Cross platform terminal emulator?
Dr_Willis @ Dr_Willis @sh.itjust.works Posts 0Comments 36Joined 2 yr. ago
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I thought KDE was working on some cross platform programs, but I can't recall the name of the project or the tools, they had a file manager, and a few other things. I thought it included a basic terminal emulator.
I may be thinking of the following project.
it shows screen shots for 'station' on mobile, but I can't find a .APK for it.
determine is the XFCE system is using sddm, lightdm, gdm3, there are other login managers as well, but those 3 are the most common.
you can then setup the same login manager kn the other system.
unless they are the same and it's just a scaling issue due to the monitor resolution.
then I guess you could try the alternative login managers, and see if any look better.
ages ago I used various Hp (and other) calculator emulators for some tasks I needed to do.
they had more features than any of the calculator programs I had checked out.
But that was many many years ago.
also saw some options mentioned here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/nxnycv/calculator_with_mathematical_notation/
if you wait for a sale, there may be a big rush on orders, and it may take longer to get one, once you do order.
look at the old sale prices to see if the discount is worth it for you for any potential delays.
there can be various file index services that run to allow faster searching of the system.
these typically run in a schedule, but in a new install they may run on the first boot.
after they run the first time, they will run occasionally on a schedule.
I am not sure if time shift does this or not, I never use that tool.
For mouse battery it may depend on the specific mouse and it's drivers.
there are some enhanced mouse/keyboard utilities out such as that 'libratbag'.
ProtonVPN supports the OpenVPN client , so you can import your proton VPN settings in to that, no need for the official proton VPN GUI client.
However you do lose some of the more advanced features of proton VPN.
you could use MXlinux and it's remaster tools/feature to build your own custom USB/iso.
MXlinux makes such a task rather easy.
remove stuff you don't need to get it as small as you desire.
I have seen a similar issue a few times, but not regularly, and I have not seen it since the last update.
I could see the game running, if I hit the menu/steam button, it would show up under the steam menus.
I could even hear the game sounds and music.
a reboot normally fixed things.
I have also had sleep issue where the deck would wake up, then go back to sleep after impressed the power button. I set the auto sleep timeout to be never, and have not seen this happen any longer.
it's like the deck woke up, checked the clock, and decided it was idling for the proper timeout to auto sleep.
for testing, and no, no issues at all with the various dot files.
Cluttered app menus, and an occasional "default open with app" setting changed is about the only issues.
I have 5+ DEs on my pop_os install, you don't lose files in your users home.
I just use in my Exec=
Exec=GDK_SCALE=2 steam
but that may differ in looks from the options you are using
I have a steam-big-ui.desktop that gives me the option to run in big mode, or I run normal steam for small mode.
Notes I made for people trying to use steam under Linux and keeping game files on a NTFS partition. Notes on ext4 filesystem at the end.
Also I Found this Guide - which may be better or have some details I overlook.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-disk-with-Linux-and-Windows
Flatpak Warning
If your steam install is done using Flatpak that can result in the steam program being sandboxed and limited in what it can access. I have no experience with how this limits things, the flatseal tool may be needed to manage the flatpak steam program. You can setup the specific flatpak to have access to other filesystems and mountpoints outside of your home. the command flatpak list
should show if you have steam installed via flatpak or not.
Flatpak notes at the end..
I have NO idea how the steam SNAP version differs in how it can access other locations either.
Continueing with the normal guide now..
Steam Game Directory on NTFS (fat32/exfat/vfat)
don't use the file manager to mount the filesystem setup a /etc/fstab line to mount it at boot time you do NOT (typically) use chown or chmod on a mounted NTFS. (you do use those commands with ext4) example fstab entry.
UUID=1234-your-uuid-56789 /media/gamedisk ntfs-3g uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,user,exec,nofail,umask=000 0 0
You Do NOT use all of those options for ext4
On Ubuntu you can use 'ntfs' instead of ntfs-3g for the filesystem in the fstab options if you have ntfs-3g installed , it auto changes NTFS to be ntfs-3g. Other distribution may differ. When ntfs3 gets more commonplace, and stable likely people will switch to using ntfs3, and drop ntfs-3g
Newer Distribution and kernels may use the ntfs3 driver, I have not tested that driver. Try it out and see if it works.
The various issues and problems with ntfs getting mounted Read Only still apply. (hit up the numerous NTFS under Linux guides for more information) These issues also apply to exfat,vfat, fat32, and I imagine using ntfs3. Disable windows hibernate/suspend and fast boot if sharing a filesystem between linux and windows.
And ..
it's best to not use ntfs for your game storage drive , it can be slower and more of a CPU load. It does Work for me, but it is slower in my experience.
also.. there are a lot of bad/wrong/old posts/blogs/guides on this topic. so watch out for those. (some of the info here may be wrong, so dont trust this guide 100%)
This guide may be outdated or wrong when we start using ntfs3.
Also be sure to check out this guide, and the part about the compatdata directory
bonus tip. Steam scale ui Tweak.:
set a system variable to have steam scale up it's UI.
$ GDK_SCALE=2 steam
edit your steam .desktop file to make it the default option, or make a second .desktop file for a steam 2x Launcher.
STEAM on an ext4 or other Linux filesystem.
basic outline..
format the Filesystem, get the UUID make directory for the mount
mkdir /home/bob/games
make fstab entry.
UUID=123-YOUR-UUID /home/bob/games ext4 defaults,nofail 0 0 mount the filesystem
sudo mount /home/bob/games
make the Filesystem owned by your user.
sudo chown bob.bob /home/bob/games
reboot to make sure it mounts.
use steam and tell it to put a steam library on /home/bob/games install games as normal.
ntfs3 notes
from user mandiblesarecute who gives an example with ntfs3
PARTLABEL=Win10 /media/win10 ntfs3 noacsrules,noatime,nofail,prealloc,sparse 0 0 noacsrules makes everything effectively 777 for when you don't need or care about fine grained access control.
This 777 mode can be annoying and a security issue in some use cases which is why it's not the default.
I had issues using Ntfs3, so for now I still use Ntfs-3g , i will test out ntfs3 again in the future as it matures.
Steam flatpak notes from another user. TimRambo1
For flatpaks you want to use the flatseal tool to allow access to the filesystem mountpoint of your steam games filesystem.
example: add mount point /home/(username)/games/
under filesystem under the steam settings in flatseal.
The filesystem still has to be properly mounted (as shown above)
Guide Used
https://deckcentral.net/posts/allow_flatpaks_to_access_your_sd_card_with_flatseal/
STEAMDECK NOTES:
Not tried running steam games from a NTFS on my steamdeck. So I can't say how it differs from a normal Linux install.
end of my rambly guide.
Be interesting to see what Steam Deck Distribution alternatives are going to be popping up.
Seeing a few interesting feature in this project, I may have to dig out my other desktop to attempt to make my own SteamBox.
You did right click and select 'allow launching' on the greyed out short cut icon?
WeeChat was my go-to, years ago.
but they have an APK for the file manager 'index'. so that's what's confused me.