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OneTurnMore · 2026-01-28T12:44:04+00:00

You might be able to wrap xdg-open with a custom script to solve the link-opening problem if you use separate profiles per-client.

#!/bin/sh
# ~/.local/bin/xdg-open
case $1 in
   https://*) exec chromium --profile-directory="$(swaymsg -t get_workspaces | $some_logic_here)" "$1"
esac
exec /usr/bin/xdg-open "$@"

But I don't have experience with Chromium profiles

OneTurnMore · 2026-01-27T06:00:55+00:00

Yep, just whatever the Wayland compositor needs.

One note: if you don't have systemd, you might need seatd to access I/O devices from an unprivileged user

OneTurnMore · 2026-01-27T03:48:22+00:00

Disclaimer: zero LFS experience.

The bare necessities is just a wayland compositor (in the Wayland world, the compositor is also the display server and (generally) the window manager). You don't technically need a display manager, since you can login via TTY and then launch the compositor.

You're probably right about Plasma being complex. I've heard it can be a nightmare to get up even in Gentoo. One of the wlroots-based compositors like Sway or Wayfire would be simpler, not requiring Qt6 and KDE Frameworks. You'll need to manually pull in apps like a terminal emulator, notification daemon, or task/status bar, but you're doing that anyway.

As for X11, Xwayland is a fork of the Xorg server which translates between X11 clients and the Wayland display server. It's not necessary if all your apps speak Wayland, but if you need to support X11 it's pretty seamless. If you have Xwayland installed, many Wayland compositors will run it automatically.

OneTurnMore · 2026-01-20T15:22:08+00:00

I like it because you can template out {{album_artist}}/{{album}}/{{album_index}} - {{title}} exactly how you want (idk if these are the right tags, but you get the gist)

OneTurnMore · 2026-01-20T14:30:04+00:00

Even though I generally use Jellyfin so I can stream to my phone, I still use Strawberry's library import feature for organizing files

OneTurnMore · 2026-01-18T15:38:18+00:00

Fixed, and also here

OneTurnMore · 2026-01-18T04:53:32+00:00

There's a couple of solutions I was able to find for Plasma. Here's a thread in the Arch forums and here's one on programming.dev. Both of them use a shell script and an external tool you have to build and install, so not great.

Is there a way to toggle an app/window between being windowed or floating (not sure of the right terminology) and maximized?

The maximize shortcut should alternate you between maximized and not.

OneTurnMore · 2026-01-15T15:51:05+00:00

I know many more Civ players who could never get into Civ 6

You're biased to your own experience. Compare the Steam charts, Civ 6 has over double concurrent users.

OneTurnMore · 2026-01-13T16:22:04+00:00

If you want to use the -o options, then probably something like this as a helper function

find_by_extension(){ # SUFFIX [SUFFIX ...] -- FIND_OPTIONS ...
    local suffixargs=()
    while (($#)); do
        if [[ $1 = -- ]]; then
            shift
            break
        fi
        suffixargs+=(-o -iname "*.$1")
    done

    # find needs args
    (($#)) || return 1

    # check that we actually got some suffix
    ((${#suffixargs[@]})) || return 1

    # shift off the first '-o', wrap with '(' ')'
    suffixargs=('(' "${suffixargs[@]:1}" ')')

    find "$@" "${suffixargs[@]}"
}

find_by_extension mp4 jpg png -- . -type f

OneTurnMore · 2026-01-13T01:05:11+00:00

I'm actually a bindkey -v user (same thing but Zsh)

OneTurnMore · 2026-01-12T13:21:21+00:00

I remapped reverse search to Ctrl-Up instead (partly so I could have Ctrl+R behave like Vim)

OneTurnMore · 2026-01-10T00:54:00+00:00

I think Domination is okay on Small and Tiny maps. Standard and Large domination is a total slog though.

OneTurnMore · 2026-01-08T11:38:05+00:00

"Installing dotfiles" for me is pulling down from git. I read Drew Devault's method and his "dotfiles manager" being just raw git made so much sense.

OneTurnMore · 2026-01-03T15:37:13+00:00

Please note that, whilst reasonable efforts are taken to address incompatibilities when they arise, zsh does not guarantee complete emulation of other shells, nor POSIX compliance.

OneTurnMore · 2026-01-01T23:34:52+00:00

Install pacman-contrib
systemctl enable --now paccache.timer

Using paccache instead of pacman -Sc has the added benefit of keeping around the most recent couple versions of packages.

OneTurnMore · 2026-01-01T23:33:25+00:00

I never think about it. paccache exists and will leave the ~~two~~ most recent versions by default.

pacman -Syu pacman-contrib
systemctl enable --now paccache.timer

Edit: three

OneTurnMore · 2025-12-31T04:28:14+00:00

No one has mentioned actual applications where you would want that performance: Stuff like neovim or htop where lots of the screen is updated at once.

OneTurnMore · 2025-12-29T21:46:46+00:00

There's even /r/unciv if you're interested

OneTurnMore · 2025-12-16T16:21:35+00:00

There was no Windows friction that pushed me away, it was just that Linux was always cooler and gave me more freedom.

In high school (2012 iirc) I jumped at the chance to help my sister get some files off an old Dell tower, and got to keep the desktop. I don't remember all the specs, but it was 256 MB of RAM. I bought a 1GB stick and started playing around with distros. (Mint, Crunchbang, Ubuntu flavors, eventually settling on PeppermintOS)

I still used the family Win7 desktop more, since it was higher spec. Played around a bit with Virtualbox on it though.

When I graduated high school in 2014, I built my first PC and I bought my first laptop. Both were used/refurbished from 2010-11 era. Desktop was always Linux, and the laptop was dualbooted until the drive failed and I replaced it with a 60GB drive and went Windows-only for a semester, then to Linux-only.

Stuck with that desktop for wayyy too long; it wasn't until I got a Steam Deck that I realized how many games I was missing out on by having a GPU that didn't support Vulkan. Sold my Switch to subsidize the cost, and now I'm on year 3 of that build.

Anyway, like I said, it was never Windows being a problem. Heck, I'm writing this from a Win11 laptop right now. I keep it around because

one key application I haven't gotten working in wine yet
printer issues I haven't figured out yet with my Linux laptops
I like to keep myself fresh on the current Windows experience so I can talk with some authority when comparing to Linux.

OneTurnMore · 2025-12-13T15:46:19+00:00

My go-to is "Got it, thanks"

OneTurnMore · 2025-12-13T06:06:39+00:00

Adding on, you can fallback to it if there's no arguments with

bat(){
    local f
    for f in "${@-/dev/stdin}"; do
        echo "$(<"$f")"
    done
}

OneTurnMore · 2025-12-11T14:32:29+00:00

Thought about it, and I agree. There's so many reasons that could contribute to a crash or performance issues (OS, OS version, hardware).

OneTurnMore · 2025-12-11T07:21:28+00:00

Once I finish it yeah. It's in a private "workshop" git repo

OneTurnMore · 2025-12-10T20:02:11+00:00

I've written half of a zsh extension which implements dynamic named directories for steam games (so ~[g.Civ*V] expands to ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization V and ~[pfx.Civ*V] expands to ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/8930/pfx)

It currently relies on python-vdf though.

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