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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 12:33:45 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   folks. folks i need to tell you something. i UPGRADED MY SYSTEM and it STARTED WORKING BETTER

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 12:34:17 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     i'm going to give KDE some money. how come they make software that's actually good and doesn't make me regret upgrading. incomprehensible behavior

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 12:34:18 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     i had this ancient .xsession file that i've been maintaining for close to a decade now. it originated as the startkde script that i edited to run i3 instead of kwin. it was awful. it grabbed kde internals and launched random shit. over time it started bitrotting and i've put up with things just... not working often

     i just replaced it with a single `KDEWM=/usr/bin/i3 startplasma-x11` command and... everything works now? exactly as i want? holy shit

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 12:34:18 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     the only remaining issue is that the font sizes are kind of fucked up _but_ the upgrade also fixed a number of other font DPI related issues so i think i'll just go and commit to figuring out which configuration i need to tweak to fix that

     KDE stays winning. absolute best DE

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 12:34:18 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     for some reason i am completely unable to comprehend, this also fixed an OpenGL issue in VS Code that i did not even know where to start approaching from

     (the issue was that on startup it would display nothing for `random(30, 300)` seconds and it was very annoying. some other chromiums, but not all, did this too)

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 12:34:26 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     imagine shipping a major version upgrade so good that someone has to fix their setup _and yet chooses to give you money anyway_

     every vendor should aspire to this

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 12:34:27 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     i gave KDE e.V. a hundred euro per year

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 12:36:08 JST Rich Felker

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     @whitequark I've noped out of abandoning .xsession so many times because none of the gui configurators seem to expose even half of the important mouse or keyboard settings. Does KDE?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 12:47:25 JST Rich Felker

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     @whitequark At some point someone made 2 finger tap default to right button instead of middle and you need xinput incantations to fix it. And with actual mice I need to suppress the extraneous side buttons so I don't accidentally go back in browser & lose state by hitting them while moving the mouse.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 12:47:26 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias KDE has a very detailed keyboard configurator (it exposes basically all of setxkbmap, with a much less suffering-inducing syntax), but not that much for mouse and touchpad

     i would tell you what's the status of touchpad but due to an infuriating hardware bug related to the I2C controller in this laptop it's currently offline and i'd have to hard-reboot to fix it