Re: This FOSS Thang :-)

rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 07:15:29 -0000 (UTC), vallor wrote:
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On 21 Mar 2024 07:00:34 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote in
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On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:56:52 -0400, DFS wrote:
 

"Theory" says Linux users update the code to make their apps and
desktops look and behave the way they want.
 
"Observed reality" PROVES they don't.

 
Speaking personally I have to agree. Unless it's something hideous like
dark mode I use whatever comes out of the box.

 
It took me weeks and weeks to get my spinny desktop cube running!

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Spinny desktop cubes give me vertigo as do shaky windows and all the rest
of that crap. I had a friend who would spend hours messing with the
special effects. otoh I've spent hours trying to figure out how to prevent
a window from suddenly resizing itself when it gets too close to an edge.
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Maybe not hours but it did take me longer than it should have to figure
out what the hell I was doing that would suddenly display all the active
apps on the desktop and drive a stake through its heart.
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Several distros became dead to me when they insisted on following
Microsoft down the Aero rabbit hole. Truth is some days I'd like to go
back to a 100 column amber monitor.

I run this compositor on my Fluxbox desktop:

   /usr/bin/compton -b -cCGf --active-opacity 0.95 -m 1.0 -i 0.95 -e 0.9 \
       --no-fading-openclose --sw-opti

I kill it when I want to screenshot the whole desktop.

That reminds me, I need to write a script to kill it and to restart it.

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