What's a unique customization on your Linux machine you think no one else has?
What's a unique customization on your Linux machine you think no one else has?
Just wondering since I know a lot of people quietly use a screen-area-select -> tesseract OCR -> clipboard shortcut.
- I separate subjects of interest into different Firefox windows, in different workspaces -- so I have an extension title them and a startup script parse text to ask the compositor to put them in the correct workspace (lets me restart more conveniently).
- I have automatically-set different-orientation wallpapers for using my 2-in-1 depending on whether I use it in portrait or landscape (kind of just for looks, but I don't think if anyone else adds a wallpaper change to their screen rotation keybind).
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I suspect my habit of having an
alias userctl="systemctl --user"is slightly unusual, as is running Firefox, Steam, and some other graphical programs as systemd units is somewhat unusual (e.g.mod4-enterrunssystemd-run --user alacritty)But what I'm actually pretty sure is unique is my keyboard layout. I taught myself dvorak a summer some decades ago, but the norwegian dvorak layout has some annoyances, so I've made some tweaks. Used to be a
Xmodmapfile, but with the switch to wayland I turned it into a file in/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/.Part of what I did to teach myself dvorak and touch-typing at the same time was randomize the placement of the keycaps too. It has a side effect of being a kind of security by obscurity layer: I type quickly and confidently, but others who want to use my machines have an "uhh …" reaction.
I have been using the same
userctlalias.I didn't know about the
systemd-runcommand. Do you use it to save the command log? I created a script conveniently namedxwhich opens a file in a default app, in the background, so I can still use the terminal. But then I had the problem with handling logs and this sounds like a perfect solution. Gonna try it today.As for the alias, I wanted to create a pacman-like interface for systemctl, so the commands would be much shorter, but never finished it. For example,
sctl -Eun unitwould be equal tosysyemctl enable --user --now unitThe logs are handled, but I mostly use it for command separation and control, including killing unruly child processes.