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Just annotations of little "how to's", so I know I can find how to do something I've already done when I need to do it again, in case I don't remember anymore, which is not unlikely. Hopefully they can be useful to others, but I can't guarantee that it will work, or that it won't even make things worse.
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MKVtoolnix-GUI's interface gets completely mangled if the font is "too big"

Posted 08-10-2023 at 09:27 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 08-10-2023 at 10:17 PM by the dsc

I was all of a sudden experiencing what seemed to be a more troublesome problem, but then stumbled with an answer:

Quote:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread....4#post14141454

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I'm using MKVToolNix GUI v64.0.0 ('Too Much') 64-bit on Ubuntu MATE 22.04 amd64 desktop, and the GUI is broken. I mean, it's just not working right. I'll include a picture. I don't know if I have it use it as command line or what, but this is weird. I've tried reinstalling
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Simplified, limited, dumb, atrocious, fake "getopts" -like implementation for bash scripts

Posted 08-05-2023 at 08:17 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 08-17-2023 at 09:43 AM by the dsc

Code:
lastarg=${@:$#}
# options should come all together on the last argument, such as:
# $./script.sh file1.foo file2.bar --scr-opts:optA,optC,opt3,opt2

echo "${@}" | sed  's/--scr-opts:.*//' | sed  '/^\s*$/d' > /dev/shm/scripttmpfilelistorwhatever$$
# that strips the files (or something else coming before the options) and adds to a temp file. 
# The second sed deletes empty lines, for some reason. I guess sometimes they may end up there somehow,
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Ridiculous, shameful, tasteless hack to have/fake geeqie starting with focus on the file list

Posted 07-29-2023 at 02:32 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 08-03-2023 at 03:52 PM by the dsc
Tags geeqie

I kind of use it to a significant degree as a "file manager for images," so more often than not I'm on the file pane, much more so than the folder pane, but apparently there's no way to change the default focus, besides eventually changing the source code somehow and compiling it. Preferably with the default-focus-here-or-there being an option, so everyone can have it the way they chose. But for now the best I can do is having this xdotool wrap-around script on $PATH, named geeqie as well:...
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Beware of trying lxpanel as a replacement of tint2 in a standalone Openbox session

Posted 07-28-2023 at 11:51 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 07-28-2023 at 11:55 PM by the dsc
Tags lxpanel

Maybe one can get totally used to it, but the in-between/trying out can be annoyingly troublesome.

Despite not having a bug found on tint2 (unhidden auto-hiding panels being covered/"popping-under" always-on-top windows, instead of above), it doesn't feel the same in a significant way, but I could get over it.

Unfortunately, besides that, the auto-hide mode seems to behave erratically. Not only delays a bit too much to show up, but often seems to just not...
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If you're on Openbox WM/DE/"no-DE" and sometimes KDE stuff comes up all of a sudden in response to keybindings...

Posted 07-11-2023 at 08:32 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)

Something you've done or some upgrade is triggering or auto-starting kglobalaccel5.

It somehow takes precedence over Openbox' own keybindings, and will bring up random/sometimes coincidentally related KDE/Plasma program, set by default (or not) to the same keybindings.

It can perhaps be triggered by some "random" KDE programs you start, I guess depending on environment variables and whatnot. Besides eventually being set up in some kind of xdg-autostart thing...
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