#goodtoknow :
When opening a folder (like Downloads) from within #Tor #browser, the file manager suddenly has a different (serif) font. 😲
**Which is quite clever!**
So you know you're in the browser's sandbox environment. 🤓
On #xfce4 this affects /all/ applications started from within that sandboxed #Thunar, btw.
Let’s say you’re running Xfce on Debian and periodically after opening and closing the file manager, the whole desktop freezes and keyboard shortcuts to logout, access the command line, or anything else like that don’t work, but you still have access to SSH because this is how you’ve always used Linux.
How would you go about finding the log for this event and how might you restart the desktop over SSH? (All suggestions to restart the computer via the SSH connection will be ignored.)
Thanks!
update: i updated the firmware using this script: https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/fwscript.html
the fact that this #chromebook was completely capable of running modern firmware, but the stock firmware topped out about ~20 updates ago, really opened my eyes to the planned obsolescence in consumer tech
i'm dual booting #xubuntu thru https://chrx.org/ as a proof of concept to just play around and see what the hardware is capable of
the chromeos partition uses up a whole 10 GIGABYTES. this laptop only has like, 32gb storage or something lol. it's insane. eventually i'm gonna flash it with a full UEFI ROM and do away with chromeos entirely.
unsure what distro i'll go for after that. i'm running xubuntu with #xfce4 right now thru chrx. i daily drive #linuxmint but i worry it would be too heavy for this system, even if i went for debian edition.
i like #xfce4 in that it's similar to cinnamon. and tbh i might actually prefer thunar over nemo as a file manager.
anyone have recs for a lightweight #linux distro? ik there's loads of options but i don't have much experience with them.
I know a lot of people complain about it, but I don't have any major objections to #Wayland so I've been working (here and there) to migrate my laptop to it. In X11, I've mostly settled on a cobbled-together mix of #i3 and #xfce4 rather than any of the Desktop Environment suites (and that's probably at the heart of the problem). However, the Wayland landscape just isn't at the same level of maturity as Xorg yet.
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Darac Marjalhyprpm (the plugin manager) because you need to manually install so many -dev packagesSo, for now, I'll stick with the devil I know.
My next test will be installing Cairo dock on MX Linux which I also have on a microSD card for the SBC Raspberry Pi5
#Cairo #dock #library #Wayland #KDE #Gnome #Xfce4 #airdrop #localsend #kdeconnect #ftp #Linux #Raspberry #Pi5 #ARM #SBC #programming #opensource #technology
I've just installed Cairo Dock in my SBC Raspberry Pi5, using pi-packages the Add/Remove software utility.
What a mess I created.
Cairo Dock could not work properly. The gfx output indicated that it rendered in a manner that Wayland does not like.
I could see the window borders of the Dock which are invisible on Xorg in MX-Linux. Cairo Dock collapsed and expanded horizontally when you moved the mouse over it, with none of the applets reacting properly. They did not spawn the programs they were representing
I then proceded with sudo apt install cairo-doc from bash, after removal in pi-packages.
All dependecies were easily installed, but the rendering of my beloved Cairo dock still failed, making it still unusuable, in Wayland on the Pi5 SBC with 8GiB RAM
I will investigate, but for now I can't get the gorgeous Cairo dock to easily work on Wayland on the SBC Raspberry Pi5
#Cairo #dock #library #Wayland #KDE #Gnome #Xfce4 #airdrop #localsend #kdeconnect #ftp #Linux #Raspberry #Pi5 #ARM #SBC #programming #opensource #technology
Another excellent perspective on the subject at hand
This is what I Love 💕 about the FediVerse. Dynamic and open discussions on various matters in a civil way
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