[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I guess it switched desktop environments on you? If you're logged out there's supposed to be a way you can switch between desktop environments. It makes sense that the GNOME Settings app would only change wallpaper settings for GNOME, which I think is the main Ubuntu desktop environment. Are you sure you didn't upgrade to a version of Ubuntu that uses XFCE instead of GNOME?

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

The S3 "sleep state" of the computer. Which I guess is sleep. There sre other numbers for running and off I think.

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[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

Passkeys support (for desktop browsers)! And it's already in Flathub as of 3 hourss ago.

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You may also encounter some contradictory information out there too. For example, I said don't modify stuff outside of your user home directory, but some people will advise to modify stuff in /etc. Although I would never do this on a desktop distro (usually /etc is set up the way the distro maintainers want it, and anything you need to modify will have another more user-friendly way to modify it), especially one where you're mostly just trying to run desktop applications. It might make sense to modify stuff in /etc on a server installation since that's where a lot of configuration for different daemon processes (i.e. system services but also server applications) and even software libraries goes.

That's one of the good and bad things about linux. There is some information about all this stuff on the internet if you can find it, but it is also an information overload and you're basically learning about the internals of the operating system with all the associated complexity. That's one thing that threw me off about linux initially (I started getting into this stuff only a couple years ago), almost everything you learn about linux is basically an implementation detail. There are Windows equivalents to most things in linux, but when you use Windows as a desktop user you don't really think about them unless you're developing an application using Windows-specific APIs.

Windows has things like COM (linux equivalent is gobject and dbus), Services (linux equivalent is systemd services), Win32 API (this is a million things in Linux like glibc and a bunch of other system libraries, just check out how many files are in /usr/lib or /usr/lib64), Registry (dconf/gsettings) and so on.

There's also unfortunately no real clean break between "stuff anyone should know" and "stuff programmers and linux distro developers should know". A lot messier than something like iOS or Android where if you're a normal user you basically don't see the OS implementation or hints of it at all.

Trying to hide the implementation details is also why the GNOME Files app shows you some documents folders on the left but makes it more difficult to view the root directory or even the current file path. Which was very frustrating and confusing for me, coming from Windows.

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The most important thing to realize about the "file system" in Linux is it does a lot more than just persist your documents and app data. You shouldn't index your root directory because almost everything other than your home directory is some kind of Linux distro/application-specific directory that is often not a normal directory stored on a storage device. If you run the mount command with no arguments, every line of output is a separate file system, mounted at some specific directory of the current "mount namespace". Kinda confusing, but every process in Linux has a mount namespace that has a list of mounted file systems, often that namespace is shared between many/most processes, such as your terminal shell. Most of the file systems will be virtual i.e. not representing anything in storage. For example sysfs (always mounted at /sys), proc (always mounted at /proc), devtmpfs (mounted at /dev), etc. are all completely virtual and are ways for system services and applications to access state and devices exposed by the Linux kernel. They should never be indexed, treated as normal files, or modified by the user.

That's probably even more confusing, sorry. But the gist of it is, the only directory on your system you can really count on actually being stored on disk and always available to you is your home directory. Basically everything else exists as an implementation detail of the operating system and software applications.

If I were you, I'd stick to only indexing your user home directory. Indexing /usr or /tmp or /etc or whatever is like indexing C:\Windows and C:\Program Files, except even weirder since at least on Windows those are actually files stored on disk whereas in Linux they may not even be actual files (although most of them in /usr and /etc are actual files on disk).

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago

Does it currently only work for fullscreen games or something like that? This might be more about full operating/windowing system support. Like changing the setting in GNOME Settings, having VRR on the desktop for normal windows, etc.

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

They did this same thing with Mocrosoft Teams. Microsoft execs are some of the dumbest laziest people.

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

Maybe there's just wasn't any data written past the partition point yet?

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

That's part of the Dash to Dock extension I think. Go to the Dash to Dock settings in the Extensions app. There should be settings in one of the tabs for notification icons/badges or something similar.

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On Debian I think it would actually be sudo apt-get install python3-libevdev, the thing is called evdev, not ev.

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

a hit dog will holler.

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

It's neat that they made the poster look kinda like a book cover.

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