
I’m using XFCE with Compiz, and since I have two monitors I have a 3D octagon instead of a 3D cube desktop.
My applications menu icon (or the “start” menu for the philistines) is a 🐢.
I use this app (webapps is the name I think) to make apps for YouTube, Mubi and TorrentLeech and I have then pinned on the task bar and use them as apps instead of webpages. This is in my hometheater pc
I use KDE’s defaults.
That’s sick man! Get some help!
Does stuff I wrote myself count?
Apache server that has a bunch of webpages that are all configured by simple JSON files and loaded by PHP. The pages have buttons on them which when pressed enter macros. So I push “Deploy Landing Gear” and Shift+alt+F8 or some obscure as fuck combination no one would ever use normally gets pressed and the game can be set to use that keybind. Most of it is for simple immediate key presses but also made a few for macros as well.
The HTML/PHP that runs the show is a grand total of 2018 bytes, including comments. Plus a fairly bloated 2444 byte CSS file that includes some button colour options that I never use now because I decided they look ugly. Should update some of the background images though, my sheet steel Faulcon DeLacy logo looks a bit basic.
Coming from Windows, I set up KDE’s Spectacle to open with Super + Shift + S in Area Select Mode and save and copy to clipboard on click release
Maybe not as unique but kinda neat I think
Not unique, but we are now kindred (I did the same <:)
Maybe a bit plain since I’m only at mediocre level in my Linux journey, but I use my favorite fonts for Kitty. Recursive Mono Linear and then for italics and comments in neovim I use Recursive Mono Casual Italic.
Recursive Linear is so tidy and neat, with just the lightest touch of personality. And Casual keeps that style but tweaks it just ever so slightly to a more comic. And they have sans versions of both as well for everything else.
I also made my own Starship prompt to match my desktop. It runs an easily reconfigurable color palette and uses color coded chevrons to denote different git statuses.
I have Syncthing set up to copy save data between my pc and steam deck, but not just for emulator stuff: its got my entire modded minecraft directory and my balatro modloader nn there too.
Syncthing is great and incredibly easy to use. I have mine set to sync my Obsidian notes so I don’t have to pay for the official service.
I have tried multiple different open source note apps that offer free local sync, but I can’t find anything I like. It frustrates me because I love open source.
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wait how does your clipboard shortcut work op? that sounds nifty!
I think I mentioned it but here it is again in case the comment didnt federate
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# snippet based on end4 dotfiles -- FIXME edge case where a # preexisting tmp.png might be overwritten # English bind = Super+Shift,T,exec,grim -g "$(slurp $SLURP_ARGS)" "tmp.png" && tesseract -l eng "tmp.png" - | wl-copy && rm "tmp.png" # Korean bind = Super+Shift,K,exec,grim -g "$(slurp $SLURP_ARGS)" "tmp.png" && tesseract -l kor "tmp.png" - | wl-copy && rm "tmp.png" # Japanese bind = Super+Shift,J,exec,grim -g "$(slurp $SLURP_ARGS)" "tmp.png" && tesseract -l jpn "tmp.png" - | wl-copy && rm "tmp.png"Pipe grim and slurp (selects part of the Wayland screen then copies) into a tmp.png, tesseract it into the clipboard, then delete the tmp.png. Has like 1 sec of lag tho :]
why do you even need a temporary file?
$ slurp | grim -g - - | tesseract stdin stdout -l eng+kor+jpn | wl-copy -t 'text/plain'
In all my servers I still have a cron->make routine running. It’s a hold-over from 20 years ago and the state of IaC back then, and it’s made its way onto every server I manage because it is simple and effective.
And it still does its job. 8 major RHEL releases later, and the thing it needs to do, it does.
Lennart would build 3 new daemons and link them all into dbus, I’m sure.
the ability to use two Bluetooth dongles simultaneously, each for one device. try that on Microsoft’s clown os and see how pressing the gamepad triggers makes the bluetooth headphones chop up the sound 😂
I suspect my habit of having an
alias userctl="systemctl --user"is slightly unusual, as is running Firefox, Steam, and some other graphical programs as systemd units is somewhat unusual (e.g.mod4-enterrunssystemd-run --user alacritty)But what I’m actually pretty sure is unique is my keyboard layout. I taught myself dvorak a summer some decades ago, but the norwegian dvorak layout has some annoyances, so I’ve made some tweaks. Used to be a
Xmodmapfile, but with the switch to wayland I turned it into a file in/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/.Part of what I did to teach myself dvorak and touch-typing at the same time was randomize the placement of the keycaps too. It has a side effect of being a kind of security by obscurity layer: I type quickly and confidently, but others who want to use my machines have an “uhh …” reaction.
I have been using the same
userctlalias.I didn’t know about the
systemd-runcommand. Do you use it to save the command log? I created a script conveniently namedxwhich opens a file in a default app, in the background, so I can still use the terminal. But then I had the problem with handling logs and this sounds like a perfect solution. Gonna try it today.As for the alias, I wanted to create a pacman-like interface for systemctl, so the commands would be much shorter, but never finished it. For example,
sctl -Eun unitwould be equal tosysyemctl enable --user --now unitThe logs are handled, but I mostly use it for command separation and control, including killing unruly child processes.
I’m one of at most a handful people in the world with a full disk encrypted Steam Deck and unlocking using the touchscreen.
Until someone implements https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/464 in Bazzite.
I created my own openSUSE splash screen for KDE because I felt all the existing ones were a bit amateur and I wanted something professional looking. I haven’t published it because I can’t be bothered creating an account. It only took about 15 minutes because I chopped up another one which had clearly chopped up another one.
I boot on a custom EFI app to control my dualboot (instead of systemd-boot or grub) that asks a service on my proxmox server which OS I’m supposed to boot.
Overkill, but it allows me to control my dual-boot without a keyboard in my computer (because it’s a Bluetooth keyboard so I can’t really use it in grub anyway)
A custom EFI app? Is that like a handrolled Unified Kernel Image with some Proxmox-specific addons in it? How’d you make it?
No, it’s a EFI app I developed in Rust that does a query over multicast UDP and uses the result to select which EFI app (Windows bootloaded (yeah I know…) Or systemd-boot to start Arch)
There’s nothing related to proxmox itself, it’s just there that I host my LXC with the service that responds to the quey.
That’s so cool! I just started studying uefi-rs yesterday but haven’t been able to think of good use cases. Thanks for sharing!
Wow, thanks! It was really fun to build
