OK thanks

Just for reference, unity removed the notification tray long before gnome ever did, despite a long announced deprecation of it.

I minutely hated Unity. With Gnome I have a strong disagreement. With Unity I'm just happy it's gone.

I am gonna format my laptop this weekend. Tl;Dr; fedy is a mess Is dejadup a good choice to backup/restore my home dir?

I am gonna format my laptop this weekend. Tl;Dr; fedy is a mess Is dejadup a good choice to backup/restore my home dir?

If you just want to backup, reinstall, pull back - use rsync and then pick the files you need.

If you resync everything back you might get settings corrupted by fedy like font rendering atrributes or theme "tweaks"

I am gonna format my laptop this weekend. Tl;Dr; fedy is a mess Is dejadup a good choice to backup/restore my home dir?

Dejadup also works. https://fedoramagazine.org/easy-backups-with-deja-dup/

I won't backup .files and .dirs

So just install your applications (make a list of them with dnf list installed > file.txt) and then copy back

I won't backup .files and .dirs

rsync then

Also a more detailed way of doing backups: https://fedoramagazine.org/taking-smart-backups-duplicity/

And my favorite, Duply <3 https://fedoramagazine.org/enhancing-smart-backups-duply/

How can I backup network manager VPN settings?

And my favorite, Duply <3 https://fedoramagazine.org/enhancing-smart-backups-duply/

You forgot dejadup bit for flat-file one-time browsable backups rsync (or fuse-mountable borg backups) beat either.

I have many for work

How can I backup network manager VPN settings?

The export tool is broken and copying the files is hit and miss.

Yeah thats a common shortcoming of reinstalling it.

The only thing I miss from DEs are the much better integration of a file manager. I3 just doesn't feel very natural with a file manager.

ranger.

Duplicity overheats my laptop

I'm using Borg without compression

but honestly, I wouldn't format for having used Fedy

a too big penance for such a small sin

but honestly, I wouldn't format for having used Fedy

Best option still

a too big penance for such a small sin

Its far from small a sin.

yeah, it's not even a sin

One might've forever tainted his pc with it.

come on...

yeah, it's not even a sin

Its the single beginner sin you can commit in the linux world. Almost like all the flashy multi-tool windows stuff installers that arent chocolatey

ranger.

Yeah, it's a great alternative but it's not as good as nautilus :P

Yeah, it's a great alternative but it's not as good as nautilus :P

That's debatable

It has it's uses, yes. But when to access MTP and just want to drag and drop files from here and there, CLI file managers are not really cut out for it.

It has it's uses, yes. But when to access MTP and just want to drag and drop files from here and there, CLI file managers are not really cut out for it.

I've never had any problems using it with MTP :P

If you think that then you're not using it properly

Then again, if it's just checking out contents or some small moving or copy pasting, GUI Filemanagers are an overkill and regular cp/mv or ranger work the best

If you think that then you're not using it properly

Probably true.

Then again, if it's just checking out contents or some small moving or copy pasting, GUI Filemanagers are an overkill and regular cp/mv or ranger work the best

cp/mv died too often on me for too many files

rsync is now my tool of choice

cp/mv died too often on me for too many files

Never failed me tho. I even did a copy paste of the entire framework/base repo of the android project which consists of around 2.5 GB of files...

Ze amount of files it is, not ze amount of data.

Too many filez, smol smol files of 2.5GB sound a lot imo. Then again, I don't do a lot of heavy development like you guys so there's that

rsync is now my tool of choice

I've started using rsync. It's brilliant

I've started using rsync. It's brilliant

Indeed - but never forget --no-links for most usecases ?

I have 512gb ssd, 512gb hhd and 1tb hhd, what should I get next? 1tb ssd or 4tb hhd?

Also, my hhd's are ancient and I'm anxious one of them will die soon

Hdd then.

SSDs live pretty long and just make a backup on your hdds every so often

does anyone know how i can show tux ASCII within screenfetch?

does anyone know how i can show tux ASCII within screenfetch?

Iirc, it is a fallback image, and distributive image is set with either -d or -D with distro name afterwards, so you can just try -d Linux (or -D Linux)

Iirc, it is a fallback image, and distributive image is set with either -d or -D with distro name afterwards, so you can just try -d Linux (or -D Linux)

I got it! thanks for help

Sure. :)

then the package manager should package manage in gui :)

It isn't a package manager

I'm currently trying very hard to design a widget for KDE Connect... Any ideas from anyone are welcome!

KDE Connect already has a widget?

A widget for controlling music playback from the android home screen while connected to a computer.

It doesn't do this already? That's annoying. :/

kde connect is nice but... no bluetooth, no party

+1

high latency for touch input, downright unusuable for file transfer...

But it'd be perfect for notifications sync/media control stuffs

and almost never keep consistency

It's always worked for me ?

It doesn't do this already? That's annoying. :/

It does and I asked him abouy it and he said that its an android widget for KDE Connect's Notification bar controls.

It does and I asked him abouy it and he said that its an android widget for KDE Connect's Notification bar controls.

Ahh, right. That makes sense. ?

KDE Connect is pretty awesome right now, as long as you don't intend to run it on Wayland

KDE Connect is pretty awesome right now, as long as you don't intend to run it on Wayland

What's the problem with it on Wayland?

What's the problem with it on Wayland?

No remote input, I didn't know it was a no no under Wayland u til it hard crashed my computer

Also it crashes more often than it does under x

No remote input, I didn't know it was a no no under Wayland u til it hard crashed my computer

Wayland isn't stable on KDE.

Wayland isn't stable on KDE.

Indeed ?

Understatement of the year

Though to be fair Wayland folks are aware of the input issue and maybe sometime in the future they'll get to that

I mean the oldest bug about it is seven years old...

ERROR: S client not available

Understatement of the year

They started working on Wayland really late tho. They were busy switching to plasma 5

Do you use it with Wayland?

Yeah let's hope they don't decide to start plasma 6 anytime soon

Nope, not since the hard crash

Yeah let's hope they don't decide to start plasma 6 anytime soon

They won't. Only had to switch because QT 5 was incompatible with previous versions.

They won't. Only had to switch because QT 5 was incompatible with previous versions.

QT6 isn't even planned.

QT6 isn't even planned.

But they started to plan it

KDE devs must have thought of this. They won't make the same mistake again.

excuse me,ffmpeg have been installed,but mp4 can't be played with vlc on Fedora 27,thx.

excuse me,ffmpeg have been installed,but mp4 can't be played with vlc on Fedora 27,thx.

Any errors?

Any errors?

moov atom not found..

moov atom not found..

Broken mp4 mov video file. Have you tried with any other video file?

can play avi

file the invalid mp4,the result is data

Today we have upgrade test day https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-28-upgrade-test-day-2018-04-19/

excuse me,ffmpeg have been installed,but mp4 can't be played with vlc on Fedora 27,thx.

Ffmpeg has little do with this. You need to install rpmfusion and gstreamer codecs for totem (default video player) or rpmfusion and mpv (best video player) or rpmfusion and vlc media player (second best)

Ffmpeg has little do with this. You need to install rpmfusion and gstreamer codecs for totem (default video player) or rpmfusion and mpv (best video player) or rpmfusion and vlc media player (second best)

mpv - best CLI player. VLC - best GUI player.

mpv - best CLI player. VLC - best GUI player.

mpvs gui is also superior to vlc unless you need buttons to input youtube links.

As well as gnome-mpv existing for that usecase.

I'd like to have a GUI button to choose quality at runtime.

But using config is also pretty nice.

I have configured it to load 1080p h264 and best quality opus.

I'd like to have a GUI button to choose quality at runtime.

A what. It'd be news to me if vlc could switch youtube resolutions at runtime xD

I have configured it to load 1080p h264 and best quality opus.

"load"?

"load"?

Download.

From YT.

Thats what youtube-download is for.

Vlc will produce crappier results.

Vlc will produce crappier results.

Why?

And of course you can not only preconfigure youtube-dl but also mpv to use specific youtube-dl arguments.

Why?

Because youtube-dl will choose the best quality available, opus audio and just repack into mkv with ffmpeg.

And of course you can not only preconfigure youtube-dl but also mpv to use specific youtube-dl arguments.

I have also configured mpv to use hwdec.