August 2022
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It’s $CURRENT_YEAR and there’s still no obvious way to move a window that off screen in Gnome
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12477435/window-appears-off-screen-on-ubuntu Before I forget, it’s Alt+Spacebar because for whatever reason right clicking doesn’t bring up this menu
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Order of proxy use in Wine
If both $http_proxy and $HTTP_PROXY is set, then $http_proxy has precendence. If it’s unset, $HTTP_PROXY will be used. If both are unset, $https_proxy will NOT be read wine rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL…
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Use your socks5 proxy as a VPN in NixOS (outdated)
Update: there’s a better way to do this https://serverfault.com/questions/1169137/how-do-i-send-all-tcp-and-udp-traffic-over-tproxy-without-making-a-loop/1170239#1170239 Just today, I had Steam refuse to update when I tried to start it. This is because it doesn’t like my…
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Awful defaults for Asian languages in Linux
it’s not obvious when you add a Korean keyboard that it’s a Latin keyboard. This sends you to shave another yak and decide whether you want to use ibus or…
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Tried out KDE on NixOS
Dolphin doesn’t know how to ask for sudo. The year is 2022, and I need to use the console to do anything. Sure, I could just change the ownership of…
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Gnome + Firefox how to open magnet:// links
There are two issues that will prevent this from working: Firefox will just ignore magnet:// links and won’t do anything. Here you need to set network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet to false in about.config…


