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wew lad said:
I'm trying it now, there is a slight delay but it's definitely not a second, let alone two. It is there though, I know I've used X11 DEs in the past where terminal emulators and other simple programs launched instantly.
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is your system under load or not? if its not under load then blame wayland or other shit, but if you are nearing 98 percent or such, it might lag a bit. ive had bullshit issues where if have 40 firefox tabs open and copy and paste sometimes likes to fail.
 
acid_ra1n said:
Well I did guix pull and added yt-dlp to my packages and it pulled 25 for some reason
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yt-dlp 25? That's really weird. Have you done "guix pull" recently or after installing your system? It updates all package definitions from all of your channels. Also, I'm not 100% sure what ships with the default Guix installation, but you might want to add the new Codeberg repo into your channels if they haven't yet made it the default. Should look like:
Code: 
(channel
  (name 'guix)
  (url "https://codeberg.org/guix/guix")
  (branch "master")
  (introduction
    (make-channel-introduction
      "9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddccfea34bad"
      (openpgp-fingerprint
       "BBB0 2DDF 2CEA F6A8 0D1D  E643 A2A0 6DF2 A33A 54FA"))))
If that's not it then I'm not really sure why it would pull 25. My guix search shows it as being up to date
Code: 
name: yt-dlp
version: 2026.03.17
outputs:
+ out: everything
systems: x86_64-linux
dependencies: ffmpeg@8.0 nss-certs-for-test@3.101.4 pandoc@2.19.2 python-brotli@1.0.9 python-certifi@2025.06.15 python-hatchling@1.27.0 python-mutagen@1.47.0
+ python-pycryptodomex@3.23.0 python-pytest@9.0.2 python-requests@2.32.5 python-urllib3@2.5.0 python-websockets@13.1 zip@3.0
location: gnu/packages/video.scm:3300:2
homepage: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
license: Public Domain
synopsis: Download videos from YouTube.com and other sites 
description: yt-dlp is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and many more sites.  It is a fork of youtube-dl with a focus on adding new
+ features while keeping up-to-date with the original project.
relevance: 32
 
Ferryman said:
yt-dlp 25? That's really weird. Have you done "guix pull" recently or after installing your system? It updates all package definitions from all of your channels. Also, I'm not 100% sure what ships with the default Guix installation, but you might want to add the new Codeberg repo into your channels if they haven't yet made it the default. Should look like:
Code: 
(channel
  (name 'guix)
  (url "https://codeberg.org/guix/guix")
  (branch "master")
  (introduction
    (make-channel-introduction
      "9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddccfea34bad"
      (openpgp-fingerprint
       "BBB0 2DDF 2CEA F6A8 0D1D  E643 A2A0 6DF2 A33A 54FA"))))
If that's not it then I'm not really sure why it would pull 25. My guix search shows it as being up to date
Code: 
name: yt-dlp
version: 2026.03.17
outputs:
+ out: everything
systems: x86_64-linux
dependencies: ffmpeg@8.0 nss-certs-for-test@3.101.4 pandoc@2.19.2 python-brotli@1.0.9 python-certifi@2025.06.15 python-hatchling@1.27.0 python-mutagen@1.47.0
+ python-pycryptodomex@3.23.0 python-pytest@9.0.2 python-requests@2.32.5 python-urllib3@2.5.0 python-websockets@13.1 zip@3.0
location: gnu/packages/video.scm:3300:2
homepage: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
license: Public Domain
synopsis: Download videos from YouTube.com and other sites
description: yt-dlp is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and many more sites.  It is a fork of youtube-dl with a focus on adding new
+ features while keeping up-to-date with the original project.
relevance: 32
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yeah i just guix pulled today did a guix search its trying to get 25.09.23
i did notice when i did guix system describe im running a commit from 9 months ago but theres a bug in stable right now thats having people downgrade to this commit with --allow-downgrades or else you cant update at all
 
Dante Alighieri said:
In what way? I've been using two clients no problem. I use this for window switching like Eve-O Preview.

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How did you set up hotkeys? I've tried to use this one before, and while the previews work, and clicking them works, I can't get hotkeys to work consistently. Like it might work every once in a while, but then not again for a very long time. Both setting specific clients to a specific key, and trying to use a key like tab to switch to the next client over.
Screenshot_20260602_124628.png
 
Susanna said:
How did you set up hotkeys? I've tried to use this one before, and while the previews work, and clicking them works, I can't get hotkeys to work consistently. Like it might work every once in a while, but then not again for a very long time. Both setting specific clients to a specific key, and trying to use a key like tab to switch to the next client over.
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I'm using evdev on x11. You also have to hit the Save button frequently.
 
Akerman said:
Something you may have wondered about when using certain software on Linux is why it refuses to use your preferred file manager when you save and load. For Audacity 3 (+ prior versions) the reason is that its built in a way that defaults any file management dialog on that software to a fugly GTK based one regardless of what you have it set as the default. This is more noticeable if you use a non-GTK FM in a Qt based environment with Dolphin like I do, but it is still a problem on GNOME (or any other GTK based DE)

The reason why is because even though this functionless fallback might look like the FM that got lobotomized due to "use case?", it is not. As such it doesn't follow certain user expectations for Nautilus like plugins or w/e. But this isn't an unsolved problem, GTK3 has had a method to respect native file choosers with GtkFileChooserNative for a very long time now. In fact its existed in GTK3 since 3.20 which was released 10 fucking years ago. So I decided to just patch this feature into the source of Audacity myself:

View attachment 9087018

Originally I was waiting for Tentacruel & Co to finish their rewrite of Audacity 3 from wxWidgets/GTK3 to Qt which will most likely fix this by default, but its taking forever and also might be shite. Because of that I also suspect if I commit this it will probably be received like any new commits to X11; that is sent straight to the trash with "use new thing instead". - For anyone who want this its probably best to just use the fork of Audacity 3 which I think(?) already does this. The last time I tried it doe there were some major stability regressions compared to default Audacity 3. But YMMV.
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shouldn't this be something you can set as a system setting instead of per-application? tired of the gtk browser
 
Betonhaus said:
The only time I've ever had Cinnamon crash was when I was trying to play an old pinball game on steam that had a messed up emulator. I think it was running a really old version of wine that was wrapped up and shipped as a Linux game so it was running under the Linux backwards compatibility tool
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I've had a bunch of odd issues with it. It isn't anything that is a showstopper, but the annoyances build up over time.
 
Dread First said:
JFYI: ArchWiki article, and this thing was such a friggin lifesaver. The rundown is "install libbluray, libaacs, and libbdplus, download that KEYDB.cfg file and place it in the proper directory, plug in your BD drive, and be blown away at how Evangelion 1.11's Blu-ray disc plays flawlessly. Totem was my video player of choice for years, but GNOME Video deprecated disc playback (insert Emmanuele_Bassi_UHMUSECASE_Soyjak.jpg here). Celluloid worked, but I ultimately settled on VLC because it still plays discs with menus well enough. I can't speak about proper 4K UHD discs, but basic bitch 1080p blu-rays should be the least of your worries. Just don't be a fucking retard like me and key in pacman -Syu libaacs libbdplus libbluray on your Fedora console.
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I got around to trying this, I had to hunt for an up to date KEYDB.cfg file but I have 1080p Blurays working swimmingly. It looks like for getting UHD playback on my LG WH14NS40, I will need to do some bootleg firmware flashing again.

EDIT:
After much LLM-whispering and fucking around with very poorly documented software, here is my advice: anyone seeking to flash a virgin Bluray drive to make it into a LibreDrive with MakeMKV on Linux should use the old 1.17.7 version which can be found here, and just compile the libraries (oss) and binary (bin) from source. Do not bother with the flatpak, and while MakeMKV 1.18.3 works with already flashed drives, performing it for the first time on Linux does not work due to a regression in versions after 1.17.7. I trust you, the reader, to look up the correct firmware and compatibility with your respective Bluray drives, but I also believe anyone comfortable with a little tinkering can do this without trying to pay $200 to some Southeast Asians trying to hock pre-flashed drives or worse, 'remote flashing' services.

EDIT 2:
I grabbed Total Recall as my test disc, and it was very easy to just turn testing the drive into watching Total Recall.
 
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wew lad said:
EDIT:
After much LLM-whispering and fucking around with very poorly documented software, here is my advice: anyone seeking to flash a virgin Bluray drive to make it into a LibreDrive with MakeMKV on
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I have a libre drive compatible drive but after trying to figure out how the fuck to do it I gave up and need to ask someone how
 
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