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Mastering Touch & Stylus on GNU+Linux Laptops

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 02:54:15 +0000

I recently got a laptop that has both touch and stylus support in the screen itself. I got a pen and it is connected and it works, even the pressure sensitivity. It's supposed to also communicate the angle of the pen though I have yet to see that.

I'm interested in really learning how to use the GIMP image editor more fully, and make the best use of the stylus for creating things.

I've used GIMP for as long as I have used Linux. I've done a lot with it editing something that started out...

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Improving Laptop Battery Life by selectively suspending tasks

Sun, 03 Sep 2023 14:27:36 +0000

I have a vision: Extend Battery Runtime by suspending, delaying, or reducing some functions when the battery is not fully charged (or when AC power not connected).
Wether the trigger should be AC absence, or less than 100% charge I guess depends on if your power adapter and power port are strong enough to charge at full speed while also under full load. That might require actual measurements on each laptop to know. And it might vary depending on which power supply you're using. I...

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pipewire virtual devices and noise suppression setup

Sat, 26 Aug 2023 14:48:20 +0000

Many people have asked me how I set up my audio devices and noise suppression system wide, here is the configs I use.

I use two virtual loopback devices.

All my instant message and network notifications point to my "virtual" audio device, which outputs to my ear buds.
My music, virtual machines and streaming audio all output to my "stream" audio device, which outputs to my "virtual" audio device.
My mic feeds the "noise suppression" audio device, which outputs to OBS and my...

not able to start Emacsclient in graphical mode

Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:26:14 +0000

Hello GNU+Linux users.

I was using a systemd service to enable emacs server at login.

Code:

[Unit]
Description=Emacs text editor
Documentation=info:emacs man:emacs(1) https://gnu.org/software/emacs/

[Service]
Type=notify
ExecStart=/usr/bin/emacs --fg-daemon

# Emacs will exit with status 15 after having received SIGTERM, which
# is the default "KillSignal" value systemd uses to stop services.
SuccessExitStatus=15

# The location of the SSH auth socket varies by distribution, and some
# set it from...

Data hoarder needing ADF Scanner recommendation (From Receipts to Books)

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 05:04:52 +0000

I am a data hoarder. I realize my money would probably be better spent on medication or therapy. But instead I want to buy an excellent network scanner that can indulge my addiction.

I scan all paper, and usually dispose of it afterwards (so the scans need to be "very good"). I've already taken care of sorting/ocr/indexing/search/backup. This thread is only in regard to the search for better (faster, more reliable) physical hardware. I'm tired of waiting on scanners, and dealing with...

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Recommend File Recovery Tool for ext4 volume

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 14:50:57 +0000

Does a good tool exist to (read only) examine an lvm lv (or other arbitrary block device or file) containing a journaled ext filesystem and present a browsable interface of what was there, but has since been deleted, and let me copy things out, into a new directory restoredir.

I expect there are also orphaned filesystem objects with no direcotory context or file names, and the tool would have some way to "dump all orphans" to sequentially numbered files in /restoredir/

I would expect to...

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ULTRAKILL freezes whenever its out of focus

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 14:25:31 +0000

ULTRAKILL freezes whenever its out of focus on sway, it doesnt matter the resolution or whether Vsync is off or on, or if it is fullscreen or not, it just freezesand by freezing i mean total freezein the menu the frame freezes and its unresponsive, no music is playingsame thing in the game, except it doesnt frame-freeze and it becomes blacksomeone help i lost a lot of progress D:

setting up nvidia hybrid

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 03:24:27 +0000

well been messing arounf past 2 weeks ( 50 reinstalls 10 difrent distros and all desktop enviroments even hyprland ) and most of the times nvidia hybird is set up in 5 minutes simple 3 lines of terminal commands ( in example it is used zypper, but just use what your distro uses to use sudo/install )

1. update your system
2. install nvdia drivers
3. reboot and assign MOK key ( if it asks )
4.

Code:

sudo ln -sfv /dev/null /etc/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules

Code:

sudo prime-select boot offload...

Chromium render fix

Tue, 20 Jun 2023 11:57:13 +0000

if you experience chromium based browser render issues after installing it or updates it is usually on Mesa driver issues and easy fix is just clear caches

example here is for chrome, but works on all others just edit correct paths

Code:

rm ~/.config/google-chrome/GrShaderCache -rf
rm ~/.config/google-chrome/ShaderCache -rf
rm ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/GPUCache -rf

wine cant run from the terminal.

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 07:14:16 +0000

for eample: when i run something like wine "C:\Program Files\example.exe" it runs for a split second then crashes
when i run wine .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/example.exe its still the same
but when i run cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/ then wine example.exe it works fine, why?

neofetch cuz im slightly lazyy lol:

Vivaldi graphics corruption in recent versions under Wayland

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 02:28:50 +0000

For anyone using Vivaldi under Wayland and getting weird corruption on images like this...

Or this ....

You can try using the command line option --ozone-platform=wayland to see if that resolves the problem.

Pipewire virtual loopback device robot-like distortion in 0.3.71

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 18:50:22 +0000

For those that have a robot-like distortion in Pipewire 0.3.71 using virtual loopback devices, you can track the issue in the bug report I made https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/3276

Good habits/etiquette when asking for help

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 12:40:21 +0000

Sometimes it can be a bit frustrating and diagnosing problems, i know i've been there way too many times, but for other people to help they will need information and context.
Also this could be a collaborative thread,so any suggestions are welcome and if possible i will edit this to make it more visible, so let's do it.

What information to give?

The system is prebuilt(OEM) or custom built?
Hardware specification, such as
- CPU;
- Motherboard model and brand;
- Storage...

General Support

Mastering Touch & Stylus on GNU+Linux Laptops

Improving Laptop Battery Life by selectively suspending tasks

pipewire virtual devices and noise suppression setup

not able to start Emacsclient in graphical mode

Data hoarder needing ADF Scanner recommendation (From Receipts to Books)

Recommend File Recovery Tool for ext4 volume

ULTRAKILL freezes whenever its out of focus

setting up nvidia hybrid

Chromium render fix

wine cant run from the terminal.

Vivaldi graphics corruption in recent versions under Wayland

Pipewire virtual loopback device robot-like distortion in 0.3.71

Good habits/etiquette when asking for help

What information to give?​

What information to give?