How is nushell? I’ve always been curious about that…
Vertical is without a doubt the best for reading and such.
Just curious—what accessibility extensions do you use on desktop?
I've used it for uni on a Linux tablet/convertible and it worked really quite well and has some nice convenient features for note-taking.
What tablet did you use?
If you’re on Wayland, fuzzel just keeps getting better each release.
Wait, so how do we print now?
Help with Creating nix-shells
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.
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?
Uplink is where it’s at.
Best TUI Calendar?
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:
- If possible, is stored in a plain-text (human-readable) format (a la calendar.txt)
- Has some way of managing repeating events/automating some of the process (which is my only problem with calendar.txt)
- 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, 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, which I'm very curious about, as the interface seems (quite frankly) a bit nicer than 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 format, and with topydo and todooo 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.
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?
Love fuzzel—it’s pretty performant, even with a few thousand options to pick from.
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.
Anyone using this? How is it?
I’m very pleased to discover this. I’ve been using this online editor for a while—good to have a local alternative.
i3 and xfce can be combined to achieve a very practical result. Highly recommend. It’s trivial to setup on NixOS, at least.
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.
Wait, but there’s no information on the size of the tablet? Isn’t that like the most important thing about a tablet?
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.
Newbie question: does this affect people using systemd-boot? Does anyone use systemd-boot?
Best music tags editor?
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:
- Can apply metadata directly from a streaming service (like this script for adding albums to MusicBrainz does)?
- Can simply allow me to manually edit metadata with an interface that isn’t completely awful to use?
or even:
- 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.
What is something you want to use, yet are NOT using?
For me, I really want to get into 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.
Help with swaywm window rules?
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.
Configuring Kakoune Bindings in the Helix Editor!
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!
Kakoune Bindings in Helix (Guide)
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!
Kakoune Bindings in Helix (Guide)
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!
Question about Xfce vs. MATE
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!