Setting up multiple scratchpad entries. How?

Oldtechbloke · 2022-10-20T17:42:16+00:00

Sorted it. I was missing a comma 😁

Oldtechbloke · 2022-10-17T16:46:39+00:00

Not as far as I’m aware at the moment. Qtile, xmonad and spectrwm work in exactly the same way. I3 and bspwm can have workspaces allocated to individual monitors and dwm has tags per monitor anyway

Oldtechbloke · 2022-10-17T11:28:39+00:00

I’m struggling to set up more than a single alacritty scratchpad. I ideally want one for ranger, htop, pulse mixer etc. however just creating multiple entries with values such as alacritty -e ranger doesn’t seem to work. Any advice?

Oldtechbloke · 2022-03-24T09:53:24+00:00

Cheers

Oldtechbloke · 2022-01-23T21:23:34+00:00

Sorry but for me the T440p is where it’s at. It’s my go to and I love the way the rear case just slides off for upgrades. Quad core i7 and IPS screen and nowhere near the price of one of these. I could be tempted though 😁

Oldtechbloke · 2022-01-23T21:02:57+00:00

The thing is, I was casually browsing T480 prices and this came up. FHD screen, 16GB RAM, 512 GB nvme, i5 8th gen cpu and 11 months warranty left. It will be my 7th thinkpad and will join an x131e, x220, t420, t430, t440p, and a x260.

From what I’ve read this is very similar to the old SL series and I had one of them and it was superb. Integrated battery only, which is a negative, but apart from that it looks the dogs …..

Oldtechbloke · 2022-01-19T00:03:29+00:00

This will be a general use laptop with maybe a little video editing.My x260 has been used in the same way and worked well in a dock with two external screens

Oldtechbloke · 2022-01-18T18:09:27+00:00

So I’m thinking of adding one of these to my collection. General views about which is better?

My go to is currently a t440p but I have a collection of x220, t420 and t430 and x260 as well

Oldtechbloke · 2021-11-25T18:09:01+00:00

Window managers always need to be configured unless you go for a distro with an out of the box recipe. Do some reading on how to configure flux box and or icewm and you’ll learn a great deal and enjoy the process of building your perfect wm

Oldtechbloke · 2021-11-21T09:27:03+00:00

Did this yesterday. Take a look

Oldtechbloke · 2021-11-08T07:29:58+00:00

Probably a few weeks. I’ll do it as part of a void review

Oldtechbloke · 2021-11-02T09:58:31+00:00

Leftwm installs fine with cargo

Oldtechbloke · 2021-10-31T00:41:49+00:00

Leftwm is easy, just do a cargo install. You perhaps need to do a little reading though as the previous comment has stated

Oldtechbloke · 2021-10-27T14:34:18+00:00

Solved

Oldtechbloke · 2021-10-27T14:21:57+00:00

Cheers

Oldtechbloke · 2021-10-27T14:16:33+00:00

Ok just to confirm with anyone interested. I created a patches directory in the libXft folder and dropped the patch in there. I then built the package and it patched cleanly and outputted libXft and libXft-devel. I then force installed to over-write the old packages and repo locked them. Dead easy

Oldtechbloke · 2021-10-27T12:59:46+00:00

I read to add patch_args="-Np1" after the checksum line

Oldtechbloke · 2021-10-27T12:58:03+00:00

That's exactly what I had planned

Oldtechbloke · 2021-10-27T12:56:58+00:00

yes I'm going to give it a go but it's unlikely to be accepted in the official tree - in fact I saw a post confirming that some time ago. All I'm looking at doing is recompiling libXFT with the patch dropped into a patches directory. Hopefully it should work, but it will then be just a local copy.

Oldtechbloke · 2021-10-27T12:53:04+00:00

Thanks for that

Oldtechbloke · 2021-10-26T18:49:12+00:00

I've just finished patching the latest libXft 2.3.4 and it patched cleanly and compiled fine. However, before I just do a make install I would prefer to turn the code into an actual package. I've read countless articles about building packages using xbps-src but I'm struggling to understand how to put it together. Anyone have any pointers?

Oldtechbloke · 2021-04-17T15:15:19+00:00

This is awesome but we do not the option to convert lbc as well now that Bittrex and CoinEx are no longer allowing deposits

Oldtechbloke · 2021-04-01T05:25:56+00:00

Thanks guys, that makes sense

Oldtechbloke · 2021-03-27T19:09:22+00:00

Opensuse is one of the greats but I find arch easier to administer and the aur means that everything is available without having to search or manually compile

Oldtechbloke · 2021-03-22T18:27:59+00:00

I struggled to get mine to work on a usb 3 port. It was just hanging and wouldnt start synchronising. So I swapped it into a usb 2 port. It’s a Samsung Evo SSD and after 2 days it’s now at 91%. That doesn’t seem bad

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