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What's a unique customization on your Linux machine you think no one else has? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 day ago by fool@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Just wondering since I know a lot of people quietly use a screen-area-select -> tesseract OCR -> clipboard shortcut.

I separate subjects of interest into different Firefox windows, in different workspaces -- so I have an extension title them and a startup script parse text to ask the compositor to put them in the correct workspace (lets me restart more conveniently).
I have automatically-set different-orientation wallpapers for using my 2-in-1 depending on whether I use it in portrait or landscape (kind of just for looks, but I don't think if anyone else adds a wallpaper change to their screen rotation keybind).

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[–] faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I boot on a custom EFI app to control my dualboot (instead of systemd-boot or grub) that asks a service on my proxmox server which OS I'm supposed to boot.

Overkill, but it allows me to control my dual-boot without a keyboard in my computer (because it's a Bluetooth keyboard so I can't really use it in grub anyway)

[–] fool@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

A custom EFI app? Is that like a handrolled Unified Kernel Image with some Proxmox-specific addons in it? How'd you make it?

[–] faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

No, it's a EFI app I developed in Rust that does a query over multicast UDP and uses the result to select which EFI app (Windows bootloaded (yeah I know...) Or systemd-boot to start Arch)

There's nothing related to proxmox itself, it's just there that I host my LXC with the service that responds to the quey.

[–] ThemboMcBembo@beehaw.org 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That's so cool! I just started studying uefi-rs yesterday but haven't been able to think of good use cases. Thanks for sharing!

[–] faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

Wow, thanks! It was really fun to build