Tag: Linux

“Sway” too long

Spent way too long last night trying to get #Sway set up on my #PineTab2 because:

1. The Arch dependencies for some of the optional components were broken (wmenu requires dmenu, but the package didn’t say so).
2. The Arch documentation for Sway is out of date and sends you to AUR for just about everything.
3. The documents I found didn’t make it clear that key bindings are the only way to launch things unless you explicitly add some other kind of launcher that’s not in the sample config. Or what to expect when changing the menu config. Or what the menus are supposed to look like.
4. Because of the broken dependencies, even when I tried to use the keybinds, they failed silently. For a while I wasn’t even sure it was reading my config file.

And now I’m like…why did I go to all that trouble? All I wanted was to make sure I had all the prerequisites to run a basic Wayland session on something lighter than Plasma. I’m just going to switch back to LXQt.

I miss the days when #Linux seemed to actually run deterministically. When I could see what was breaking easily and fix it easily.

I don’t miss all the extra fiddling and trial and error just to get something functional.

Sure, I like tinkering. When I want to. I don’t like to have to.

Switching to Wayland with an NVidia GPU

Latest attempt to switch my desktop to Wayland with an NVidia GPU: So far, so good!

Gnome is just fine. Most of the desktop apps I’ve tried so far are fine. Minecraft runs well. I’ve spot-checked several Steam games and they’re working well.

The biggest issues I’ve found so far:

  • Some games trip the “not responding” checks during things like level loading.
  • Steam client is a bit laggy and wonky. (Apparently it doesn’t have direct Wayland support yet, and something’s not quiiite there with running it under XWayland.)

Notes to include in tech tips write-up:

– commenting the line in gdm.conf didn’t help

– Had to do this:

How to Enable Wayland for Hybrid NVIDIA Graphics on Fedora Linux 38 Workstation

“`
sudo cp -a /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/

sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules
“`

And comment out the TEST and IMPORT lines in the “Check if suspend/resume services necessary for working wayland support is available”

Because of this:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2128910

Apparently the tests are to work around a Wayland issue where manually-installed NVidia drivers need additional configuration for suspend/resume to work, but RPMFusion’s packages set up the needed config. Commenting them out should allow GDM to start a Wayland session.

Suspend and resume has worked at least once!

Also:

LXQt Wayland support project(for the pinetab): https://github.com/orgs/lxqt/projects/4/views/2

Anyone know how to change the scroll wheel speed on Gnome Web or other Chromium browsers?

Anyone know how to change the scroll wheel speed on Gnome Web or other Chromium browsers?

I really like the way the Mastodon web UI works as a PWA installed to the desktop, but I’m really frustrated by the much slower scrolling compared to Firefox (which, annoyingly, won’t install a PWA)

#chromium #pwa #gnome #linux

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Aaaargh! I was expecting trouble putting the AMD card in the dual boot system, but …

Aaaargh! I was expecting trouble putting the AMD card in the dual boot system, but I figured it would install fine on Windows and I’d have trouble on Linux, not the other way around

On Wandering.shop

It just worked in Linux. But while Windows was able to find a driver eventually, I’ve been unable to update the driver or install the AMD software without the machine freezing. Even in safe mode.

On Wandering.shop

Well, games I’ve tried so far seem to work ok without the extra software, so I’ll just stick with that for now

On Wandering.shop

Wow. One of several popular SSL libraries used in Linux and a lot of…

What is the GnuTLS Bug and How to Protect Your Linux System From It

Wow. One of several popular SSL libraries used in Linux and a lot of open-source software turns out to have had a similar cert validation bug to Apple's “goto fail” issue. OpenSSL and NSS were not affected, so Firefox was safe, but Chrome would have been vulnerable. Red Hat discovered the bug in an internal security review. Patches and updates are already available.

On Facebook

Oh, come on. How many times do we have to kill this lawsuit? SCO…

SCO vs. IBM Trial Back On Again

Oh, come on. How many times do we have to kill this lawsuit? SCO has had a DECADE to produce evidence of actual infringement, the Linux code base has been gone over with multiple fine-toothed combs, a court determined that SCO doesn’t even own the copyrights that they’re suing over, and the company basically ran themselves into the ground by focusing on the sue-your-own-customers business model.

On Facebook

WTF, Facebook? I can see blocking new uploads if you’re not familiar with an…

Facebook Blocks KDE Photo App, Deletes Users’ Pics

WTF, Facebook? I can see blocking new uploads if you're not familiar with an app that (for instance) suddenly gets picked up by spammers, but even in that case, you should check and see if there are legit uploads from the same app before deleting everything every uploaded with the tool.

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Gnome 3.0 is seriously going to take some getting used to.

Gnome 3.0 is seriously going to take some getting used to.

I want my damn minimize button back. And I want to be able to switch to another app with one click, not two. Have I got a broken install?

Wow. Gnome 3.0 hides the “Power off” menu item. You can get at it by pressing Alt. Which I’m sure anyone would think of, right?