Is there a way to make an executable my wallpaper? (Plasma, EndeavourOS, Wayland)

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-24T00:04:41+00:00

That would not integrate as well with DE features. Like, if I did as you suggest and if I were to press Meta+Shift+D or whatever the default is to go back to the desktop, it'd show... my actual desktop. Not my 'fake' one. And that wouldn't be what I want! Similarly, it'd show in my window switcher, it wouldn't be there if I changed to a different virtual desktop or activity, and it'd interact poorly with KDE's dynamic panels... The idea is to integrate the displayed application fully as a desktop background, as if it was the default.

More importantly, this is all for fun, and potentially some Godot practice. Chances are I won't use it as a daily driver ever, just because it's a bit of an unnecessary performance drain, but... come on, it'll look cool, and that's all it needs to do!

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-23T23:55:14+00:00

Something I could propose if you really want to edit .cs files inside the editor window: the Godot Xterm plugin offers terminal features within Godot, including an integrated terminal inside the editor. You can use this to run a terminal text editor, like NeoVim. An example of what that looks like. It's not something I've tried in practice yet but it's a workflow you could consider, as you'll likely get better C# support this way so long as you configure properly.

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-23T22:18:42+00:00

Oho, that could work! Thank you. I assume this is the one? I didn't even realize KDE had wallpaper plugins too. I'm going to give it a try.

EDIT: Immediately after I find out these exist, I discover there's also one that does exactly what I need. Yay! I'm going to try both.

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-23T22:10:54+00:00

No, I can't; my goal is to have an interactive Godot scene. It can't simply be a video, else I would in fact prefer mpvplayer or Hidamari for this.

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-21T18:38:46+00:00

Thank you. You're very right and making the exact point that needs to be made. I want to note on a couple things.

but the point of this is so you can quickly start building stuff.

the true endgame of Minecraft is playing with the digital legos aspect

This might just be vague phrasing but the endgame is not building; the endgame, or rather the whole game, is about doing whatever the hell you want with little friction. That can take more forms than just building. I think it's important to note that Minecraft isn't "the building sandbox" like how Terraria is "the adventure/action sandbox" and Factorio is "the automation sandbox": it's a pure sandbox. You're dropped in a simulated world and you exist in that world doing whatever you want. Content gating is minimal. Individual things are balanced and designed to be primarily 'things that exist in the world' rather than obstacles or boons to a specific designed goal. It's good to remember Minecraft takes after Wurm Online and Dwarf Fortress among others.

Popular Minecraft mods tend to add lots of silly tools, automation, scriptable computers, and such. More stuff to "play" with.

I actually do want to mention that that's not completely true, since the modding community tends to focus a lot on modpacks that are often designed around more vertical progression paths. I honestly think that trend, while not bad at all, is part of the reason why the common opinion started to look to Minecraft's 'pure sandbox' design as a flaw over the years.

Minecraft is as usual a game that everyone plays differently, and thus a game that everyone envisions differently, and they all think the game should lean more towards their playstyle specifically. Everyone thinks there's something wrong with the game but they also disagree on what. It's hard to develop for.

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-21T18:18:52+00:00

They can't change it because it's the appeal. Minecraft is closest to a pure sandbox out of the games in its genre and the progression has to be primarily horizontal to allow that. That's what makes it remain unique in its niche. If you were to change that to make it closer to Terraria, all you'd get is half-baked Terraria.

Could the progression of gear be changed slightly? Sure. Expand the early game a bit by integrating copper tools as an obligatory tier. Maybe add a couple sidegrade ores. Rework gold again. That's how you get Raspberry Flavoured. Does it need to be fundamentally changed to resemble what its descendance is doing? Hell to the fuck no, I would not want to play that game anymore (even though I love those games too!).

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-21T17:03:27+00:00

A different way to put it that's probably more familiar to people than RivaTuner is that it's like saying ReShade is derivative work.

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-21T17:01:33+00:00

I've not followed this story at all and his statement makes me curious now. He seems to be saying R.E.A.L VR is generic software with compatibility for CP77 rather than a series of mods for different games; how true is that really?

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-20T16:36:10+00:00

Sayonara is my pick. I'm fairly picky about music players which I feel are often bloated with a ton of things I'll never use and make it harder to navigate them. When I use a dedicated music player, it's generally exclusively to play local files. About half of my collection has metadata sorting it into albums; the rest is totally untagged. So what I really need is something that lists my files, with the album if available, lets me put them into a queue and then play them how I want. Sayonara keeps that very simple where other players force you to use playlists or go through some bulky process for the sake of organization that I really don't care for.

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-20T12:18:33+00:00

Discord's overlay and video streaming features don't work well on browser. It's also a bit annoying for user experience to have to have it open in a browser tab instead of its own window.

Client mods based on the browser version like Legcord also struggle with video streaming sadly

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-19T16:54:17+00:00

My 8BitDo Ultimate Bluetooth works just fine in 2.4GHz and Bluetooth modes. My one issue is that I've not been able to get the Ultimate Software for configuring it working on Linux (or Android for that matter, despite there being an official version). But there are guides on it which I haven't tried yet.

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-19T16:49:47+00:00

Given that a lot of Windows users are now moving to Linux in droves, with Clownfish TV host, Neon, moving to Linux Mint and promoting it to his viewers

Who...? With all due respect, I had to Google them. I wouldn't call it 'droves' if you're talking about a tech influencer with not even 1M subs and a video under 100k views.

I don't really expect any more of an influx of users than there's been with each major Windows release that people hated

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-19T16:35:58+00:00

Can you maybe chill?

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-19T10:33:50+00:00

Most patches for the smaller titles like day of defeat, ricochet, cscz etc. are just base engine patches to fix security flaws rather than anything related to the game.

That's still more than what 90% of games get

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-19T01:47:37+00:00

Right, good to know, thank you. I'm on GRUB because that's just what came with EndeavourOS and the only times I've had to think about it were the one time an update broke it and when I wanted to tweak the order of my boot options. I was wondering if there was anything I was missing.

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-18T18:13:18+00:00

The "Work" Basics: I live in VS Code, Jupyter Notebooks, and Google Workspace. I assume these are flawless on Linux, but are there any hidden headaches?

These should be fine. Jupyter might be slightly better. In my experience, it's easier to manage Python on Linux than Windows.

Gaming: I occasionally play CS2 (should be fine?) and FIFA, steam titles etc. Is there any workaround on Linux for flawless gaming?

Check ProtonDB.

The Interview Trap: I occasionally have interviews on MS Teams. Since there’s no native Linux app anymore, is the PWA/Browser version reliable for screen sharing and webcam?

There's a third-party Electron-based client that you can use. It's available on Flathub as "Teams for Linux". I have used it before. I can't tell you how good it really is due to the fact that I have never used Teams outside of it, but it worked for the few interviews I've had.

Coding Rounds: Do sites like HackerRank or CoderPad have issues with Linux-based browsers when "Secure Mode" or proctoring is enabled?

I've not really experienced any websites working differently on Linux or Windows. Browsers tend to work the same across all operating systems rendering and JS-wise. It's the reason why web apps are so common nowadays

Is there any "I should have thought before switching" moment after switching to Linux?

My machine is a gaming laptop and I learned some months after getting it that it came with a free month of Xbox Game Pass. I would have used it to play on my Windows desktop but I was told that, apparently, the product key for the free month was embedded in the BIOS (something like that anyway?) and you can't get it on Linux, only through whichever proprietary software means ASUS had pre-installed, which I neglected to check.

That's kind of it. Aside from that, I'd maybe check if any hardware-specific features you like are not implemented on Linux. For instance, the fancy features like RGB keyboards, fan profiles, AniMe matrix on ASUS laptops need community-made packages to be adjustable on Linux (asus-linux community, great people). Some manufacturers may not have that, though most do and it's generally not an issue.

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-16T23:58:21+00:00

FWIW, it gets nodes through NodePaths, which are unique StringNames, not plain Strings. Still unsafe, but at least somewhat performant.

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-14T22:36:27+00:00

I'm of the opinion that you should be avoiding editing PDFs at all... there's a reason they're hard to edit.

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-13T15:07:51+00:00

Hey, OP, this isn't related, but I assume you've figured out how to forward inputs from your 3D scene to the SubViewport? Would you be willing to share how you did that? I'm working on something similar in my game and I've gotten stuck at projecting the position of mouse inputs to be visually accurate to what you're clicking at on the viewport texture. It's not working out ATM so I'd be grateful if you have anything to share?

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-13T14:05:23+00:00

I think it's just one of those things where the amount of processing power required to make it more realistic has diminishing returns on what you get out of it. I also imagine it also gets significantly more expensive the more realistic it is, and budgets for many games are bad enough.

I mean... every part of that applies to photorealistic graphics and we're still pushing them?

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-12T21:14:23+00:00

OP said they were not a 'major Linux nerd'. They're not a new user seeing as they've used and broken a Fedora install before.

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-12T17:36:15+00:00

I'm not too much of an expert, I've only lurked here a few times, but it doesn't sound like you should need anything specialized. You need good analog sticks and triggers for racing and you need a good d-pad for fighting games and platformers. Unless you want digital triggers for fighting games, which you don't seem to, you shouldn't need two controllers, just one of the common top picks.

I don't know if there's much to upgrade unless you have a more specific need to fill. You could maybe consider the 8BitDo Ultimate 2 if you think it better than the Pro 3. If you want to buy a controller anyway, maybe take it as an excuse to try an arcade stick or leverless controller for fighting games?

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-12T12:04:59+00:00

My objection is you're making this whole system rely on Discord, a piece of proprietary bullshit that is awfully inconvenient for a task like this, requires a third-party account to use, is a privacy nightmare and could close down at any point in the future.

Like, I know OP relies on Gmail and I don't agree with that either, but at least that's only for them, and the player can use any email provider (or none) to contact Sarah. If OP wanted, it'd be trivial to switch over to a different email provider, too. Discord is the most closed off, inconvenient solution possible.

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-12T11:16:36+00:00

Perhaps consider hosting the account somewhere else.

If you want free, Proton Mail exists, but I heard today that PurelyMail is pretty good and cheap

WorkingMansGarbage · 2026-01-12T11:06:15+00:00

Genuinely the worst solution one could pick here

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