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An Addendum to the Theme Toggle Snippet

Recently I wrote about a little function I wrote to toggle between the light and dark theme in KDE - Plasma and switching my Emacs theme in the process. I still wasn't quite satisfied and tweaked it a...

100DaysToOffload, emacs, linux

A possible Solution to my 'blurry-fonts' issue on KDE

The other day I wrote about my switch to SWAY due to some issues that I had with KDE's font rendering and some issues with Emacs's PDF scrolling which had become painfully sluggish. As neither of the...

100DaysToOffload, linux

Sway!

Today's win would be that I, after happily running KDE-PLASMA for a while, again switched window-managers and installed  SWAY-WM today, needless to say it solved the issues that I had run into while u...

100DaysToOffload, linux

Scratching an itch: Switching my KDE-Plasma themes globally

In a recent post I wrote about how I, somewhat spontaneously, changed my desktop environment and am overall using the Solarized theme now everywhere I can. Looking at the themes that are around nowada...

emacs, linux

The Rabbit Hole - when all I wanted was to try out a text-editor

I don't know why, but I like fiddling with and just recently I ran into the Helix editor, gave it a try and liked it. For me, it was almost zero-config-ready out of the box. For the first time even th...

linux

Musescore AppImage sound issues on Fedora 39

I was just about to start writing an arrangement in Musescore 4.2 when sound-output stopped working in the application, thus rendering all attempts of getting some work done in vain. It doesn't need mentioning, but starting to work on a Sunday morning before 7 o'clock implies a certain sense of urgency. In fact the arrangement preferably has to be done today!

linux