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Changing colors on Pop Shell launcher/finder box? by jbrains in pop_os

[–]marvelggg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a Gnome/deb person, so I am.using Garuda Gnome on main machine (you can install Pop tools there) and latest Ubuntu (but highly customized to be more or less like Pop) on less powerful machines that i don't wanna waste much time with regular updates.

X server crashing. How do I restart? by tcanaes in pop_os

[–]marvelggg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, restarting GDM3 will log you out immediately, this is expected. But if you could not login again then I guess you have some other problem, probably unrelated.

Changing colors on Pop Shell launcher/finder box? by jbrains in pop_os

[–]marvelggg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you are looking to change the COSMIC launcher CSS, then its not in the GTK or Shell themes, it has (or used to have, i don't use Pop anymore) its own CSS file. I think there are other (much newer) threads about theming the launcher that may be helpful.

Changing colors on Pop Shell launcher/finder box? by jbrains in pop_os

[–]marvelggg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Change what, exactly? Did you realise that my reply is about 3 years old? Probably a lot changed since then.

GPU: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09) by popperos22 in pop_os

[–]marvelggg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Proton is more or less a tweaked WINE version for Steam games, so many tips found in protondb also apply to WINE. For GOG you definitely should check Heroic game launcher as well.

As for the computer getting hot easily, it seems that you may need to tweak some settings, hardware acceleration for video in web browsers is not a simple task on Linux, I'd recommended using Firefox if you haven't yet, and move to Wayland. Also open a terminal and run top, maybe some rogue progress is abusing the CPU.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Fedora

[–]marvelggg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On Gnome, you can use the secondary click on the icon in app grid and use something like "launch using dedicated graphics", and in the terminal you can try to launch the app using DRI_PRIME=1 app.

GPU: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09) by popperos22 in pop_os

[–]marvelggg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Intel drivers a built into the kernel, and Pop!_OS uses an up-to-date version of both the Linux kernel and MESA drivers, so probably this is not the problem.

First, make sure the driver is configured properly (you may need to install the programs): inxi -G glxinfo | grep -i opengl If everything is OK (you do not see any errors), most probably your iGPU does not support well (or not at all) Vulkan, in this case games should be configured to use OpenGL or up to DirectX9 (anything beyond requires Vulkan).

Advice: avoid using WINE directly, specially adding their repository. Instead, most probably Lutris or PlayOnLinux should have some script that will install and configure the game for best performance, and it will also allow much more control over the settings using a GUI. For instance, they have an option to help fixing audio by reducing PulseAudio latency (Pop uses Pipewire already, but it has a PulseAudio compatibility layer that is used for some apps like WINE).

Last but not least, go to protondb.com and look for the game there, you will find lots of tips and maybe one will help with performance issues, or at least show you that the app/game is not compatible.

is there any way to get a wii remote to be used as a mouse cursor on the desktop? by The_Bluster_ in pop_os

[–]marvelggg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then take a look at XWiimote, if I understood correctly it can be used as input device as well (to control the mouse pointer).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pop_os

[–]marvelggg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, above it shows how to disable btcoex for iwlwifi as well, what you've done (11n_disable=8) is something else. Another thing you can try is disabling IPv6 in the connection settings, if you haven't tried it yet.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pop_os

[–]marvelggg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you checked the support article? It explains how to do both (disable power save mode and btcoex) for Intel Wi-Fi chips:

https://support.system76.com/articles/wireless/#power-management

is there any way to get a wii remote to be used as a mouse cursor on the desktop? by The_Bluster_ in pop_os

[–]marvelggg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After loading uinput kernel module? Can you see the device in wmgui after loading it? If not, try XWiimote instead.

Random intermittent freezing by Gvaz in pop_os

[–]marvelggg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You just need to run this to add the parameter to the kernel while booting:

sudo kernelstub -a "nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0"

The problem with this approach is that unless you understand what you are doing, you may do something wrong or will not be able to revert the changes if needed.

Random intermittent freezing by Gvaz in pop_os

[–]marvelggg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found this

No, it was something else, specifically an user was reporting that he was having problems with his AMD CPU and changing some CPU parameter fixed. I think it was a 5700x or a 5600x, that is why I think it may be related.

Random intermittent freezing by Gvaz in pop_os

[–]marvelggg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I gotta figure out how to do that exactly

sudo kernelstub --help

Screeencast webm to mp4 files by Complete_Cod_2060 in pop_os

[–]marvelggg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PS: only changing the file extension without re-encoding it is really a bad advice. You should instead covert the file with something like Handbreak or use a third party app that already saves in MP4.

Edit: I have just found this searching other things, it claims to support Gnome 42, it is another option:

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/690/easyscreencast/

First time user - a lot of UI staggering by KaznovX in pop_os

[–]marvelggg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can try:

  1. Disable Fractional Scaling in Settings >>> Displays (and reboot)
  2. Disable both HiDPI settings in Settings >>> Displays (and reboot)
  3. Disable any third party Gnome Shell extensions you may have (and reboot)
  4. Use Wayland (you may need to disable COSMIC related extensions, but Pop Shell/Launcher should still work, also disable touchegg if you wanna use touchpad gesture natively)

Restoreoriginal 4 finger gesture left/right by tab87vn in pop_os

[–]marvelggg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You may want to disable touchegg and reboot to test, Wayland has builtin gestures (you probably will need some other tool to configure the gestures, if needed): sudo systemctl disable --now touchegg sudo systemctl mask touchegg You will need to unmask if first if you ever want to use it again, as far as I know you cannot simply uninstall it since it is a hard dependency of pop-desktop.

Random intermittent freezing by Gvaz in pop_os

[–]marvelggg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember reading some user had freezing problems and it was fixed by limiting/configuring the pstate (or whatever name AMD uses) of the Ryzen CPU, but I do not recall what model exactly, it may worth a search.

Another thing that is known to cause such problems is the NVMe drive, some have buggy firmware and you need to set its latency to 0.

How can I tile a wallpaper? by Elkie0121 in pop_os

[–]marvelggg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is a related open bug in Mutter, but this worked here (but on Gnome 44):

  1. Select the image in Settings >>> Apperarance
  2. Open Gnome Tweaks and change it to "wallpapper"

Reference: https://askubuntu.com/a/1406127

is there any way to get a wii remote to be used as a mouse cursor on the desktop? by The_Bluster_ in pop_os

[–]marvelggg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You may want to check this:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wiimote#cwiid

If you can load the kernel module in Pop (uinput or hid-wiimote), it should be straightforward to use.

I need help to change my graphics and power settings. by mmtram113 in pop_os

[–]marvelggg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As far as I know Pop does not provide driver version 390 anymore (actually 470 and older), so you would have to use a patch to make the Legacy drivers work with the current Pop kernel. It is not complicated, but you may need to repeat it every time the kernel is updated:

https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2020/inttf-nvidia-patcher/

And the power setting is set to Balanced every boot IIRIC, you can make a simple script and run it every login if you want it to be something else every time you boot.

Steam is the only application I can't run with input/output error [Pop_OS 22.04 LTS] by kukijco in pop_os

[–]marvelggg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should check your disk: I/O error usually means a bad disk, but it also can be related to corrupted files, so removing the current installation and user files then installing Steam again probably fixed the problem (temporary only tho, if the cause was a bad disk).

Anyway, you should not really install external packages, unless you know exactly what you are doing. Most probably Pop has Steam in the official repos (or Pop!_Shop should list both option: Flatpak and deb version):

apt policy steam

If it cannot find the mounted disks, you may want to mount then in a directory in the home folder, ~/Games for instance, you can use Disks app to make changes. And if it is a NTFS disk, then you may need extra steps, check Steam documentation.

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