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I open links from different categories of websites in different firefox profiles via a bash script. For example the current one is named "memes".
Also i have a second panel at the top of my second monitor so i can always see the current date and time.
Also i have a second panel at the top of my second monitor so i can always see the current date and time.
I think this one is probably very popular. I had a very hard time giving Gnome a chance because of its inability to do this by default.
The text editor shortcut on my taskbar runs a sort of autosave script in ~/.drafts. I wanted my text editor to function more like the one on my phone so I can just jot down random thoughts without going through the whole ritual of naming and saving. It creates YYYYMMDD_text in ~/.drafts (or YYYYMMDD_text_1 etc. if it already exists) and launches Pluma, which I also have configured to autosave every 10 minutes.
The other thing extends beyond Linux itself a bit. I like to joke that I have the most secure NT 4 / Windows 95 lookalike ever put together. Aside from the encrypted and hardened Debian base (/boot is also encrypted), I was in part inspired by Apple's parts pairing (yikes!). So my coreboot is configured to only accept my boot disk. If it's swapped out or missing, or if I want to boot something else, it will ask for a password. In the unlikely event my machine gets stolen, the thief must at a minimum reflash the BIOS or replace the motherboard to make it useful again. Idk, it amuses me every time I think about it.
I use hot mount SATA slots for backup and other media. Not that common on workstations. Sure, common on servers.
I have a zellij snd micro config for journaling and writing that makes a completely borderless full screen terminal with no decoration whatsoever and narrows the terminal for micro to the upper half of the middle 1/3 of my screen.
It helps me focus and limiting to the upper half and middle 1/3 makes it easier for my eyes. I get distracted easily and this helps keep my editor from being the source of that.
I created my own openSUSE splash screen for KDE because I felt all the existing ones were a bit amateur and I wanted something professional looking. I haven’t published it because I can’t be bothered creating an account. It only took about 15 minutes because I chopped up another one which had clearly chopped up another one.
I also seperate Firefox on different workspaces, but only manually. How is the extension called? Having it automated would save me some seconds every reboot.
Sway (and i3) you can assign windows to workspaces based on any property that is available in the swaymsg tree. It can do parital matches, so for example if you wanted your Lemmy firefox window to always start on workspace 3 you could use:
assign [title="lemmy" app_id="firefox"] workspace number $ws3
Title can use regex so you can do some pretty neat matching if you need it.
edit: based on the other commenter I think I might be missing a simpler declarative way to do this. The following will be kept for posterity though
The main idea is:
hyprctl -j which gives... json blahblah
"title": "[7] What's a unique customization on your Linux machine you think no one else has? - tchncs — Mozilla Firefox"
... json blahblah
but in Sway it might be something similar to using swaymsg. Only titled windows will have the bracket number thing so just regex that part
sleep for like 30 seconds to a minute before all the titles register.I'm using XFCE with Compiz, and since I have two monitors I have a 3D octagon instead of a 3D cube desktop.
I type "power..." into my cli and press tab+enter to shutdown my computer. Same for reboot... 😆
ChatGPT wrote a Python program that does select->Tesseract OCR for me, but it doesn't always work right with two monitors. I'm too stupid to correct it. How have you done yours, what are you using for selecting the area?
Mine is probably more of a combo of things to streamline my workflow than anything else.
I use Sways multiple workspaces to segregate my apps into different workspaces for different tasks on startup of that app using the assign function in my Sway config. For example VS Code and one particular Firefox window always goes to Workspace 3.
I use the Layman Sway scripts to force all my normal workspaces to different layouts that is appropriate for that function. So workspace 3 with VS Code and a Firefox window is set in a 75/25 split with VS Code set to always take the bigger share. I can switch the two sides from largest on the left to largest on the right, or swap the apps between the two splits, or make a window full-screen with simple keyboard shortcuts.
Odd workspaces are on my left monitor, even ones on the right. This coupled with per workspace wall paper (all my windows are translucent, not for everybody I know) and particular tasks locked to predefined workspaces means I am never hunting around for something. Even if I did lose something I can use rofi to switch to it. If its an essential app I can use my keyboard shortcut that I use to launch the app, switch to it using swayr by activating the shortcut again.
I have used QMK for my keyboard to reduce the number of keys I must use to activate most of my shortcuts, and move them to my number row and home row using layers, double taps, and holds. I try to layer up the same family of functions on the same key but on different layers, so for example, the VI arrow keys move between windows, resize windows, move windows, depending on which layer I have chosen.
I spilled a glass of scrumpy on the keyboard and a, s, and d no longer work. So I have to use a keyboard with it.
So you have to use a keyboard with your keyboard...
With my laptop.
wait how does your clipboard shortcut work op? that sounds nifty!
I think I mentioned it but here it is again in case the comment didnt federate
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# snippet based on end4 dotfiles -- FIXME edge case where a
# preexisting tmp.png might be overwritten
# English
bind = Super+Shift,T,exec,grim -g "$(slurp $SLURP_ARGS)" "tmp.png" && tesseract -l eng "tmp.png" - | wl-copy && rm "tmp.png"
# Korean
bind = Super+Shift,K,exec,grim -g "$(slurp $SLURP_ARGS)" "tmp.png" && tesseract -l kor "tmp.png" - | wl-copy && rm "tmp.png"
# Japanese
bind = Super+Shift,J,exec,grim -g "$(slurp $SLURP_ARGS)" "tmp.png" && tesseract -l jpn "tmp.png" - | wl-copy && rm "tmp.png"
Pipe grim and slurp (selects part of the Wayland screen then copies) into a tmp.png, tesseract it into the clipboard, then delete the tmp.png. Has like 1 sec of lag tho :]
I use this app (webapps is the name I think) to make apps for YouTube, Mubi and TorrentLeech and I have then pinned on the task bar and use them as apps instead of webpages. This is in my hometheater pc