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Cake day: September 12th, 2023

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  • I would love you and others to find and watch this classic episode of the Twilight Zone: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_at_Last My guts tell me there’d always be something missing like that.

    I had thoughts of landing in a solitary confinement. Having media, tools, manuals and even internet at hand would make it pretty bearable, but I’d still probe the question of waking up another clone to have a company. Being there with their asses in a cryogenic sleep for decades would make me think about it thousands of times and it’d be really hard not to question the guidelines and test this opportunity.







  • Xfce for now.

    I’ve found how to use these shortcuts to drop windows to the left\right half of the screen with super+left\right AND make them fullscreen or hide them with super+up\down. But with that I’m yet to find how to achieve a placement in a quarter of a screen with e.g. super+left and super+up for a left-top quarter. Or to move window to another screen with 2x super+left. It implies that the shortcut reacts differently based on where the window’s now. And the basic tool to set them obviously couldn’t make condition-based shortcuts. There may be a way to add them, but I don’t know of it yet.

    I usually use 3-4 new windows at a time, so it was cool I can stack them like that on a whim with a couple of shortcuts.

    For the middle-mouse thing: it’s elastic auto-scrolling in any direction. Like on a wepbage, you press it and drag in any direction, and the more you move your mouse from the place you started pressing, the more speed this scrolling have. And this didn’t mess with middle-clicks on links to open a page in a new tab etc, so it had some dead zone before starting to act I guess.

    I’ve found some rebinding guides for a comparable behavior, but it felt a little off. For what I remember, the built-in feature to bind that got recomended wasn’t auto-scrolling. It was like… How to explain it? Like holding a scrollbar and dragging it up or down, and very sensitive. And with that I usually missed the links I wanted to press with a middle button as there were no delay before starting that behavior.

    It seems like to achieve the behavior I want I need to find a way to write some listening macro myself. I’m yet to come to that.

    Hope I explained it right. These are little things that got written into my muscle memory by years on Win. I’m new to Linux, so maybe I don’t see something obvious.