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Re: Linux Desktop Setup

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Post by godshatter »

KozmoNau7 wrote: post #77
Vinnl wrote: post #29

Everyone here scoring serious brownie points with their advanced setups. And here I am, having used Linux for my personal setup for 15 years, using pre-installed Ubuntu on a practically default GNOME desktop. It's wonderful that I can do that and be satisfied with that, without significantly hampering the possibility of advanced setups like the ones here. Despite all the systemd's, PulseAudio's and whatnot's, the cus…

I've used Linux as my primary system since 2001 (WinXP wouldn't run on my PC at the time), with a wide variety of distros from Mandrake over Debian, Arch, Gentoo and a bunch of others. Usually going all out on customization and tweaking. These days, I run an almost bone-stock KDE Neon (which is based on Ubuntu LTS), with a couple of PPAs added to get the latest versions of a couple of the applications I use the most,…

Same for me. The one key feature (that everything else probably can be configured to do if it doesn't do it now out of the box) that I mold my workflow around is the ability to roll the mouse wheel on the background in KDE and switch virtual desktops that way. For command-line (which I'm in all the time), I use yakuake which slides a terminal window down from the top of the screen like Quake used to do with it's console. This simple feature makes it easy for me to switch between a gui-oriented way of thinking and handling the next coding change in a terminal. You can peel off another shell in yakuake and surf between them. Silly, I know, but for me it works great.

Re: Linux Desktop Setup

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Post by pfranz »

jccalhoun wrote: post #115

Every time I have to use the slow windows computers at the college I teach at I wish they would put a lightweight linux on them. I wouldn't go full command line but all I'm doing is a browser and word processing. A chromeos-like experience would be fine. Of course what really kills my work computer is the anti-virus. I f I could just disable that then the computer would be a lot more usable.

I was super happy when about 10 years ago I went to the local public library near my parent's house and they had installed Linux onto their card-catalog workstations. I hope it worked out for them. I know it was more likely to perform better than another OS on the same hardware.

Re: Linux Desktop Setup

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Post by grawprog »

Vinnl wrote: post #29

Everyone here scoring serious brownie points with their advanced setups. And here I am, having used Linux for my personal setup for 15 years, using pre-installed Ubuntu on a practically default GNOME desktop. It's wonderful that I can do that and be satisfied with that, without significantly hampering the possibility of advanced setups like the ones here. Despite all the systemd's, PulseAudio's and whatnot's, the cus…

I'm pretty much you except KDE instead of GNOME.

Re: Linux Desktop Setup

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Post by antongribok »

martinsb wrote: post #195
antongribok wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm on Wayland via Fedora, and we use Zoom for company video conferencing. About 2 months ago they released a new version that started supporting screen sharing on Wayland. Works perfectly. Edited for grammar and to add this: My point being is that it's slowly but surely getting better and better.

Which version are you using right now? I have the latest one and it does not allow me to share anything else than a white canvas. Do you launch zoom somehow differently? For me it behaves like a regular XWayland app

zoom-2.7.162522.0121-1.x86_64 which seems to be their latest.

With the previous version I had the same thing, only allowed me to share white canvas.

Here's the process hierarchy:

  \_ gdm-session-worker [pam/gdm-password]
      \_ /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session gnome-session
          \_ /usr/libexec/gnome-session-binary
              \_ /usr/bin/gnome-shell
                  \_ /usr/bin/zoom
                      \_ sh -c export SSB_HOME=/home/me/.zoom; export QSG_INFO=1; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/zoom; /opt/zoom/zoom ""
                          \_ /opt/zoom/zoom
Besides installing the new RPM, I haven't done anything differently.

Re: Linux Desktop Setup

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Post by ayoisaiah »

_e wrote: post #89

The author mentions the loss of vim-like web browser controls when the Pentadactyl extension didn't convert over to the webextensions api. You get the vim functionality back with the following extensions: Firefox -- Vim Vixen ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vim-vixen/ ) Chrome -- cVim ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cvim/ihlenndgcmojh... )

I would also like to mention Surfing Keys which is what I use in Chrome and Firefox: https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys

Re: Linux Desktop Setup

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Post by antongribok »

wasted_intel wrote: post #110
xyproto wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Until you switch to sway, which is basically i3, but for Wayland. Good bye X11!

I'd love to switch, but we use Zoom at work and screen sharing in Wayland was unsupported, last I checked.

Screen sharing works on zoom-2.7.162522.0121-1.x86_64 which seems to be their latest.

(see my other comments here)

Re: Linux Desktop Setup

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Post by antongribok »

0x38B wrote: post #31

Off topic, but I really enjoyed his post about commuting to work by bike[1]. I was in Krakow, Poland, and getting around by bike was a joy. Unfortunately, here in Ukraine drivers are very aggressive and the infrastructure for biking is just not in place. 1: https://hookrace.net/blog/cycling-to-work/

The video of the small airfield on that page is awesome!

Reminds me of Gibraltar Airport: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58jaCJ5i9hU

Re: Linux Desktop Setup

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Post by Vinnl »

Torwald wrote: post #180
Vinnl wrote: post #29

Everyone here scoring serious brownie points with their advanced setups. And here I am, having used Linux for my personal setup for 15 years, using pre-installed Ubuntu on a practically default GNOME desktop. It's wonderful that I can do that and be satisfied with that, without significantly hampering the possibility of advanced setups like the ones here. Despite all the systemd's, PulseAudio's and whatnot's, the cus…

> …and we can sometimes fail to appreciate that. I've never met a Linux user who failed to appreciate that.

Well, for instance, there's this meme that GNOME only removes stuff, and people complaining that "GNOME developers don't let you do anything". To me, my knee-jerk response to that is always: this is Linux! Use something else if you want more customisability, because you can!

Re: Linux Desktop Setup

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Post by gdfasfklshg4 »

michaelmrose wrote: post #182
karussell wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On Gnome I can use "Super key" + left key if I need multiple aligned windows on my screen. Can you still convince me to try i3 :) ?

Workspaces are per monitor so its easy to switch all screens at once or just one at a time. Further i3 has keybinding modes which are sets of keybindings that are activated together. These work like user definable vim modes. A given binding can do one or more operations, and optionally exit the mode. A brief example. Everything not in a mode is in the default mode. A command mode wherein every key is either an action…

> Workspaces are per monitor so its easy to switch all screens at once or just one at a time.

This alone keeps me using i3.

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