Hammerheart

Every so often, I accidentally activate .... what ever this is... I can't seem to find any info on what it's called, or exactly what hotkey makes it happen. It kinda bugs me because tonight I wanted to turn it on, because I wanted to access something from my history that it would have been tedious to up arrow to. I thought windowsKey + , did it, but when I tried it in a new tab, it didn't work. Someone must know what this is and how to toggle it.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/14680192

I have a VPS, but no root access so I can't use apt, or even read a lot of the system files. I would like to get jellyfin (or any media server, really) running on it. Jellyfin has a portable installation option, so I followed the instructions in the docs to install it from the .tar.gz.

But it says I have to install ffmpeg-jellyfin, and I can't find a portable installation of that. My VPS already has ffmpeg installed on it. Will jellyfin work if I just point it to that instead? Or, how can I go about installing ffmpeg-jellyfin without root access?

I have a VPS, but no root access so I can't use apt, or even read a lot of the system files. I would like to get jellyfin (or any media server, really) running on it. Jellyfin has a portable installation option, so I followed the instructions in the docs to install it from the .tar.gz.

But it says I have to install ffmpeg-jellyfin, and I can't find a portable installation of that. My VPS already has ffmpeg installed on it. Will jellyfin work if I just point it to that instead? Or, how can I go about installing ffmpeg-jellyfin without root access?

I recently got ssh set up so I can do stuff in powershell on my desktop from my laptop. I want to be able to start a movie on my desktop from my laptop, instead of having to reach for my wireless keyboard. I was researching how to do this with SSH, and it looks like OpenSSH no longer allows you to run the server as a user, it can only be ran as a service which doesn't have access to the desktop.

What's the best way to achieve this functionality?

I have been using sway (basically i3 for Wayland) instead of a traditional desktop environment because it really makes a difference in my laptops performance.

But apparently sway ignores .desktop files which was how i was autostarting things on KDE.

Is the best way to handle this by going through the sway config? If not, how would you do it.

Bonus points if you can tell me how to get the autostart programs to also open in specific workspaces.

Sometimes my CMUS will randomly stop playing a track or it won't play the next track until I manually go in and hit c (for resume) or otherwise initiate playback. I would like to be able to see what happened before these instances so i could either fix my config or, if its a problem beyond the scope of my local environment, get info to write up a proper bug report with. Where can I find such logs? Would they be in the systemd journal or somewhere in /var ?

If anyone could help me out with this, I'd greatly appreciate it. Basically, I can't ctrl + v to paste anything I pipe into the clipboard selection in xclip, and i can't xclip -o anything I copied with ctrl-c or ctrl-shift-c.

Maybe I want to paste a path into a neovim file. echo $(pwd) | xclip -i -sel c Now the path is in my clipboard, right? It sure shows up if i xclip -o -sel c!

But when I go into neovim and paste from the unnamedplus register, instead it pastes the last thing I copied in my browser.

if I want to copy the output of something from my terminal and google it, ctrl+v in the browser completely ignores my xclip selection.

i am forced to use the mouse and ctrl+shift+c in order to paste it into a search engine, like a caveman.

I hope I've done a decent enough job explaining the problem. It was most apparent earlier, as I was making a cronjob and I had to be explicit about file paths because i couldn't assume the working directory would be the directory of the script I was calling. I really wish I could have just echo $(pwd) | xclip -sel c; open neovim; hit p; see the path appear in my file.

I have a little clipboard icon in my system tray with my copy history, except none of the things I put in the clipboard selection with xclip -sel c or xsel -b appear there. I think that program is klipper, but I'm not sure.

I know there's a number of work arounds but still this kind of frustrates me. I think it has something to do with wayland and xclipboard not talking to each other. I am running wayland, KDE Plasma 5.27.5, and Debian 12.

Is there a simple configuration setting I can tweak, or do I need to find something to replace klipper or xclip? I have tried toggling the keep selection and clipboard the same and always save text selection in history settings in the plasma clipboard, no change. I tried two terminal emulators to no avail.

I will happily provide any more information if it would be helpful.

Lately ive noticed that i was wanting to do certain things on Windows that just seemed much easier and more intuitive on Linux, based in the OS specific solutions i would see to problems i encountered. And i was more frequently using software where Windows support seemed like an after thought.

A couple days ago i finally sat down and tried to install Mint. The installer didnt recognize my windows partition so it didnt offer any assistance. And a stroke of fate saw my internet connection dieing at the exact same time. Yes, i cant believe it either.

So i decided to live dangerously and just try to wing the installation with no outside help. It seems like creating a second EFI partition was not the right call. The install failed, and I couldn't get back onto windows.

I wound up just using a live ubuntu image for a few days while i wrestled with repairing the boot loader. I didnt succeed. Eventually i just made a windows recovery disk from my Desktop with an intact copy of windows, and had to reinstall windows.

Then i did manage to successfully install Debian, and ive been having such a great time with it so far. I feel like i probably didnt even need to keep a windows partition, especially since i could have just used my desktop if i REALLY needed windows. I havent had this much fun just using the computer since i was a kid.