This could be a Thunar setting or a xfwm4 setting in addition to being a FF setting.
Music lover and English teacher with an interest in slightly geeky things
mastodon / blog / listenbrainz
This could be a Thunar setting or a xfwm4 setting in addition to being a FF setting.
I ended up using Khal too. Hesitant at first, it wound up being good enough for me, especially when it comes to mass importing events. It syncs with my CalDav and phone when using vdirsyncer. 5 to 10 minutes fiddling with the config and haven’t needed to change anything in years.
I did this for several months. If you check out the Alpine community you’ll see that many people do this. So, it is not a dumb idea. Alpine is a “generalist” distro and comes packed with all the DEs and WMs you want. They also accept package requests and are usually pretty fast about it.
I would recommend using the Edge branch just to have access to the newest packages, but keep an eye on the issue tracker before hitting update. Also, get on their Matrix and other accounts to follow different discussions.
Many have surprised me for different reasons.
The most recent that did is Alpine. I decided for some reason to install it for regular desktop use on an RPI400.
First surprise, the ISO was so small. Second surprise, everything installed so fast when I used the install scripts. Third surprise was the up-to-date repos. The final surprise was the community: it handled noob questions and complicated questions so well, walked users through click by click and one command at a time. Awesome and totally an acceptable option for a desktop which is why I immediately installed it on my main laptop and used it for a number of months.
I use super boring Claws Mail for my personal email. I handle my contacts with Khard and calendars with Khal.
I don’t use a Yubikey though.
I’ve been using Linux for a long time. When I install my fist step is to uninstall. I get not wanting things taking up space.
You should be able to remove things like LibreOffice and so on without any issues.
In the past, dependency chains screwed things up depending on the distro. (Remove Chrome? Oh, well, we’ll remove your DE too! I remember once uninstalling VLC, which I never use, wanted to uninstall the browser and other media apps…)
I did go and look around, and you are right. Lots of posts, older and more recent, telling people not to uninstall and change to a minimal distro.
cmus is great for music
mpv for videos, there are different extensions to automatically open YT videos with it.
beets for sorting music
nicotine plus for looking for music
syncthing
zathura
improving performance isn’t easy if you feel like things are running smoothly, but there are a few laptop specific things like tlp that you could look into although I suspect that distro uses them out of the box
Outside of Gnome I think you may need to install an additional package like evolution-on
Already mentioned, but Strawberry is worth checking out. If Quod Libet works, stick with that. I liked it when I used it.
mpd has a number of frontends.
No longer developed I think, but I’ll mention gmusicbrowser as it used to be my go-to.
cmus is what I use now.
I also have a very large library and use Debian 12.5 so I’ll bookmark this thread for later.
Sometimes yt-dlp drops fragments leading to corrupt files, maybe that’s what’s going on.
I went through something similar with my Brother printer, but stuck with USB. I’ll have to give your tips a try later.
I haven’t been able to get 2-sided to work except with LibreOffice for some reason, but maybe that DuplexNoTumble
thing is the key…or value.
There are some tips here that might help
https://github.com/dajeed/arch-linux-font-improvement-guide
Important to note that restarting or running sudo fc-cache -fv
is key when doing things with fonts.
https://repology.org/repositories/statistics says that Alpine Edge has a higher percentage of up-to-date packages.
I do agree that a new user should use something like Fedora first. But OP wants Alpine.
I ignored Geany for years.
Sometimes it came preinstalled, so I knew about it. I didn’t program, why would I need more than, say, whatever the basic text editor was?
Then I found myself in the position of only having one working computer (other than my company-provided laptop): a raspberry pi 400. The Raspberry Pi Desktop (Debian) comes with Geany preinstalled and I just started using it one day. I got it. It is light, it has some extra options, plugins, themes… Looking forward to updating later to see if there are any big changes.
Yes
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/preferences#behavior_preferences
Tabs and Windows
Open new thunar instances as tabs
Whenever you launch thunar while an existing thunar window is already open, a new tab will be added to the existing thunar window instead of opening a new window.