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What's a unique customization on your Linux machine you think no one else has? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I use my DE mostly as it comes, that's got to be unique in this community

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Some people use plasma because they like how configurable it is. I do like that, but I'm also drawn to it because of its great defaults.

The main ways I change it are setting my background (on my work activity I have it selecting from various company related backgrounds while on my personal activity it uses a selection of my favourites of my own photos) and adjusting the bottom panel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Funny you should say that, I always felt like the defaults are really bad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Probavly, I have about 20 extensions for GNOME and have tweaked right about every setting and keybind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

I just like the extension that lets me swap audio devices without delving into settings