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cp with backup, limit count
If I copy files with backup (cp --backup=numbered), the old file is renamed to something like oldfile.ext.1. I get my old files. Can this be limited to a certain number of old files, for example 30? I don't want to have keep more than that...
Unexplainable high RAM usage under wayland but not X11
I have 16GB of RAM. If I were to play a game like minecraft with few mods (RLCraft), then it completely fills up my memory. No other app can run beside it and even then sometimes system runs out of memory and shut down plasma-shell to have enough memory for the game. (I don't use swap)
Now if I restart and use X11, I can play that exact same game and have firefox, mozilla thunderbird & signal running and still have 5 GB free memory.
The weird thing is that memory consumption per app doesn't really differ much between X11 and wayland session but in wayland amount of memory used by all apps don't add up to amount used memory. like there is couple of GIgabytes unaccounted for.
I asked about that before and people suggested disk cache might be the culprit but why I don't have this problem with wayland?
I use KDE plasma / Gentoo if this is at all relevant.
KDE Plasma 6.2 Released
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21161182
Plasma 6 has come into its own over the last two releases. The wrinkles that always come with a major migration have been ironed out, and it’s time to start delivering on the promises of the new Qt 6 and Wayland technology platforms that Plasma is built on top of.
Plasma 6.2 includes a smorgasbord of new features for users of drawing tablets. It implements more complete support for the Wayland color management protocol, and enables it by default. There is also improved brightness handling for HDR and ICC profiles, as well as HDR performance. A new tone mapping feature built into Plasma’s KWin compositor will help improve the look of images with a brightness or set of colors greater than what the screen can display, thus reducing the “blown out” look such images can otherwise exhibit.
When it comes to power management You can now override misbehaving applications that block the system from going to sleep or locking the scre
ZLUDA's third life
ZLUDA is a compatibility layer for Nividia’s CUDA on other processors
Setup sunlight on Fedora 40
Hello I'm a total Linux noob. As in I downloaded Fedora 40 (Nobara) and I can use it to game, do office work, Discord, etc. but some pieces of software i.e. Sunshine (remote desktop) are pretty tough to unterstand. Can anybody pls help me? I downloaded it from flathub but I can't make it work...
New Release 1.9.17 · fwupd/fwupd
This release fixes the following bugs: Capture device status changes when in bootloader mode Change the systemd SystemCallFilter to an allowlist Detect when a CCGX dock forbids downgrade Do not ad...
This release fixes the following bugs:
This release adds support for the following hardware:
Get started with the basics of LVM (Logical Volume Manager) and efficiently manage the disk space on your Linux system.
Want to get the details on the running processes of your Linux system? The ps command can help.
KDE with good Samba: is it possible?
An old grudge: i actually love KDE Plasma, but rely on a plethora of remote Samba shares for work.
Gnome/gvfs makes it so easy to integrate them in the file picker/nautilus and performance is great. On KDE kio (or whatever that is called now) always caches a copy first, which takes forever and prevents many applications from writing to the files correctly.
I'd love to be using KDE again. Is there anything I can do to get better/faster/more reliable samba access?
This is the second instalment of my 2023 retrospective series on Toolbx. 1 One very important thing that we did behind the scenes was to make Toolbx a release blocker for Fedora 39 and onwards. Thi…
Up to date fedora-toolbox OCI images must be published on registry.fedoraproject.org as release-blocking deliverables, and there must be release-blocking test criteria to ensure usable toolbox RPMs.
Steam Audio Open Source Release
The Steam Audio SDK and all included plugins are now available under an Apache-2.0 license.
Both VS Code and VS Codium look identical at first glance but that's not the case. Let's take a look at their differences.
saving and restoring arbitrary sessions including terminal and GUI --- impossible?
My dream: I want a way to arbitrarily close and later open groups of applications including their states such as open files, window arrangement, scrollback, even undo histories etc. So working on a specific project I can close everything neatly and return to it later.
In my research/experiments here is what I come up with, do you agree?:
Are Epson Ecotank printer/scanners Linux-friendly
There are packages and source code on their homepage and in the Ubuntu repo. I need basic print and basic scan to work out of the box on any OS including Linux, more or less. I can install drivers, but I have a bad feeling when proprietary drivers are required. Often vendors don't maintain them very well. (Contrary to popular opinion, HP has always worked for me.)
I want a scanner, the old one is broken. I don't need a color printer or inkjet, but I have little space, so I want something reasonably compact and consumer inkjet combo devices fullfill this.
I like the ecotank design, no stupid and overpriced cartridges.