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Dendrobatus Azureus

The next step was to config KDE connect in this KDE. Luckily I know that I need gufw to migrate my profile, from the xFce MX linux to this KDE MX linux.
It was a matter of installing gufw, which is not default in KDE distro, since it has its own nice interface. For me sticking with what I know is the easiest since I want to drive KDE on desktop again after so many decades, even though XFce is still going to be used most, due to shortcut muscle memory

.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #KDE #Gnome #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming #backgrounds #wallpaper #Vallpaper

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Dendrobatus Azureus

I also encountered another problem; I can immediately tell you that it's not a KDE specific problem but it popped up in konsole.

The subject is fonts and the section is point size. The monitors I use are not of a small resolution. In fact an ideal IPS LED panel layout for me would be an 8K panel two 4K panels flanking it and two 1080p ultra ultra wide panels at a left and right of those.

With such a setup I can monitor different machines at the glance and control them with ease.

Even on my 1080p Ultra Ultra wide panel the default Point sizes for fonts are too small. On a scratch KDE based MX Linux installation, the following problem was repeated twice in Konsole.

The first time I changed font point sizes, closed konsole. When I reopened konsole the fixed with font, was replaced with one that appended spaces behind every couple of letters.

This rendered konsole unusable for work.

Changing the fonts Point sizes to the defaults again did not fix the problem.
Sinds that installation was Vanilla and didn't have enough space for home and root on one partition to actually Play with KDE, I wiped it and started again.

This time I deliberately did not change the point sizes even though it was hard to read. I then copied over some configuration directories from my other installation to this One, none of them related to anything KDE wise or any fonts directory. When I rebooted that installation The problem occurred for the second Time.

As with the wallpaper issue, I immediately converted that energy of irritation to something positive. I troubleshooted the font problem for a short while and when I couldn't isolate it I did a simple thing. I created a couple of other accounts on the same KDE installation to see if I could repeat the error.

That reproduction step is vital before a bug report is created. The other accounts were also residing on my other xFace MX Linux installations, which means I could simply copy them over to the other home partition where KDE was looking at.

In the other accounts I could not repeat the error.

That means a bug report is worthless because repeatability is crucial. Since the usage of a terminal in the K Desktop Environment is important, I changed my strategy and simply installed the xFace Four terminal in KDE. In the end that was a nice move since I know all the keyboard shortcuts of the terminal by hand they are in muscle memory and they have been there for years.

As a bonus I also installed other good shells in MX KDE the hashtags tell you which.

Right now I have a KDE installation in which I can actually work based upon the MX Linux KDE variant

I shall link a couple of photographs in a few minutes

.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish  #distro #KDE  #Gnome #Linux #POSIX  #fresh #programming  #backgrounds #wallpaper #Vallpaper

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Dendrobatus Azureus

My next step was something unexpected.

In XFce4 my desktops all have different backgrounds per IPS Led Panel. Its a matter if context menu key (on my keyboard I have one) select background and move the program to the next display beside it and repeat, then move it to the next desktop, display besides AD Infinitum

KDE says HELL NO to that ease.
I did some reasearch and saw that it was easy peasy in KDE 4.5.x then got replaced with activities in KDE Plasma 5.x
The simple command is now either kwin scripts or a lot of keystrokes and time.

Instead of getting pissed I went further and found that what the programmers replaced with activities (which are POWERFULL and versatile) and also usuable for wallpapers per VTop (Virtual desktop) was eased back (in 2022) with VallPaper

Source is here

cadence.moe/blog/2022-12-03-im

.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #KDE #Gnome #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming #backgrounds #wallpaper

cadence.moeImplementing different wallpapers on KDE virtual desktops - cadence's weblog (personal blog)
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Dendrobatus Azureus

There's one thing I had not done in a long time which is install a distribution of my choice with a full KDE desktop manager. I haven't done that in more than 2 decades. KDE has been wonderful at it's infancy and KDE is still wonderful now.

Since MX Linux is my distribution of choice, it's logical that I installed the KDE version of that distribution even if it's just for a test drive.

I've allocated just 20 gigs for KDE which means it's tight with space but it's still usable for a test run.

One tool I immediately missed was gparted the powerful gnome UI, which puts the precision of partition manipulation at your fingertips, without the chances of making costly mistakes if you don't pay enough attention or are not affluent enough with the commands in your favorite shell.

I missed that tool during the installation of mxKDE because I needed to add partitiond before the installation could proceed I just left Blank Space on an SSD.

Apart from that I can tell you from the initial view that KDE has not just matured, advanced and elevated itself. KDE has become so lightweight in resource usage that it can complete with very Light Desktop managers.

You can still edit your widgets up to & icons almost the pixel. The things that I love about KDE from decades ago are still there and are even more powerful.

Since I started to use KDE when GPU usage on the desktop was not even a thing, you can imagine how fast the DE is now and a period where GPU usage is normal for everything.

Out of the box KDE is already fantastic. Go and see what KDE can be for you, by installing it yourself

.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish  #distro #KDE #Gnome #Linux #POSIX  #fresh #programming

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Dendrobatus Azureus

When you want to run a middleweight Linux distribution and you already love & know Debian but don't want to run on super stable Server level since you are running a workstation *not* a server MX Linux is a very good choice as a distribution for you

You've got the power of Debian you'll get the stability of Debian yet you are bleeding edge and don't have applications which are rock stable but for a workstation a tad old
If you don't have a recent MX Linux installation you can download the new ISO version 23.6

If you have v23.5 there's no need to execute a fresh installation. The updated executables will roll out to you automatically.

mxlinux.org/blog/mx-23-6-now-a

.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish  #distro #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming

The screencap displays a mobile device screen with a dark background and a gray header at the top. The header features a logo with a mountain and a cross, followed by the text "MX Linux" in white. Below the header, there is a menu icon on the left and a search icon on the right. The main content area of the screen announces "MX-23.6 now available!" with the date "April 13, 2025" below it. The text explains that MX-23.6 is the sixth refresh of the MX-23 release, including bug fixes, kernel updates, and application updates. It states that if the user is already running MX-23, there is no need to reinstall, and packages are available through regular update channels or by installing the changed applications. The time on the device is 08:22, and the battery is at 93%. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.224 Wh
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Dendrobatus Azureus

After having read what horrors people experienced when they upgrade their Hugo binaries, I made sure that I've kept the version that I used to make my test site & also consequently use *that* version to continue to teach myself a higher level of fluency in the markdown language

`hugo version`
hugo v0.140.2-aae02ca612a02e085c08366a9c9279f4abb39d94+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2024-12-30T15:01:53Z VendorInfo=gohugoio

🖋️ #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #Hugo #Linux #POSIX #FOSS #100daysofCode #640DaysOfCode #1024DaysOfCode #programming

The screencap shows a text editor window with a dark background and white text. The title bar at the top of the window displays several tabs, including "draft = true," "title = 'Eightpost'," and others like "mc-a," "cafe," "RemAD," "Azureus," "Banagado," "Poderoso," and "CMOS." The main content area of the window contains a Markdown document with various formatting examples. The document includes: A code block with text separated by CR/LF and embraced with code version including end braces. A bullet list with items such as "just a little list," "with bullets," "simple and easy," and "asterisk away." A numeric list with items like "numeric list," "no its an ordered list see https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/," "just type period," "1. indents also possible!," "2. clean and smooth," "4. very smooth and easy," "5. Even songs can be inserted," and "6. Johnny be good." The bottom right corner of the window shows the cursor position (12, 20) and the word "Bot." Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.247 Wh
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Dendrobatus Azureus

Yes you have seen it correctly, I'm now including __links__ the sh & console based browser, in my workflow, since it uses few resources, doesn't understand many of the modern languages, which results in pleasure and fun on the internet. You can even use links on a serial console like my Wyse terminal!

An Adblock is not need in this modus operandi.

The places which are properly coded, do not need even JavaScript are where I frequently get my information from

The image shows a computer screen displaying a DuckDuckGo search page for "joe sample." in links, the sh console based browser The page is in a dark theme, with the DuckDuckGo logo at the top. The search bar is filled with "joe sample," and the search button is visible. Below the search bar, there is a "Zero-click info" section that provides a brief summary of Joe Sample, an American jazz keyboardist and composer. The summary mentions his role as a founding member of The Jazz Crusaders in 1960, the group's name change to "The Crusaders" in 1971, and his involvement in the group until its final album in 1991 and a 2003 reunion album called "Rural Renewal." The Wikipedia link is provided for more information. The page is part of a larger search result, as indicated by the "Next Page" button. The background of the search results page is dark, with a faint image of a person's face visible behind the text. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.248 Wh
#POSIX#RetroComputing#csh
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Dendrobatus Azureus

It's possible you've not heard of #boxyBSD

I was lucky to get a TIL moment when @stefano boosted it's existence into my feed.

However you should know about it, learn something about the user perspective from proxmox in the process, while working with a boxyBSD VM.

Here are some nice screencaps of the boxyBSD site so you can ask nicely for a VM and learn to play with one of the *BSD flavours from a distance.

I'm sure you can duckduckgo the address of boxyBSD when you analyze the screencaps, right?

🖋️ #bash #proxyLB #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX #proxmox #loadbalancer

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Dendrobatus Azureus

It has arrived. proxyLB v1.1.0 the loadbalancer for proxmox clusters. Instead of telling you the features of this major version I invite you to read about it yourself, download proxyLB then play with it.

As with any great Open Source project, this has grown out of a necessity that @gyptazy has for his other amazing project boxyBSD, which just needs a versatile tool like this.

Now go and play.

gyptazy.com/introducing-proxlb

🖋️ #bash #proxyLB #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh  #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX #proxmox #loadbalancer

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