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probonopd / Wayland.md
Last active June 14, 2025 03:04
Think twice about Wayland. It breaks everything!

Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!

Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating everyone else (e.g., people using just an X11 window manager or something like GNUstep) in the process.

Update 06/2025: X11 is alive and well, despite what Red Hat wants you to believe. https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver revitalizes the Xorg X11 server as a community project under new leadership.

@jthodge
jthodge / universal-switcher
Created September 6, 2020 22:07
Show macOS app switcher across all monitors
defaults write com.apple.Dock appswitcher-all-displays -bool true
killall Dock
@seanh
seanh / vimgrep.md
Last active April 27, 2025 13:31
vimgrep cheatsheet

vimgrep

  • Vimcasts on vimgrep

  • Uses native vim regexes (which are slightly different from the regexes used by grep, ack, ag, etc) so the patterns are the same as with vim's within-file search patterns.

You can do a normal within-file search first, then re-use the same pattern to

@mrk-han
mrk-han / emulator-install-using-avdmanager.md
Last active June 4, 2025 07:17
Installing and creating Emulators with AVDMANAGER (For Continuous Integration Server or Local Use)

Install and Create Emulators using AVDMANAGER and SDKMANAGER

TL;DR

For an emulator that mimics a Pixel 5 Device with Google APIs and ARM architecture (for an M1/M2 Macbook):

  1. List All System Images Available for Download: sdkmanager --list | grep system-images

  2. Download Image: sdkmanager --install "system-images;android-30;google_atd;arm64-v8a"

@r-lyeh
r-lyeh / Unicode table
Created March 21, 2018 10:36 — forked from ivandrofly/Unicode table
Unicode table - List of most common Unicode characters *
Unicode table - List of most common Unicode characters *
* This summary list contains about 2000 characters for most common ocidental/latin languages and most printable symbols but not chinese, japanese, arab, archaic and some unprintable.
Contains character codes in HEX (hexadecimal), decimal number, name/description and corresponding printable symbol.
What is Unicode?
Unicode is a standard created to define letters of all languages ​​and characters such as punctuation and technical symbols. Today, UNICODE (UTF-8) is the most used character set encoding (used by almost 70% of websites, in 2013). The second most used character set is ISO-8859-1 (about 20% of websites), but this old encoding format is being replaced by Unicode.
How to identify the Unicode number for a character?
Type or paste a character:
@mamonu
mamonu / qcow2vdi.sh
Last active April 27, 2025 12:25
convert a qcow2 vm to a VirtualBox vm format
qemu-img convert -O vdi gnome.qcow2 gnome.vdi
#if its a raw image then:
VBoxManage convertdd opnstk.raw VBox.vdi --format VDI
@ngs
ngs / table.mkdn
Created May 24, 2012 16:04
Unicode character table

A

Description Entity Preview
A With Acute, Latin Capital Letter Á Á
A With Acute, Latin Small Letter á á
A With Breve, Latin Small Letter ă ă
A With Caron, Latin Small Letter ǎ ǎ
A With Circumflex, Latin Capital Letter  Â
A With Circumflex, Latin Small Letter â â