tell me the most ass over backward removed you do to keep your system chugging?
here’s mine:
sway struggles with my dual monitors, when my screen powers off and back on it causes sway to crash.
system service ‘switch-to-tty1.service’

[Unit]
Description=Switch to tty1 on resume
After=suspend.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/switch-to-tty1.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=suspend.target

‘switch-to-tty1.service’ executes ‘/usr/local/bin/switch-to-tty1.sh’ and send user to tty1

#!/bin/bash
# Switch to tty1
chvt 1

.bashrc login from tty1 then kicks user to tty2 and logs out tty1.

if [[ "$(tty)" == "/dev/tty1" ]]; then
    chvt 2
    logout
fi

also tty2 is blocked from keyboard inputs (Alt+Ctrl+F2) so its a somewhat secure lock-screen which on sway lock-screen aren’t great.

  • macattack@lemmy.world
    10·
    3 months ago

    Prior to switching (upgrading?) to Wayland, Debian KDE crashed under X11 regularly when waking from hibernation and the taskbar would disappear. Restarting the plasma shell made it operable again, so I created an alias and regularly rebooted the DE shell 2-3x a day:

    alias damnTaskbar='killall plasmashell ; kstart plasmashell &'

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      I still occasionally need to use one of these two

      # for plasma desktop
alias kplasma='plasmashell --replace & disown'

# when kwin crashes or acts weird
alias kbug='if [ "${XDG_SESSION_TYPE}" = "x11" ]; then kwin_x11 --replace & disown; else kwin_wayland --replace & disown; fi'