Barrier is only for inputs IIRC. To get Keyboard Mouse and Video (more usually KVM) you need some kind of remote desktop software. Rustdesk is pretty straightforward. I think Gnome handles RDP access natively now if you’re running a Gnome based Linux distro. Otherwise XRDP is a bit of a faff, but solid once it’s working.
If you have the docker-compose.yml locally, you can nix run github:aksiksi/compose2nix to translate it into a nix file for inclusion in your nixos system config. I think that could be done in the config itself with a git url but I’m not that great at nix. You will surely still need some manual config to e.g. set environment variables for paths and secrets.
How do the DNS servers resolve local hostnames then? The pihole DHCP integration adds local hostnames to DNS when they are assigned an address. If there’s two DHCP servers handing out leases, presumable only one would be accepted, how then would the DNS servers sync those names?
I think I had my secondary pihole resolve local names from the primary, and leases were copied over on a cronjob in case the secondary DHCP server had to be enabled.
Not that it particularly matters for just queries. The problem is that DHCP can only be enabled on one host. If that one fails then devices can’t get on to the network themselves. I’d like to know a good way to have a failover DHCP server - my janky cronjob isn’t great.
Where do you do DHCP? I had a primary pihole with DHCP enabled and a secondary with a cron job that enabled DHCP if the primary was down or disabled it if the primary was working. The cron job did sync DHCP leases from one to the other but it was a bit janky. I tried to update the secondary to pihole v6 and hosed it so I have no backup for now. I’d like to re-image the secondary and get a better setup - when I have time.
Edit to say I really wanted to try keepalived - that’s really cool to fail over without clients noticing.
How are you setting font size? I’m running Plasma 6.3.5 and 150% desktop scale looks identical to 100% with a 150% page zoom in Firefox. Just scaling fonts sounds like it would make everything non-text appear the wrong size.
I do notice a weird behaviour where Firefox renders at 200% scale when it’s entirely within a display at 100% scale. If it overlaps another display at all then it uses the appropriate scale for each monitor. Maybe that’s a setting somewhere.
This is the default in NixOS when plasma6 is enabled. I went down the rabbit hole checking, it’s set here.
What’s wrong with fractional scaling in Firefox? It seems to work fine for me with kwin_wayland. Even if I have different scaling on each monitor, Firefox seems to respect it fine. Some really old software is a bit funky running through xwayland but nothing showstopping.
KDE can focus apps with a key-bind natively - in the Window Rules settings (even easier if you open the context menu on a window and go to More Actions > Configure Special Application Settings…). So I have Meta+Enter mapped to focus a terminal etc.
I don’t know of a simple way to both open and focus with the same key-bind. KDE doesn’t seem to have implemented ext-foreign-toplevel-list so I don’t think external window management tools can do this yet.
I think this wiki cheetsheet will explain some of the defaults. Pretty much everything is controlled with a keybind using the meta/super (windows) key. Mod + d should open the launcher, I only used dmenu but yours might be something else. The launcher will let you launch applications by name. If you just want a terminal, Mod + Enter will open one.
You will want to look at your config. It should live in ~/.config/sway/config. If it’s not there then mkdir ~/.config/sway/ && cp /etc/sway/config ~/.config/sway/. That should list the keybinds you have set. You can look up the options in the man page for sway.
Once you can do some basic window control, you might want to customise the status bar. The config should tell you what bar is being used, but there are a huge array of statusbars to choose from - I used i3status-rust but try searching for i3/sway statusbars to see what’s out there.
Ah, I saw another comment about this. The free plan is 300,000 queries a month. That’d last me almost a week before it stops working.
That says it will only function for 300,000 queries per month. Based on my last 24 hours from pi-hole, that wouldn’t even last a week. Are you using a paid plan?
Yeah, I really dislike snap and have puppet clean it out and add in the real mozilla repo for me. If I wanted sandboxed apps I’d probably look at flatpak but I think there’s still work to be done there also.
Yeah, I just liked that bit of the meme. In the prank the meme is based on, they really are the same.
Canonical added an epoch prefix to the firefox version number. Because that epoch (1) is higher than the implicit default (0), the official ubuntu dummy package is always considered to be a higher version than the official Mozilla package. apt doesn’t look at snap packages, it installs the deb, but the ubuntu deb just runs snap install firefox and basically nothing else.
w3m is a proper deb 😛
Looks like only firefox, chromium-browser and thunderbird are these dummy transitional packages. There’s a fwupd-snap, but the default fwupd is a full deb.
Yup, apt install chromium-browser calls snap install chromium. Looks like thunderbird is the same. There’s a fwupd-snap deb but fwupd seems to be the default.
Well, yes, except Canonical have made them actually do the same thing in the case of Firefox. I’m not aware of any other packages that have the deb install just run the snap install.
So both commands do the same thing… right? I’m not saying snap and apt are the same in general.
In the System settings, under Window Management > Window Behaviour, in the Focus tab, there is a Focus stealing prevention selector. If it’s set to extreme, then it does prevent switching to another desktop when I open a window that gets sent there.
I think that’s what you want but I guess it would mess with all applications, not just Steam. I don’t think you can do it per application.
I remember there being a window management protocol that would allow more control but I don’t think Kwin implements it yet.