eyolf

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[–] eyolf 6 points 1 year ago

I didn't think I would ever say this, but: arch isn't always the answer. True: the last time the entire system broke on me was in 2006'ish, but I can't count the times certain apps have stopped working or some python upgrade messes up things. Sure: that's the price of rolling release and AUR, and I wouldn't be without it, but it's a thing one has to learn to live with, and a thing that makes 'arch' the wrong answer to this particular question.

[–] eyolf 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which functionality is that? I haven't found anything that enters the selected item directly, without having to C-v it afterwards. Besides, the mouse is a thing I want to avoid… I played around with some other functions, however, and I found out that cycling through the history items works fairly well for me.

[–] eyolf 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know if it is the same issue, but in general I've been having lots of similar issues with KDE and suspending. Not suspending, not coming back.

[–] eyolf 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That's more or less what I do, but it's not quite killring'y. The workflow I'm looking for is: paste as usual with ctlr-v, then press some shortcut to replace the pasted with the previous item in the "ring", without having to go through the backwards process of first enabling klipper, then choosing item, and only then entering it.

But I'll play around with it some more and see what I figure out.

[–] eyolf 1 points 1 year ago

I'm doing my part

[–] eyolf 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's exactly why I'm wary of Family Search. In principle, I love the "open source" character of it, but that also means that one is not in control of one's own tree.

[–] eyolf 1 points 1 year ago

I found mine on the venue floor after a Dylan concert. I've considered taking up smoking just to get some use for it. But it's nice to have on a hike as well. A bit more healthy too.

[–] eyolf 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, one of these days, that's what I'm going to do. I do find it useful, though, to try out some of the bundles, if only to get an idea of what is possible, and what I like (and what I hate).

[–] eyolf 0 points 1 year ago

Fontmatrix. It was on a straight path to become the Best Font-Manager Ever, Any Platform, and then development suddenly stopped. I'm still mourning it.

[–] eyolf 1 points 1 year ago

fontmatrix, which is the closest one has ever come to a decent font manager in linux, and latin-words, which is indispensable if one ever has the need for a Latin dictionary.

[–] eyolf 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wrote this eulogy to St Stallman already quite a few years ago, with the point that he may be wrong, but he is wrong in the right way, and that is a good thing. Still relevant:

St Stallman: A Hero of the Highest Order

[–] eyolf 2 points 1 year ago

I use it when I have to, but in fact, all my twists and turns over the years – LaTeX, Obsidian, Zim, etc. – have been caused by deep frustrations with Writer. It seems that when it comes to the handling of direct formatting, styles, typography, each new update has caused even greater problems, for me anyway, to the extent that I can't rely on the program, not even to preserve the contents of my files.

So now I do all my writing in Obsidian and then convert to odt for the final touches.

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