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wolf @lemmy.zip

What is the supposed workflow for vanilla Gnome for keyboard users?

Question is in the title: What is the supposed workflow for vanilla Gnome for keyboard users?

Is there any video/design documents which explain, how the workflow is supposed to be?

Assume, I have a full screen web browser on workspace 1. Now I want to have a terminal... I hit the super-key, type terminal, hit enter ... and then I have a terminal which does not start maximized on workspace 1, so I can either maximize the terminal and switch between the applications, arrange them side by side... or I can navigate to workspace 2, start the terminal there (the terminal will not start maximized again on an empty workspace 2) ... and switch between the two workspaces (AFAIK there are no hotkeys specified by default to navigate directly to a workspace)...

What I simply do not understand: Does the vanilla Gnome workflow expect you to use mouse and keyboard? Like hit super, use mouse to go to next workspace, type terminal, click to maximize terminal (or use super-up)?

It just seems like a

  • Not sure if it is applicable, but wouldn't it be an option to use the Fedora Workstation Live CD, mount your swap partition into the live system and send it to sleep via SystemD?

    This should give you feedback with a fairly recent kernel and Gnome has (at least for me) been the desktop option with the least amount of bugs I encountered.

  • Before asking for another distro, you should figure out, what is the root cause of the trouble you observe. Usually sleep/wake up under Linux are highly hardware dependent. Even the SteamDeck, which has payed first level hardware support by Valve, has sometimes trouble waking up properly after sleep, at least in desktop mode. Good luck!

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    wolf @lemmy.zip

    Solved: Any desktop environment or WM with configurable placing/opening of windows?

    When using TMUX, it is easy to create a script, which opens TMUX, configures the screens/panes of TMUX and open/run programs.

    I like this a lot.

    My baseline would be something like, when I login, some applications are executed and their windows automatically placed on a virtual desktop.

    For example:

    • Open Firefox and put it on virtual desktop 1
    • Open Terminal in fullscreen and put it on virtual desktop 2
    • Open VSCode and put it on virtual desktop 3

    Something like that is possible with sway, in the environment I am working, sway is not able to run XWayland applications w/o crashing.

    Is there any way to have this functionality on Gnome, Mate, Xfce?

    Even better would be something to open several windows and arrange them automatically for different work tasks/projects I am working on. Any ideas?

    Edit: Solved! Thanks for the input. Auto Move Windows extension for Gnome solves my problem.

  • Ah, sorry to read - I like the idea of Bcachefs and would have been happy to have it ready for production eventually.

    OTOH it seems the recent years I read more about the drama about Bcachefs commits to the kernel, than about any technical parts of Bcachefs.

  • News @lemmy.world
    wolf @lemmy.zip

    Budapest Pride goes ahead, defying Orban threat of 'legal consequences'

    Shout out to the great Hungarian people! :-)

  • Welcome to Linux.

    Concerning your questions:

    How to keep your system clean?

    • Subscribe to the security mailing list/blog etc. of your Linux distribution and for software that you use
    • Update your system whenever there are updates available and reboot your system after applying the updates
    • Activate the firewall of your system and block all incoming traffic which was not initiated by your own system
    • Only install software which is distributed with your operating system or which is well known and you download from the official distribution page (for the sake of an example: If you use Google Chrome download the package/binary for your Linux from Googles Chrome page)
    • Use an adblocker for your browser like ublock origin

    What not to do:

    • Never install software found on the internet or a forum
    • Never run arbitrary script from the internet in your shell

    Doing the above and applying some common sense should be fairly secure. As a rule of thump: Less software is always better and well known software will usually be better scrutinized and more secure. (YMMV)

    As a normal desktop user your chances of getting your system infected when applying above rules are very low and they are your best line of defense.

    Securing a Linux system, especially in depth, fills books, and detecting an infection is another topic for specialists. One way to improve your chances of having a non infected system is using an immutable Linux distribution like Fedora Silverblue, which should in theory be more resistant to infections and which should in theory allow to detect infections easily.

    Unless you have a reason to expect being personally targeted (in which case: good luck to you ;-)), the answer to infections and similar is having regular full backups of all your data, so in case of an infection you can wipe your computer and recover everything. You should have regular full backups anyway, in case your SSD fails, your computer gets stolen and similar threats to your data.

  • Thanks for clarification!

    ... and I think you are point on, by now, the ship has sailed. I could use FreeBSD/OpenBSD on servers, but I'd rather run Debian everywhere. On desktops and for day to day usage, the BSDs are no viable options anymore, they simply lack support for common hardware (Wifi etc.) alone and the BSDs will realistically never be able to catch up the chasm anymore.

  • Not sure what you want to express. I actually used BSD a long time back, and the quality/documentation/coherence/beauty of the system are/were just on another level... Running Debian for nearly a decade now, because of compatibility (with hardware and software I need)... Linux improved a lot in the last nearly 3 decades and I am happy it exists, still I would be more happy if the BSDs would have stayed at least on an equal footing.

  • Fair point. :-)

    At the end of the day, the OS has to run the software/applications one needs to get shit done... if it is macOS or Windows, that's okay.

    In my defense, I ran NetBSD for several years a long time back, and it was one of the best OS experiences I ever had. I am just old/pragmatic/flexible enough, to choose setups with less friction, if possible. ;-)

    Still, I think it is a shame that Linux mostly took over the UNIX world and the BDS are left for hardcore nerds/embedding/game consoles and Solaris and co are not viable options anymore. Portable software and its stability benefited a lot from bugs detected on other platforms (OpenBSD was always a forerunner here).

  • Forced to use macOS at work, and for me it sucks (only slightly less than Windows):

    • Slow UI (have to wait several seconds after login before spotlight is able to execute custom scripts)
    • Finder is a PITA and one of the dumbest file managers I was ever forced to use
    • No easy way to provision the system
    • Annoying nagging to use all the Apple services/login with Apple ID
    • Shitty software management (instead of a descent package manager, every fucking application has a popup for its own updates after opening, which breaks my flow)
    • macOS only interacts decently with other Apple devices (iPhone etc.) and has its own 'standards', taking away my freedom to choose what I want to use.

    Of course, your needs are your needs and if macOS fits your needs the best, all power to you.

  • Well, the fan service is a factor for sure... (Seriously, I find the discussion quite hypocritical: Sex sells, most actors/singers are quite good looking and most block buster movies have a cast of sexy/good locking people displaying status symbols. That is not even mentioning product placing and other shit going on in popular movies/TV shows.)

    • A PS 5 original which is optimized well enough to run on the Steam Deck and some potatoes smoothly
    • Responsive controls
    • Great enemy design which telegraph their intentions clearly
    • No in game purchases or other dark monetization schemes
    • A complete game which seems mostly bug free (from what I heard so far)
    • Shift Up Corporation seems like a company of gamer which create the games they want to play themselves

    Stellar Blade and Shift Up Corporation fully deserve a great start, and I happily payed the full price of admission w/o feeling bad about it.

  • I am in software and a software engineer, but the least of my concerns is being replaced by an LLM any time soon.

    • I don't hate LLMs, they are just a tool and it does not make sense at all to hate a LLM the same way it does not make sense to hate a rock
    • I hate the marketing and the hype for several reasons:
      • You use the term AI/LLM in the posts title: There is nothing intelligent about LLMs if you understand how they work
      • The craziness about LLMs in the media, press and business brainwashes non technical people to think that there is intelligence involved and that LLMs will get better and better and solve the worlds problems (possible, but when you do an informed guess, the chances are quite low within the next decade)
      • All the LLM shit happening: Automatic translations w/o even asking me if stuff should be translated on websites, job loss for translators, companies hoping to get rid of experienced technical people because LLMs (and we will have to pick up the slack after the hype)
      • The lack of education in the population (and even among tech people) about how LLMs work, their limits and their usages...

    LLMs are at the same time impressive (think jump to chat-gpt 4), show the ugliest forms of capitalism (CEOs learning, that every time they say AI the stock price goes 5% up), helpful (generate short pieces of code, translate other languages), annoying (generated content) and even dangerous (companies with the money can now literally and automatically flood the internet/news/media with more bullshit and faster).

  • Sorry, but this post is really, really bad.

    State clearly which distro and which versions of Gnome and dash-to-dock and perhaps what other extensions you are running, and there might be a chance someone is able to help you. (Also state clearly the source of your Gnome extensions).

    Most of the hints/solutions in answer to this post are also not good. If dash-to-dock triggered the malfunction of the gnome-shell on your system, just login to a terminal and use dconf or gsettings to set org.gnome.shell enabled-extensions to an empty array or to an array w/o dash-to-dock.

    I am happily running [email protected] on multiple physical and virtual machines w/o any trouble, using the dash-to-dock provided by my package manager on different CPU architectures YMMV.

  • Using Debian for probably a decade now (before that, various Linux distributions).

    IMHO only community driven distributions with great (in size as in quality) communities are worth investing time/energy and learning.

    One reason to ditch Debian would be that the software I need to run would not run anymore on it or that there would be a too strong commercial influence on the project. Another reason is for play/entertainment where better options exist (SteamOS) or if I need up to date hardware support (Fedora).

    After more than two decades with Linux, I will not play around with non mainstream distributions anymore. Have seen too many come and go, and in the end I would rather do something interesting with my computer than playing around with the Linux distribution of the week.

  • Java is IMHO one of the most underrated platforms outside of enterprise environments.

    Most people also forget, that Java is not only a language, but also a platform, an ecosystem and active research is applied to many parts of Java.

    Concerning Oracle: OpenJDK is actively supported by very different but big and capable companies (IBM, Amazon, Eclipse Foundation...). The quality of the language, libraries and documentation needs people which are payed to work on this, full time.

    Bring to this the free IDEs one can get for Java - Eclipse and Netbeans are a little bit old school, but offer everything to build/debug and develop complex software.

    Java is not my favorite programming language, but when I want to write interesting software and ensure it will be running for the next decade w/o significant changes, Java is really hard to beat.

    Of course, in hindsight we know how to do a lot of things better as they were done in Java. Still, what other open source Language/Platform/documentation with the backing of capable companies and really independent and interoperable builds are out there?

    One last note to all people which were damaged by Java in university or school: Usually the teachers/professors/lecturers have no real world experience of software development besides the usually university projects, and for the usual university projects which basically means getting small to midsize projects to run Java is total overkill.

    Don't confuse this with real world software projects in the industry, which are mission critical and need to work a decade from now on. Java was always a bread and butter language, but one which learned from other languages and even the verbosity makes sense, once one dives into code written a few years back by another person.

  • I care how much taxes I pay for several reasons (Germany):

    • Rich people are taxed less than working people
    • Given that we have one of the highest tax rates in the world, a big part of my taxes go into corruption, incompetence or the pensions of civil servants (pensions for civil servants are way higher than for normal people, especially for some pencil pushing)
    • It gets even more fun, when I think about how many big companies are getting subsidized by my taxes with billions (speaking about companies which are making billions for their stake holders)
    • In our system, costs for health care system and workers pensions are also mandatory deducted from my income (they don't call it tax)... Given, what an average worker pays, we get not enough out of it, neither from health care nor when thinking about the pensions
    • A final tax, which is not called tax, is for public TV/state propaganda. There were more scandals about that money recently than anything else: The higher ups in that system earn more money than the president of Germany (no kidding), people get special pensions for the rest of their life which are obscenely high (after working like a few months, again, no kidding)

    Don't get me wrong: I would happily pay taxes if the biggest parts would go towards services, infrastructure, public transport, health care, people in need and smart/strategic investments of the economy.

    As it is right now, my taxes are siphoned into the pockets of the so called elite instead , so I care.

    If you don't care about paying taxes, you are either mostly happy about were the money goes or have too much money to care.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    wolf @lemmy.zip

    How to deploy Docker images to Raspberry Pi w/o using a image registry

    Hello, fellow Linux users!

    My question is in the titel: What is a good approach to deploy docker images on a Raspberry Pi and run them?

    To give you more context: The Raspberry Pi runs already an Apache server for letsencrypt and as a reverse proxy, and my home grown server should be deployed in a docker image.

    To my understanding, one way to achieve this would be to push all sources over to the Raspberry Pi, build the docker image on the Raspberry Pi, give the docker image a 'latest' tag and use Systemd with Docker or Podman to execute the image.

    My questions:

    • Has anyone here had a similar problem but used a different approach to achieve this?
    • Has anyone here automated this whole pipeline that in a perfect world, I just push updated sources to the Raspberry Pi, the new docker image gets build and Docker/Podman automatically pick up the new image?
    • I would also be happy to be pointed at any available resources (websites/books) which explain how to do this.

    At the moment I am

    Linux @lemmy.ml
    wolf @lemmy.zip

    Solved: ~/bin vs. ~/.local/bin for user bash scripts?

    For one user account, I want to have some bash scripts, which of course would be under version control.

    The obvious solution is just to put the scripts in a git repository and make ~/bin a symlink to the scripts directory.

    Now, it seems on systemd systems ~/.local/bin is supposedly the directory for user scripts.

    My question, is mostly, what are the tradeoffs between using ~/bin and ~/.local/bin as directory for my own bash scripts?

    One simple scenario I can come up with are 3rd party programs which might modify ~/.local/bin and put their own scripts/starters there, similar to 3rd party applications which put their *.desktop files in ~/.local/applications.

    Any advice on this? Is ~/.local/bin safe to use for my scripts or should I stick to the classic ~/bin? Anyone has a better convention?

    (Btw.: I am running Debian everywhere, so I do not worry about portability to non systemd Linux systems.)

    Solved: Thanks a lot for all the feedback and answering my questions! I'll settle with

    Linux @lemmy.ml
    wolf @lemmy.zip

    Stability problems with a Raspberry Pi ZeroW2

    Let me start with, that I am running Raspberry Pi servers since the first Raspberry Pi was released more than a decade ago. Only problems I ever had until now, where dying SD-Cards with the first generation of RPIs. Since them I only buy really big high quality SD-Cards and I have RPI(4) servers running 24/7 for years w/o any troubles.

    For a new project, I am running a web service on a Raspberry Pi ZeroW2 with an Apache reverse proxy on the same machine. Memory usage, even under load, is a maximum of 100 MB. This RPIZW2 simply dies after a few days, and I have no idea how debug this problem.

    More details of the RPIZW2:

    • Uses Raspbian configured via Ansible to be an exact replica of my RPI(4), only Apache and a webservice were added
    • Quality power supply (original RPI hardware) and literally plugged to the same electricity circuit as the RPI(4)
    • The webapp is just a 'hello, world' with the current time and my internet connection is not fast enough to be DOSed
    • Monitored memory usa
    A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world
    wolf @lemmy.zip

    Ex-Amazon VP explains why rich a-holes with helicopters and personal assistants don't get why you hate your commute

    Just to be clear: My main point of sharing this article is about how detached the life of rich people is.

    I do not at all agree that most of them are “Not evil, just disconnected”, I am pretty sure (and know some of the privileged), who are actively evil, know exactly what they are doing and just don't give a shit.

    Technology @lemmy.world
    wolf @lemmy.zip

    MoAT - Museum of All Things

    IMHO a very cool project/idea, worth being promoted!

    Linux @lemmy.ml
    wolf @lemmy.zip

    Multi-Gen LRU is a game changer on my low memory netbook

    MGLRU.

    On my low RAM/CPU netbook it is a game changer; thanks to ZRAM the netbook is perfect for browsing the internet/light work. When running my backups (creates big tarballs) or Ansible though, my desktop/applications would freeze/stutter noticeably. Enabling MGLRU simply solved the problem of freezes/stuttering, it feels like magic and besides ZRAM, I don't know of any other lever with this massive impact on desktop performance.

    Just wanted to share this, for other users with low RAM/CPU hardware. I would assume the observed difference is less dramatic, once 8GB of RAM are available, but I would love to hear about other experiences.

    I would also love to hear/learn about other levers with high impact to tweak for low RAM/CPU desktop devices. Anything else to tweak under /sys /proc which has impact on performance?

    Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    wolf @lemmy.zip

    Why is there no yearly refreshed covid vaccination recommendation for adults (like from the WHO)?

    Title is question, but to clarify my assumptions:

    • Vaccination is a numbers game, and the odds are in your favor that the vaccination will protect you over you get a side effect or an allergic reaction/shock
    • An infection like covid/flue can damage your body long term, not even speaking of long covid etc.
    • To the best of my knowledge it has been shown that flue shoots lower the risk of dementia later in life, wouldn't it be a good enough guess that a covid shoot decreases risks for this too
    • Even if we only assume a covid vaccination is highly to reduce your sick days for only this year, isn't it a rationale tradeoff to get vaccinated, just to avoid 1-2 weeks sick?
    • Given the security of covid vaccinations, I feel like they have been scrutinized and tested extremely well and to the best of my knowledge it was checked that nothing of the vaccination remains in the body after a few weeks (for the argument that nobody knows the long term effects of RNA vaccination)

    Again my questi

    Games @lemmy.world
    wolf @lemmy.zip

    Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. open BETA started on Steam

    Fighting game players on lemmy might be interested in the open Beta of Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O.!

    Games @sh.itjust.works
    wolf @lemmy.zip

    What games bring you 'in the zone' / provide a 'flow' experience for you?

    Some games bring me in the zone/give me flow like no others.

    For example the following games do that for me:

    • Olli Olli
    • Contra (NES)
    • Dark Souls
    • Street Fighter II (SNES)
    • Street Fighter 3
    • Street Fighter 6
    • Like Dreamer
    • Choplifter HD
    • XCOM
    • Infested Planet
    • Tetris Effect

    What games are providing you with flow experiences?

    Linux @lemmy.ml
    wolf @lemmy.zip

    Debian 12 / Gnome / How to shutdown laptop after battery percentage crossed

    Hello Linux community,

    I need some help with shutting down my laptop when the battery reaches a low percentage.

    I am using Debian 12 with the GNOME desktop. WARNING: Minimal installation with self selected packages.

    What I want to achieve is, that the laptop just does a 'halt -p' or shuts itself down when the battery is below 20%.

    What I did so far:

    • Look into GNOME settings in the power settings area and I found nothing helpful
    • I edited /etc/Upower/UPower.conf with my settings and changed the CriticalPowerAction to PowerOff, ensured the upower daemon is running via systemctl status and rebooted. The result was that I get a warning popup message in GNOME when the battery load reaches 21%, but it does not shutdown the laptop at 20% or under 20%, although I get another pop up announcing that the laptop would be shutdown
    • I ensured laptop-mode-tools and gnome-power-manager settings are installed

    Any help/pointers for further help would be highly appreciated.

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    wolf @lemmy.zip

    Method of loci/memory palaces for memorizing professional knowledge or whole languages

    The method of loci (MOL)/memory palaces are a widely known mnemonic devices and enable memory artists impressive tasks (like memorizing several decks of cards, memorizing numbers etc.). Further MOL is featured in pop culture e.g. Sherlock Holmes, Hannibal Lector etc...

    There is, to the best of my knowledge quite some research, which shows that MOL is working/useful for improved retention, especially when combined with spaced repetition.

    It seems I have never seem real world examples of long term memory palaces/method of loci applications. It always seems like a short term crutch for cards, numbers, speeches, grocery lists, phone numbers, vocabulary or for test/exam preparation. For example it seems that in language learning, the MOL is for encoding some vocabulary and visiting it regularly, until it is committed to long term memory.

    All examples I find in books about the method of loci are again only about having one location, a route of 10-N stations, and never about building/usin

    Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    wolf @lemmy.zip

    Books about the elite / modern nepotism

    Can anyone recommend me books about the modern elite/modern nepotism and how it works?

    I have experienced/observed modern nepotism several times in my life, to give you some examples:

    • person founds a so called start up with money from person relatives, which boils down to paying other people to do all the work w/o anything resembling a business plan in the first place. Start up is a total failure, person gets job as a specialist for building startups via divine intervention.
    • at several companies there is a level which people who do the work can reach, and above that level people from higher class get positions seemingly out of nowhere (unless they were childhood/study buddies of someone higher up) w/o any qualification/knowledge/experience to do this kind of work
    • from a certain level on (at least in IT where we have more than enough money for it) everything is politics; when discussing technical problems/solutions at that level, the first question is always who is the sponsor
    Linux @lemmy.ml
    wolf @lemmy.zip

    ZRAM configuration and other tweaks for potatoes running Linux

    I posted about ZRAM before, but because of my totally unscientific experiment, personal experience and the common question, which Linux to run on potatoes...

    First, I tweaked ZRAM for my use-case(s) on my hardware, this settings might not be right for your use-cases or your hardware!

    My hardware is a netbook with an Intel Celeron N4120 and 4G RAM (3.64G usable).

    When I recently played around with ZRAM settings, it felt like the zstd algorithm made my netbook noticeable more sluggish. It never felt sluggish with lzo-rle or lz4.

    In a totally unscientific way, I rebooted the computer several times (after a complete update of everything), executed my backup script several times, and measured the last 3 executions. (Didn't touch the netbook during the runs.) The bottleneck of the backup script should not be ZRAM, but it is some reproducible workload that I could execute and measure.

    To my surprise, I could measure a performance difference for my backup scripts, lz4 was consistent fast

    Linux @lemmy.ml
    wolf @lemmy.zip

    Firefox enables user tracking

    ... I mean, WTF. Mozilla, you had one job ...

    Edit:

    Just to add a few remarks from the discussions below:

    1. As long as Firefox is sponsored by 'we are not a monopoly' Google, they can provide good things for users. Once advertisement becomes a real revenue stream for Mozilla, the Enshittification will start.
    2. For me it is crossing the line when your browser is spying on you and if 'we' accept it, Mozilla will walk down this path.
    3. This will only be an additional data point for companies spying on you, it will replace none of the existing methodologies. Learn about fingerprinting for example
    4. Mozilla needs to make money/find a business model, agreed. Selling you out to advertisement companies cannot be it.
    5. This is a very transparent attempt of Mozilla to be the man in the middle selling ads, despite the story they tell. At that point I can just use Chrome, Edge or Safari, at least Goog
    Linux @lemmy.ml
    wolf @lemmy.zip
    pointieststick.com How I manage my KDE email

    Every once in a while people ask me about my email routine, so I thought I’d write about it here. Everything I do starts with the philosophy that work and project email is a task queue. There…

    How I manage my KDE email

    Interesting workflow.

    Of course the fact that Nate uses Thunderbird instead of KMail explains a lot. One day I hope KMail/Akonadi get the attention/work they need to become viable options.

    Linux @lemmy.ml
    wolf @lemmy.zip
    pointieststick.com How I manage my KDE email

    Every once in a while people ask me about my email routine, so I thought I’d write about it here. Everything I do starts with the philosophy that work and project email is a task queue. There…

    How I manage my KDE email

    Interesting workflow.

    Of course the fact that Nate uses Thunderbird instead of KMail explains a lot. One day I hope KMail/Akonadi get the attention/work they need to become viable options.

    Linux @lemmy.ml
    wolf @lemmy.zip

    Interesting times ahead! I am really looking forward to the Leap Micro release and hope it advances the state of the art. :-)