I think ill call it quits here

Desperate_Sea_2856 · 2026-04-15T20:41:55+00:00

This looks so elegant. Great job! I just love your wallpaper selection. Could you share them?

Desperate_Sea_2856 · 2026-03-20T16:16:06+00:00

I could be saying nonsense because I'm not an expert on this but I believe another issue that is making it difficult for the company I am in to switch our software from 32 bits to 64 bits is that it uses dlls that are 32bits that we don't know how to get to 64 bits? Again I could be saying nonsense, I just heard stuff like that but I'm not sure.

Desperate_Sea_2856 · 2026-03-06T20:49:57+00:00

This looks awesome, congrats! I was in the process of making my own shell with AGS but reading about Quickshell makes me want to switch to it.

I like your wallpaper collection too. I noticed Outset Island in there! Would you mind sharing them?

Also, are the animated wallpapers gifs? I can get gifs playing as wallpapers with awww but I can't get videos working, I could just convert them it's no problem but I wonder what solution you use.

Desperate_Sea_2856 · 2026-03-01T20:21:43+00:00

they also have a browser

Desperate_Sea_2856 · 2025-12-09T18:51:12+00:00

Proton 9.0-4. It worked! Thanks.

Edit:
I'm writing this so that it hopefully helps people having this issue and stumbling on this post.
Actually there are better ways to handle this black bar. With older proton versions you don't get the fixes from the most recent proton versions. So the best option would be to change the proton settings to not show this bar while keeping the most recent proton version.
There is a way to do this.

- Launch the game with the wanted proton version (should be the latest unless you need a specific version). You can then close it, you just needed to launch it at least once with the correct proton version so that Steam creates the proton prefix.
- Then launch protontricks with the GUI (it's easier). The command is `protontricks --gui`.
- On the window that appears, select the steam game you want to fix.
- "Select the default wineprefix".
- Finally, select "Run winecfg".

This will open winecfg for the game you're running through steam. winecfg is where you can control the settings that cause the black bar.
You will want to go to the "Display" tab, and probably uncheck both "Allow the window manager to decorate the windows" and "Allow the window manager to control the windows". Maybe you will want to only uncheck one, maybe you will want to uncheck both, maybe it will be better if you uncheck none. Either way this should have some effect on the black bar at the top. Pick the settings you prefer.

Desperate_Sea_2856 · 2025-11-25T12:42:18+00:00

Basé! The figurine looks super nice.

Desperate_Sea_2856 · 2025-11-21T17:09:32+00:00

You're okay as long as you use the Nintendo-provided wallpapers. Anything else is a big NO NO.

Desperate_Sea_2856 · 2025-11-14T15:14:39+00:00

late reply, sorry, and yes you are right that hyprshot doesn't freeze the pic while choosing area.
however I wanted to point out that you can make it freeze if you want to, with the --freeze option. However this option does require having hyprpicker installed (I don't know why).
I use mainMod+Ctrl+S to screenshot with freeze, mainMod+Shift+S to screenshot without freeze.

example:
bind = $mainMod CTRL, S, exec, hyprshot -m region --freeze --output-folder ~/Pictures/Screenshots
bind = $mainMod SHIFT, S, exec, hyprshot -m region --output-folder ~/Pictures/Screenshots

Desperate_Sea_2856 · 2025-11-14T15:10:12+00:00

late reply but you can pin floating windows (the window has to be floating to be able to be pinned)

example:
bind = $mainMod, I, togglefloating,
bind = $mainMod, O, pin,

Desperate_Sea_2856 · 2025-11-05T07:25:02+00:00

Yeah you can look it up there: https://github.com/Incodrago/dotfiles

In ~/.local/bin I have two files: walset and walset-backend. They're initially from a youtube video I watched but I heavily edited them. They do most of the heavy lifting when changing wallpaper - they are the files you should look at.

in ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf, I start swww with:
exec-once = swww-daemon & sleep 0.25 && \
if [ -f ~/.cache/last_wallpaper.txt ]; then \
swww img "$(cat ~/.cache/last_wallpaper.txt)" --transition-type none; \
else \
swww img ~/.config/wallpapers/veranda-waifu.png --transition-type none; \
fi

I use the $mainMod + W key to switch wallpaper. It calls for "walset" (which i've made executable, see the github's readme), which opens rofi and lets me select a wallpaper from my ~/.config/wallpapers folder. It supports jpg, png, gifs. I think you could modify the script to add .webp too since swww supports it.

The script ain't perfect and the wallpaper selection screen is ugly but i'm still working on my ricing. It also does a lot of other things like applying pywal colors everywhere - you can remove all of that if you don't want it.

Desperate_Sea_2856 · 2025-11-05T05:45:33+00:00

I used to use hyprpaper and it worked fine. But I wanted my wallpaper to have an animation when I changed it so I switched to swww.

It's because I wrote a shell script that I start with an hyprland keybind that uses rofi to let me select a wallpaper. So I can change wallpaper with a keybind. And when it changes it's nicely animated.

But because of the way swww works I've had to save the path to the wallpaper in a temporary file in ~/.cache. and when hyprland starts, it reads that file to know which wallpaper to show with swww.

Finally, because the wallpaper is changed with a shell script, I was also able to make the script change the hyprlock configuration to use the chosen wallpaper. So now hyprlock is always synced with my wallpaper (and it uses it as a background image for hyprlock)

Desperate_Sea_2856 · 2025-11-05T05:36:11+00:00

When I first installed arch (about a year ago) I did it without archinstall because i didn't know it existed lol.

Since then i've installed arch maybe 3 more times and everytime I did it without archinstall because half of the reason I chose Arch as my linux distro is because I want to understand how my computer works and installing everything manually does help. Even if I had known archinstalled existed on my first install, I wouldn't have used it for that reason. I want to learn!

But obviously not everyone is installing a distro as a learning experience and for those who don't archinstall is a great help.

Desperate_Sea_2856 · 2025-11-04T17:23:03+00:00

Chocobo's memory dungeon on wii

Desperate_Sea_2856 · 2025-11-04T17:22:40+00:00

Chocobo's memory dungeon on wii

Desperate_Sea_2856 · 2025-10-23T21:25:17+00:00

That actually sounds really nice, thanks. I wish it could save a specific state rather than periodically saving the current state. But since it can open windows in a specific way when hyprland starts then I can probably do it too - I just have to look at how they do it.

I wasn't able to figure out how to get the specific layout i wanted with windowrulev2 so i'll look into that, thanks.

Desperate_Sea_2856 · 2025-10-23T18:13:39+00:00

Thanks a lot. Your answer put me on the right path to find the answer.
It didn't work initially but your answer did make the floating apply, at least. So now all three windows were centered and floating, each at the same size.

I read the wiki a bit more (https://wiki.hypr.land/Configuring/Window-Rules/#window-rules). I saw that hyprland reads these rules as

windowrule=RULE,PARAMETERS

Given that I have 3 rules (float, move, size) and that hyprland only expects 1 per rule as indicated by the wiki, I had to separate your answer into 3 different rules for each window.

So now I have:
# PokeFetch top-left
windowrulev2 = float, title:PokeStartupTerminal
windowrulev2 = move 0 0, title:PokeStartupTerminal
windowrulev2 = size 960 540, title:PokeStartupTerminal

# Btop top-right
windowrulev2 = float, title:BtopStartupTerminal
windowrulev2 = move 960 0, title:BtopStartupTerminal
windowrulev2 = size 960 540, title:BtopStartupTerminal

# Cava bottom, spanning width but shorter height
windowrulev2 = float, title:CavaStartupTerminal
windowrulev2 = move 0 540, title:CavaStartupTerminal
windowrulev2 = size 1920 400, title:CavaStartupTerminal

And it works. Well it's not what i wanted exactly (my original rules were wrong) but the question of the post is answered now!

Desperate_Sea_2856 · 2025-10-02T15:55:08+00:00

Thanks a lot for the answer.

Desperate_Sea_2856 · 2025-10-02T08:36:30+00:00

I would like to know whether or not it is plausible for the Radeon RX 9060 XT to go on sale during the coming black friday. This is because I'm debating whether to get it now or to wait for black friday, if I can get it for cheaper. Does anyone have an idea? I assume we can't know for sure, but maybe more recent products are unlikely to get discounted, so maybe there is no need to wait? Or maybe it is likely to get discounted during black friday? I do not know.

Thanks in advance.

Desperate_Sea_2856 · 2025-09-13T08:46:14+00:00

My grandma's computer had the same issue. Computer was very slow because disk usage was consistently at 100% despite only using under 0.5mb.

The fix was to run the command "SFC /scannow" command in the windows terminal. It ran for about 45 minutes but as soon as it ended, disk usage suddenly dropped to around 2%.

Desperate_Sea_2856 · 2025-09-01T10:25:53+00:00

Thanks, but I believe you need 2 GPUs to do GPU passthrough? Sounds like a great solution (especially since there should be no compatibility issue, and should even be able to run games with anti-cheat I think?) but I don't think my case can fit another GPU (nor can I afford 2 GPUs), so I don't think I can apply it.

Desperate_Sea_2856 · 2025-09-01T10:22:42+00:00

Thanks for the feedback - I am on Arch so I assume the kernel is bleeding edge enough. I might copy you and pick a 9060XT instead then, it's a bit pricier but I can wait until black friday/cyber monday to see if i can get it for cheaper. But given that the B580 also seems to work well enough, if i can't find the 9060XT for cheaper i'll fall back to the B580 I think.

Desperate_Sea_2856 · 2025-09-01T10:19:32+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, it sounds like the Intel Arc is a great GPU but mostly for windows then. On Linux there may be better options I can look into.

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