Additionally you could move the git folder to the trash folder. I think it’s usually located at $HOME/.local/share/trash/files/

Moving something to the trash files folder isn’t the correct way to trash it, since the Trash specification requires storing some metadata for each trash item.

You should use eg. trash-cli instead.

bwrap wants to have a word with you

they are extra heavy in disk space

While they use more disk space than most native packages, this point is often exaggerated. Flatpak uses deduplication and shared runtimes if multiple apps use the same runtime.

Common libraries like OpenSSL are usually bundled in runtimes. So if my application uses e.g. org.gnome.Platform, I don’t have to update my application if there is a fix in a library of that runtime, I just need to update the runtime.

The runtime is also shared by all applications that use this runtime.

The steam flatpak can’t install udev rules. It works if you install a packacke such as steam-devices on your host system. See https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam/wiki#my-controller-isnt-being-detected

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What should be shown if there is currently no playback?

The documentation says:

Waydroid uses Linux namespaces (user, pid, uts, net, mount, ipc) to run a full Android system in a container and provide Android applications on any GNU/Linux-based platform.

To my understanding this isn’t even emulation but regular container technology.

Will have to switch back to X.Org until this is fixed by the Wayland/XWayland developers

This isn’t the responsibility of “wayland developers”. The developers of an application need to adapt to the new API.

Wayland monolith

There seems to be misunderstanding about what Wayland is.

Wayland is set of protocols. They are implemented by wayland servers (compositors) and wayland clients (applications) themselves. There is no single “wayland binary” like in the X11 days. Servers or clients may choose to implement or not implement a specific protocol.

You don’t even need to create aliases yourself. Flatpak creates wrapper scripts for every app that you install. Just symlink them into your PATH.

ln -s /var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/org.example.CliTool ~/.local/bin/cli-tool

or if you are using a user remote

ln -s ~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/bin/org.example.CliTool ~/.local/bin/cli-tool

(Note: some lemmy clients render the the tilde in code blocks incorrectly)

Snaps are just as “open source” as “Office Open XML” (.docx, .pptx etc.) are open file formats.

If there isn’t a fully open source software stack, it isn’t really open source.

GNOME 46 has experimental VRR support too

GNOME got proper Wireguard support in version 44, unfortunately Debian stable ships an outdated version (43).

Cosmic is a desktop environment, not a distro. So Pop!OS will keep using deb packages and something like a Fedora Cosmic Spin will use rpm packages.

Are you sure this is the only error that you get?

Make sure to check if there is a message Attempt to free invalid pointer. This is a known problem for source games: [Linux] Failure to start with tcmalloc “Attempt to free invalid pointer” and lavapipe built against llvm 16 and workarounds are available.

Tbe documentaion is a good starting point.

https://docs.flatpak.org

https://docs.flathub.org

This is exactly what this change is about. Most blurry apps are blurry because they don’t support Wayland (yet/by default) and are running using XWayland.

The only Wayland native software where I had problems with fractional scaling is Qt WebEngine which doesn’t handle scaling correctly.

The worst part about signing up somewhere is the amount of email spam that will land in you inbox. I don’t know about their specific configuration, but by default Discourse (the forum software they use) sends weekly “digest emails” if you haven’t visited the site for a week. So make sure to turn them off.

There was an issue in the past where the regular mesa-* packages and the mesa-*-freeworld were out of sync which resulted in no longer working DEs for many people if they updated at the wrong time.

Is this still an issue?

(I went back to the regular drivers since I mostly use VP8/9 anyway)

X.com is a centralized internet platform that is known for hatespeech, harmful content and being controlled by a single person with questionable opinions.

Wayland.social is part of a federated internet platform that is known for its diverse communities, independence from any centralized authorities and interoperability with other federated internet platforms.

/s

I want that individual users are able to theme my app. I don’t want that distributors and DEs automatically theme my app and expect that it still works the same.

It’s a bit like websites: I’m absolutely fine if a user wants to inject some CSS in my website. On the other hand, if a browser manufacturer decided to inject CSS into all websites to customize their look, it would be a nightmare for web developers.

Any recent application should respect the global org.freedesktop.appearance color-scheme setting. If it doesn’t, you should blame the app developer.

Please don’t automatically generate themes for third-party apps. If an application brings its own styles and icons, it results a weird mix of multiple styles.

If a user wants to style it themselves, they should be able to — at their own risk. But shipping (inherently broken) styles with a distro/DE misrepresents the appplication and creates unnecessary issues for the upstream developers.

https://stopthemingmy.app/

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Windows, is in fact, Adware/NT, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Adware plus NT.

HDD, which is /home

Spinning rust is slow

Have you tried to either

1. put /home on the SSD and only larger subdirectories on the HDD
2. set eg. XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_CACHE_HOME etc. to a location on the SSD (to improve program startup time)

I have no direct comparison, but I can imagine that this could reduce the performance impact of your HDD.

You need evolution-data-server for that.

If the program uses xdg-desktop-portal, the file picker isn’t provided by the toolkit but by your desktop / portal implementation.

GNOME Extensions actually run in the gnome-shell process itself and can do most things that a builtin solution could offer.

They fail in some circumstances […] and behave inconsistently

That proves why they shouldn’t be part of GNOME Shell themselves. Offloading some (debatable) functionality to extensions helps keeping the core components reliable and maintainable.

Side note: there is also a DING implementation with supposedly better DnD support: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5263/gtk4-desktop-icons-ng-ding/

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2087/desktop-icons-ng-ding/

It is 3 GNOME releases behind.

Why not?

1. The file selection dialog is not a part of Nautilus. It is either a provided by the toolkit (e.g. Qt, GTK3, GTK4) or by a xdg-desktop-portal implementation. The GTK4 file chooser that is also used by GNOME’s portal implementation supports thumbnails since December 2022 or GNOME 44.
2. I guess you are using an older (LTS) version of ubuntu that uses an outdated version of GTK.

Microsoft already uses ripgrep in vscode which they distribute as a proprietary build.

There is also Weston which is the reference implementaion of a Wayland compositor.

Cinnamon uses Muffin, which is a fork of GNOME’s Mutter: https://github.com/linuxmint/muffin

That’s interesting. I am on GNOME/Wayland and the above flag helped.

The best part is seeing these US defaultisms on lemmy.WORLD.

!usdefaultism@lemmy.world

Did you try playing the files on a different device to sort out playback issues?

That app evolved a lot since I looked at it the last time!