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What's a unique customization on your Linux machine you think no one else has? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 5 months ago by fool@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Just wondering since I know a lot of people quietly use a screen-area-select -> tesseract OCR -> clipboard shortcut.

I separate subjects of interest into different Firefox windows, in different workspaces -- so I have an extension title them and a startup script parse text to ask the compositor to put them in the correct workspace (lets me restart more conveniently).
I have automatically-set different-orientation wallpapers for using my 2-in-1 depending on whether I use it in portrait or landscape (kind of just for looks, but I don't think if anyone else adds a wallpaper change to their screen rotation keybind).

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[–] Kekin@lemy.lol 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Coming from Windows, I set up KDE's Spectacle to open with Super + Shift + S in Area Select Mode and save and copy to clipboard on click release

Maybe not as unique but kinda neat I think

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

I do this too. just a very slick hot key combo imo

[–] fool@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago

Not unique, but we are now kindred (I did the same <:)

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I use many KDE activities all mapped to a single hotkey. Meta+H, Meta+J, Meta+K, then L, Y, U, G.

I set my browser and maybe one other as sticky to show on all. I also have specific desktop picture for all of them.

On top of that I have a startup command that opens all applications I use for work. Each application is configured to open in a certain activity.

The end result is that instead of doing Alt-Tab or looking for the window I do Meta+Key and it's there in front of my eyes with focus.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 months ago

"yubi [website name]" in Alt+F2 — asks yubikey for a TOTP code for a website and autotypes it into wherever I've got my focus

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