overview for Thymos

Thinking about making the switch and need some advice. in c/linux@lemmy.world

[–] Thymos@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

I have a T460 running Debian 12 with Cinnamon on it, which is Linux Mint's desktop environment. It runs perfect, never have any issues, I just have to be patient every now and then.

How are you doing financially? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

type the distro you use and is and let your keyboard finish it in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[–] Thymos@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

OpenSuse I think I will be in the office tomorrow morning if you want to come over and help me out with the mouse and pasting it by pressing the middle mouse button on the phone to the right of the door

Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 14th in c/gaming@beehaw.org

[–] Thymos@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

No microtransactions, although it does have DLC's. There are some doors you can't pass through unless you buy those, which is a little annoying but you always have another option. I do think it's better played with a controller though since the action can be very fast paced.

Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 14th in c/gaming@beehaw.org

[–] Thymos@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

How do you like Dave the Driver? Would you recommend it?

Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 14th in c/gaming@beehaw.org

[–] Thymos@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Dead cells. Never played it before, it's hard but fun. Runs great on the Steam Deck.

Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux! in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] Thymos@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

What usually also works on Linux is selecting text with the mouse and pasting it by pressing the middle mouse button (or scroll wheel). You'd still need the mouse, but it's at least a little quicker ☺️

Games rule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[–] Thymos@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

Punching trees

*deleted by creator* in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] Thymos@lemm.ee 12 points 9 months ago

Has anyone tried this yet on Debian 12? Would be nice to upgrade from the ESR version.

You can and you should contribute - Open Street Map in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[–] Thymos@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I just installed StreetComplete because of your post and it's a lot of fun! I guess I'll be doing this on my walks from now on :-)

In what ways has your use of technology/internet changed in 2023? in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Thymos@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks! I heard about it from a social worker, so maybe you could try something like that.

In what ways has your use of technology/internet changed in 2023? in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Thymos@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's a local program (I live in the Netherlands) for people with autism or similar issues. They teach you html and java and some other stuff I don't remember. Eventually they help you to work on projects they do for other businesses and even find a job with a "regular" company, but only if you're ready for that and able to do it. It's government funded and aside from the IT professionals, they also have healthcare professionals who help you with any issues you encounter in the work environment. After having been unemployed for years due to mental health issues, it's a very exciting opportunity for me. I've already visited the company and the people and work environment there seem really suitable.

1

Annoyance: tooltips displaying for inactive windows (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Thymos@lemm.ee to c/kde@lemmy.ml

0 comments fedilink

I'm a new user of KDE having recently installed OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I'm happy with most of it, but I have one big annoyance: the incessant appearance of tooltips and them not going away when the mouse moves. This is on X11, not Wayland.

I often have windows overlapping or next to each other. When switching windows and moving the mouse, I move over an inactive window to the active one. A tooltip then appears for an item of the inactive window that is in the background. In my opinion it shouldn't, because the window is inactive, but it does. What is even more annoying is that the tooltip will remain on screen, over the active window, even when I maximize the active window. It will be displayed on top of it. It often happens that I fullscreen a video only for there to be a tooltip from an inactive window displayed over it, or a tooltip from the program that spawned the fullscreen video.

The only way to remove the tooltip is to activate the inactive window, move my mouse so the tooltip disappears, switch to the previous window again and then very carefully make sure I don't trigger any new tooltips in the inactive window. I'm not always successful at this, which means I have to repeat this process. This seriously impacts my enjoyment of the system.

I have already tried some solutions, disabling tooltips for titlebars in the System settings/Appearance/Window Decorations/Titlebar Buttons section and unchecking the "Display informational tooltips on mouse hover" checkbox in Workspace behaviour. Signing out and back in and rebooting have no effect. The options just don't do anything, except remove the window preview tooltips from the Task Manager, which I do need to navigate between windows. These previews should not be classified as tooltips in my opinion, but that's another matter.

What are some other options I could try? Even though I appreciate tooltips sometimes to help me learn about this new system, at this point I'd rather there be none at all than having to deal with this annoying behaviour. Ideally I would like to disable tooltips for inactive windows, or conversely only show them for active windows. If that's not possible however, I'd like to learn how to disable them completely since the options in settings have no effect.

Some software information:
KDE: 5.27.8
KDE Frameworks: 5.110.0
Qt: 5.15.11
Kernel: 6.5.6-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics platform: X11

Thanks for any suggestions.