jjesseI've really been trying hard to use Kubuntu for several weeks, but there is always something little that screws up and I waste time googling it.
It's juts a death by papercuts over and over.
I don't lilke everything about Windows 11, but it just works and I don't spend so much time googling why crap doesn't work. <sigh>
Here's an example of a dumb one. When I do "git push ..." Ksshpass window opens up and asks for a password first, but what it is really asking for is my username which it hides behinds *. Took way too long to figure that out.
Alex L 🕊 🇵🇸Do you mean ksshaskpass? I don't understand how could possibly ask for a username, since with a SSH Git remote the user is "git" ([email protected]...)
@alxlg Yes it was ksshaskpass, silly to me name. From the cli when I type git push up popped a window that was asking for my password, but it was really my gitlab user name. I'll try to get a screenshot later
@alxlg This is fromwhen i do a git commit to my local gitlab instance. ksshaskpass is clearly asking for password but in reality it is asking for a uesrname.
The confusion is the "username for..." and then the field says "password"
The confusion is the "username for..." and then the field says "password"
You are not using SSH, you are using HTTP as Git remotes. Evidently ksshaskpass never added HTTP support.
@alxlg yes im using HTTPS, I now i should use SSH, but whatever its my own internal instance.
But why would ksshaskpass prompt me? And prompt me incorrectly?
But why would ksshaskpass prompt me? And prompt me incorrectly?
My guess is that Git invokes an external program when configured to do so and assumes that program support both clear and obfuscated inputs. Instead ksshaskpass assumes Git will only ask for a password. Something like that.
Maybe you could try to specify the username in Git config:
One thing on #kubuntu / #kde I can't get to work correctly is a snap to for my windows. I want one window of Chrome open on half the screen and another on the other half.
In Windows 11 it just works and more importantly groups the two together so I can quickly alt+tab to the group of splt Chrome windows
In Windows 11 it just works and more importantly groups the two together so I can quickly alt+tab to the group of splt Chrome windows
The equivalent would be switching virtual desktops, each one with different tiled windows. You can use Krohnkite or another tiling script for Kwin to tile them automatically. I switch desktop with Meta+arrows.
@alxlg I didn't know about virtual desktops like that. Since I can right click a app and assign it to an activity I assumed it was a virtual desktop, guess it isn't?
Also I shouldnt have to have some script for snap to the window side to actually work correctly. It just does out of the box in Windows and the grouping of apps is really nice.
Googling the difference between an activity and a virtual desktop is just another papercut slowly killing me
sorry for the complaining today. But another thing on #kde #kubuntu is "activities" they just don't seem to work well. In Windows 11 I can set thngs to a virtual desktop and they just stay that way, even after a reboot. And yet somehow I can alt+tab from one activity to another. Or a link in Mastadon will open up on Chrome in the other Activity.
All #papercuts
Figured out how to setup Virtual Desktops but no shortcuts were defined or any way I could see how to define the shorts to switch between them.
Had to google "keyboard shortcut to switch between virtual desktops?" turns out it was Ctlr-F1 (super easy to discover?) #papercuts
Had to google "keyboard shortcut to switch between virtual desktops?" turns out it was Ctlr-F1 (super easy to discover?) #papercuts
