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probonopd / Wayland.md
Last active September 20, 2024 16:44
Think twice about Wayland. It breaks everything!

Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!

Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating everyone else (e.g., people using just an X11 window manager or something like GNUstep) in the process.

The Wayland project seems to operate like they were starting a greenfield project, whereas at the same time they try to position Wayland as "the X11 successor", which would clearly require a lot of thought about not breaking, or at least providing a smooth upgrade path for, existing software.

In fact, it is merely an incompatible alternative, and not e

@berndverst
berndverst / Readme.md
Last active March 29, 2024 09:27
Script to quickly merge captions into mp4 H.264 (or HEVC/H.265) video as selectable or burned in subtitles from command-line

Add captions to MP4 videos as subtitles

Requirements

FFMpeg must be installed.

Instructions:

@izabera
izabera / 0.README.md
Last active July 22, 2024 18:25
tput codes

This is the table from man 5 terminfo.

Do NOT hardcode terminal escape sequences. Use tput with the cap-names from the table below to get the right code for your terminal.

(P) indicates that padding may be specified
@achoukah
achoukah / blank-html-page.html
Last active September 8, 2024 13:37
html blank page
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta name="description" content="Webpage description goes here" />
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Change_me</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<meta name="author" content="">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css">
@eusonlito
eusonlito / foldersize.php
Last active June 2, 2024 22:58
PHP function to get the folder size including subfolders
<?php
function folderSize ($dir)
{
$size = 0;
foreach (glob(rtrim($dir, '/').'/*', GLOB_NOSORT) as $each) {
$size += is_file($each) ? filesize($each) : folderSize($each);
}
@revolunet
revolunet / lzw_encoder.js
Created February 25, 2011 14:55
LZW javascript compress/decompress
// LZW-compress a string
function lzw_encode(s) {
var dict = {};
var data = (s + "").split("");
var out = [];
var currChar;
var phrase = data[0];
var code = 256;
for (var i=1; i<data.length; i++) {
currChar=data[i];