wmctrl and xdotool don’t do anything for me with native Wayland windows. It only seems to work for applications that use Xwayland.
So while I can use it to resize and position xterm or urxvt windows, it does not work with foot or kitty or firefox windows.
No. Those are X11 only.
I had a bunch of wmctrl window placement scripts that I had to rewrite in kwin’s (awful) scripting language when I switched to wayland.
Meanwhile, me, a non-native English speaker:
I am still thoroughly confused whether I should call it KDE or Plasma or Plasma Desktop. Like, what is the difference?
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I have to ask… what the hell is that thing?
That is a self-inflicted wound caused by how Wayland was designed, particularly the part where they offloaded so much responsibility onto the different compositors.
That’s another option, but it’s a bit more cumbersome having to cherrypick which exact backports you need for your specific hardware. Also, if you then for some reason don’t upgrade to the next stable release when it comes out, backports get abandoned after 1 year instead of the customary 3 years for the rest of the oldstable release.
From my experience, running trixie/testing the past year or so on a minipc with hardware that was a bit too recent for bookworm, I can say that the cadence of security patches has been about the same between bookworm and testing.
And let’s be honest, on a desktop system your main attack surface is going to be the software you go online with, i.e. the browser. So if you make sure that is kept up to date (flatpak, vendor repo, …) that already goes a long way.
the ctrl-super-alt is completely different
It’s not “completely different” … and that’s the problem. Completely different I can handle. I can manage knowing vim keybindings, readline keybindings and standard windows keybindings at the same time. What I can’t handle is: having to use command + C on one Mac and control + C on Windows to copy, but then in some cases you do use “control” on both OS-es, and sometimes control and alt are switched … It’s because they are similar but different that it’s such a mess trying to get proficient in both at the same time.
Eh. Windows has its share of annoyances, but once I have set it up to my liking my desktop workflow is very similar to my KDE setup, and WSL + Windows Terminal gives me a functional Linux shell environment.
And at least on Windows I don’t have to deal with cmd/control/alt switcharoo messing up my muscle memory.
The correct way with a new computer with recent hardware is to install Debian Testing to get a recent kernel, firmware and mesa and stuff, but put the code name of the next release into your apt config instead of “testing”. So then when the next version is released, you can just stay on that, now stable, version.
Trixie just got released today though, so for the time being you can probably get away with using that.
square centimeter is the one I heard
Libre (from French) is sometimes used to solve the ambiguity of the word free in the English language, but it sounds kinda awkward in English and there’s certainly no consensus that this should be the official replacement, or that the term free even needs replacement.
Furthermore, the FSF who originally came up with the idea of “free software” still exists and is still called the Free Software Foundation, though Stallman uses both terms interchangeably.
Free as in freedom, not as in free beer.
That’s not necessarily the fault of systemd.
No, but the error being hard to debug, and not being able to cancel the timeout as it’s occurring, is though.
Anyway that is been fixed on modern systems
No, I’ve had it happen more recently (I wanna say less than a month ago) with network mounts and random systemd controlled desktop processes that refuse to die.
Everybody gangsta until A stop job is running for…
As a user, why should I care whether the distro I use uses systemd?
Um, because as a user you may have to deal with services, or other systemd features?
Let’s say you want to start ssh-agent when you login to your desktop environment. Well, there’s a systemd service for that that you can enable, and on another distro you’d have to do it another way (autostart script or something).
Counterpoint: To install this program curl ... | sudo bash
Just run DDU bro.
Just run scansfx /now bro.
Just run oobe\bypassnro bro.
Just run Chris Titus Tech Tool bro.
No Linux is too hard bro.
It’s possible those are still using Xwayland
You can use
xlsclientsto check.