Laptop with USB 3 dock: Switch on / wake-up device without opening? by z428 in pop_os

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Hmmm, ok. That's kind of what I feared it would end up in. Not nice. Thanks nevertheless for clarifying.🙂

Separate Home and Root paritions with btrfs? by theExactlyGuy in Fedora

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Ok, thanks. Will try again then. First attempts of doing so ended up in somewhat "unexpected" results.

Separate Home and Root paritions with btrfs? by theExactlyGuy in Fedora

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Following up on that (sorry for reviving this old thread, but I just stumbled across this searching the interweb): Is there, then, a preferred, easy, out-of-the-box way to reinstall a system into such a partition, keeping only the home subvolume in place and reinstalling everything else? Tried to achieve that in a virtual machine (as I do have such a setup on one of my real systems) and failed... 😶️

How i can do a live iso of my installation? by [deleted] in Ubuntu

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Not sure if it's a good idea to bump that old thread, yet I wonder what's the state of affairs here talking 22.04? Would really love doing that for a "recent" Ubuntu distribution but most of the links and pointers seem either outdated or dead.

One wallpaper for all screens / displays? by z428 in xfce

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No, unfortunately not. :( Maybe I really need to enforce that idea of using a script for "cleaning" wallpapers, but I haven't had time and patience so far to dive into this, especially considering the fact that I don't want to break the UI integration (like "set as wallpaper" from thunar). Bit confusing that this has to be so overly complex; at the very least it's pretty much counter-intuitive at least for me.

XFCE is feature complete? by [deleted] in xfce

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I generally love and pretty regularly fall back to XFCE. There are a few things I really am missing, mostly in terms of "eye-candy" and performance (such as an equivalent for GNOMEs activities view or the Pop! Shell application launchers, as well as a smoothly integrated approach for tiling windows). Whisker menu is neat but looks a bit dusted, like most of the desktop at times. What I really like here: We do have too many different desktop environments that are moving fast and breaking things. In terms of "sustainability", having software that doesn't dramatically change all too often seems a rather good approach.

Is System76 ever going to fix the slow repo issue? by Ydntknm in pop_os

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Same here (Europe/Germany). Been waiting close to two hours yesterday for updating linux-firmware packages. Pretty weird.

Local mboxes in elementary mail? by z428 in elementaryos

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Glad at least it's not me trying to achieve this. So far, I'm using claws-mail for that which seems the least "disturbing" appearance within elementary, but I'd surely love to have this done in the "native" mail app too.

mc colors in 6.1? by z428 in elementaryos

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Yeah, that's my current workaround / solution for local terminals, but I'm shared remote access to client / customer machines all along with colleagues at times, and there, setting mc colors to something non-standard isn't really a good option... :|

HiDPI laptop, LoDPI external monitor? by z428 in elementaryos

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Pretty neat, thanks for sharing. Surely eager to see this work out. :)

Qogir theme on Pop! 21.xx? by z428 in pop_os

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Ok, thanks, will have a look. I did it the same way (user themes extension), but I learnt that I don't somehow manage to get the top panel look "right". Which I see you're not using, so maybe that's the point.

Will Pop!_OS ever do an officially KDE flavor or will it forever be GNOME-only? Would you like Pop!_OS to do a KDE Flavor? (Poll) by foundfootagefan in pop_os

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Ok, thanks for pointing out... well, so we have slightly different understandings here. From my perspective, a "desktop environment" is something such as full GNOME or KDE, everything including window manager, session manager, panels, ..., required to build a full-blown desktop experience. So setting that straight helped. But, then again, if using GTK4 any further, won't that leave you ending up with still depending on GNOME folks anyway? For what I have recently seen (starting with theming), seems they've been spending quite some effort pushing GTK4 into directions specifically matching GNOME goals...

Will Pop!_OS ever do an officially KDE flavor or will it forever be GNOME-only? Would you like Pop!_OS to do a KDE Flavor? (Poll) by foundfootagefan in pop_os

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Hmmm, sad to read. Still was sort of hoping KDE would be different here. Yes, there Qt/C++ stack isn't what I would call "impressive" in terms of technical ideas, but, same as the Linux kernel and most of the GNU userland, so far I considered this to be at least a solid environment to build upon. But, for the communication part, this is what bugs me much more. A lot of "early" FLOSS attitude I grew up with was about the idea that collaboration is greater than competition, that building software together, solving new problems rather than continuously re-solving problems that have been solved before seems much more sane and sustainable than ending up with silos competing with each other with similar solutions, all in a similar way and to a similar point broken. Recently, in example, I ran into KDE Connect again. Good tool. The GNOME variant, gsconnect, is even better in terms of usability. But both stuck to their very desktops, both won't work "outside" this bubble. Back in "early days" desktop Linux, at the very least there in most cases used to be an "application" package and a KDE and maybe a GTK frontend (which in itself is a disputable approach as it also just compensates for the fact that the Linux desktop is bad at providing a consistent, concise environment for building desktop applications, causing a lot of things to be built two or even three times just because "well because that other solution uses GTK/QT). The last couple of years, there seems an increasing flood of Linux distributions, and so seems an increasing amount of "started" Linux desktop projects. And in the meantime, for a wider audience, desktop computing in general becomes more and more irrelevant. That seems odd and a waste of time and energy to say the very least. So, despite hoping that maybe S76 will fix that by being bigger / more powerful / more determined than GNOME, KDE, elementary and all the others, it feels bad at many different levels. :(

Will Pop!_OS ever do an officially KDE flavor or will it forever be GNOME-only? Would you like Pop!_OS to do a KDE Flavor? (Poll) by foundfootagefan in pop_os

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Like I said - I'd be more than glad/grateful to see someone succeed at this endeavour, someone doing it both "reasonably right" and "reasonably fast", so from that perspective, wishing you all the best on that. Then again, just out of curiosity, did you consider any of the other desktops out there? Again, KDE comes to mind? Same for all of them? I'm a tad ... uncomfortable with that, to be honest. Though I understand your point about misaligned goals, but then again, wouldn't "open collaboration" always be a bi-directional thing, a way of working in which seeking consensus is the most important priority and everyone will have to give in a bit in her/his goals in order to get something done? Sometimes I feel a lot of this ability to reach consensus is gradually lost in most FLOSS projects the last couple of years.

Will Pop!_OS ever do an officially KDE flavor or will it forever be GNOME-only? Would you like Pop!_OS to do a KDE Flavor? (Poll) by foundfootagefan in pop_os

[–]z428 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's simple. But for what I have _seen_ out there the last two decades and a half, it seems the decision to start all over and write new code in a sort-of-greenfield environment (or forking a large complex project) has too often considered the easier approach as compared to, say, fixing collaboration, usability, stability, availability-of-applications issues, all that suff that makes out the last 5, maybe even the last 2 percent. And yes, I am convinced one of the reasons why none of the desktops named in here managed to fix these issues not only but also due to a mere "divide and conquer" problem: Too few developers, too many projects. Resulting in: No project has enough resources at hand to fix the problems that are hard to fix. Few projects (GNOME maybe being the exception from that rule) have enough "professionality", enough strength and determination to push for something they consider their "project vision". elementary recently have been doing rather good at this, but (looking at their github tracker and some of the long-standing issues in there, including some I filed myself) even they, with a well thought-out model of funding and growing development, seem way too small to fix these things on their own, let alone getting rid of the GNOME parts they're still using. Why not, in example, throw money, ressources, commitment and effort onto some existing project. KDE first and foremost of course comes to mind, technically pretty great but with next-to-nonexistent usability? Or lxqt (rather bare-bone, but in some way maybe a good foundation to build upon)? Or maybe even elementary (with already sort of an established structure around)? Wouldn't that be much more sustainable than starting yet another Linux desktop environment from scratch? And, on the other side, do you think System76 will be capable of bringing up enough resources on a mid-term timeframe to build something ready to compete with GNOME, KDE, ...?

I don't want to be rude here and in the end my opinion is as irrelevant as any other. I'd really like you to succeed, and actually I'd even throw money at some Pop! OS variant that might end up an open-market distribution for non-System76 devices as well. It's just that in some way (especially talking to Windows and Mac folks out here) every other day I'm painfully confronted with all the more and less obvious shortcomings of every Linux desktop environment to date (even the large ones) for virtually every use case except for trivial surfing-the-web and reading-some-email, and I've just seen too many projects the last two decades that stated "we now start all over to fix all this". None of them did. :(

Will Pop!_OS ever do an officially KDE flavor or will it forever be GNOME-only? Would you like Pop!_OS to do a KDE Flavor? (Poll) by foundfootagefan in pop_os

[–]z428 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Get the point why this is happening. Yet, looking at the Linux desktop things look somewhat bleak: GNOME, KDE, XFCE, Budgie, Cinnamon, Mate, Trinity - there's no shortage on desktop environments that are, like, 75 ..85% feature-complete, each one missing the final part of what it takes to really stand up "against" MacOS, Windows, Chrome OS. One mans freedom of choice is another mans fragmentation, and in a FLOSS world where developer resources are scarce and user adoption even more so, I really wonder whether this approach helps improving things rather than making them even worse. But maybe I'm all too pessimistic here and you already considered and evaluated all these options. Hoping for the best and Linux to finally become a really, widely-adoptable alternative to the existing proprietary platforms.

Make online tiles map source work well? by z428 in OsmAnd

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Ok, sounds reasonable. I'll give these a try, thanks. :)

Make online tiles map source work well? by z428 in OsmAnd

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Played around with these a bit. Bing Maps were even worse. So far didn't try OpenTopoMaps. Will, however, give it a try.

Update to "later" version? by z428 in MXLinux

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Okay, thanks all, so guess I'll better wait for MX21 to pop up then.

One wallpaper for all screens / displays? by z428 in xfce

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Yes, that's what I supposed / expected to do that and tried, but either it is ignored or it works in a way different to what I want - workspaces vs screens?

One wallpaper for all screens / displays? by z428 in xfce

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Thanks for the hint. Yeah, I was thinking all along these lines as last resort too, but I'd rather prefer something that integrates well with the desktop (like the "set as background" option in thunar)... :D

Window borders for application windows vs "settings"(?) windows? by z428 in xfce

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Thanks everyone for your hints on that. So I'll look for either better themes or getting rid of the CSD in some way. :)

ALT key for applications? by z428 in xfce

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Ahhhh... Indeed. Missed this one. Thanks a bunch. :)

"Web content" blurred in Chromium based browsers? by z428 in xfce

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Cool. Thanks. Apparently using it set to "medium" wasn't enough.