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Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by cygn »

nickjj wrote: post #52
01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sounds like exactly what I've wanted - Sort of like those blackboards / whiteboards that you can roll around. What's your favorite? Right now I'm on xfce and KDE as my daily drivers but I'll shop around next time I wanna shake things up

> Sort of like those blackboards / whiteboards that you can roll around. Yes exactly. Since I was a kid, I always envisioned a future world where all of my walls were a monitor and I could just move across them as needed to focus on things. A scrolling manager isn't quite that but it's in the right direction. I don't like switching between full screen windows because mentally it's so much easier (IMO) to keep things…

The hyprscroller author made a fork of sway called scroll: https://github.com/dawsers/scroll

I quite like it!

Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by abhinavk »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #18
siliconc0w wrote: post #8

I might be in the minority but I actually like overlapping windows - often the entire window is not necessary to get the data I am interested in. Right now I'm running tests in another window and I have a sliver of that window visible while the majority of the screen real-estate gets used for the browser in primary window.

What I really want, but don't have the technical skill to write unfortunately:), is a window manager or compositor that lets me set the size of a window and the viewport into that window independently. That is, formalize the approach that yes this window is rendering as if it was taking up half the screen but I only need to actually see this tiny slice of it, so just give me a window that shows that piece

Do you mean something like this?

https://github.com/dawsers/scroll?tab=readme-ov-file#content...

Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by [deleted] »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #77
porridgeraisin wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This should be possible on X11 using standard extensions. XCompositeRedirectWindow to render your window to a virtual buffer, get pixmap, bind pixmap to new croppedWindow as a GL texture, here apply a crop transform. Then optionally unmap original window. Finally, we have to remap input events. This is trivial browser-style event interception, XSelectInput, change x,y, XSendEvent. I can try to make it work sometime t…

> On the other hand, the Great Wayland Security Theater probably doesn't admit such riff-raff. I'm pretty sure it's doable, but it probably does need to be baked into the compositor. But since there are compositors that can do full immersive 3D environments with windows moving around in them, I can't believe that there's any manipulation of the contents of a window that you can't do in Wayland. Of course, being able…

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Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by lucideer »

quesera wrote: post #56
lucideer wrote: post #28

Minor website feedback: Setting the `download` property on all of your screenshot image anchors is a very odd choice: not only does it make it very difficult to view the images quickly & easily in-browser, it also clogs up my Downloads directory with things I don't intend to keep. Not only that, but it goes beyond client-side measure: someone has gone to the extra trouble of also setting `content-disposition: attachm…

I suspect it's a Hey-wide thing. But if you trim off the `?disposition=attachment` from the URL, it loads in the browser. At least for me in Firefox.

Ah... that makes sense. I hadn't heard of Hey before but it appears Hey World is a pretty newly added feature to a platform primarily built for & around email - attachments do make some deal of sense in that context, though I'd imagine I might still like to browse image attachments in my email client from time to time rather than stash them in downloads.

Might just be teething issues for a new product though.

Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by pss314 »

marstall wrote: post #67

For mac users interested in tiling (ish) managers, but not willing to make the leap DHH made, I highly recommend the Magnet app, which gets me most of the goodness he is demoing in the first part here ... (and maybe a little more?)

Free version of Rectangle is very good https://rectangleapp.com/

Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by femiagbabiaka »

umbra07 wrote: post #66
yewenjie wrote: post #4

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Nix is not competition. Nix is not attracting thousands and thousands of new, young Linux users and potential future contributors like Arch+Hyprland are.

I don’t know if either are attracting thousands, but both are attracting a lot, to be sure.

Re: Omarchy Is Out

#88

Post by wing-_-nuts »

porridgeraisin wrote: post #25
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I really want, but don't have the technical skill to write unfortunately:), is a window manager or compositor that lets me set the size of a window and the viewport into that window independently. That is, formalize the approach that yes this window is rendering as if it was taking up half the screen but I only need to actually see this tiny slice of it, so just give me a window that shows that piece

This should be possible on X11 using standard extensions. XCompositeRedirectWindow to render your window to a virtual buffer, get pixmap, bind pixmap to new croppedWindow as a GL texture, here apply a crop transform. Then optionally unmap original window. Finally, we have to remap input events. This is trivial browser-style event interception, XSelectInput, change x,y, XSendEvent. I can try to make it work sometime t…

>On the other hand, the Great Wayland Security Theater probably doesn't admit such riff-raff.

I really tried switching over to sway / wayland a couple years back, but there were just so. many. things. which, despite wayland being 'the future' and 'ready for prime time' among proponents just bugged the heck out of me.

Why is it an act of congress to setup screen sharing / recording. Like sure it works for this one fork of OBS but if I'm trying to set up a telehealth session with my doctor all of a sudden I can't share my screen? Or global hotkeys don't work? I can't easily redshift my monitor at night? Pulse audio is jank for some unknown reason (Idk if this was even related)

It was just death by a thousand cuts. When it really came down to it, wayland added nothing but headaches to my life without any discernible benefit. None of it's 'selling points' meant anything to me.

Then suddenly I remembered I'm no longer the early adopter / OSS enthusiast I was in my youth. I'm now a grumpy grey beard who just wants things to work. I installed pop 22 with gnome on xorg and went on with my life. I think it's pretty telling that cosmic was released in alpha this time last year and it's still there today. While I realize that writing a DE is a big undertaking, they were basically trying for a fresh rewrite of gnome's UI in rust under wayland. No way it would have taken this long if they were targeting x.

Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by wpm »

ramblerman wrote: post #64
anaisbetts wrote: post #13

I want to love Omarchy but replacing the boot splash screen with its logo is rough, I wish there was a clear way to disable that

The whole point of omarchy is to give you great defaults, and then it being linux everything is completely customizable. Which with ChatGpt/Grok is trivial these days for even a non linux native.

Calling many of Omarchys defaults great is a stretch.

Re: Omarchy Is Out

#90

Post by wpm »

ximm wrote: post #35

Last time I checked hyprland was pretty much despised in the wider linux developer community. See for example https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html . Has anything about that changed?

Nah it's just the people who don't like them are really loud.
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