I haven’t blogged about the EndeavourOS installation for a while. Let’s have a look at the new EndeavourOS Gemini. I’m going to install it into a KVM virtual machine. The installer now features KDE Plasma instead of Xfce as in the past (and the Arm installer has been removed, unfortunately): As usual, I update the […]
I have always liked Amarok, the (initially) default KDE media player. It’s very feature-rich, nothing compared to Elisa. Moreover, it has two crucial features that I haven’t found in any other players: it saves statistics (play count and stars) directly into the music file it synchronizes statistics with the iPod. I have always liked Amarok, […]
Gnome Boxes is meant to be an easy and quick-starting software for Qemu virtual machines. I have already blogged about Qemu with KVM Virtual Machine Manager. These tools are powerful but require time to get familiar with them and tweak them correctly (I tried to provide some hints in my previous posts about these tools). […]
I haven’t been using Fedora for a few years but wanted to try it again (Fedora 39). In the past, I had a few problems with Docker in Fedora (see Fixing Docker problems in Fedora). Things are slightly improved, while others haven’t changed. For sure, I gave up using the official Docker command in Fedora: […]
I haven’t used Fedora for a few years but wanted to try it again (Fedora 39). I was immediately hit by a problem, which is not due to Fedora itself, I seem to understand. I’ll use this example project (taken from my TDD book): https://github.com/LorenzoBettini/demo-attsw. It is a simple Java Swing application where UI tests […]
As I have written, I’m using “Oh-My-Zsh” with Nerd icons and fonts. It has always worked perfectly in KDE. A few days ago, KDE Plasma 6 landed in Arch (and thus, EndeavourOS), and after upgrading, the Nerd fonts were not displayed in Konsole and Kate (and, I guess, in other KDE applications). For example, before […]
At last, KDE Plasma 6 has landed in Arch Linux (and in EndeavourOS, of course), and you’re eager to try the return of the desktop effect “Desktop Cube”! 🙂 You try to enable that in the System Settings “Desktop Effects.” You try the default shortcut “Meta + C”, and… it doesn’t work 🙁 Oh, they […]
Updated on 8 March 2024 (for Plasma 6) Updated on 30 May 2024 (for Dolphin’s “Open With” empty menu) This is another post of the Hyprland series. I am a big fan of KDE applications for many everyday tasks. Since Hyprland is not a full desktop environment, you can choose which applications to install for […]
This is another post on the Hyprland series. In a previous post, I showed how to create a custom button in the Waybar for wlogout: a wlogout is a logout menu for Wayland environments: Remember that in Arch, this is available as an AUR package, e.g., you have to install it through an AUR helper […]
I tried the KDE Plasma 6 (beta) by using the KDE Neon Unstable Edition. This is a quick report. I tried that in a KVM virtual machine. I had to disable 3d graphics, or the installer showed an empty Window. Here’s the live environment where I started the installer: Note that it uses the Wayland […]
I have already started blogging about Ansible; in particular, I have shown how to develop and test an Ansible role with Molecule and Docker, also on Gitpod. I have also shown my Ansible role for GNOME. This blog post will describe my Ansible role for installing the KDE Plasma desktop environment with several programs and […]
Nowadays, I mostly use Arch-based distributions (especially with EndeavourOS). So I haven’t been using Ubuntu for a while and decided to try it again now that the brand new release, 23.10 “Mantic Minotaur”, is available. I tested it on my Dell XPS 13. Here we are in the live environment: Let’s start the installation. This […]
Here’s another post on how to get started with Hyprland. This time, we’ll see how to configure notifications with mako, a lightweight notification daemon for Wayland, which also works with Hyprland. (you might also want to consider and experiment with an alternative: dunst). If you followed my previous tutorials, you have no notification daemon installed. […]
I have already started blogging about Ansible; in particular, I have shown how to develop and test an Ansible role with Molecule and Docker, also on Gitpod. This blog post will describe my Ansible role for installing the GNOME desktop environment with several programs and configurations. As for the other roles I’ve blogged about, this […]
I haven’t been using Ubuntu for a while, but I wanted to give it another try. I’m using my Ansible playbook for installing ZSH, Oh My Zsh, and p10k (Powerlevel10k), so I thought everything would work like a charm. However, after running the playbook and restarting, the terminal did not look quite right: You see […]
I am writing this report about my (nice) experience upgrading the SSD (1 TB) to my Dell OptiPlex 5040 MiniTower. That’s an old computer (I bought it in 2016), but it’s still working great. However, its default SSD of 256 GB was becoming too small for Windows and my Linux distributions. This computer also came […]
Up to now, I have shown how to get started with Hyprland with the initial configurations. Now, I’ll show how to install the mainstream status bar in Hyprland: Waybar. Again, I’m going to do that for Arch Linux. As in the previous posts, I will NOT focus on the look and feel configuration. Before continuing, […]
I am writing this report about my (nice) experience adding a second SSD (an NVMe, 1 Tb) to my LG GRAM 16, my main laptop that I’ve enjoyed for two years. DISCLAIMER: This is NOT meant to be a tutorial; it’s just a report. You will do that at your own risk if you perform […]
In this post, I’d like to document how to use ssh-agent in Hyprland to store SSH key passphrases. This is part of my blog series on Hyprland. Assuming you use SSH keys protected with a passphrase, each time you use an SSH connection with the SSH key, you are prompted for the passphrase. You can […]
I had blogged about KDE Plasma and Wayland, and now I’m evaluating that again one year later. In general, it looks like it improved a lot, even though it looked already promising last year. Again, I’m testing this on EndeavourOS. When I logged into the Plasma Wayland session with a brand-new user, the system automatically […]