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You people and your displays with more than 256 colors. Luxury.
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DavidS877 said:
You people and your displays with more than 256 colors. Luxury.
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I wouldn't mind if the XLibre guys did a fork of this that just fixed how browsers behave and to showcase XLibre-specific features not on legacy Xorg, IE Xnamespaces, whatever comes next.
 
Betonhaus said:
I might be wrong, but isn’t any app with the org.freedesktop.*.* nomenclature a flatpak?
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Not exclusively.

I have also since learned a little more about this issue. I am fairly certain now that the issue is due to systemd changing their defaults. If you look at how open_temporary_icon_file() works upstream it utilizes g_get_tmp_dir(), which the glib docs mentions uses TMPDIR and falls back to /tmp if it isnt set. So unless AccountsService sets its own TMPDIR (it doesnt), then this naturally lands in your shared /tmp which doesn't work anymore for reasons stated previously.

But there's no need to rewrite the entire thing to set a custom directory for this, after skimming the source I found that you can actually fix this by changing a single line of code; that being g_get_tmp_dir() with get_icondir() This is an internal helper thats already defined in accountsservice's util.c that retrieves the static icon directory variable. This base path is /var/lib/AccountsService/icons, which is a fixed directory exposed to accountsservices. So basically a patch can have it stage icons right there instead.

I wrote one to test this and can confirm it fixes the problem without the need for an override exposing your system's /tmp

Dread First said:
Yall niggas need to put more respect on Openbox's name. I reject your tiling modernity in favour of stacking tradition.
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Ran Openbox on Debian for a while with tint2 taskbar, jgmenu startmenu and PCmanFM for desktop icons. It was the most stable system I have ever used. Shoutouts to IceWM too:

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Sneed Chuckson said:
Why do people like tiling window managers? I don't really get it. I usually don't want to see applications that I'm not using, so why have them take up screen real estate? There are relatively few scenarios where I'd want a screen split between several applications.
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Use one only on my work computer. ultrawide, I simply want three quadrants.
 
Sneed Chuckson said:
Why do people like tiling window managers? I don't really get it. I usually don't want to see applications that I'm not using, so why have them take up screen real estate? There are relatively few scenarios where I'd want a screen split between several applications.
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It's really nice on ultrawide monitors, it can be a bit of an annoyance whenever you want to see a picture or something and you quickly open it only for it to screw up your entire workspace. I don't prefer one over the other, they're just different.
 
@Ferryman so i see in the exwm tutorial they want me to use their systemcrafters config
im kind of skipping around i got through some of the emacs from scratch and im moving onto exwm
it says to install fonts-cantarell and fira-code
i see fira-code in the guix repo and gnome presumably comes with cantarell but i want to have that in my config.scm separate from gnome so when i eventually uninstall it ill still have the font
i see the a cantarell font here but im not sure if its the same font
 
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@Ferryman so i see in the exwm tutorial they want me to use their systemcrafters config
im kind of skipping around i got through some of the emacs from scratch and im moving onto exwm
it says to install fonts-cantarell and fira-code
i see fira-code in the guix repo and gnome presumably comes with cantarell but i want to have that in my config.scm separate from gnome so when i eventually uninstall it ill still have the font
i see the a cantarell font here but im not sure if its the same font
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Ye you can just install them either through config.scm or home.scm and instead of installing an entirely new package it will just use the one already on your system thanks to GNOME, so when you eventually uninstall the GNOME suite your font doesn't get garbage collected. I don't use EXWM myself but the guides and streams from SystemCrafters are super legit.
 
Ferryman said:
Ye you can just install them either through config.scm or home.scm and instead of installing an entirely new package it will just use the one already on your system thanks to GNOME, so when you eventually uninstall the GNOME suite your font doesn't get garbage collected. I don't use EXWM myself but the guides and streams from SystemCrafters are super legit.
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speaking of i found their config is a bit outdated. package dired-single was removed from melpa so you have to git clone it into emacs.d/lisp and add this to your init.el

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/lisp/")

(require 'dired-single)

(autoload 'dired "dired" nil t)
(autoload 'dired-jump "dired" nil t)


i doubt anyone will read this on a mongolian basketweaving forum but there it is for future generations
 
Whoever it is that pushed a regressed fontmanager for Arch should go take a long leap off a bridge, KDE's now throwing fits and refusing to launch random programs over font setting strings having too many 0s meaning all my system fonts are currently stuck at semibold and I had to run font caching commands I last had to deal with three or four years ago or otherwise Dolphin for some stupid reason would straight up crash while also having a fit with ffmpeg thumbnails.
 
Enig said:
Whoever it is that pushed a regressed fontmanager for Arch should go take a long leap off a bridge, KDE's now throwing fits and refusing to launch random programs over font setting strings having too many 0s meaning all my system fonts are currently stuck at semibold and I had to run font caching commands I last had to deal with three or four years ago or otherwise Dolphin for some stupid reason would straight up crash while also having a fit with ffmpeg thumbnails.
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Yes, but just think about all the advantages from running a rolling-release distro that you would have missed out on by using software that has undergone a minimum of quality control. Why, Dolphin 26.04 fixed '514209 preventted flickrering when holding F5 key, by Ritchie Frodomar,' Don't we all just hold down the F5 key constantly? It's so frustrating when you hold the key to refresh things and the screen refreshes. Very important to avoid that. Why, it only made it into Debian testing a couple weeks after release, imagine waiting that long to be able to hold down the F5 key like a deranged spastic and not have your screen update each time the file manager reloaded files in a directory.
 
This seems like something from 10+ years ago mixed with the modern Linux zeitgeist.

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