gramgan Now • 100%
If you’re on Wayland, fuzzel just keeps getting better each release.
gramgan Now • 92%
Wait, so how do we print now?
I'm trying to set up a simple script (linked to a hotkey in my window manager) that can launch a terminal window with a nix-shell containing packages I specify. So far, I got this: ```fish set packages (fuzzel -d --lines 0 --prompt 'packages for nix-shell > ') kitty nix-shell --packages $packages --run fish ``` If I type a single package into my runlauncher (fuzzel) (e.g. `grim`), the window spawns with a nix-shell as expected; if, however, I attempt to launch a shell with multiple packages (e.g. `grim slurp`), it fails to launch with the following error: ```nix error: … while calling the 'derivationStrict' builtin at /builtin/derivation.nix:9:12: (source not available) … while evaluating derivation 'shell' whose name attribute is located at /nix/store/cjz8w4dgc3rd2n3dqv5c208vygndjyba-source/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix:336:7 … while evaluating attribute 'buildInputs' of derivation 'shell' at /nix/store/cjz8w4dgc3rd2n3dqv5c208vygndjyba-source/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix:383:7: 382| depsHostHost = elemAt (elemAt dependencies 1) 0; 383| buildInputs = elemAt (elemAt dependencies 1) 1; | ^ 384| depsTargetTarget = elemAt (elemAt dependencies 2) 0; error: attempt to call something which is not a function but a set at «string»:1:107: 1| {...}@args: with import <nixpkgs> args; (pkgs.runCommandCC or pkgs.runCommand) "shell" { buildInputs = [ (grim slurp) ]; } "" | ^ ``` This happens with or without launching a new kitty window, and it happens with other runlaunchers as well. Why on earth isn't this working? Any help appreciated---thanks, everyone.
gramgan Now • 100%
I find it infuriating to have to keep track of what’s system and what’s home-manager—why isn’t this all merged at this point?
gramgan Now • 100%
Uplink is where it’s at.
Hey all, I'm a big fan of my plain text and terminal -based applications for things, and I'm looking a calendar system in this spirit. I'd like for a system which: 1. If possible, is stored in a plain-text (human-readable) format (a la [calendar.txt](https://terokarvinen.com/2021/calendar-txt/)) 2. Has some way of managing repeating events/automating some of the process (which is my only problem with calendar.txt) 3. Can be accessed on my phone (an iPhone---yes yes, I know, I can sense everyone's disappointment) while on the go (either through some application, or just through a plain text editor) For the past month or two, I've been using [remind](https://dianne.skoll.ca/wiki/Remind), which, while fantastic in features and usage, seems relatively obscure and unsupported, and the file format isn't as human-readable as I'd prefer (take this slightly modified excerpt from my class schedule): ```remind OMIT 2024-11-25 THROUGH 2024-11-29 MSG Thanksgiving Break REM Tue Thu FROM 2024-08-19 UNTIL 2024-12-20 SKIP AT 09:05 DURATION [1:15] MSG Class 1 REM Tue Thu FROM 2024-08-19 UNTIL 2024-12-20 SKIP AT 10:40 DURATION [0:50] MSG Class 2 REM Tue Thu FROM 2024-08-19 UNTIL 2024-12-20 SKIP AT 12:00 DURATION [1:15] MSG Class 3 ``` I recently heard about [calcure](https://github.com/anufrievroman/calcure), which I'm very curious about, as the interface seems (quite frankly) a bit nicer than [wyrd](http://pessimization.com/software/wyrd/), which is what I've been using for remind---but is there an easy way to interface locally with .ics files on an iPhone? For my to-dos, I've been pretty happy with the [todo.txt](http://todotxt.org/) format, and with [topydo](https://topydo.org/) and [todooo](https://www.todooo.app/) as frontends for it---surely there is something like this, but for calendar events? P.S.---Before someone mentions it, yes, I am familiar with org-mode, and I know it perfectly fits my bill, and perhaps it is what I will ultimately turn to---but I'd strongly prefer not to, as I'm currently rebelling against Emacs, and we all know how poorly implemented org is outside of it.
gramgan Now • 100%
Wait, so there’s multiple engines? Someone explain this to me—if I wanted to play free Quake in the simplest way, what exactly would I need to install?
gramgan Now • 100%
Fathomage makes pretty good stuff.
gramgan Now • 100%
Love fuzzel—it’s pretty performant, even with a few thousand options to pick from.
gramgan Now • 69%
NixOS. Declarative system management is just so unbelievably simple and reliable that I couldn’t ever see myself going back to a traditional Linux system.
gramgan Now • 80%
Anyone using this? How is it?
gramgan Now • 100%
I’m very pleased to discover this. I’ve been using this online editor for a while—good to have a local alternative.
gramgan Now • 100%
The ultimate WYGIWYG editor!
gramgan Now • 100%
i3 and xfce can be combined to achieve a very practical result. Highly recommend. It’s trivial to setup on NixOS, at least.
gramgan Now • 100%
Depends on the options mpv passes to yt-dlp—I personally have in my mpv config to grab 720p videos, so that it’s faster than downloading full quality.
gramgan Now • 100%
I’ve been using todo.txt for tasks for about a month now—it’s dead simple, supports all the bells and whistles you mentioned; and, with the topydo CLI, you can very easily make yourself a kanban interface using its columns UI. I sync the files with my iPhone and use Todooo on iOS, which works beautifully.
As for notes, I just write simple text files with my favorite editor.
Maintaining complex systems of interconnected notes, I’ve found, most often does not pay off for the enormous time investment required (some specific use cases aside); tags, links, etc. I have all found to be superfluous—any kind of grep integration in the editor is all that’s needed for finding things.
I write in either markdown or Typst, because basic Typst is essentially the same as markdown anyway, and because I’ve found it very useful to keep notes in the same format I write longer-form documents in.
gramgan Now • 100%
Newbie question: does this affect people using systemd-boot? Does anyone use systemd-boot?
gramgan Now • 100%
My final straw was getting a new MacBook Air (I was at that point fine with how UNIX-y macOS was) and realizing I couldn’t dock the laptop to more than one external monitor without some weird hacky third-party software fix. Why, you ask? Well not at all because the laptop technically couldn’t do it, but because Apple said it can’t, because they want to overcharge you on a Pro.
I promptly returned the MacBook, bought a Framework on eBay, and learned NixOS.
10/10, I haven’t looked back since.
gramgan Now • 100%
This is absolutely nuts—even macOS doesn’t have a single program that does all of this.
gramgan Now • 100%
Wonderfully absurd. I always liked using God mode—great way to learn the keys without getting Emacs-pinky!
Hi all, I’m looking for something to automatically tag some old music files I have sitting around. I’ve been working with Picard, but a lot of albums are not in MusicBrainz, and adding them has been a serious PITA. Is there any kind of software that either: 1. Can apply metadata directly from a streaming service (like [this script](https://atisket.pulsewidth.org.uk/) for adding albums to MusicBrainz does)? 2. Can simply allow me to manually edit metadata with an interface that isn’t completely awful to use? or even: 3. Two separate tools, one to grab metadata and another to manually add it (maybe a CLI interface for batch operations?) Appreciative of any advice—I just hope there’s a better way, with how tedious this can be. EDIT: Just to specify, I’m on NixOS.
For me, I really want to get into [niri](https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri), but the lack of XWayland support scares me (I know there’s solutions, but I don’t understand them yet). Also, I stopped using Emacs (even though I love its design and philosophy with my whole heart) because it’s very slow, even as a daemon.
Hi friends, I've been using yt-dlp to download a few things off of YouTube Music, and I just wanted to ask a few questions about best practice. Right now, I've just been doing it this way: ```bash yt-dlp -f bestaudio -x ``` I've found that has usually downloaded .opus files (though, .m4a as of late—anyone know why this is?), but, I was wondering (for the sake of compatibility with different music players), do I lose anything by passing `--recode mp3`? Also, about losing the .opus files, I got this output when I ran `yt-dlp -F` on a link: ```shell |ID | EXT RESOLUTION FPS CH | FILESIZE TBR PROTO | VCODEC VBR ACODEC ABR ASR MORE INFO -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 233 mp4 audio only | m3u8 | audio only unknown Default 234 mp4 audio only | m3u8 | audio only unknown Default 249 webm audio only 2 | 1.30MiB 64k https | audio only opus 64k 48k low, THROTTLED, webm_dash 250 webm audio only 2 | 1.64MiB 81k https | audio only opus 81k 48k low, THROTTLED, webm_dash 139 m4a audio only 2 | 1019.36KiB 49k https | audio only mp4a.40.5 49k 22k low, m4a_dash 251 webm audio only 2 | 3.03MiB 149k https | audio only opus 149k 48k medium, THROTTLED, webm_dash 140 m4a audio only 2 | 2.64MiB 130k https | audio only mp4a.40.2 130k 44k medium, m4a_dash ``` Any insights as to why I'm getting that throttling, and why it's downloading m4a instead of opus? Is it even that much of a difference? Is there some option I can pass to yt-dlp to avoid this? Any help is much appreciated!
Fellas, I'm at my wit's end with this one. I'm trying to set a general rule for window opacity in sway, and then have a few programs excepted from it. Back on `i3` with `picom`, I could do this pretty easily by setting `activeOpacity` to 0.9, for example, and then specifying additional `opacityRules` like this: ``` "100:class_g = 'mpv'" "100:class_g = 'Brave-browser'" ``` Likewise, `hyprland`'s window rules made it pretty easy to override the general opacity rules as well. I can't seem to get this on `sway`, though; if I set it up like this: ``` [app_id=".*"] opacity 0.85 [app_id="brave_browser"] opacity set 1 [app_id="librewolf"] opacity 1 ``` it simply sets everything to 0.85. Currently, I have this: ``` [app_id="^(?!mpv$|brave_browser$).*$"] opacity 0.85 [app_id="brave_browser"] opacity set 1 [app_id="mpv"] opacity 1 ``` but it is still exhibiting the same behavior (except `mpv` also seems to totally disregard any opacity rules whatsoever). Any help is greatly appreciated---I haven't been able to find anyone else asking or talking about what seems to me like pretty basic functionality.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15059157 > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15059150 > > > Hey friends, > > > > I tried Kakoune for the first time recently—I definitely feel like it gets keybindings right. > > So I just wrapped up configuring Helix to (as far as I can tell) use those bindings (basically, it totally cuts out select mode and makes things much faster). > > Thought I'd share for anyone else interested. > > > > ```toml > > [keys.normal] > > H = "extend_char_left" > > J = "extend_line_down" > > K = "extend_line_up" > > L = "extend_char_right" > > > > W = "extend_next_word_start" > > E = "extend_next_word_end" > > B = "extend_prev_word_start" > > > > A-j = "join_selections" > > > > A-n = "search_prev" > > N = "extend_search_next" > > A-N = "extend_search_prev" > > > > [keys.normal.g] > > e = ["goto_last_line", "goto_line_end"] > > G = ["select_mode", "goto_file_start", "normal_mode"] > > [keys.normal.G] > > H = "extend_to_line_start" > > L = "extend_to_line_end" > > E = ["select_mode", "goto_last_line", "goto_line_end", "normal_mode"] > > [keys.normal.v] > > t = "align_view_top" > > b = "align_view_bottom" > > v = "align_view_center" > > ``` > > Happy editing!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15059150 > Hey friends, > > I tried Kakoune for the first time recently—I definitely feel like it gets keybindings right. > So I just wrapped up configuring Helix to (as far as I can tell) use those bindings (basically, it totally cuts out select mode and makes things much faster). > Thought I'd share for anyone else interested. > > ```toml > [keys.normal] > H = "extend_char_left" > J = "extend_line_down" > K = "extend_line_up" > L = "extend_char_right" > > W = "extend_next_word_start" > E = "extend_next_word_end" > B = "extend_prev_word_start" > > A-j = "join_selections" > > A-n = "search_prev" > N = "extend_search_next" > A-N = "extend_search_prev" > > [keys.normal.g] > e = ["goto_last_line", "goto_line_end"] > G = ["select_mode", "goto_file_start", "normal_mode"] > [keys.normal.G] > H = "extend_to_line_start" > L = "extend_to_line_end" > E = ["select_mode", "goto_last_line", "goto_line_end", "normal_mode"] > [keys.normal.v] > t = "align_view_top" > b = "align_view_bottom" > v = "align_view_center" > ``` > Happy editing!
Hey friends, I tried Kakoune for the first time recently—I definitely feel like it gets keybindings right. So I just wrapped up configuring Helix to (as far as I can tell) use those bindings (basically, it totally cuts out select mode and makes things much faster). Thought I'd share for anyone else interested. ```toml [keys.normal] H = "extend_char_left" J = "extend_line_down" K = "extend_line_up" L = "extend_char_right" W = "extend_next_word_start" E = "extend_next_word_end" B = "extend_prev_word_start" A-j = "join_selections" A-n = "search_prev" N = "extend_search_next" A-N = "extend_search_prev" [keys.normal.g] e = ["goto_last_line", "goto_line_end"] G = ["select_mode", "goto_file_start", "normal_mode"] [keys.normal.G] H = "extend_to_line_start" L = "extend_to_line_end" E = ["select_mode", "goto_last_line", "goto_line_end", "normal_mode"] [keys.normal.v] t = "align_view_top" b = "align_view_bottom" v = "align_view_center" ``` Happy editing!
Fellas, I've been using my current setup on NixOS (Xfce + i3) for about a month now---it's totally great, but I've got some minor things that bother me just a little bit, and I want to see if Wayland does anything for me. I like my combination of a lightweight desktop and tiling windows, so I thought maybe I could do something like MATE + Sway? Does anyone run anything like this? MATE seems pretty close to Xfce, right? Happy to hear any thoughts. Cheers!