Mastodawn

@MaddieM4 I know you have thoughts on this

RE: https://eldritch.cafe/users/luce/statuses/116589219961988494

I gripe about this, but I do want to say that other than that, foot is a lovely terminal emulator and it does everything I need. Really enjoying my experience with sway and the terminal emulator is a huge part of that! I do everything I can in the terminal, and the composable nature of tools makes that possible.

loon 1d ago

I just spent entirely too long trying to figure out why foot doesn't work with the noto color emoji font. Turns out it doesn't support COLRv1 fonts but doesn't alert the user in any way that they'll notice unless they launch the terminal from another terminal. Logs are written to the parent process's stdout/stderr. The foot docs assured me that what I'm doing is right and that it should Just Work™. Alas! It's a known bug.

Foot cannot render COLRv1 emojis

### Foot Version foot version: 1.24.0 +pgo +ime +graphemes -assertions ### TERM environment variable foot ### Compositor Name and Version KDE Plasma 6.4.4 ### Distribution Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition 43 Beta ### Terminal multiplexer _No response_ ### Shell, TUI, application _No r...

Codeberg.org

loon 4d ago

Prof. Sam Lawler 5d ago

YOU GUYS!! We live on a planet where the perfect combination of chemistry, atmospheric temperature and pressure, and geometry means that this ridiculously beautiful thing just HAPPENS sometimes!!!

Earth is so damn neat! We have the best planet!

loon 6d ago

kinda want to fork foot and call it meter

loon May 19

Zelda 🎀May 19

The maddening thing about current Gender Discourse is that motherfuckers really will say "There's a male loneliness crisis" while listening to podcasters who tell you to treat all women as objects and all men as rivals.

You've just eliminated roughly 100% of the human population from the possibility of being your friend. Of course you're lonely.

loon May 19

I've wanted to play with sway for a while now, but hesitated because of the burden of setting it up. But as I've embraced the smolnet and minimalism more, I've become increasingly fatigued with the huge featureset of modern plasma. This is not to say that that featureset is bad or anything, just that my preferences have shifted and I need a break, I need something simpler and lighter.

Another change in my views is that I'm more comfortable with some things not working out of the box and finding solutions as I go. One such thing I found looking through the sway wiki is keyd. I've had capslock and left control swapped for so long that it's just part of how I use a computer, as fundamental as any other part of the keyboard. Finding solutions like this also gives me a sense of ownership over my setup that I didn't really have with plasma, and I think that may be part of why folks are so enthusiastic about sway.

I've switched from konsole to foot for terminal emulation, and the first thing that stands out to me is just how fast foot is. It's a joy to use, the responsiveness and the decreased latency. It's like 30 fps content vs. 60+ fps content. As @MaddieM4 said, once you're spoiled on input latency, it's hard to go back. A lot of what I do is in the terminal, so having a more responsive terminal emulator is a huge improvement! This has also made it much easier to switch to sway: tmux attach and most of what I need is right there, exactly as it was under plasma.

There's still a lot to explore and figure out and customize. As surprising as it is, I haven't written a sway config file yet! The defaults are almost all perfect. I did need to adjust display scaling for things to be comfortable, but again that was just so simple and easy to do. I will forever be impressed with how wayland has matured in the past several years.

Useful add ons for sway

i3-compatible Wayland compositor. Contribute to swaywm/sway development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

loon May 19

lounging on my couch jiggling my tits because I can

loon May 18

Oh, something I should point out as it gets warmer: if you're taking an SSRI, please be especially careful of how you exert yourself in the heat! SSRIs make you much more heat sensitive and prone to heat stroke, so please take care of yourself!

loon May 13

Calling my vampire sapphics:

Can you enthrall the willing? #BoostsOk

Yes

No

Poll ended at May 20 at 1:52am.

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