Update: Based on the discussion here and in other places I added the following (well, technically I did something different in my colorscheme, but in the end it translates to that)

lua vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, 'Normal', {})

This reverts the weird text and background colors to the previous behavior of ... not setting them. ________

With update 0.10 Neovim behavior changed regarding text color and background color.

I use a color theme that does not set those and previously this worked perfectly fine. Neovim simply used the font color defined in the terminal and had a transparent background.

Now the background is #14161b and the font color is #e0e2ea. Neither of the colors is configured ANYWHERE in my whole setup. Neither in the colorscheme, nor in my terminal configuration, nor in my Neovim configuration.

Is there a sane way to revert this to the old behavior? (i.e. use the font color configured in the terminal’s configuration and use transparent background.)

Recently the city redesigned the street and prepared at least 4 bus stops. The stops all have the road markings and tactile paving, etc. but no bus stop signs yet and currently no line stops there. (There is an ongoing reorganization of bus lines in my area.)

The wiki page describes how to map a bus stop and I can follow along. Everything except the line(s) and the names is local knowledge.

How should those be mapped (if at all)? Map what’s known already and add construction:bus_stop?

I'm currently researching the best method for running a static website from Docker.

The site consists of one single HTML file, a bunch of CSS files, and a few JS files. On server-side nothing needs to be preprocessed. The website uses JS to request some JSON files, though. Handling of the files is doing via client-side JS, the server only need to - serve the files.

The website is intended to be used as selfhosted web application and is quite niche so there won't be much load and not many concurrent users.

I boiled it down to the following options:

1. BusyBox in a selfmade Docker container, manually running httpd or The smallest Docker image ...
2. php:latest (ignoring the fact, that the built-in webserver is meant for development and not for production)
3. Nginx serving the files (but this)

For all of the variants I found information online. From the options I found I actually prefer the BusyBox route because it seems the cleanest with the least amount of overhead (I just need to serve the files, the rest is done on the client).

Do you have any other ideas? How do you host static content?

So, yeah. Other than stated, Spotify does not provide 2FA (shame on them!), so I use a strong password and since years nothing happened.

This early morning I got multiple mails that my account was logged in from Brazil, from the USA, from India, and some other countries. There were songs liked and playlists created so it wasn’t a malicious e-mail but some people actually were able to log on to my Spotify account.

I of course changed the password and logged out all accounts and checked allowed apps, etc. and everything looks fine.

But I wonder … was there something that happened recently? The common sites to check such things do not list my old Spotify password, and a quick web research does not bring anything up.

Any clue what could have happened here?

Update 3 months later:

I’m using Smart Launcher since my last post here. It’s great. I even bought the pro version. It’s not super “stock-y”, but that’s absolutely fine. I like that you can customize a lot of things!

The combo widget shows upcoming alarms and bank holidays. Also (somewhat) location-aware weather.

I think I stick with it.

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Now that the Google search bar on the homescreen has become uttery useless there is no real reason to have it anymore and it is annoying anyways, so I am in search for a launcher that resembles the stock Pixel launcher.

Especially the "combo widget" that shows the time, the date, position-weather, tasks, warnings, timers, etc. all in one place.

Launchers I tried so war that don't seem to have such a widget and seem not to be able to use that widget:

• Nova
• Lawnchair
• Niagara
• Hyperion

Those are all great launchers, but this specific functionality (basically the only feature I use on my homescreen besides one single icon for one app) seems to be missing in all of them.

So my question is: does someone know a launcher that comes with an unobstrusive "combo widget" like the stock widget as described, that also allows me to remove the now useless search bar from the home screen?

Basically the title.

When I open lemmy.ml it says “posts, subscribed, oredered by new” on top:

!

But almost none of the posts shown are from my subscribed communities and they’re not ordered by new.

There are even posts from communities shown that I have on my block list.

Any idea how to fix that?

Since the new version was deployed to lemmy.ml which allows blocking instances I tried to block an instance.

When opening the drop down and enter the name/url of the instance (or even a part of its name) the list is then filled with a seemingly random list of instances but not the instace I searched for.

I tried in a desktop browser (Chrome on Windows) and in a mobile browser (Vivaldi Mobile, which uses Chromium as base), same behavior.

Since I don't use GitHub I report it here.

I recently switched to Hyprland on my laptop and was able to set it up as I like, but I struggle hard to set up keybinds to simply print different characters when pressing certain key combinations.

For example, one small snippet from my .Xmodmap (there are more in this file but that’s enough for a minimal working example)

keycode 108 = Mode_switch keycode 38 = a A adiaeresis Adiaeresis

This allows me to press the A key in combination with the right Alt key to print an ä or an Ä when shift is pressed, to.

wtype and built-in key binding

After some research I found [wtype][wtype] which allows me to write arbitrary text when called with the parameters.

After I learned that Hyprland (or Wayland) does not distinguish between Alt_R and Alt_L (they’re shown as Alt_R and Alt_L in [wev][wev] with different keysyms, so they’re clearly two different keys) and I accepted it, I just found out that this tool only works when being in a terminal emulator and not in a GUI application so this tool is useless for me.

keyd

Then I tried [keyd][keyd]. After setting it up and adding my user to the needed groups and starting the service and trying to figure out how to actually define keymaps I was able to send something when pressing a defined key combination.

But: Nothing else than ASCII.

The dev thinks it’s a Chromium problem based on [this issue][issue] but it actually isn’t. I wasn’t able to send an ä to ANY application, no matter if GUI or terminal or [Qutebrowser][qb].

Since there is basically no online resources or user community for this tool, I cannot find any usable information on this issue except the unrelated Chrome reference and thus I removed it again because I cannot use it for what I want to use it for.

xkb

For whatever reason Wayland (or Hyprland) uses certain parts of the [X keyboard extension][xkb], so I also tried this one.

Despite being absurdly complex and annoying to setup I was able to configure a user based keyboard variant using user-based symbols. From what I’ve taken [from][from] [various][various] [sites][sites] my config should do nothing more than remapping Alt_R to ISO_Layer3_Shift just for testing purposes.

But all I achieved was reproducibly crashing Hyprland when setting it up to actually use said keyboard variant and there seems to be no log file.

yeah, that’s where we are

Again, it’s not about the umlauts, and not about the German keyboard layout, and not about switching lkayouts on-the-fly, it’s just to demonstrate what I mean. You can replace ä with any other character you want.

After a long night of trying out to have the Xmodmap functionality in Wayland using Hyprland as compositor I ended up with not being successful.

I give up for now.

Maybe one day there will be an actually working solution requiring nothing more than two lines in a file.

[wtype]: https://github.com/atx/wtype [wev]: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/wev [keyd]: https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd [issue]: https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd/issues/470 [qb]: https://qutebrowser.org [xkb]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_keyboard_extension

[from]: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1187610/reassigning-modifier-keys-with-xkb [various]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/572768/remapping-a-key-for-xkb [sites]: https://blog.debiania.in.ua/posts/2021-06-10-remapping-keys-under-wayland.html

Let's leave Steam and other launchers and distribution platforms alone a bit. Also lets stop discussing game engines for moment ...

• What are your favorite games that run natively on Linux and what genre are they?

Would be cool if you could write a few words about the game and why it's your favorite game.

Currently I’m planning to dockerize some web applications but I didn’t find a reasonably easy way do create the images to be hosted in my repository so I can pull them on my server.

What I currently have is:

1. A local computer with a directory where the application that I want to dockerize is located
2. A “docker server” running Portainer without shell/ssh access
3. A place where I can upload/host the Docker images and where I can pull the images from on the “Docker server”
4. Basic knowledge on how to write the needed Dockerfile

What I now need is a sane way to build the images WITHOUT setting up a fully featured Docker environment on the local computer.

Ideally something where I can build the images and upload them but without that something “littering Docker-related files all over my system”.

Something like a VM that resets on every start maybe? So … build the image, upload to repository, close the terminal window, and forget that anything ever happened.

What is YOUR solution to create and upload Docker images in a clean and sane way?

Since some time now the Steam Flatpak cannot start up and I have no idea why this happens.

Web research leads to basically nothing that is related to what I experience so I assume it has something to do with my system. Other Flatpaks start up normally and I can use them.

When resetting everything related to the Steam Flatpak and reinstalling it from Flathub it loads and installs the Flatpak and then installs all necessary stuff

[various update-related stuff] setup.sh[4598]: Forced use of runtime version for 32-bit libcurl.so.4 setup.sh[4598]: Found newer runtime version for 32-bit libSDL2-2.0.so.0. Host: 0.2400.0 Runtime: 0.2600.5 setup.sh[4598]: Forced use of runtime version for 32-bit libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 setup.sh[4598]: Found newer runtime version for 32-bit libvulkan.so.1. Host: 1.3.224 Runtime: 1.3.239 setup.sh[4598]: Forced use of runtime version for 32-bit libdbusmenu-glib.so.4 setup.sh[4598]: Forced use of runtime version for 32-bit libcurl-gnutls.so.4 setup.sh[4598]: Forced use of runtime version for 32-bit libdbusmenu-gtk.so.4 setup.sh[4598]: Forced use of runtime version for 64-bit libcurl.so.4 setup.sh[4598]: Found newer runtime version for 64-bit libSDL2-2.0.so.0. Host: 0.2400.0 Runtime: 0.2600.5 setup.sh[4598]: Found newer runtime version for 64-bit libvulkan.so.1. Host: 1.3.224 Runtime: 1.3.239 setup.sh[4598]: Forced use of runtime version for 64-bit libcurl-gnutls.so.4 steam.sh[2]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied

So everything looks good up to this point. The small Steam update windows poppend up several times indicating the running installation/update. The output then continues:

[2023-08-17 22:47:50] Startup - updater built Jul 28 2023 18:44:09 [2023-08-17 22:47:50] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-no-cef-sandbox' 08/17 22:47:50 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1690583737)/tid(5467) [2023-08-17 22:47:50] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin) [2023-08-17 22:47:50] Failed to load cached hosts file (File 'update_hosts_cached.vdf' not found), using defaults [2023-08-17 22:47:50] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal [2023-08-17 22:47:50] 1. https://cdn.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in' [2023-08-17 22:47:50] Verifying installation... [2023-08-17 22:47:50] Verification complete XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf0d328f0 XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf0d311c0 GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good

(The last line gets printed twice, yes.)

The first startup process then hangs there for a few seconds and continues with this.

steamwebhelper.sh[5473]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy steamwebhelper.sh[5473]: Running under Flatpak, disabling sandbox steamwebhelper.sh[5473]: CEF sandbox already disabled CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 0 milliseconds to initialize src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (540) : Failed creating offscreen shared JS context src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (540) : Fatal assert; application exiting 08/17 22:48:39 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1690583737)/tid(5467) assert_20230817224839_27.dmp[5771]: Uploading dump (out-of-process) /tmp/dumps/assert_20230817224839_27.dmp dirk ~ $ After the command prompt is shown agein, this gets printed:

assert_20230817224839_27.dmp[5771]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes assert_20230817224839_27.dmp[5771]: response: CrashID=bp-f62fb7e8-d024-452e-a937-9c6672230817 assert_20230817224839_27.dmp[5771]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20230817224839_27.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-f62fb7e8-d024-452e-a937-9c6672230817''

At the given location there is no dump file.

Do you guys have any Idea why this happens and how I can fix it?

Involved software:

``` $ flatpak --version Flatpak 1.15.4

$ flatpak remotes Name Optionen flathub system

$ flatpak info com.valvesoftware.Steam | grep Version | awk '{print $2}' 1.0.0.78

$ uname -rms Linux 6.4.10-arch1-1 x86_64

$ openbox --version | head -n1 Openbox 3.6.1

$ pacman -Qi xorg-server | grep Version | awk '{print $3}' 21.1.8-2 ```

In opposition to this post ... Name your most favorite upsides of software being federated.

Basically the title. When writing .. it is converted to …. Also every string being any amount of dots is also being converted to …, even when it makes no sense.

.. -> .. ../relative/path/file.txt -> ../relative/path/file.txt ................................... (used as visual separator) -> ...................................

Automatically changing ... to the otherwise hard to type ellipsis symbol … is a good idea, but everything else should, not be changed.

Are we still doing ancient memes?

I was in need of using different signing keys (but same mail address) and had a little adventure in the advanced Git documentation I'd like to share. ______________

In your `~/.config/git/config`` remove the [user] section and add this instead:

[includeIf "hasconfig:remote.*.url:https://your-remote-url/**"] path = ~/.config/git/user_a

And in ~/.config/git/user_a use this:

[user] email = username@example.com name = User Name signingkey = the_16_digit_GPG_key_ID

Repeat as often as you need. Just add another includeIf section for each of your remote hosts.

You can also keep a “stub” user section in your ~/.config/git/config if you always use the same user name and mail address but want to use different keys.

[user] email = dirk@0x7be.de name = Dirk

In your includeIf’d files simply set the signingkey:

[user] signingkey = the_16_digit_GPG_key_ID

Git automatically combines the two as needed.

A minimal working example:

File ~/.config/.git/config: ``` [user] email = username@example.com name = User Name

[commit] gpgsign = true

[tag] gpgsign = true

[includeIf "hasconfig:remote.*.url:https://hostname_A/**"] path = ~/.config/git/config-A

[includeIf "hasconfig:remote.*.url:https://hostname_B/**"] path = ~/.config/git/config-B ```

File ~/.config/git/config-A: [user] signingkey = 16_digit_key_id_used_for_a

File ~/.config/git/config-B: [user] signingkey = 16_digit_key_id_used_for_b

Now when you push commits or tags to hostname_A or hostname_B the correct key is used to sign those (in the example, using same name and mail address) without having to manually edit this for all your local repositories.

I can't help but feel overwhelmed by the sheer complexity of self-hosting modern web applications (if you look under the surface!)

Most modern web applications are designed to basically run standalone on a server. Integration into an existing environment a real challenge if not impossible. They often come with their own set of requirements and dependencies that don't easily align with an established infrastructure.

“So you have an already running and fully configured web server? Too bad for you, bind me to port 443 or GTFO. Reverse-proxying by subdomain? Never heard of that. I won’t work. Deal with it. Oh, and your TLS certificates? Screw them, I ship my own!”

Attempting to merge everything together requires meticulous planning, extensive configuration, and often annoying development work and finding workarounds.

Modern web applications, with their elusive promises of flexibility and power, have instead become a source of maddening frustration when not being the only application that is served.

My frustration about this is real. Self-hosting modern web applications is an uphill battle, not only in terms of technology but also when it comes to setting up the hosting environment.

I just want to drop some PHP files into a directory and call it a day. A PHP interpreter and a simple HTTP server – that’s all I want to need for hosting my applications.