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Luckily my device screens can all be turned off, closed, put face down and otherwise turned off when not in use. Unlike indicator lights on the routers, APs, HDDs, PCs, mice, powerbars, extension cords, radios, headphones, USB cables, ACs, microwaves etc etc etc. Either totally unnecessary to have a light in the first place, or a subtle light could do the job just as well.

I've tried it a couple times and can work in some contexts but becomes overly-complex in others. Example, if your fileset is not easily constrained by a single git repo. e.g. if there are multiple repos already existing. Or there are submodules. Or there are repos that have ignore files, but you want to include the files in the changes. Or there are a lot of files that choke git.

Plus it doesn't really facilitate showing the changes that easily. I guess then you immediately go look at it with a diff tool and try to ascertain if it is screwed up or not? The kate component is nice because it shows you a list of changed files by filename/location, which you can expand to lines, and which you can easily open the whole file. Highlights the matches. Very quickly flick though everything for manual error checking. I haven't been able to find any diff tool that is as easy to use. (Would love to learn of one.)

And it still doesn't address the whole concept of saving the query.. I guess if you would write an individual bash script for every query? Then have a directory of those to somehow riffle through when needed?

All this sounds like something a computer would be great at managing but I am shit at managing.

I freaking hate blue LEDs.

I actively avoid buying anything with a blue LED because they are so obnoxious. So bright. Why do I want to read by the light of my HDD? Does this video explain why they have to be like that?

Maybe if you have a separate wing of the mansion to do computing stuff it is not annoying. But if like a lot of people you have electronics in your living space, these lights are extremely disruptive.

It seems that can't really be dimmed.. I had to give up on a couple of blue backlit alarm clocks because there is no way that the time can be visible without illuminating the whole area around them.

For whatever reason, red is the best one. I would prefer another color aesthetically. For whatever reason, red is the only color that does what it has to do and nothing more.

It doesn't matter if no one ends up with the same configuration. No one ends up with the same configurations on KDE or Gnome either. Having a reasonable starting place is courteous and doesn't diminish the experience for those who wish to delete it immediately.

But I guess it does serve some emotional needs for their communities. So I'm glad it's there for those who need it.

I'm not sure if that is working properly on my system. It opens a dialogue box that just has content "" with cancel/ok buttons .

I tried populating a file tab.txt with a few lines because I am not sure if my results from the first part are what's expected, which is 1 line. No matter what the content the best I can do is get the first line to show in the dialogue but not in an interactive way.

Tbh having a bit of a hard time following what's going on with 2>&1 tee. But I am not sure how it could be the right thing as I don't see more than input?

What I want is to open a dialogue like this:

yad --title "Create a file" --form --field="File name" --field="Content

where the user's input gets directed to some sort of structure. Like an argument As though you had a terminal script with the syntax scriptname --filename="file.txt" --content="red green blue".

If you leave some of the field blank will it be able to skip assigning the respective variable? That's one problem with the positional values.

It is the only solution I found. I described it in the post but put it behind a "spoiler" "What doesn't work" to make the post shorter.

This seems unmanageable because adding a new field or failing to provide input for a field will both change the output order of every subsequent value. It's way too fragile.

I do not understand the mystique of applications that don't come with a reasonable working config. I don't want to invest hours just to try something and see if it is vaguely suitable. Anyone who wants to delete the default config can easily do so.

I guess people get pulled with sunk costs because by the time you get it working you've spent so much time on it.

I don't have much VM experience and I didn't think of them for this. I didn't know you can do suspend to disk. Does it work reliably? Would I be correct in guessing each "saved session" would be no greater in size than your available RAM?

Interface-wise would it be similar to a remote session where you open a window and it has a full second desktop inside it?

its intuitive enough you don’t even notice

a bit much

COMPUTERS ARE FUN AGAIN

agreed

familarize yourself with everything first

dry humor i hope

I admit I find icons under xfce4 to be very mysterious. There are all kinds of weird behaviours I can't explain.

However I am not the only one. There are lots of threads about the "generic icon" problem, for example: Window buttons not showing the proper icon which might have something useful for you.

Kitty has specific instructions for its icon. I don't mind the kitty icon so I never changed it.

Is the overall problems you are facing different in tint2 than in the xfce panel? if you open them both up is one able to access the correct icons and the other isn't? I'm out of ideas in either case but it would at least clarify if the problem has anything to do with tint2 or is a general icon thing. If its a general icon thing you're in luck because there a lot broader resources. If it's a tint2 problem then you are stuck trying to figure out why.