Since I've decided to ditch sway, I no longer have to deal with waybar
either, which is nice. Although waybar is nice-looking, there isn't much
of a difference between it and polybar in day-to-day usage, and other
factors such as ease of maintenance are far more important.
Although using a Wayland window manager was cute, Sway always felt like
a gimped version of bspwm to me. This is likely due to many of the bspwm
features I use, as well as certain X applications not working well under
Wayland (such as feh).
I am also not interested in maintaining the config for Sway, and prefer
bspwm's approach where it's configured through bspc and shell scripting.
In summary, "after all these years", Sway is still more trouble than
it's worth for me personally, and I'd rather invest that time focusing
on my existing bspwm setup, which has always been pleasant to use.
Similar to bspwm, all keybinds are now handled with super to avoid
conflicts with other applications. In the future it may be useful to
replicate the rest of the bspwm environment under sway.
I've been trying to like vscode for years, especially since it was
widely regarded as one of the best editors of all time. As cool as VS
Code is, however, I always ended up using neovim and a terminal since
it's simply easier for me to get things done that way.
Although using mpd was a cute experience, I am not interested in
maintaining mpd on my systems anymore since navidrome does the job just
as well and has more useful features.
Although using ncmpcpp was an interesting experience, I now value the
convenience of software like navidrome more than the minimalist traits
of ncmpcpp. Realistically I should never encounter a time where
listening to music within a terminal interface is mandatory, and simply
using a web interface with optional apps drastically simplifies things.
9 months later and I am no longer interested in maintaining lunarvim. My
current neovim config does everything that I need it to do and I don't
see myself using anything else anytime soon.
I am not performing tasks that require constant knowledge of the CPU and
RAM being used, and if I am, I can use a tool like htop instead, which
would avoid the distraction of the bar numbers constantly changing.
This fixes an issue where the previous keybinds would conflict with
other applications, and reinforces the idea that all system-wide
keybinds use Super.
I've used fcitx for a while but never committed my actual config for it.
Note that this config is relatively old, and I'll be updating it with a
new commit to make seeing the changes easier relatively soon.
Having gnome settings was cute, but realistically the desktop
environment should automatically choose the best settings for the target
computer. Manually change anti-aliasing goes against the idea of wanting
the stock GNOME experience.
I don't use these anymore in my main environment and am probably not
interested enough in GNOME to customize it manually anymore. As of now,
I'd rather stay in my comfortable bspwm environment since it's there
that "everything just works".
Since I no longer use KDE applications anymore, and since I no longer
set XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP equal to KDE, this doesn't do anything
noticeable to the working environment.
Like most things in life, it's time to move on from maintaining
Fedora-specific scripts. Although I like using Fedora when given a
random machine, my setup is much easier to reproduce on Arch Linux.
For most users, they may not even need a desktop operating system like
Fedora in the first place since mobile devices are typically more
secure, easier to carry around, and can do most if not everything that a
desktop can, especially in the year 2022.
Although writing my own install scripts was a valuable learning
experience, Arch Linux now has an official archinstall utility, which
should be easier to use than having to edit a bash script.
Although learning about package management for rpm-based distributions
was a fun experience, it's not realistic to maintain long-term. In this
case, it may be easier to simply install packages on a case-by-case
basis, making use of Ansible for anything else.
Instead of setting up a development environment directly on Fedora,
which comes at the cost of having to maintain both the Fedora-specific
implementation and the Arch implementation, it should be easier to
simply use Vagrant instead.
This change has 3 main benefits:
1. We no longer have to worry about switching between the fn keys and
F1-F12 keys, and can benefit from both keybinds at the same time.
2. Keys that don't return anything under xev (such as the chat icon and
telephone icons) can now be customized.
3. We no longer have to worry about accidentally pressing the networking
key that disables the internet connection.
Note that instead of having to remember to switch between fn and non-fn
keys, especially when working with both at the same time, we can simply
map commands that would use those fn keys with super instead.
In this way, we no longer have to worry about the same keystroke performing
a different command. The current commit serves as an easy way to remember
what the existing fn keys were if needed.
This fixes an issue where kitty wasn't able to show the ui of fcitx
under wayland. By forcing x11 specifically, kitty now has reasonably
good support for fcitx under wayland.
This slightly increases the font weight of text without affecting the
font awesome icons, which is important since changing the font weight
of everything caused the firefox icon to become malformed.
This makes our setup more consistent across the two environments, useful
when switching between them. Note that sway is not a replacement for
bspwm due to how it handles fcitx input with kitty and how it has
built-in vsync.
Since selections are more likely to be temporary than full screen
screenshots, copying their contents to clipboard by default is useful,
although in the future it may be more practical to create an image and
copy to clipboard at the same time, similar to other screenshotting
tools like ShareX.
This makes it easy to switch layouts in kitty and usually get what we
want rather quickly, without having to worry about the current layout
being used.
At some point I disabled this setting, possibly because of a bug or
other issue at the time, most likely related to my use of w3m or a
similar image preview script.
Now that I take advantage of all of kitty's features in 2022, especially
since it has proper fcitx support, there shouldn't be a reason to not
enable dynamic background opacity, as it seems to work flawlessly.
I wrote a script that generated wal completions 4 years ago. Although
the patch was never merged, pywal is a great tool and I can still use
the completions personally, so I might as well add them here.
