cosmic_bg_theme by my coworker Ashley sets up your COSMIC theme with a color palette derived from your background. I started using it with a rotating set of 4k backgrounds and it is pretty awesome!
I love seeing people go through COSMIC for the first time. It is always useful to see what worked well and what needs adjustment. If y'all have any questions about COSMIC, don't hesitate to ask, I wrote the editor, file manager, store, and terminal.
I wrote a PDF reader with libcosmic yesterday. While it is very basic and not likely to be ready for the first COSMIC release, it is pure rust, lightweight, GPU accelerated, and highly portable.
Pop OS can't seem to use my two monitors. No signal detected on my 4k monitor. Pop OS sees the monitor, I can change settings, but nothing ever appears on my monitor. Thought it was just a problem with the installer image, but the same problem post install. It's 2024 and I'm dealing with problems from 2011.
@CenturyAvocado@fancysandwiches I have a similarly odd experience. My 3080 Ti > really long HDMI cable > AV receiver in another room > HDMI > projector won't display RGB 1080p60 (instead I get a 1:1 image with distorted colors). The only output mode that works in this chain is 2160p60 YUV 4:2:0. I haven't tested with another GPU or OS to know much else unfortunately, but I don't think Pop! does anything different than the underlying Ubuntu display settings. Look into the underlying tool xrandr
Few months back #Microsoft Teams stopped supporting #Linux, and their nasty argument was "you can use our web app from your browser". Today I got this in my browser which is #Firefox.
Unfortunately I have to use Microsoft Teams because my university and the audience all have contract with Microsoft 🙄
Yeah, keep fooling yourself that :microsoft: ❤️ :linux:
Can somebody explain to me how any climate scientists think we will stay below 1.5C by 2100? I don’t see how we can keep below 1.5C considering the current temperature, the continued rate of high emissions, and the likely future efforts to reduce emissions (specifically, the insufficient efforts in the near future).
Oooh, #GraphiteEditor has the node graph functionality, which allows you to compose vector objects from the primitives like fill, stroke, transform and live filters in a visual manner!
Node graph interface and filters both give me this nice break-out I needed after LPEs in #Inkscape. Don't get me wrong: that program is THE legend, developers are masters of vectors, and it's purely native Gtk toolkit on which application is built. Right now, their priority is CMYK support, so follow if you're into printing.
I just love to experiment with shiny new software that's #OpenSource, especially one that uses #RustLang and #web to its advantage.
Watch 'em apply circular repeat filter on a mere line to produce this fun sparkle effect. (It is Graphite's official channel, by the way. Wish they were on Mastodon?)
@vintprox thanks for sharing this! Never heard of graphite before, but I starred this and hope to tinker with it soon. I've been trying to tear my partner away from macOS and Adobe for the past three years since I migrated to Linux desktop and this tool could be a gamechanger! Then I'd just need a killer self hosted browser based photo library/DAM.
What Wayland is missing is a solid, reliable toolkit for making simple graphical applications.
Every time that I start designing a GUI the process converged on designing my own GUI because there’s simply nothing that has first class support for Wayland.
I’m also slowly accepting the fact that I might have to implement one someday.
@whynothugo@system76@soller@mmstick may know the answer, but I wouldn't be surprised if support has been added since. All of these libraries are under heavy development it appears.
Microsoft has endorsed KOSA, the legislation that the GOP wants to use to cut off access to information for LGBTQ youth (leading to untold self-harm, suicide and destroyed lives) and ruin the open Internet with ID requirements.
Please contact your reps and demand they vote against it.
@alastair@thomasfuchs@kern@pluralistic tells us that support for increased regulation is not just good PR, but serves as a barrier to entry/competition. Microsoft has the money for costly compliance while a newcomer does not.