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I'm using XFCE with Compiz, and since I have two monitors I have a 3D octagon instead of a 3D cube desktop.
Definitely not nobody but statistically VERY FEW people will have this combination:
Edit: nice try to fingerprint me, big tech. You succeeded! /j
Triangulating your location. Are you... in the Milky Way Galaxy?
(Thanks for reminding me to limit accumulator charge)
Yeah, I have a script that toggles my Dell XPS between full charge and 80%, as I’m usually on mains and only need full charge occasionally.
Custom cowsay written in Rust that pulls German song lyrics from my favorite band from a text file?
I'm pretty sure no one else has my shell script that takes a picture, uses imagemagick to copy a scaled down version of it to a special folder, and then build a string that allows me to just middle click paste the image into Rednotebook so it appears correctly.
I've got a RPI running a full-screen 'kiosk' view from homeassitant that turns an external display on/off based on a motion sensor.
So basically it's showing current temperatures, thermostat control, etc. but I have the display turn off after X minutes of no movement and turn on when there has been movement so it's only on when you're in the room.
On my desktop, I wrote a Python script that pulls a random Star Trek: The Next Generation or Deep Space Nine script from a folder and prints it in STDOUT. I use this in the XScreenSaver Text Manipulation > Program option to turn Star Trek into a screen saver.
Currently, I use it with the Apple II screensaver, but in its original incarnation, I used the Star Wars intro screensaver. 😈
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
CTRL+SHIFT+L to sync my room lights to the screen using huenicorn. Plan on hooking up openrgb as well when I can be bothered to write a script.
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.
I have a meshtastic script that runs once a day that sends a weather report for our local area at 6:00 am. It was based off a script that some awesome person did. I also have a script that once a week sends out ham/meshtastic events to all local people. Its worked out pretty well.
I have a custom script, which changes the fan profile (in my case between two thinkfan config files) depending whether the dock is connected or not. That one gets triggered whenever it switches the power source (AC or BAT0). (AC gets plugged in -> script starts -> check if dock is connected -> if connected run different profile)
It's janky but very helpful when it works :D
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
Not unique, but we are now kindred (I did the same <:)
I do this too. just a very slick hot key combo imo
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.
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've got basically the bspwm workflow, but on KDE.
So, bspwm has tiling of windows and doesn't want you to minimize (nowadays, it actually has a minimize-feature, but back when I last used it, it didn't). As a result, if a window is open, it is visible on some workspace. If you want to hide windows, put them on a different workspace.
I like that workflow, because while it probably seems complex when you first hear about it, it actually simplifies things. When you're looking for a window, you don't have to check all the workspaces and minimized windows and behind other windows.
KDE adds to that, in that I can have a workspace overview in my panel, so where I can see all workspaces with the windows that are visible on them (which with this workflow is all windows on that workspace). I like to call it my minimap.
It makes the workflow a lot easier to use, but it also allows me to group workspaces by location. So, if I'm working on a topic, I often have a Firefox window on one workspace, my text editor on the workspace below and then a terminal on the workspace below that. If I then realize, I need to quickly look up something for a related topic, I'll open up a new Firefox window two workspaces below that (leaving an empty workspace as separator). If I do something completely different, I might leave a whole bunch of empty workspaces in between. Or, well, KDE actually allows grouping workspaces with a feature called "Activities", so I'll often switch Activities.
I find that works a lot better for multi-tasking than the traditional Windows workflow of one window per application, with all kinds of different topics mixed into all kinds of ungrouped windows. If I switch between topics, I just go to the right location on my minimap and I've all the topic-related information in the windows that are there.