I had that exact problem and fixed it by changing the audio mode from hd audio to ac97 in the bios settings. Apparently linux doesnt like realteks hd audio

These look great! May I ask what program did you use to make them?

If you want to get into customizing UIs hard, something the likes of this

You could get started with window managers (very opiniated topic, its really up to you to decide on which you should use) and UI toolkits like

• ewww
• AGS
• QuickShell

Also I know X11 is slowly dying but AwesomeWM fits your bill really nicely.

TL,DR: You want a cool UI? look at unixporn’s top posts of all time, research an option you find good enough and go bananas on everything you need to make yourself at home.

ALSO consider posting at !unixporn@lemmy.ml so we can marvel at your fine grained setup, good luck!

Support for larger 32-bit x86 systems (those with more than eight CPUs or more than 4GB of RAM) has been removed.

What? How do you get more than 4GB of ram on a 32-bit CPU architecture? Now I need to know what kind of black magic they used for that

I really thought that the effort of Fedora integrating flatpaks with their atomic spins meant that flatpak development was anything but lacking. I wonder if Redhat’s budget falls too short to take a look at those PRs? Specially for the replacement of pulseaudio, giving mic permissions because you allowed audio to go through your speakers really shouldn’t be a thing. Great summary either way

If anyone is curious, I checked the yay aur helper go dependencies here and it had none of the malicious packages mentioned on this post

LocalSend for quick local network file sharing from my phone that just werks. I prefer it over kde connect because the latter uses lots of random ports that kinda bloat my firewall whitelist. I know there is an alternative called warpinator, but I don’t see a reason to change my preferences for now.

Isn’t that what openGL and vulkan aim for?

So ZQ comes from the sound of a fly being swatted?

ooo that looks nice! I’ll try it once I need to unrust my script skills again, thanks for the help!

It’s fixed now! At first I researched a little more and found about the desktop-file-validate cli utility from the desktop-file-utils package, and it did tell me a lot about the syntax errors I was making with the exec command.

But as you wisely suggested, dealing with those escaping rules was a bit too bothersome for my use case, so I ended going the bash script route which worked flawlessly at last! So thank you for pointing that out!

Here’s the final .desktop file for anyone interested:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
MimeType=image/png;image/jpg;image/jpeg;image/ico;image/heic;image/svg+xml;image/webp;
Actions=topng;tojpg;toico;towebp
X-KDE-Submenu=Convert Image Format
Icon=viewimage

[Desktop Action topng]
Name=To Png
Exec=/home/myuser/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/scripts/convert-image.sh %f png
Icon=viewimage

[Desktop Action tojpg]
Name=To Jpg
Exec=/home/myuser/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/scripts/convert-image.sh %f jpg
Icon=viewimage

[Desktop Action toico]
Name=To Ico
Exec=/home/myuser/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/scripts/convert-image.sh %f ico
Icon=viewimage

[Desktop Action towebp]
Name=To Webp
Exec=/home/myuser/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/scripts/convert-image.sh %f webp
Icon=viewimage

and the bash script coupled with it:

#!/bin/bash

FILE="${1}"
FORMAT="${2}"

# Check if magick is installed
if ! command -v magick &> /dev/null; then
    echo "Error: magick command not found. Please install ImageMagick."
    exit 1
fi

# Check if FILE exists
if [[ ! -f "$FILE" ]]; then
    echo "File not found: $FILE"
    exit 1
fi

DIRECTORY=$(dirname "$FILE")
# Get the file name by looking for the longest match starting from the beginning of the string up to the last dot.
FILENAME=$(basename "$FILE" .${FILE##*.})

# Convert the file format using magick
magick "$FILE" -format "$FORMAT" "$DIRECTORY/$FILENAME.$FORMAT"

If I understood correctly, I made the changes as you said like this:

Exec=sh -c "FILE=\"%f\"; DIRECTORY=\"$(dirname \"$FILE\")\"; FILENAME=\"${FILE%.*}\"; magick \"$FILE\" -format png \"$DIRECTORY/$FILENAME.png\""

Now when I click on the service menu option this error popup appears:

Syntax error in command sh -c "FILE=%f; DIRECTORY=$(dirname $FILE); FILENAME=${FILE%.*}; magick $FILE\ -format png $DIRECTORY/$FILENAME.png" coming from

It seems escaping the double quotes doesn’t actually escape the backlash with it?

I then tried escaping those new backlashes like this

Exec=sh -c "FILE=\\"%f\\"; DIRECTORY=\\"$(dirname \\"$FILE\\")\\"; FILENAME=\\"${FILE%.*}\\"; magick \\"$FILE\\" -format png \\"$DIRECTORY/$FILENAME.png\\""

and now Dolphin doesnt complain about syntax, but the new converted image doesn’t get made :(

Tux is in need of a glass of wine to handle all those pesky windows households