Pantherina

Okay this is an AOSP feature, see first comment

The problem is that Google decided to do stupid stuff without user consent again

• dark mode can't be turned off on energysaver (which doesnt make any sense non non-OLED displays which are still common)
• energysaver reduces possible max brightness without any reason, not even changeable like in older Androids (where the bar actually went down)

Fuck Google...

I use Chromium only for PWAs like the Element Web UI of my server, to avoid Electron.

Now I have a different browser set as default in my system.

Firefox of course integrates perfectly and uses the "system link handler" to open links.

I want to make Chromium use this link handler, to open every clicked link not in the same browser but send it to my system link handler and thus open in my default browser.

I already set #enable-user-link-capturing-pwa Disabled in chrome://flags. The addon "Open in Firefox Browser" seems to be broken.

I dont know how manifest v3 interferes with that ability of addons to hook into the link handling of the browser.

Btw Chromium has not a single "portal" setting in the flags, but uses the filepicker portal by default.

A little admiration of how easy UI customization is on Firefox, and how shitty Chromium looks.

*Timestamps*
00:00 Introduction
01:45 Astra Monitor
02:36 Pano Clipboard Manager
03:14 PaperWM
04:04 MiniView
04:51 Quick Settings Tweaker
05:12 Privacy Settings
05:29 Apps Menu
05:50 Places Status Indicator
06:04 Logo Menu
06:36 Just perfection
07:25 Top Bar Organizer
08:01 SpeedUp Gnome Shell
08:43 Wiggle
09:07 Blur my shell
09:30 Burn My Windows
09:56 Caffeine
10:20 DDTerm

I dont necessarily agree.

• a different clipboard manager (whatever is equal to KDEs)
• blur my shell
• quick settings tweaker probably
• privacy settings (which is only for pipewire apps I guess, so nearly none)
• wiggle
• probably some maximize to workspace

!linux@feddit.de

I am looking for an app that allows me to combine up to 20 images into a grid. That's it.

Hard requirements:

• not bigger than 60MB (not bloated with useless stickers etc.)
• works properly, multiple grids, maybe adaptive to content, rectangle, resizable images inside the grid.

Soft requirements:

• no ads or creepy network stuff (GrapheneOS network toggle deals with that)
• latest target SDK
• support for share dialog OR android photo picker portal (instead of using their own filepicker and needing storage access)
• FOSS

So far I tried these apps, all garbage:

• Layout for Instagram (outdated)
• Collagemaker which is the same as This Collagemaker
• beFunky: share dialog broken
• Jubo Photo Collage maker

All have their own silly galleries and have a nonfunctional share portal.

Explanation: Apps dont need access to your storage to load content into their internal sandbox storage.

They can use the native android photo picker portal:

GIF (click if not playing)

Or they can catch media sent to them via the share dialog, from your trusted Gallery or Filemanager app.

Apps using a builtin Gallery suck, as they need access to all media (Android 14), specific folders (GrapheneOS) or even all storage (older Android) which is pretty invasive.

And yeah, Signal is still doing that.

This is a small Tutorial how to convert Konsole to never, I mean never, open a new window again.

I mean, we moved away from Windows for a reason, right?

Also, I will show you how to use a different shell and add custom right-click actions for various useful things.

No new windows

Go to Konsoles Settings, the second checkbox is "open all konsole windows in a single process". Check this, as it is needed.

Now to edit the system desktop entry, never do this in place, copy it to your user directory, entries here always overwrite system ones. (This can be used to hide apps too, use touch ~/.local/share/applications/name.desktop)

cp /usr/share/applications/konsole.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/

Now edit this file with your editor.

Replace Exec=konsole with Exec=konsole --new-tab.

Profile: Different Shell

Bash is the default and I highly advise against using chsh if you want to use fish, zsh or others.

Instead, create a new Konsole profile, set its default command to for example /usr/bin/fish and set it as default profile!

Profile: Distrobox

If you use Distrobox, you may want a profile that launches it directly. The advantage is that you can color it differently and much more.

In the settings create a new profile and set the startup command to distrobox enter Boxname.

Mine is for Fedora, while my main system is Fedora Atomic KDE.

Custom right-click actions

You can remove unneeded translations from the desktop entry to make it easier to work with.

In the Actions= line you define what you want. Below the main entry you put the actions with name, icon and command.

Here I have examples for launching the Distrobox Profile, opening a root shell and opening a remote ssh session.

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
TryExec=konsole
Exec=konsole --new-tab
Icon=utilities-terminal
Categories=System;TerminalEmulator;
Actions=FedoraBox;root;ssh;
X-DocPath=konsole/index.html
X-DBUS-StartupType=Unique
X-KDE-AuthorizeAction=shell_access
X-KDE-Shortcuts=Ctrl+Alt+T
StartupWMClass=konsole
Keywords=terminal;console;script;run;execute;command;command-line;commandline;cli;bash;sh;shell;zsh;cmd;command prompt
Name=Konsole
GenericName=Terminal
Comment="$GenericName"

[Desktop Action FedoraBox]
Name=Distrobox
Icon=fedora-logo-icon
Exec=konsole --profile FedoraBox # this launches "distrobox enter FedoraBox"

[Desktop Action root]
Name=root Terminal
Icon=folder-root-symbolic
Exec=konsole -e pkexec $SHELL #or define a shell

[Desktop Action ssh]
Name=ssh to X
Icon=folder-remote-symbolic
Exec=konsole -e ssh user@IP:PORT -i /path/to/key

Note that I removed the actions for "new tab" and "new window". For some reason Plasma shows the "open new window" always, and due to the replacement this opens a new tab instead.

Ctrl+Alt+t, opening from Dolphin and more will also open a new tab.

Btw, if somebody can help me figure out how to focus the Konsole window when opening a new tab, that would be nice. This is currently missing

Appimages totally suck, because many developers think they were a real packaging format and support them exclusively.

Their use case is tiny, and in 99% of cases Flatpak is just better.

I could not find a single post or article about all the problems they have, so I wrote this.

This is not about shaming open source contributors. But Appimages are obviously broken, pretty badly maintained, while organizations/companies like Balena, Nextcloud etc. don't seem to get that.

Hey, my Pixel with GrapheneOS doesnt get dark enough. Android has some "extradark" feature that basically overlays black with a set transparency.

I used Red Moon in the past but its overcomplex, I have Android bluelight filter which works fine, and just would like an app to overlay such a dark mode.

The screen is OLED so I think? It even saves energy?