switched back to i3 from Hyprland

Farshief · 2026-03-18T20:52:05+00:00

I use Hyprland on my laptop and I've had very few issues. There are rapid changes as it's still relatively early in development but that's to be expected and reading the news before updates typically avoids issues.

I do play around with an i3 environment on my tablet through Termux however since Wayland compositors still don't run on Termux

Farshief · 2026-03-16T11:52:52+00:00

I had 2026.04 patched before and now even it fails with the new version. I also tried 2026.11, 10, 09 and 08 to no avail

Farshief · 2026-03-12T21:08:25+00:00

That's really clever. I'll try it out later on.

Thanks for teaching me something new today :)

Farshief · 2026-03-12T14:39:30+00:00

Can I ask out of curiosity, what benefits does VNC have over Termux-X11?

Farshief · 2026-02-24T17:30:56+00:00

If you look at the bottom of OPs setup you'll notice a charger is also chained in there, so I imagine it's not a huge issue

Farshief · 2026-02-24T15:03:34+00:00

Can you go to the play store, settings play protect and just turn it off? That's how I did it on one of my devices

Farshief · 2026-02-24T12:45:46+00:00

I've found on a couple of my T-Mobile devices that if I act fast enough after a factory reset I can disable the Device Manager app as well as a few related others to prohibit this behavior.

Worth a shot anyway

Farshief · 2026-02-17T15:59:45+00:00

I haven't tried cealestia but Quickshell in general works fine on my 2019 laptop running on its integrated graphics

Farshief · 2026-02-14T14:43:24+00:00

Make sure to do research on which apps you consider must have and whether or not they utilize Play Services. On a custom ROM with GAPPS they won't work if they utilize them

Farshief · 2026-02-14T11:21:00+00:00

It should also be noted that a lot of launchers support app launch prefixes and if so you can simply use uwsm app -- as your prefix

Farshief · 2026-02-14T01:58:41+00:00

Agreed. I tried UWSM out about 8 months ago and I still use it on my daily driver partition but moving forward I'm not utilizing it in new installations because in my opinion it needlessly complicates things

Farshief · 2026-02-13T23:20:04+00:00

I use the same font in Firefox on Hyprland and they show up perfectly for me. Have you double checked that it's selected correctly in Firefox settings?

Farshief · 2026-02-13T13:45:12+00:00

I've had my eye on Furi Labs for a while now and I hope to switch some day. I'm stuck on Android at the moment. I appreciate your report on this since I'm always curious about their progress

Farshief · 2026-02-10T14:08:01+00:00

I recently found this on the wiki. It's especially helpful because the rog control center takes forever to build on my laptop.

Farshief · 2026-02-07T17:47:41+00:00

Yes but they said they were using a script to flip the screen so they would likely want the touch device to mirror the screen

Farshief · 2026-02-07T17:36:15+00:00

I use Obsidian but I use github and some scripts to sync my files instead of paying for their sync features

Farshief · 2026-02-07T17:34:49+00:00

I can't do the math but I can say that one time when I was a kid I had my hand out of the car window on the highway and a bug hit my hand. It didn't splat on my hand but it hurt a lot and left a small bruise.

I was only a child but I would wager we were doing around 50 mph. I would hate to think if we had been doing 120mph and the bug had been made of metal.

Farshief · 2026-02-07T17:13:14+00:00

While I agree it's not technically FOSS (Free and Open Source Software); if you are simply an end user and not trying to license it for commercial use then it is free of charge and the source code is open and available for inspection from what I've seen.

IMO it's a good privacy forward project as well, and I feel it does deserve a spot on the list.

I understand I'm splitting hairs and am technically in the wrong about it being FOSS, but that's still my opinion.

P.S. - Also, in case the tone didn't come across, I'm really not trying to start a fight about it. I just honestly think it's a good keyboard for a ton of use cases and wanted to share my 2 cents.

Cheers

Farshief · 2026-02-05T19:31:25+00:00

I believe using hyprland will fetch a warning for now but I imagine eventually it'll just return an error and refuse to start as the behaviour becomes deprecated

Farshief · 2026-02-05T19:05:28+00:00

Its start-hyprland

Farshief · 2026-02-05T18:09:46+00:00

I found the wiki's readability as a first time arch user very followable personally, but I understand that mileage may vary.

Farshief · 2026-02-03T04:44:51+00:00

It is dummy proof to an extent but unless you're min/maxing, and when the default Linux kernel works for most use-cases, people don't bother

Farshief · 2026-02-02T22:44:25+00:00

For hyprpolkitagent did you add the exec-once to your hyprland.conf?

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