If you want to get into customizing UIs hard, something the likes of this

You could get started with window managers (very opiniated topic, its really up to you to decide on which you should use) and UI toolkits like

• ewww
• AGS
• QuickShell

Also I know X11 is slowly dying but AwesomeWM fits your bill really nicely.

TL,DR: You want a cool UI? look at unixporn’s top posts of all time, research an option you find good enough and go bananas on everything you need to make yourself at home.

ALSO consider posting at !unixporn@lemmy.ml so we can marvel at your fine grained rice, good luck!

Support for larger 32-bit x86 systems (those with more than eight CPUs or more than 4GB of RAM) has been removed.

What? How do you get more than 4GB of ram on a 32-bit CPU architecture? Now I need to know what kind of black magic they used for that

The Driftveil City Theme from Pokemon B&W pops up in my mind quite frequently, I’d say its up there in the list for catchiest Pokemon tunes. Honorable mention for Cave Story’s Main Theme (the wii version is clearly superior from all others and I will not accept any other opinions on the matter)

I really thought that the effort of Fedora integrating flatpaks with their atomic spins meant that flatpak development was anything but lacking. I wonder if Redhat’s budget falls too short to take a look at those PRs? Specially for the replacement of pulseaudio, giving mic permissions because you allowed audio to go through your speakers really shouldn’t be a thing. Great summary either way

Question: Is using paperclips a worse alternative? I’ve found them useful for those sim pinholes but im not entirely sure if its good practice

So thats the reason behind the steamdecks fume mania huh? I’ll keep that in mind (hopefully not on my nostrils!) if I ever get one. Thank you for keeping up with the blogposts! They make my long bus rides way more entertaining :)

If anyone is curious, I checked the yay aur helper go dependencies here and it had none of the malicious packages mentioned on this post

LocalSend for quick local network file sharing from my phone that just werks. I prefer it over kde connect because the latter uses lots of random ports that kinda bloat my firewall whitelist. I know there is an alternative called warpinator, but I don’t see a reason to change my preferences for now.

Will they deliver dev toolkits on time so there’s actually something to use in those machines other than a browser?

Isn’t that what openGL and vulkan aim for?

So ZQ comes from the sound of a fly being swatted?

ooo that looks nice! I’ll try it once I need to unrust my script skills again, thanks for the help!

It’s fixed now! At first I researched a little more and found about the desktop-file-validate cli utility from the desktop-file-utils package, and it did tell me a lot about the syntax errors I was making with the exec command.

But as you wisely suggested, dealing with those escaping rules was a bit too bothersome for my use case, so I ended going the bash script route which worked flawlessly at last! So thank you for pointing that out!

Here’s the final .desktop file for anyone interested:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
MimeType=image/png;image/jpg;image/jpeg;image/ico;image/heic;image/svg+xml;image/webp;
Actions=topng;tojpg;toico;towebp
X-KDE-Submenu=Convert Image Format
Icon=viewimage

[Desktop Action topng]
Name=To Png
Exec=/home/myuser/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/scripts/convert-image.sh %f png
Icon=viewimage

[Desktop Action tojpg]
Name=To Jpg
Exec=/home/myuser/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/scripts/convert-image.sh %f jpg
Icon=viewimage

[Desktop Action toico]
Name=To Ico
Exec=/home/myuser/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/scripts/convert-image.sh %f ico
Icon=viewimage

[Desktop Action towebp]
Name=To Webp
Exec=/home/myuser/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/scripts/convert-image.sh %f webp
Icon=viewimage

and the bash script coupled with it:

#!/bin/bash

FILE="${1}"
FORMAT="${2}"

# Check if magick is installed
if ! command -v magick &> /dev/null; then
    echo "Error: magick command not found. Please install ImageMagick."
    exit 1
fi

# Check if FILE exists
if [[ ! -f "$FILE" ]]; then
    echo "File not found: $FILE"
    exit 1
fi

DIRECTORY=$(dirname "$FILE")
# Get the file name by looking for the longest match starting from the beginning of the string up to the last dot.
FILENAME=$(basename "$FILE" .${FILE##*.})

# Convert the file format using magick
magick "$FILE" -format "$FORMAT" "$DIRECTORY/$FILENAME.$FORMAT"

If I understood correctly, I made the changes as you said like this:

Exec=sh -c "FILE=\"%f\"; DIRECTORY=\"$(dirname \"$FILE\")\"; FILENAME=\"${FILE%.*}\"; magick \"$FILE\" -format png \"$DIRECTORY/$FILENAME.png\""

Now when I click on the service menu option this error popup appears:

Syntax error in command sh -c "FILE=%f; DIRECTORY=$(dirname $FILE); FILENAME=${FILE%.*}; magick $FILE\ -format png $DIRECTORY/$FILENAME.png" coming from

It seems escaping the double quotes doesn’t actually escape the backlash with it?

I then tried escaping those new backlashes like this

Exec=sh -c "FILE=\\"%f\\"; DIRECTORY=\\"$(dirname \\"$FILE\\")\\"; FILENAME=\\"${FILE%.*}\\"; magick \\"$FILE\\" -format png \\"$DIRECTORY/$FILENAME.png\\""

and now Dolphin doesnt complain about syntax, but the new converted image doesn’t get made :(

For anyone wanting to relive the minecraft 7th gen console experience on PC, I suggest you give the Legacy4J mod a try, specially with the Re-Console Modpack. I had lots of fun revisiting the old tutorial worlds

Tux is in need of a glass of wine to handle all those pesky windows households

Checking your battery percentage by using neofetch is wildd

Bingo bango bongo, bish bash bosh

Has it fixed the markdown inconsistencies yet? Last time I tried the app for lemmy all the spoiler boxes I saw just didnt work

I went into void as my first DIY distro, mainly because I wanted to mess around with window managers and it was a very good experience. Runit made my underpowered laptop boot into linux in like 4 seconds, crazy fast. XBPS package manager was always really really fast too. I like the fact that nearly everything you need is in the official repo, instead of having to delve into the depths of something like the AUR. I also managed to make a contribution to the repos with the help of the community on the IRC chat rooms which were very noob friendly. Overall just a solid experience.