Saturday, November 29, 2025

VNC: Applications in a vnc client (tigervnc) running fluxbox open in a Wayland host instead of the vnc client

In the vnc:

set -e XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
set -e DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS


To do it automatically at the start add the following
to `.fluxbox/startup` before `exec fluxbox`:
unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

exec fluxbox

Firefox crashes when opening through waypipe on Wayland

Run it without GPU:
``` waypipe --no-gpu ssh user@host firefox ```

Niri: share clipboard between Niri and Vnc

https://github.com/dnut/clipboard-sync
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/clipboard-sync

Friday, November 28, 2025

Install Niri on Gnetoo

emerge -av gui-wm/niri gui-apps/waybar gui-apps/fuzzel gui-apps/mako gui-apps/xwayland-satellite xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-gnome

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Arch: Krusader does not have open with menu

install yay xdg-desktop-portal-kde
and
cd /etc/xdg/menus
ls -Agl # to show the links in the directory as they are
sudo ln -sf ./plasma-applications.menu applications.menu
sudo ln -sf ./plasma-applications.menu gnome-applications.menu
sudo ln -sf ./plasma-applications.menu kde-applications.menu
ls -Agl # to see of they changed

https://forum.openmandriva.org/t/krusader-does-not-remember-file-associations/6449/13

Sunday, November 23, 2025

Linux: use FreeRDP instead of rdesktop



rdesktop -u "domain\userID" -a 16 -z -g 1850x1080 -r sound:local:pulse -r disk:b=/mnt/b ip_addr


xfreerdp3 /u:userID /d:domain /v:ip_addr -themes /dynamic-resolution /drive:/mnt/b,b

Friday, November 21, 2025

gentoo: No icons font in distrobox

install `fontawesome-fonts-all` fonts.

sudo emerge -av media-fonts/fontawesome

Fedora:
sudo dnf install fontawesome-fonts-all
Arch:
sudo pacman -S otf-font-awesome

Friday, November 14, 2025

Run KDE Menu Editor from a commandline

kmenuedit

Krusader: add user action to open distrobox terminal in the currently active folder

cd %aPath% && distrobox-host-exec bash -i

https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/krusader/krusader/useractions.html


cd %aPath% && /usr/bin/distrobox-enter -n abox -- terminator --geometry=1200x650+700+500

cd %aPath% && distrobox-host-exec bash -i

or

cd %aPath% && distrobox-host-exec exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator