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just_anon , in question about app images

I like appimages personally.Find them useful when i have conflict of depencies in package manager.I don’t like snaps comparing to flatpak.Flatpak let u add custom repositories but not snaps ,canonical want to control from where u will install snap apps.

roon , in xeyes 1.3.0 released yesterday now has "multi-ocular support"
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Someone help me compile this from source on Ubuntu 👀

JWBananas ,
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Be not afraid

SuperIce , in xeyes 1.3.0 released yesterday now has "multi-ocular support"

Biblically accurate xeyes? I need a Wayland version asap.

mranderson17 OP ,

I recently switched to sway and I use xeyes to “look” for applications that are not running natively. The eyes only look at applications running in xwayland when you mouse over them since they can only track the cursor there.

fox ,

I find it hilarious that people found a use for xeyes after all these years

Whooping_Seal ,
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I always assumed xeyes was made for that exact purpose, somewhat funny that it was not designed for this.

fox ,

yeah no, the oldest commit I could find is from 2003 but if you look at the first lines in the file its at least as old as 1994, probably older than that even.

Raphael ,
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Mereo ,

Those big googly eyes a God a sent for that.

nemesis_aorta ,

I‘ve always thought that it was only made for this purpose🫣

mudamuda ,
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There is no god on Wayland.

code , in question about app images
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One of the big benefits is there are plugins for the app stores on various distros. So it makes it just simpler. For me there are flatpaks for what i use and easy to find.

Imho flatpaks have better integrations with menus etc

cow , in What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux?
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Maybe around 2nd grade with the piper computer which was a small rpi based laptop that you built. I switched fully in 5th grade when my windows install broke. A few months before that I switched on my laptop when my math teacher reminded me about it. I Have rarely used windows since but for a few months I used a Mac laptop. My linux laptop (Dell xps 13 7390) I had was hidpi, kind of slow and died quickly and the m1 Mac hardware was just plain better (this was close to when the 2020 m1 Mac came out so no asahilinux). I have used pop, manjaro, arch and alpine Linux. I have been using it for a few years now and never plan on going back to windows though I do occasionally use macOS for nonfree/closed source apps. When I first switched the only game I played was Minecraft which worked just as well as windows. Now almost all the games I play are free software like Minetest and super tux kart.

V6277 , in Does anyone actually like the default GNOME workflow?

I do, except I always enable minimize and maximize because it seems foolish to me to have those disabled by default. It's really smooth and whenever I have too many windows open, the overview makes it easy to find what I'm looking for. Initially I was against hiding the dock in the overview but I decided to give it a try one day and I actually ended up enjoying it not being visible.

What's funny is that I actually end up using the overview instead of alt-tab most of the time because it's faster for my workflow, and the default window switcher for apps with different windows open is BAD.

I've gotten so used to the workflow that I find myself dragging my mouse to the top left corner of the screen on Windows lol and painfully wait the extra second it takes to open the Windows overview when swiping up with three fingers on a trackpad.

abraham_linksys , (edited ) in Oracle, SUSE Tussle with Red Hat over the Business of Open Source

“Never thought I’d find myself fighting alongside fucking Oracle”

“How about fighting alongside a friend?”

…n-no “Fucking Oracle” is fine let’s not get ahead of ourselves

Raphael , in Why is snaps hated
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Hmmm, can we just sticky a “snaps are bad” thread? I like to see activity but this same question keeps getting asked.

Also sticky Red Hat’s “response”, it should deter most of the neolibs.

abraham_linksys , in Delete Gnome Shell

Why do you want to disable it? Unless it’s causing conflicts your easiest option by far is to simply disable all extensions and pretend it doesn’t exist

Emma OP ,

I just wanted to save a bit of space, cause I thought by having two DE’s on my system would use up space. I guess if it would break my system I would leave as is. Do you know how I could make Fedora boot right into KDE instead of Gnome’s Login manager? I forgot the directory…

abraham_linksys ,

I don’t really distro hop much (you need a rolling release distro and a stable distro, never needed more) but if you’re asking I’ll assume you’re a Linux newb so really I would recommend doing something less custom. If you want Fedora and KDE, install the Fedora ISO that comes with KDE and be done.

I won’t say it’s incredibly complex to run multiple desktop environments, but it’s definitely more of a pain and can cause weird issues (fucking NetworkManager) Better to stick to the “happy path” and make your machine as standard as possible so it’s more compatible with everything, especially if you’re new to Linux

Agility0971 ,
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Install sddm, disable gdm, reboot.

whiny9130 , in What is you backup tool of choice?

If only restic deduplicated… But other than that it does okay.

Hopscotch ,
gnuplusmatt , in What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux?

I picked up RedHat 6.0 (hedwig) on the front of a Linux magazine in 2000. Took a few days to get X working on my Pentium3 at the time. In the end the thing that sent me back to Windows was an inability to get my modem running and thus no internet.

When I was at university in 2004 doing a network administration course, our lecturer was very proud of the livecd he’d created with an environment for the course. It was based on Fedora core 2. It was fascinating. Tried to install fc on my laptop at the time but struggled with ndis wrapper to get WiFi running.

Would try again out my early career (2006), went out to Ubuntu and debian. Gamed in early dx7/8 days in wine and Cedega. Would run home servers and mythtv on Linux over the years.

When the steam client beta came out I tried again in earnest to move to Linux full time and was ultimately successful, coming back to Fedora KDE 19 and staying there until moving to Fedora Kinoite last year.

Don’t use Windows really except when I have to with building the SOE and a few windows servers at work. I am involved with azure and azureAD at work, so to me Microsoft is mostly a website and a powershell prompt.

Raphael , in This Week in GNOME #104 Full Text Search
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Dates were invented by calendar companies to sell more calendars.

As a firm opposer of capitalism, our dear friend is posting news from a week ago.

igalmarino OP ,
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You are right, sorry.

Info updated

Raphael , in Open To All – Blog.CentOS.org
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Guys, you’re all forgetting CentOS was bought by Red Hat, aren’t you.

Turtle , in What developments in the Linux world are you looking forward to the most?
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I am looking forward to Wayland being a problem free experience. Well, rather, I don’t care if it’s X11 or Wayland, I don’t want have to think about the underlying system.

bluegandalf , (edited )

Also, software becoming distributable in a uniform way. Though here, I strongly would advocate for flatpak.

zaemz , in Delete Gnome Shell
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There are configuration files for dnf in /etc/dnf/protected.d that might have gnome-shell listed. Check that directory for a file called gnome-shell.conf. If there is, you can simply rm it and try removing gnome-shell again.

Be aware that there might be packages you have installed that depend on gnome-shell, so be sure to double check the list of dependent packages that will also be removed.

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