I'm a long time tmux fan, but I've been dealing with odd issues related to mouse actions. This is somewhere in alacritty, *vim or tmux. So I futzed with all of them, tried different terminals, all while telling myself it couldn't be tmux. So I just ignored it for over a year. I finally went back and gave wezterm a serious try just a few weeks ago and I am very happy to have switched. The mouse issues I was seeing go away. Splitting panes and resizing lots of panes is fast and responsive. It's built in so copying from a vertical split pane doesn't include the other pane like in tmux.
That doesn't make it perfect. Mouse themes are applied inconsistently as I use Gnome on Wayland. It also seems to be a problem when using neovim, but I can't prove it clearly enough to want to file a bug with anyone. Besides, everything I need to do still works and I rarely use the mouse unless I am copying random gobs of text.
I am sticking with wezterm for the moment. I have no reason to leave it at this point and it helped me reduce the complexity of my stack a teeny bit.
I use tmux daily. tried to like wezterm but issues with clipboard and resizing made look for another option.
Very happy with Tilix now. https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/
maybe less fancy/modern but absolutely rock solid every time.
environment: fedora/wayland/gnome
just throwing this out if anyone wants to test an alternative it out.
It is important to plan your emergency visits as early in the year as possible. That way if you hit your maximum deductibles and maximum out of pocket limits you get free-ish healthcare the rest of the year. Had a bad appendectomy happen in November. The limits reset Jan 1st. Out another $5000 for the second attempt at removal after a surgery to stare at my appendix before deciding a week of hospital stay with IV antibiotics, 4 CT scans to determine when they would feel comfortable removing my appendix (maxed my $12000) family out of pocket.
Love them. Support them. Completed a 6 day bike trip from Pittsburgh to Washington DC on the GAP and C&O trails back in 2012. I would start as early as I could, often breaking trail for the day (wear a bandana and sunglasses or eat spiderwebs all day). Lots of deer and blue herons to hang out with. It was very peaceful and quiet, but I mostly remember green tunnel trails for most of the trip. There are wonderful stops and vistas along the way. As you leave the paw-paw tunnel, one of my favorite views of the valley quickly pass by, the closer you get to Georgetown, the better maintained the C&O is; the more beautiful the trail becomes.
I actually rode the C&O trail a bunch of times in Scouts and with my grandparents as a child. I think these are great for any skill level, including beginners. The biggest advantage for me is the fact there are very few roads you need to ride on. Because they are typically on old railways, or canals, they are usually not steep grades (though don't let somebody tell you "it's only a 6% grade!", because it sucks going uphill for lots of miles).
You can split up the trails in to day, weekend, or week-long trips. Especially on the GAP and C&O there are plenty of camps, towns and stops along the way to support yourself on the way. On my 2012 trip a guy caught up to me and tolerated my slowness for a bit. He was planning to finish the Pgh to DC trip in 3 days.
I've been contemplated riding the Erie Canalway, but my love for biking was ruined a bit with a bad case of achilles tendonitis after my last trip.
I've enjoyed reading trip reports from the beautiful lunatics who complete the Pittsburgh to DC ride in under 24 hours. Here, one reports on falling asleep several times while riding:
https://chrisshue.com/2020/01/21/pittsburgh-express/
The GAP trail from Pittsburg to Cumberland is especially awesome. It’s well-maintained, the trail towns are welcoming, and the scenery is fantastic. The folks who live near the trail are lucky to have it.
ive done the gap ride 4 times now and its always been a blast. we go from pittsburgh to cumberland so the last day is always such a blast with the big tunnel and 20+ miles downhill
I am seriously considering a look at KDE 6. I've kind of settled on Gnome plus some extensions (arc menu and dash to panel) over years, but they don't really give me exactly the feel I want, and the extensions I use may or may not work the way I expect them to at the time Gnome releases.
Every time I look at the release notes for Gnome, I continually find myself either not excited or disappointed in different decisions, additions and removals that were made.
I've tried i3/sway and hyperland recently. The problem is they don't work well with all the applications I need to support (zoom, slack). Gnome typically "just works" and is why I wind up continuing to use it.
GNOME is somewhat frustrating to me because there’s a number of things that I feel it gets more “right” than KDE, at least for me, but there’s about as many things that it doesn’t. KDE gets a lot of things “somewhat right” but also gets more less wrong, making it maybe better overall but still not leaving me satisfied.
I appreciate that both exist free of charge as the result of a lot of time that people didn’t have to volunteer and shouldn’t be taken for granted. I’m glad both exist and continue to be maintained, but regardless, the situation leaves me much less jazzed about the Linux desktop than I’d like to be.
Window manager setups might be a solution, but they take a lot of effort to make as polished as any of the major DEs, requiring the user to hunt down daemons to get tray items and the like. They also have a strong disposition towards hyper-minimal tiling which isn’t my thing, something along the lines of openbox is probably the most minimal I’d want to go but WMs like that don’t see much fanfare.
You might want to wait a little while, or look at 5 instead, because Plasma 6 was only just released and is still shaking out early bugs.
> Every time I look at the release notes for Gnome, I continually find myself either not excited or disappointed in different decisions, additions and removals that were made.
This extends into the toolkit as well. I was happily using XFCE until it adopted Gtk 3, at which point it quickly went downhill. The GNOME maintainers' insistence on designs that I find frustrating, the frequent removal of common desktop features that I use, and the general fragility imposed on applications that surfaces whenever the toolkit gets minor updates, all conspired to drive me away.
It took some time and effort to migrate to KDE Plasma, but it was worth it. I'm pretty happy with my desktop again.
KDE is truly a great DE. I am still on 5.27, have not upgraded to 6 yet (Debian woes, lol) but considering all the praise I have heard - it is probably even better than the experience I have now which is solid. I am running Debian 12 with Wayland on AMD hardware. Everything "just works". I can record stuff with OBS studio, loom recording works, slack calls/screensharing works great, vscode, 1pass, spotify. I have been a macOS user since Tiger (10.4, intel transition) and have dabbled on and off with desktop Linux over the last decade but lately it is truly solid and quite polished.
If you're interested in i3/sway but want something that "just works"- have you checked out Regolith?
I used to daily drive it and was a big fan- it's basically i3 + gnome for stuff like settings etc. So you get a nice simple tiling window manager, but don't have to install something new whenever you want to (eg) get Bluetooth working.
I suspect staying inside, relatively inactive, surrounded by plastics, foam in furniture, paint, and other chemicals is probably worse, but it’s just a hunch. In the end, none of us get out of here alive.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45081/the-cremation-o...