Just wondering since I know a lot of people quietly use a screen-area-select -> tesseract OCR -> clipboard shortcut.

  • I separate subjects of interest into different Firefox windows, in different workspaces – so I have an extension title them and a startup script parse text to ask the compositor to put them in the correct workspace (lets me restart more conveniently).
  • I have automatically-set different-orientation wallpapers for using my 2-in-1 depending on whether I use it in portrait or landscape (kind of just for looks, but I don’t think if anyone else adds a wallpaper change to their screen rotation keybind).
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    5 hours ago

    I’m using XFCE with Compiz, and since I have two monitors I have a 3D octagon instead of a 3D cube desktop.

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    I use this app (webapps is the name I think) to make apps for YouTube, Mubi and TorrentLeech and I have then pinned on the task bar and use them as apps instead of webpages. This is in my hometheater pc

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    I use many KDE activities all mapped to a single hotkey. Meta+H, Meta+J, Meta+K, then L, Y, U, G.

    I set my browser and maybe one other as sticky to show on all. I also have specific desktop picture for all of them.

    On top of that I have a startup command that opens all applications I use for work. Each application is configured to open in a certain activity.

    The end result is that instead of doing Alt-Tab or looking for the window I do Meta+Key and it’s there in front of my eyes with focus.

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    Small thing, but I really like it: I have ~/autoclean_tmp directory on most of the hosts I use as a desktop. Then on crontab I have a find-command which automatically deletes files which are 7 days or older. I can throw stuff I download from the internet and copy from other hosts, random text files when setting up new stuff and so on in there and they just vanish after a while.

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      I have the same type of thing. An alias that creates a tempdir that is based on the date, then cd’s into it. Then a cron job that finds dirs that are older then N days old and deletes them. I use these for most of my scratch work. Having several days to look back at what you did and know when you did it is so nice.

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    Maybe a bit plain since I’m only at mediocre level in my Linux journey, but I use my favorite fonts for Kitty. Recursive Mono Linear and then for italics and comments in neovim I use Recursive Mono Casual Italic.

    Recursive Linear is so tidy and neat, with just the lightest touch of personality. And Casual keeps that style but tweaks it just ever so slightly to a more comic. And they have sans versions of both as well for everything else.

    I also made my own Starship prompt to match my desktop. It runs an easily reconfigurable color palette and uses color coded chevrons to denote different git statuses.

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    Does stuff I wrote myself count?

    Apache server that has a bunch of webpages that are all configured by simple JSON files and loaded by PHP. The pages have buttons on them which when pressed enter macros. So I push “Deploy Landing Gear” and Shift+alt+F8 or some obscure as fuck combination no one would ever use normally gets pressed and the game can be set to use that keybind. Most of it is for simple immediate key presses but also made a few for macros as well.

    The HTML/PHP that runs the show is a grand total of 2018 bytes, including comments. Plus a fairly bloated 2444 byte CSS file that includes some button colour options that I never use now because I decided they look ugly. Should update some of the background images though, my sheet steel Faulcon DeLacy logo looks a bit basic.

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    Coming from Windows, I set up KDE’s Spectacle to open with Super + Shift + S in Area Select Mode and save and copy to clipboard on click release

    Maybe not as unique but kinda neat I think

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    I have Syncthing set up to copy save data between my pc and steam deck, but not just for emulator stuff: its got my entire modded minecraft directory and my balatro modloader nn there too.

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      Syncthing is great and incredibly easy to use. I have mine set to sync my Obsidian notes so I don’t have to pay for the official service.

      I have tried multiple different open source note apps that offer free local sync, but I can’t find anything I like. It frustrates me because I love open source.

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        I use the same setup with Syncthing and Obsidian. The git plugin sometimes gets confused, but nothing I can’t untangle. I also use Syncthing for pictures off my phone, and ebooks onto it.

        Actually, I think I do have a setup that might qualify as unusual: I use the scheduled backup feature of Podcast Addict to get a listing of listened podcast episodes, and then I inject them into my Obsidian notes.

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      I think I mentioned it but here it is again in case the comment didnt federate

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      # snippet based on end4 dotfiles -- FIXME edge case where a
      #     preexisting tmp.png might be overwritten
      # English
      bind = Super+Shift,T,exec,grim -g "$(slurp $SLURP_ARGS)" "tmp.png" && tesseract -l eng "tmp.png" - | wl-copy && rm "tmp.png"
      # Korean
      bind = Super+Shift,K,exec,grim -g "$(slurp $SLURP_ARGS)" "tmp.png" && tesseract -l kor "tmp.png" - | wl-copy && rm "tmp.png"
      # Japanese
      bind = Super+Shift,J,exec,grim -g "$(slurp $SLURP_ARGS)" "tmp.png" && tesseract -l jpn "tmp.png" - | wl-copy && rm "tmp.png"
      

      Pipe grim and slurp (selects part of the Wayland screen then copies) into a tmp.png, tesseract it into the clipboard, then delete the tmp.png. Has like 1 sec of lag tho :]

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        why do you even need a temporary file?

        $ slurp | grim -g - - | tesseract stdin stdout -l eng+kor+jpn | wl-copy -t 'text/plain'
        
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    I type “power…” into my cli and press tab+enter to shutdown my computer. Same for reboot… 😆

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    In all my servers I still have a cron->make routine running. It’s a hold-over from 20 years ago and the state of IaC back then, and it’s made its way onto every server I manage because it is simple and effective.

    And it still does its job. 8 major RHEL releases later, and the thing it needs to do, it does.

    Lennart would build 3 new daemons and link them all into dbus, I’m sure.