The only success I've had to connect to my wayland desktop was with Gnome, (at the time, it only worked if I was already logged in, though there was an extension that let you overcome a locked desktop). Once in, it worked well. Sort of. Had no luck with KDE, though that may have changed. VNC gave me no end of difficulty so I gave up.
All in all, a bit of a fiasco. YMMV - I'm sure my own incompetence was to blame (but should it not be... easier?)
Honestly, I really liked Zork. (I was the right age when it came out.). Never been as captivated by a game. More in the imagination than in the graphics.
I'll put Civilization V (and sometimes IV) in second place. Homeworld was great too.
Ah. So no option with visual feedback..? Wonder if a plugin exists that can help there.
Hi There - I wanted to ask a question that I've asked previously, but adding a gif to illustrate what I'm trying to say.
https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/d50caca3-d2c3-4d9e-b8f4-3e30ce828017.webm
Is there a plugin that could accomplish this?
Cheers! (Previous post) https://lemmy.ca/post/15305808
Hi there - I’m trying to dive into neovim and I can’t figure out how to do a certain thing in visual block mode…
Is there a way to extend a cursor/block column down from a long line through a series of shorter lines such that the short lines extend to meet the cursor (thus letting you enter text all in a column)? All I can seem to get it to do is have the cursor go to the end of each line, leaving a set of entry points staggered over a different column positions.
I think the feature I want is called Virtual Space, but I’m not sure. I am sure, however, that I use this feature extensively in Ultra Edit and Notepad++ (and mssql mgmt studio and visual studio but not vscode!)
Is there an add on? A plugin? (bonus points if the entry points remain highlighted once going into insert mode after the block is selected?) I’ve seen suggestions to try using the ‘virtualedit’ setting, but unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to solve the issue. It only adds text to lines that are already of length greater or equal to the column position of the block selection. Unless I’m missing something.
(Adding a link to a vscode issue begging for the same feature. It might help illustrate the concept. - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/13960 )
Would be grateful for help here. (bonus points is there’s a way to keep the cursor highlighted after the shift to insert mode…)
You may be onto something.... /s
(I almost went with British Broadcorping Castration...)
So I looked them up with my Mastodon account to try to follow but quickly discovered that not all searches for 'BBC' lead to accounts related to the BBC...l.
It would be faster to just select every end of line and add spaces and then do the edit & Trim later.
Bottom line is that the functionality doesn't seem to exist in any useful way. Wish it did. I think Ultra Edit, notepad++ visualstudio and mssql mgnt studio must have spoiled me for other editors (in this respect). Even Geany does this (but oh, so janky...)
Unfortunately, that will just skip over the short lines contained within the the block selection, which is exactly what I'm trying not to do (hence the initial question).
Thank you - it seems that this will only be possible with a wrapper script (which was going to be my next course of action). I can definitely use what you've written here as an accelerator, though!
Thank you for the response. I'm not sure I'd have any idea how to create a function for this at this point. Lack of support for this feature is pretty much the main reason I'm shifting away from vscode. (Also looking at nvim as I want a more powerful go-to solution for CLI editing...)
Certainly frustrating - it was my most used feature when I was coding SQL extensively...
Hi there - I'm trying to dive into neovim and I can't figure out how to do a certain thing in visual block mode...
Is there a way to extend a cursor/block column down from a long line through a series of shorter lines such that the short lines extend to meet the cursor (thus letting you enter text all in a column)? All I can seem to get it to do is have the cursor go to the end of each line, leaving a set of entry points staggered over a different column positions.
I think the feature I want is called Virtual Space, but I'm not sure. I am sure, however, that I use this feature extensively in Ultra Edit and Notepad++ (and mssql mgmt studio and visual studio but not vscode!)
Is there an add on? A plugin? (bonus points if the entry points remain highlighted once going into insert mode after the block is selected?) I've seen suggestions to try using the 'virtualedit' setting, but unfortunately, this doesn't seem to solve the issue. It only adds text to lines that are already of length greater or equal to the column position of the block selection. Unless I'm missing something.
(Adding a link to a vscode issue begging for the same feature. It might help illustrate the concept. - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/13960 )
Would be grateful for help here. (bonus points is there's a way to keep the cursor highlighted after the shift to insert mode...)
I've got that, but I want the container home prefix to be named, dynamically, after the container upon creation as a subdirectory of a container home prefix 'parent' directory I've already created.
Desired outcome -> All dbxs get homes in a subfolder of ~/dbx in turn, named after the container name I provide upon creation.
So.. a container called 'utility' would automatically home itself in ~/dbx/utility, and one called 'archtest' would go in ~/dbxarchtest, etc.
As it stands, the config gives each container the same home directory (albeit separate from the host, so at least I've got that...)
Hi There - I'm starting to make use of distrobox, but I have a question about creating custom home directories.
In my ~/.config/distrobox/distrobox.conf file, I've added a line ->
container_user_custom_home="$HOME/dbx"
This ensures that all new containers, by default, have their homes set to ~/dbx .
This is good, however, I'm looking for a way to default new container homes to ~/dbx/<<containername>>. Is there a way to do this? I've tried setting the line in distrobox.conf to
container_user_custom_home="$HOME/dbx/$DBX_CONTAINER_NAME" but it doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated.
(Basically, I want to err on the side of a bit of isolation between containers by default so that I can more easily track what each is doing separately.
Thanks!
This is good to know. As I say, I haven't tried codium, but I'm not surprised there are glitches.
I hear you wrt avoiding remote server, but for me, it begs the question of whether I want to learn more than one tool/editor? If I use vscode, I'd have to pull the files up and down, but if I use an alternative IDE, I can do it all in one step. If it's a good IDE then why do I want vscode in the first place?
A official sftp caching package might be enough to keep me in vscode (though I'm still not sure what I want to do).
I just find it bewildering that the IDE would so nonchalantly install sh!t on remote servers when you just want to edit a config. Any other tool where something is to get installed remotely makes it abundantly clear what's happening and it's a very conscious decision to do an install.
Not sure why people aren't up in arms about this approach. Unless I'm missing something (and I may well be).
AFAIK, the only difference between codium and vscode is that telemetry is stripped out. I haven't used it, but I imagine it's great. It works the same as vscode in other respects. (unless someone corrects me here).
The main issues I have with the vscode/codium approach is that remote ssh works by installing and executing a server at the remote location (including installation of extensions).
To me, this is convenient but risky - it necessitates prerequisites on the remote server (which caused issues for older server installs), it leaves stuff behind on the remote (if you just want to edit a config why would you want to litter the remote server?). Fundamentally I'm not sure why this isn't a very, very serious potential vector for malware - others can correct me. Do you want to inadvertently put 3rd party nice-to-have extensions written by just anyone running remotely?
They could mitigate this by having an official extension than has an option to do simple sftp access with local caching (as is done with many other editors like UEdit, npp, mc, vim, etc...). Most 3rd party extensions for this that I've seen seem very janky. It begs for something official.
My other issues with vscode are subjective - it lacks virtual space editing, and, frankly the whole thing is a bit slow for me. Again, this is subjective.
It drives me bonkers.
And, unfortunately, when I mention this issue I'm am frequently assured that I am mistaken and that there can be no issue. (paraphrasing).
It's a real problem - I live Firefox (with its standards compliance) but people didn't adhere. And here we are.
I'll look, though at first blush it looks like an exceedingly complicated way to just simply select beyond line endings and have white space automatically padded when typing in at the (multi) cursor.
It might be great though - I need to try. (and I do recognize that there are many ways to do things)
I have to say Ultra Edit sites this so well (so does Visual Studio and MSSQL Management Studio). Maybe it's a wierd feature want, but I'm not so sure...
Thank you - next on list was trying to find an appropriate package in neovim to do this. (I was never in doubt that something existed - I mean, even midnight commander has this built in!)
I actually like sublime but the lack of virtual space for block selection (for a paid editor) moved out way down the list for me.
The plugins feel a bit janky and sparse too.l and the ecosystem feels a bit deserted.
It's a good idea. But fundamentally, it suffers from the same (other) issues as vscode itself.
For sure - but it's a matter of getting accustomed to vi. I also prefer to really understand what each add on does. Not ruling out pre-packaged, but am working through assembling my own config first.
And then there's learning vi (I can use it, it's just not yet second nature).
Hi there - I'm trying to make use of flatpaks, but keeping them isolated from my host (as I need to experiment with a bunch of settings and I don't want to bork my host environment. Again.)
Has anyone had actual success making this work? I've only been able to get anything to install by sudo-ing, but even then, I cannot get things to run. It'll fail with file not found (but which file? verbose mode doesn't help) or fail to connect to the system bus.
I've seen some posts about unmounting /var/lib/flatpak on initialization but I've had no luck there. (I'm on Fedora 39, which, to be honest, I'm rather enjoying.)
Is this a technique that anyone has had luck with? Worth pursuing?
FWIW, my big goal is to run bottles and I've had far more luck with bottles (which strongly recommends flatpak) than with winehq.
Is there a way to create a post in sync for lemmy? I see a 'submit' button, but it just says 'coming soon'.
Im sure I'm missing something obvious.
(posting this from Liftoff...)
Is there a way to 'unhide' a post that was hidden by mistake?
I accidentally swiped a post too far in the new Sync app and there it was - gone.
Just not sure if there's an obvious way to unhide.
Hi there - apologies is this is the wrong place to ask, but does anyone have any details wrt this construction and it's expected complicate? I found some old references to it buried in the Metrolinx site but none of the links worked and there was no detail on completion date.
Since it's so clearly dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians I thought it would be worth having an idea as to when things will open up again.
Quick question - In Mastodon, there is an option to set a "Timed Mute" on a user. Is there an equivalent in Lemmy?
If, for example, I am amused by a community generally but would like to suppress it for a while (maybe I've seen enough old memes or something?) to let a current fad pass but I don't want to block forever (and then forget about it), a timed mute could be just the ticket.
Thoughts. It'd be a definite nice-to-have feature.
(note - in error, I asked this question in "asklemmy" which was not the place to ask lemmy)
Please ignore - in error, I have asked lemmy where I should not have. (can't figure out how to delete the post)
Quick question - In Mastodon, there is an option to set a "Timed Mute" on a user. Is there an equivalent in Lemmy?
If, for example, I am amused by a community generally but would like to suppress it for a while (maybe I've seen enough old memes or something?) to let a current fad pass but I don't want to block forever (and then forget about it), a timed mute could be just the ticket.
Thoughts. It'd be a definite nice-to-have feature.
Pour one out for BaconReader. Gonna miss it. I find the official app pretty much unusable in comparison. I expect my redditing will drop to near zero in future. Sigh. Sure hope lemmy takes off...
Found this the other day... Rush - 8mm - 4K video - June 18, 1976 Oshawa Ontario Canada 2112 tour
Just amazing footage and even more amazing restoration of it.