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The Year Of Linux Desktop

PC

  • LG 27UD69P-4k
    • expecting 2.0 1080p worst case
  • Crystal Series case 570X RGB
  • Silent Loop 360 water cooler
  • 750W Straight Power 11
  • Ryzen Threadripper 1920X
  • X399 Aorus Gaming 7 mobo
  • 16GB 3000MHz XPG Dazzle CL16
  • Radeon RX 560 EVO
  • Samsung SSD 250 960 EVO M.2

Distro

  • Solus Budgie is cool
    • Elixir works with asdf, erlang through eopkg initially
  • Wayland transition sounds scary and basically invalidates all the stuff below

Key maps

  1. figure out how to use apple keyboard/hhkb

  2. macbook keyboard layout is broken, tilde is misplaced, english macintosh input source is wrong as well (tilde inputs §), probably needs something like polish macbook 😂

  3. hhkb uknown yet, investigate dipswitches

  4. pl chars ...

  5. remap stuff so cmd/super works just like in mac for most applications

  • requires per "window id" settings
  • people just go with ctrl everywhere, but that does not make sense
  • submit xbindskeys package to solus upstream
  • gnome-terminal allows nice keybindings setup, cmd+c/cmd+v work as they should
  • maybe don't go with xbindskeys but read from /dev/input directly (elixir?)
  • xbindkeys/xdotool seem to work, proof of concept:
# .xbindkeysrc
 "/home/hq1/script.sh Mod4_t"
  Mod4 + t

"/home/hq1/script.sh Mod4_l"
  Mod4 + l
# script.sh
#!/bin/bash
W=`xdotool getactivewindow`                                                     
S1=`xprop -id ${W} | awk -F '"' '/WM_CLASS/{print $4}'`                                 
HANDLER="${S1}_${1}.remap"

echo "Combo $1 on window $W '$S1'" >> /tmp/log.txt
echo "Trying ${HANDLER}" >> /tmp/log.txt

if [[ -x $HANDLER ]]
then
	echo "Executable found" >> /tmp/log.txt
	./$HANDLER $W
else
	echo "No handler found" >> /tmp/log.txt
fi
# Firefox_Mod4_l.remap
xdotool key --clearmodifiers --window $1 F6
xdotool key --clearmodifiers --window $1 Ctrl+a
  • wrap this with a nice interface
  • add xbindkeys to xprofile
  • disable whatever gnome/budgie binds to Super by default, otherwise Super_L doesn't register properly on first attempt
gsettings set org.gnome.mutter overlay-key ''
  • Find a way to provision default gtk3/budgie/whatever keybindings programatically.
  • Remap caps to ctrl programatically (or use HHKB and fuck it)
  • dconf has some strings but dconf-editor complains about orphaned values (no keys)
 ~/.config/dconf $ strings user | grep "Super"
grep: warning: GREP_OPTIONS is deprecated; please use an alias or script
Super_R
<Super>w
<Super>t
<Super>BackSpace

Random

TODO

  • see if flameshot can properly put stuff into xclip
  • don't get discouraged, muh freedom is worth it 😂

Self hosted saga continues

  • replace pocket with wallabag
  • put wallabag on kobo - https://gitlab.com/anarcat/wallabako/
  • come up with a good name for home PC (bsb = blood starved beast, krul), set up dynamic dns on digitalocean to reach from the outside (TM)
  • make {pc}.mtod.org with some cool public stats/uptime

HiDPI Checklist

  • standalone whatsapp/signal - gnome web displays properly but fucks up hidpi when turned into an "app"
    • not critical, pinned tabs are okay.jpg
  • standalone slack - should be good to go with solus 3rd party
  • teamviewer - bogus info on solus 3rd party, TV changed their URLs, submit package fix upstream
  • budgie/gtk - seems fine so far (on a macbook)

More foss fuss

  • Install lineage with no google apps
  • separate linux dotfiles repo, including .config

Trivia

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