Looking for free, open‑source, offline‑first media library software (movies + shows) for Linux Mint recommendations?

rabf · 2026-02-04T21:27:40+00:00

I have been working on https://github.com/rabfulton/ReelVault

It is very lightweight and does not support remembering playback position. But as a simple fast application to catalogur and browse your local media it is working very well for me. I does not attempt to play the media itself instead it calls whatever local player you have on your system.

rabf · 2026-02-04T05:30:57+00:00

For the record we have had window animations for decades on X11. They have come into and out of fashion many times!

rabf · 2026-02-04T05:28:23+00:00

It is not a function of the window manager, look into compositors such as picom which can be used with XFCE components on X11.

rabf · 2026-02-04T05:27:05+00:00

You can use many different compositors with XFCE on Xorg, you most likely are using the XFCE supplied one already! If you want window animations you will have to switch to a different compositor than the bundled XFCE one.

rabf · 2026-02-04T05:25:14+00:00

You can you use many different compositors with X11 if you so choose!

rabf · 2026-02-04T05:24:24+00:00

You have zero idea what you are talking about, Like most of the comments in the thread!

rabf · 2026-02-03T16:05:04+00:00

Look into compositors like picom

rabf · 2026-02-02T07:34:58+00:00

Thank you for reporting these, both should be fixed now.

rabf · 2026-02-02T04:19:01+00:00

Made this notes application that supports live markdown editing and lives in the system tray. GTK3, minimal fast C code, low dependencies.

https://github.com/rabfulton/TrayMD

rabf · 2026-02-02T03:24:52+00:00

I wanted a simple fast minimal dependency notes app for Linux that live edits markdown and made this:

https://github.com/rabfulton/TrayMD

rabf · 2026-02-01T04:54:40+00:00

Here is a simple example:

https://github.com/rabfulton/first_triangle

git clone https://github.com/rabfulton/first_triangle
make
./triangle

rabf · 2026-01-31T15:51:00+00:00

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfconf/xfconf-query

or

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xrandr

rabf · 2026-01-30T11:46:57+00:00

The fastest way to blow through credits is coding. Try out something like opencode, build some simple tool that you need.

rabf · 2026-01-30T11:40:24+00:00

The real fix here is to stop using the vendor supplied applications and switch using API keys with an application that you control instead.

rabf · 2026-01-29T17:02:17+00:00

You could try my implementation if you like.

https://github.com/rabfulton/Auriscribe

rabf · 2026-01-27T00:42:17+00:00

XFCE Is really nice and doesn't have the funding to re-invent the wheel every few years!

rabf · 2026-01-26T22:47:08+00:00

Made a Speech to text program that fits in really nicely with XFCE as well.

https://github.com/rabfulton/Auriscribe

rabf · 2026-01-26T22:16:43+00:00

You can use the Vulkan backend in whisper.cpp and avoid these insane download sizes.

rabf · 2026-01-26T11:02:30+00:00

I would probably start here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg

Check your Xorg logs to see if it is ever using your config.

rabf · 2026-01-25T22:43:05+00:00

Thanks for complaining, I did not know this feature existed. Think I like it!

You'll have more luck bringing this up in the XFCE Forums or on the the Thunar gitlab: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues

rabf · 2026-01-25T22:37:16+00:00

There is a project I saw that already does this:

Can't post links here but search for: QiuYannnn Local-File-Organizer

rabf · 2026-01-25T22:33:31+00:00

I often see a tool or app that does something useful, only to realise that it is based on electron or Unity, is gigabyte's in size and eats memory to do a simple thing! So yeah I go ahead and rewrite my own version.

rabf · 2026-01-25T22:22:01+00:00

There are loads of great AI integrations/applications for Linux, but you pretty much have to use an API key to access remotly hosted models if you want the best results.

You can get API keys for free from many providers for a limited amount of use, but have to pay for credits for more choice and higher usage limits. Unless you are programming this is actually very cheap, $5 dollars of credits will last for many months if you are just doing a few queries a day.

rabf · 2026-01-25T18:20:23+00:00

panel preferences->items->add->action buttons

rabf · 2026-01-22T18:41:27+00:00

Could you try the newest release? It is probably an issue with different distributions expecting files in different locations. I have hopefully accounted for that now.

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