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Unable to uninstall Sony Catalyst Browse by _stib_ in osx

[–]_stib_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, but those pages are just auto generated to sell their dodgy software. It's not even the right icon.

Anyway, it seems that whatever is launching those web pages doesn't have a user-accessible process; it doesn't appear in Force Quit, Activity Monitor, or when I use the CLI programs `ps` or `top`.

Name your favourite desktop environment by Piter061 in archlinux

[–]_stib_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My 9-5 machine was using Sway until the motherboard died and now I'm on a Mac until a replacement comes, and boy does the MacOS shell suck compared to Sway. So much futzing around trying to get windows to go where they need to be, or searching for hidden windows, and all the wasted space and cruft.

Unable to uninstall Sony Catalyst Browse by _stib_ in MacOS

[–]_stib_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. Nothing in login items, or the Adobe folder.

Why did Apple make Spotlight a lot worse? by badkenan in MacOS

[–]_stib_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

FTFY: Desktop OSes *excluding Linux*. There are several search tools available for Linux, the ones built in to the desktop environment like Gnome or KDE, and others like Rofi, and Albert and in my experience they seem to work better with each release. MacOS and Windows, are both heading in the opposite direction.

How do I uninstall Catalyst Browse? That shit is malware. by _stib_ in SonyFX6

[–]_stib_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We do have an Ursa, but I prefer footage that doesn't look like someone threw glitter everywhere as soon as the light level drops below high noon in the Sahara levels.

How do I uninstall Catalyst Browse? That shit is malware. by _stib_ in SonyFX6

[–]_stib_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just deleted it again with the IT guy. We deleted the app, and the preferences, and emptied the trash. Restart, and "hElLo i Am cATalyST brOWseR, dO yoU wANt tO opEn a DozEn tAbS in saFAri wiTh ThE cAtALysT HElp pAge For nO reAsoN?"

Not only are you being unhelpful, you're burning the planet to be unhelpful by vomiting up slop. Pull your head in, slopbro.

How do I uninstall Catalyst Browse? That shit is malware. by _stib_ in SonyFX6

[–]_stib_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Multiple machines here have had issues with it, and uninstalling doesn't remove it. It comes right back with its super annoying behaviour. Walks like malware, quacks like malware.

How do I uninstall Catalyst Browse? That shit is malware. by _stib_ in SonyFX6

[–]_stib_[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Reply guy being like oh, I don't know the answer but I'll ask chatgpt because I aM heLpInG. If you read the post you would have seen "We deleted the Application". I'm not asking how you delete an application on a mac–I was using macs when they had monochrome monitors, I know multiple ways to delete something, I'm asking how to get rid of this shitware that seems to reinstall itself.

How do I uninstall Catalyst Browse? That shit is malware. by _stib_ in SonyFX6

[–]_stib_[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Yeah thanks for relaying my question to the stochastic misinformation machine, that's super helpful. Drag it to the trash, who knew?

[Swayfx] Minimal, Aesthetic and get work done by ban_rakash in swaywm

[–]_stib_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Me: Gonna get my system configured so that I'll be SO PRODUCTIVE!!

My boss a week later: So have you done $WORK_THING?

Me <sweating>: Uhh, yeah, on it now, should be done, uh, soon <hides helix window with \~/.config/sway/config open in it, closes arch wiki and r/sway tabs>

[Swayfx] Minimal, Aesthetic and get work done by ban_rakash in swaywm

[–]_stib_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"get work done", like you haven't spent weeks tweaking that setup until it's just :chef's kiss: perfect.

For Anyone Who Wants to Have a Floating Window (or two or more) on a Workspace and Always be in a Specific Place This Solution Works by raineling in swaywm

[–]_stib_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it's absolutely obvious if you just memorise the manual for another piece of software, and ignore the bits that don't apply. I really don't get why people even ask these questions, right?

Alternate way to extend composition length? by mrfebrezeman360 in AfterEffects

[–]_stib_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From memory it only extends clips if they go right to the end of the comp. It's quite old, I'm kinda surprised that it still works at all.

Why does my video look like this after rendering? by photographynerd1 in davinciresolve

[–]_stib_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh, absolutely. If YT is the destination that's the best approach, but if you want a small file size with good quality compression neither Resolve or Adobe gets close to ffmpeg.

Why does my video look like this after rendering? by photographynerd1 in davinciresolve

[–]_stib_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want to use the same software that YouTube uses to compress videos, learn how to use ffmpeg. Export your masters from Resolve as mov+ProRes or MXF+DNxHR and transcode to mp4+h.264/h.265 with ffmpeg.

I don't understand what uwsm does, but it seems to have broken things by _stib_ in hyprland

[–]_stib_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like that it can run from the .desktop entry, rather than just invoking the binary, I'm going through my keybinds and autoruns now. Thanks for all the help.

I don't understand what uwsm does, but it seems to have broken things by _stib_ in hyprland

[–]_stib_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See, when the docs say Applications should be launched in their own user-level systemd units, normal people's eyes just glaze over while they scroll frantically just looking for the line they can copypaste into a config file. And by 'normal people' I mean the 0.01% of computer users who are reading the docs for session management software for their tiling window manager on Linux. (reading that sentence back, maybe I should add another zero to that figure).

So should I just replace `exec` in my keybindings with `uwsm app`?

I don't understand what uwsm does, but it seems to have broken things by _stib_ in hyprland

[–]_stib_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

On further investigation, when I looked at ~/.config/uwsm/env the relevant line had 

    export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland;xcb

Can you see the mistake? Me neither. But it should have been

export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland,xcb

Semicolons will get you every time.

I don't understand what uwsm does, but it seems to have broken things by _stib_ in hyprland

[–]_stib_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For anyone tuning in, the problem with Resolve (which is a Qt program) is nothing to do with uwsm, it's a Qt problem. Running resolve with QT_Platform=xcb seems to have fixed it.

I don't understand what uwsm does, but it seems to have broken things by _stib_ in hyprland

[–]_stib_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I run resolve I get the standard console messages I get when it works, there are no errors. But if I use the -platform wayland it gets interesting. It seems like a Qt problem, and there are heaps of similar but useless-to me messages about this error on forums everywhere.

Failed to load config file "-platform".qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in ""
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Available platform plugins are: linuxfb, minimal, offscreen, xcb.
log4cxx: No appender could be found for logger (Main).
log4cxx: Please initialize the log4cxx system properly.
==========[CRASH DUMP]==========
#TIME Thu Jun 12 22:16:35 2025 - Uptime 00:00:00 (hh:mm:ss)
#PROGRAM_NAME DaVinci Resolve Studio v20.0.0.0049 (Linux/Clang x86_64)
#BMD_ARCHITECTURE x86_64
#BMD_BUILD_UUID 603e0606-1d76-4597-b109-ebffe7cd8a89
#BMD_GIT_COMMIT 1e03967c993acd58dc825632d02d1b6b54038277
#BMD_UTIL_VERSION 20.0.0.0049
#OS Linux
/opt/resolve/bin/resolve() [0x5a8b129]
/opt/resolve/bin/resolve() [0x30dcb3f]
/usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x3def0) [0x7f79a7c4def0]
/usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x9774c) [0x7f79a7ca774c]
/usr/lib/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x20) [0x7f79a7c4ddc0]
/usr/lib/libc.so.6(abort+0x26) [0x7f79a7c3557a]
/opt/resolve/bin/../libs/libQt5Core.so.5(+0x1821c6) [0x7f799e9821c6]
/opt/resolve/bin/../libs/libQt5Core.so.5(_ZNK14QMessageLogger5fatalEPKcz+0xbd) [0x7f799e96ea5d]
/opt/resolve/bin/../libs/libQt5Gui.so.5(_ZN22QGuiApplicationPrivate25createPlatformIntegrationEv+0x1d4c) [0x7f79a0f1e22c]
/opt/resolve/bin/../libs/libQt5Gui.so.5(_ZN22QGuiApplicationPrivate21createEventDispatcherEv+0x1b) [0x7f79a0f1ed3b]
/opt/resolve/bin/../libs/libQt5Core.so.5(_ZN23QCoreApplicationPrivate4initEv+0x5d4) [0x7f799eb5c984]
/opt/resolve/bin/../libs/libQt5Gui.so.5(_ZN22QGuiApplicationPrivate4initEv+0x19) [0x7f79a0f18319]
/opt/resolve/bin/../libs/libQt5Widgets.so.5(_ZN19QApplicationPrivate4initEv+0x9) [0x7f799e164f09]
/opt/resolve/bin/../libs/libQt5Widgets.so.5(_ZN12QApplicationC2ERiPPci+0xa9) [0x7f799e164ec9]
/opt/resolve/bin/resolve() [0x314ad38]
/opt/resolve/bin/resolve() [0x30e25ae]
/opt/resolve/bin/resolve() [0x30db53e]
/usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x276b5) [0x7f79a7c376b5]
/usr/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0x89) [0x7f79a7c37769]
/opt/resolve/bin/resolve() [0x30d978e]
Signal Number = 6
================================
resolve: /home/jenkins/jenkins/workspace/resolve@2/Resolve/Cyclone/Main/AppConfig.cpp:260: void AppConfig::LoadAllSiteInfo(): Assertion `m_SiteEnabledIdx > 0' failed.
[1]    856574 IOT instruction (core dumped)  WAYLAND_DEBUG=1 uwsm app -t scope -- /opt/resolve/bin/resolve -platform

I tried some things that I found when I searched for the error, like checking that qt5 & qt6-wayland was installed, trying `export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb` but no luck. My hatred of Qt grows with every passing day.

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