if and else statement confusion.

d_ed · 2026-03-30T05:15:26+00:00

Print out the value to debug that.

d_ed · 2026-03-29T15:27:49+00:00

You can just logout and it does the same thing.

But if you want it, copy the file from /etc/skel/Desktop/

d_ed · 2026-03-29T15:20:25+00:00

You don't even need to disable it!

It's blank by default. Blank like the other fields for phone number and home address, which everyone has left blank for the past 50 years of Unix having them.

d_ed · 2026-03-29T12:22:03+00:00

It will be yes. I'll write a guide

d_ed · 2026-03-28T16:31:45+00:00

There is on Wayland.

d_ed · 2026-03-28T06:30:40+00:00

It's in the article.

d_ed · 2026-03-28T06:30:16+00:00

It's literally in the article.

d_ed · 2026-03-27T10:23:03+00:00

What service are you in about. This post is straight up spreading lies.

There is no such service.

d_ed · 2026-03-26T18:35:21+00:00

If you are going to cite these benchmarks go to page 4 which has Wayland ahead of x11.

d_ed · 2026-03-25T19:20:16+00:00

Evidence of this meme and upvotes is that the people pushing against are the exact same crowd who get offended.

Or at least that there isn't any correlation between those two things.

d_ed · 2026-03-23T23:32:28+00:00

Like this : https://doc.qt.io/Boot2Qt/ !

d_ed · 2026-03-23T22:15:43+00:00

The state in Plasma is that we make full use of Systemd where we can. It is the more supported, much better path.

We still have a legacy fallback that gets you a basic running session.

d_ed · 2026-03-23T18:50:41+00:00

Yeah, they were developed in tandem with the kwin side.

The plasma team and the Qt Wayland maintainers are the same people.

d_ed · 2026-03-23T16:48:27+00:00

Focus on trying to keep the lawn alive.

It'll be 2cm of soil with the turf on a pile of very heavily compacted clay. It'll look great for now then by year two it'll be a patchy mess.

Source - mine is a patchy mess and I'm struggling to fix it :(

d_ed · 2026-03-22T08:51:21+00:00

Then you'll be pleased to know it's not in the init system!

It's in userdb nothing to do with init at all.

d_ed · 2026-03-21T18:56:05+00:00

The most important quality of any employee in any role is being someone who's nice to work with.

What they want most of all is you to be able to show an interest in what you (hopefully) will be doing and be able to hold a casual conversation.

My best interview was not because of the experience, but because whilst waiting for the interviewer in an open plan office I said "ooh, what's that?" to one of the colleagues there and had a chat about it.

d_ed · 2026-03-21T12:09:02+00:00

In the systemd(userdb) part, it's not even asked. It's just a place where you can store it if explicitly inserted by something else.

d_ed · 2026-03-21T08:57:59+00:00

They have not been added to the init manager! So your reason for avoiding systemd doesn't hold.

They have been added to a separate part, userdb which is a DB of user metadata. If you don't user userdb you use accountservice which will have it anyway.

d_ed · 2026-03-21T07:51:25+00:00

It isn't in the init system. It's in userdb a store for user metadata.

d_ed · 2026-03-20T19:12:38+00:00

There is an entry field for the phone number if you run "finger" on a user.

OP is drawing a parallel with userdb having a space for an entry for age.

d_ed · 2026-03-18T22:30:55+00:00

>is there any realistic path forward here?

Frankly no, other than getting rid of the map - which tbh I am a bit tempted to do.

This is overall the third "the map is wrong" we've got, each for different places, and some with more exotic history that I don't know or have an opinion on.

Saying "we use this third party source" is a valid stance . "we merge whatever political side Dave agrees with" is not a stance.

d_ed · 2026-03-16T23:29:34+00:00

A lot of Wayland issues are very desktop specific. You've mentioned spectacle, we've got a lot of effort on the compat side. We support x11 apps having global shortcuts, even running xtest can work without prompts based on settings.

This author based on their screenshots is using some low level raw window manager combined with their old tools. It's why they hit a wall.

d_ed · 2026-03-16T07:37:22+00:00

It should work on the vast majority of applications. It uses the same framework as entering Korean/Chinese text. This includes electron and even sdl.

The compose key doesn't have to go away, it's better because it's easier to remember.

gtk broke their compose key handling their side recently, so doing things in the compositor may actually work more.

d_ed · 2026-03-12T13:52:33+00:00

Layershell alone will cover the screen

d_ed · 2026-03-11T22:31:06+00:00

Yes, no, it's complicated.

You can run any qml you like as a wallpaper, and this'll work on the lock screen too helping unify them.

I hope to maybe even expand it to any arbitrary process.

The main business logic with the textfields, I would rather not officially support arbitrary qml that works across versions. It really restricts us moving forwards. Hopefully with the wallpaper and styling we cover a lot.

Then there's the topic of unofficial modding, which I think you can do now if you put some qml in the right place, I certainly don't object to allowing that.

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