As you see here I already have configured the minimal amount of users that I need in my K Desktop Environment
The next phase will take a bit of time because I need to fine tune critical small keyboard shortcuts so that they work as transparently as they do in xFace with muscle memory
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Im starting to achieve platform distro OS translucency regarding more and more projects. Now I can smoothly work in my hugo projects from any distro I want in Linux. All I need to do is keep the copies I work on in sync.
Since I dont run zfs jet on a centralized HDD / SSD I simply use mc -a to do the job manually.
Normally it should be trivial, but the hugo projects want rm -Rf dir otherwise old files with similar size can be changed, thus screwing up continuity
Since my KDE MX install is smoothing out in cfg features I need, which is a combo of XFce components and KDE, I can smoothly switch to the KDE distro and work further while I tune it.
I chose to keep XFce seperate from KDE distro wise due to size constraints I;ve put on my boot partition
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Linus Torvalds has coded git two decades ago.
Learn about why how who and where here
https://youtu.be/sCr_gb8rdEI?si=s8tDVh1e8dBTGWkJ
How can I apply for one for my boxyBSD VM? do I have to contact you on Matrix?
I have KDE on a semi permanent installation on a 2.5" Drive. If you have been following my toots you know at which level I am with it again after a couple of decades
It's nothing in ease of use, compared to my XFce Desktop ENV: where I have all shortcuts I want in muscle memory, however KDE has become much more powerful in the couple of decades I've not looked at it.
@gyptazy @BoxyBSD
As you know Tunnel Brokers does not work for me due to my current network setup without a static pingable IP
I am keenly interested
I've installed the statically linked version. Now I rock the latest version of ffmpeg
This error in MX Linux KDE edition is now annoying
I cant work without ffmpeg and Im NOT going to install a programming ENV: just to build one programma
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$ sudo apt install ffmpeg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
ffmpeg-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ffmpeg
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,816 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,437 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 ffmpeg amd64 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1 [1,816 kB]
Fetched 1,816 kB in 2s (992 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package ffmpeg.
(Reading database ... 342056 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../ffmpeg_7%3a5.1.6-0+deb12u1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking ffmpeg (7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1) ...
Setting up ffmpeg (7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-2) ...
metalloid@bugrupola:~
$ ffmpeg
ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libavcodec.so.59: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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Who knows a fix apart from compilation?
Let's see if I can make something off this: https://github.com/George-NG/dovecot-maildir-compress/blob/master/dovecot-maildir-compress
I installed #bash as I am too lazy to convert the script to #ksh.
The next step was to config KDE connect in this KDE. Luckily I know that I need gufw to migrate my profile, from the xFce MX linux to this KDE MX linux.
It was a matter of installing gufw, which is not default in KDE distro, since it has its own nice interface. For me sticking with what I know is the easiest since I want to drive KDE on desktop again after so many decades, even though XFce is still going to be used most, due to shortcut muscle memory
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I also encountered another problem; I can immediately tell you that it's not a KDE specific problem but it popped up in konsole.
The subject is fonts and the section is point size. The monitors I use are not of a small resolution. In fact an ideal IPS LED panel layout for me would be an 8K panel two 4K panels flanking it and two 1080p ultra ultra wide panels at a left and right of those.
With such a setup I can monitor different machines at the glance and control them with ease.
Even on my 1080p Ultra Ultra wide panel the default Point sizes for fonts are too small. On a scratch KDE based MX Linux installation, the following problem was repeated twice in Konsole.
The first time I changed font point sizes, closed konsole. When I reopened konsole the fixed with font, was replaced with one that appended spaces behind every couple of letters.
This rendered konsole unusable for work.
Changing the fonts Point sizes to the defaults again did not fix the problem.
Sinds that installation was Vanilla and didn't have enough space for home and root on one partition to actually Play with KDE, I wiped it and started again.
This time I deliberately did not change the point sizes even though it was hard to read. I then copied over some configuration directories from my other installation to this One, none of them related to anything KDE wise or any fonts directory. When I rebooted that installation The problem occurred for the second Time.
As with the wallpaper issue, I immediately converted that energy of irritation to something positive. I troubleshooted the font problem for a short while and when I couldn't isolate it I did a simple thing. I created a couple of other accounts on the same KDE installation to see if I could repeat the error.
That reproduction step is vital before a bug report is created. The other accounts were also residing on my other xFace MX Linux installations, which means I could simply copy them over to the other home partition where KDE was looking at.
In the other accounts I could not repeat the error.
That means a bug report is worthless because repeatability is crucial. Since the usage of a terminal in the K Desktop Environment is important, I changed my strategy and simply installed the xFace Four terminal in KDE. In the end that was a nice move since I know all the keyboard shortcuts of the terminal by hand they are in muscle memory and they have been there for years.
As a bonus I also installed other good shells in MX KDE the hashtags tell you which.
Right now I have a KDE installation in which I can actually work based upon the MX Linux KDE variant
I shall link a couple of photographs in a few minutes
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I'm giving my thanks to the programmer of Vallpaper because it is a Gift from Thor IMHO. Without Vallpaper I would not be able to seamlessly change my wallpapers on all the desktops I have. Thank you for creating this wonderful program
Vallpaper can be found here https://store.kde.org/p/1197828
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My next step was something unexpected.
In XFce4 my desktops all have different backgrounds per IPS Led Panel. Its a matter of context_menu_key (on my keyboard I have one) select background, then move the program to the next display beside it and repeat, then move it to the next desktop, display besides AD Infinitum
KDE says HELL NO to that ease.
I did some reasearch and saw that it was easy peasy in KDE 4.5.x then got replaced with activities in KDE Plasma 5.x
The simple command is now either kwin scripts or a lot of keystrokes and time.
Instead of getting pissed I went further and found that what the programmers replaced with activities (which are POWERFULL and versatile) and also usuable for wallpapers per VTop (Virtual desktop) was eased back (in 2022) with VallPaper
Source is here
https://cadence.moe/blog/2022-12-03-implementing-different-wallpapers-on-kde-virtual-desktops
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I've probably tooted about this before, but I don't know why this isn't standard.
It's just so obvious, at least to me. ;)
~ $ type mcd
mcd is a function
mcd ()
{
[[ -n $1 ]] && mkdir "$1" && cd "$1"
}
One of the hashtags _guru
