By this I mean the psensor applet icon (second from the left) being to big.

I was messing arround trying to customize my desktop and i followed a guide on how to install and setup latte-dock (kde). Long story short, i failed removed latte (although I think it may have left some stuff behind) and when I restored my cinnamon panel the icon was like this. I've already restored the system with timeshift but it made no difference and tried to set "symbolic icon size" in panel settings but it completely ignores it. I googled for a solution but cant find any :c

Any ideas?

P.S. If I set panel height too small, all the applet icons go halfway off screen through the bottom, something they didnt used to do.

SOLVED: Using this comand:

gsettings reset-recursively org.cinnamon

Reverts the icons to their normal behaviour. Thanks to potatoguy

I had a program sorta freeze up my system without apparently using much resources and its something I have seen a lot in windows and it not happening as much in linux but it does happen. That made me wonder if a system that isolated it more would prevent that. So I guess two questions. Im curious about any distros that isolate the non os programs more and also if anyone knows if this actually would stop what I see happening (my theory is maybe it makes some sort of micro ask for resources that bogs down the system but im not really sure why it happens or for sure which program did it.)

It's very clear that the ricing community wants to set any given colorscheme in many apps automatically, most tools do so either with wallpapers (which is inherently opinionated), or the base16 spec. The original base16 repo hasn't been updated in over 2 years, and 16 colors simply isn't enough to make rich granular themes, especially when code has many different syntax elements. We need a successor that allows for more colors on both TUIs and GUIs, more than 16 colors (like 24 or even 32), mapped more granularly.

My story:

I've spent lots of time looking at how to have good colorschemes in apps that change dynamically, to make my desktop pretty and with variety. Many tools can apply colorschemes to apps using image / wallpaper colors like Matugen and Pywal. These tools are very well made, but I realized I actually prefer rainbow colorschemes like Catppuccin. Either way I got attached Matugen, fortunately it can be used without wallpapers and supports custom keywords, there are also base16 colorscheme managers like flavours and tinty.

But Cattppuccin's base16 theme didn't look right compared to its Neovim plugin. The plugin is very well integrated and colors a lot things for you that base16 plugins may not, I would have to set certain UI colors myself if I wanted them to match. Some of the major colors (variables, keywords, brackets, etc.) were shuffled around, so out of the box Catppuccin's base16 theme doesn't even match Cattppuccin's original vision / color harmony. All of this probably applies to other colorschemes as well. So if I want to switch between different schemes while staying true to each one, I would need to set up plugins for each app rather than automatically.

No I'm not using Kali for "hacking" I'm experimenting if I can play games on it and I guess my little experiment failed here, I never had a smooth experience with Debian before it always break itself when doing a system updates.

0:00 sg2d - https://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-disk/

0:48 rescatux - https://www.supergrubdisk.org/category/download/rescatuxdownloads/rescatux-stable/

1:06 cmd gems - https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse

1:30 tldp - https://tldp.org/index.html

2:05 wikis - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Main_Page, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page, https://wiki.debian.org/

2:38 cmdline weather - curl wttr.in

3:22 sh bible - https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible, https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible

4:10 shellcheck - https://www.shellcheck.net/

4:44 uefi vs bios - https://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/booting.html

5:47 performance guides - https://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html

6:16 tldr, manual pages - https://github.com/tealdeer-rs/tealdeer

7:44 cmdline cheatsheets - curl cheat.sh

8:31 fhs - https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html

8:58 otw games - https://overthewire.org/

9:38 awesome lists - https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

10:40 how to learn.

I'm running a NAS on Fedora Server with LUKS encrypted Btrfs hard drives in a USB-C multi-bay enclosure. I noticed that one or both of the hard drives keep making the same sound as when I'm lightly reading or writing files from it (the closest it sounds like to my ear is something like copying to a Wi-Fi connected device where there is a bottleneck somewhere other than the hard drive, so it has bursts of activity a few times a second between idle time). Using iostat -x on my two main hard drives, I do see periodic activity every 10 or so seconds but I'm definitely not accessing anything in them, and the activity indicators on the USB enclosure are still and not blinking to indicate activity.

Should I be worried about this? To my paranoid mind it feels like something is slowly reading my files with some exploit to bypass the indicator light to fly under the radar. But I just did a clean install of Fedora Server 43 (over the previous installation which was 42) and I never installed anything outside of the official package manager and Docker registry. I've also never had this issue on Fedora Server 42 as far as I know, and the NAS is on my desk so I feel like I would have heard it ages ago if it was something frequent. There's also no unexpected network activity on the Cockpit dashboard that would indicate that files are being uploaded, though I feel like if some malware can suppress the indicator light on a USB enclosure it can probably also hide its network traffic.

Is there something standard it's doing that could explain this? Like does Fedora 43 more frequently tell the drive's controller itself to do things like defragmentation or bit rot prevention when it's idle? That's the only explanation I can think of where the drive is clicking but no data is actually being transferred that would trigger the indicator light, since the operation would be entirely within the drive itself.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39342270

Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

Hi all, I just bought a new motherboard and I’ll be buying a new CPU, too. The current one is a gigabyte 520i AC AM4 with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700G on it currently. The new one is also gigabyte 550M AM4 and the new processor is Ryzen 7 5800xt. I currently dual boot Cachy OS and windows 11. Each has their own boot partition and I use grub. I’m going to bring everything over from the old mobo except the cpu that will stay on it since it’s going into another pc. Meaning, I’m bringing my SSDs and all that. Will I need to reinstall (please say no lol)? Will it be just plug and play or will I need to fiddle with a live environment to chroot?
Please let me know if you need more info. Thank you in advance.

I want to transfer 80 TB of data to another locatio . I already have the drives for it. The idea is to copy everything to it, fly it to the target and use or copy the data on/to the server.

What filesystem would you use and would you use a raid configuration? Currently I lean towards 8 single disk filesystems on the 10 TB drives with ext4, because it is simple. I considered ZFS because of the possiblity to scrub at the target destination and/or pool all drives. But ZFS may not be available at the target.

There is btrfs which should be available everywhere because it is in mainline linux and ZFS is not. But from my knowledge btrfs would require lvm to pool disks together like zfs can do natively.

Pooling the drives would also be a problem if one disk gets lost during transit. If I have everything on 8 single disks at least the remaining data can be used at the target and they only have to wait for the missing data.

I like to read about your opinions or practical experience with similar challanges.

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to find a reliable Spanish text-to-speech (TTS) solution for Manjaro Linux that can read a text file and output a wav audio file or similar. I recently tried using Kokoro‑TTS:

uv tool install kokoro-tts  
wget https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts/releases/download/v1.0.0/kokoro-v1.0.onnx  
wget https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts/releases/download/v1.0.0/voices-v1.0.bin  

But when I ran:

kokoro-tts --help-languages  

it only lists languages like en-us, fr-fr, ja, etc.—no Spanish, so it looks like the Spanish voice isn’t included.

What I’m looking for:

• An alternative TTS engine that supports Spanish (ideally es_ES)
• That runs locally on Manjaro (or Arch-compatible)
• Simple to install and use from the command line
• Reasonable naturalness (doesn’t have to be super “neural,” but better than very robotic)

Questions:

1. Which TTS system do you recommend for Spanish on Manjaro?
2. Which are the simplest to install and use?
3. Which are the most natural sounding ones?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Hi Lemmy, does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

When COSMIC Terminal is on Light theme, vim's cursor is barely visible.

I've tried changing the cursor background color on Vim, as well as Vim's theme. But neither of those two options seems to make a difference.

Everytime Microsoft blunders, which is a lot and it is reported, it never fails that there will be numerous individuals proclaiming their switch to Linux. But I always feel like a lot of it is just simply clout, a pat-on-the-back feeling for deciding against the masses kind of feel.

And it always makes me beg to really see how those kind of people fare if they actually did switch and use Linux on a daily basis.

I'll take anyone seriously if they actually switch and sometimes actually talk to me about how their Linux experience is going. Because more times than not, I always assume it's some dual-boot user who could sneak their way back to Windows time to time and barely use Linux.

And I'll see the statistics of the OS marketshare budge...slightly, for Linux. I'm proud that Linux at all that it is gaining more usage than it has before than where it had been 15+ years ago and earlier.

I want to sort of recreate macOS 15's dynamic wallpaper, and downloaded this set of 8 wallpapers which are most / all the colors it cycles through. On Hyprland, I want to cycle through them throughout the day, but also slowly transition from one wallpaper to another for an hour or longer, crossfading / blending them.

I did some searching, and neither timewall or adi1090x/dynamic-wallpaper can do it. I looked at making my own script to blend images once every 60 secs, but I'm not sure how to quickly crossfade images. This command takes ~15 secs, I feel this should possible much faster with or without imagemagick: magick composite -blend 50 wallpaper1.png wallpaper2.png output.png.

I went back to fedora and picked a more boring but practical filesystem setup.

The server has a dual port intel i226v NIC and an onboard realtek NIC. The realtek NIC has a fixed IP address and is just for management. the intel NIC has one port going to WAN and the other to LAN.

Originally, I had the WAN and LAN ports thrown into bridges on the linux host. the host doesnt try to join the WAN port by claiming an IP or doing anythign else with it. it's just here for the OPNsense VM to jump onto and do what it wants. The LAN side was similar but also had a few VLANs I created on the host and passed to the VM as separate interfaces. the VLANs were just passed out from the host and the untagged was a bridge that the host could join.

This did not work. The bridges could not reach out to the world.

I set WAN as direct attachment type in mode bridge to the wan port side of the intel NIC and it created a macvlantap that did reach out of the machine. the LAN and VLAN side still did not work and I cannot do a vtap for that as I need containers on the host to use a few of these.

So I destroyed all the bridges and recreated the LAN. it works! recreate the vlans, WAN dies? reboot the machine, WAN works, VLANs work, but I cannot get the LAN to work as it just keeps dropping the VM's interface from that bridge.

WHYyYYYYY!!!!?!?ONE!!!/??

gday all, looking for some guidance or to be pushed into the right direction.

I recently installed Linux, (bazzite, but I will be changing to something with more control as I feel bazzite is tryjng to protect me too much which causes other issues, possibly this )

so I installed bazzite, everything went fine with no issues. I attempted to connect my TR-002 QNAP via usb as a STORAGE DRIVE. Linux detects the drive being connected and powered on, however it shows as 12tb unallocated. I know it's allocated as I can swap my boot drive (physically, not dual booting) back to Windows and all data is present and usable.

I attempted previously to edit fstab and manually add it as a drive, ya that failed miserably and resulted in me needing to boot into grub to rebuild my fstab. (when I learned I don't like bazzite as it revoked my root access, hence grub).

Is there anything I should be looking at or doing in order to get this drive to connect as storage? I suspect windows l, when I first created the QNAP did some fuckery and didn't load the partition tables or something.

just looking for someone to point me I t he right direction, worst case I remove bazzitr and install something like popos or Ubuntu as I know I'd have more control, and the fact that bazzite does not like NTFS (even though this isn't the os drive). other USB drives I have that are NTFS, show up perfectly without issue. only this qnap

Title, I installed my system with two partitions, a big one and a small one for the OS. I figured 100GB would be enough for the OS one, but apparently not as it keeps filling up. Steam keeps filling it for some reason, something to do with Proton. I know that messing with partition sizes has a risk of data loss and all that, and I don't really want to lose parts of my OS.

today I updated my system and Floorp is completely break userchrome (again) but this time it's very severe basically it doesn't load userchrome at all, so I look into a way to downgrading it but unsuccessful but I can just download .deb file then convert it to Arch installer with Debtap and install it with usual "paru -Udd" and everything just work. So if you haven't heard of this wonderful software yet I think you should check it out https://github.com/helixarch/debtap

My mom has been a lifelong windows user and has not used any other operating systems before besides her iPad and iPhone, but she’s pretty good at figuring things out technology wise as far as I know, but still just wants her computer to just work.

After my mom finished using quickbooks and other windows hold only programs I recommended Linux to her especially since she was on windows 10 and couldn’t upgrade to 11.

I just installed Linux mint for her and got her all setup with all her files in the same place etc. I even cloned her windows 10 system and setup a virtual machine with her old system in case of an emergency she needs something that just doesn’t work on Linux or something we missed, it’s pretty slow due to running the VM from an HDD but I told her she shouldn’t need to use it except in some extreme circumstances.

Her use cases these days are looking through, saving photos from her phone, browsing the web, and some word processing / spreadsheets which I setup to have the tabbed view similar to Microsoft office. I also installed the Google Chrome flatpak for her so she can sync all her bookmarks, and such back onto her device.

I setup unattended upgrades and helped her verify all her peripherals and Bluetooth devices are working.

So far so good only hiccup seems to be she has some saved emails in .msg format which can’t be opened but I read I can convert those files into a readable format for her, worst case she can use the vm I setup.

I let her know I’m available for tech support whenever she needs if something comes up.

Looking for feedback on anything I may have missed or might want to tell her to ensure she has a good experience.

Fedora annoyed me and I said screw it, I'm going back to arch. But I cant remember how I got it to work the last time I set it up. There's a couple weird issues and changes since last I set this up that I think are contributing to this.

1 - /boot/efi is no longer considered an appropriate mount point. just create a EFI partition and mount it /efi and let the OS put /boot inside the root partition if it needs it., then throw a UKI on /boot/efi/EFI/Linux. Problem? bootctl insists I am either in a container or not in EFI mode. I have not been successful in convincing it otherwise.

2 - bcachefs boot time mounting is in a weird place right now. supposedly I can call a piece of the array by UUID and it will just mount, but I used to use the old_blk_id method in fstab and the modern equivalent to that appears to be grabbing the UUID off bcachefs fs usage, which will show the UUID that matches all members of the array under blkid, which is noted as being broken at the moment. Why not use btrfs? well I tried it and found it annoyingly inflexible and finally gave up and am trying to go back to what worked on my last home server.

3 - I'm attempting to use UKI this time to make it easier to transition into using secure boot when I feel like doing that later on, and its possible that UKI, systemd-boot, bcachefs, and the /efi mountpoint are not a great mix.

help? :(

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/757221

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https://github.com/iDescriptor/iDescriptor

Currently it supports AppImage, but Flatpak version will possibly be available in future: https://github.com/iDescriptor/iDescriptor/issues/1

I've been using Firefox to view PDFs and it works fine. Recently though I wanted to try something more minimal with vim keybindings. Found two options: Zathura and tdf (terminal pdf viewer).

What I'm curious about is why someone would choose a TUI pdf viewer over a regular one (like Zathura). What are the actual advantages people find in practice. tdf mentions being fast but I wonder if that's something you'd actually notice day to day?

Also I remember seeing screenshots where PDFs looked transparent or matched the terminal colors. Is that actually a feature of some of these viewers ? Maybe someone uses one here?

Tdf seems relatively popular with 1.4k github stars.