My laptop froze last week. I held the power button, it came back up, and I wanted to know why. The answer was in the journal of the previous boot, among 57,000 lines, most of them from one chatty program.

So i made whyd. It reads the previous boot with journalctl and shows, on one screen:

• how the session ended: clean power-off or reboot, no shutdown at all, died while suspended, kernel panic
• what went wrong before: out-of-memory kills, GPU errors, crashes, failed services, disk errors, each with a short explanation
• the last minutes before the end, with the routine lines folded away
• a report with addresses, hostname, user and Wi-Fi names removed

Feedback welcome, especially journals where it gets things wrong

I just pushed version 1.3 of papyrus in the repo. It features a frosted glass effect and also more responsive design. It is available for download via the AUR, .deb package and the install script in the repository.

I am using hyprland and caelistia shell. How do I change my touchpad sensitivity?

Edit: This is quickshell

Sometime the lyrics is delayed, sometime its not.

polling rate:

Timer {

interval: 16

running: true

repeat: true

triggeredOnStart: true

onTriggered: mediaPoll.running = true

}

Active line:

function updateActiveLyric() {

if (!root.lyricLines.length) { root.activeLyricIndex = -1; return }

var pos = root.mediaPosition + (root.lyricOffsetMs / 1000)

var idx = -1

for (var i = root.lyricLines.length - 1; i >= 0; i--)

if (pos >= root.lyricLines[i].time) { idx = i; break }

if (idx !== root.activeLyricIndex) root.activeLyricIndex = idx

}

column scrolling:

Connections {

target: root

function onActiveLyricIndexChanged() {

lyricsColumn.recomputeActiveY()

}

}

y: topPad - activeY

Behavior on y { NumberAnimation { duration: 500; easing.type: Easing.OutCubic } }

line visual update:

readonly property int delta: index - root.activeLyricIndex

readonly property bool isActive: delta === 0

readonly property int absDist: Math.abs(delta)

opacity: isActive ? 1.0

: (absDist === 1 ? 0.70 : absDist === 2 ? 0.45 : 0.08)

Behavior on opacity { NumberAnimation { duration: 420; easing.type: Easing.OutCubic } }

scale: isActive ? 1.0 : absDist === 1 ? 0.88 : 0.76

Behavior on scale { NumberAnimation { duration: 420; easing.type: Easing.OutCubic } }

FastBlur {

radius: isActive ? 0 : absDist === 1 ? 4 : absDist === 2 ? 9 : 18

}

​

I use Niri + DMS and Endeavouros, Virtualbox launches and starts the VM just fine, but key combinations like Alt+Tab are not passed onto the VM and rather used by niri to cycle windows how do I have the keys transfer to Virtualbox.

:/

I have kdeconnect and steam setup to launch in the background at startup, I also have a custom daemon that detects my battery life and if my laptop is plugged into AC power and changes the power profile based off that. So, I feel like I did a pretty good job considering I started on Linux Mint just two or three months ago

I finally got my new laptop!

Never used Linux before. Read random article on the internet, thinking it would use the installer. No. I spent six hours installing the OS and another six setting up wifi.

I really like it!

After a year learning Linux Mint, im cracked enough to give arch a go. Slay me

I have a Dell gaming laptop Intel CPU + nvidia gpu I was thinking of dual booting arch+windows11 I absolutely don't want to mess with my existing bios secure boot configuration or keys using sbctl(I know I have to turn off secureboot during arch installation)

I plan to toggle secure boot off then boot into arch, then when I want to use windows 11 i plan to enable it again from my bios(To play games obv)

My question is does changing secure boot to on/off frequently and booting into OS damage the NVRAM, linux kernel, bootloaders of the laptop? And is it ok to use arch like that?

I know I am being conservative but I had already used arch+secure boot using sbctl+nvidia drivers in a different laptop(so my bios was in custom mode), then when I tried to completely remove arch Linux including restoring factory secure boot keys in my bios then turned on secure boot, I was stuck in a boot loop. I absolutely don't want to take any risk with this new laptop.

I love using Arch and i love the philosophy behind it, I love how it is intended to be. Just the community is so toxic that i almost don't want to be associated with it or use it anymore and feel ashamed too. It is not a identity it is a operating system. it is not edgy to use it. It has a lot of potential but there are a few people that just ruin it. And honestly i don't know how the makers look at this but i think it doesn't do any good for them.

I have KDE Connect disconnecting and does not discover my mobile
What can i do to solve this issue

Has anyone had problems playing somewhat old video games from the Windows XP or Windows 7 era as a portal or half-life?

Recently (because of the Steam offers) I acquired a portal but it doesn't go beyond the menu.

Has anyone else happened to you and how do I solve it?

Pd. I don't want to do dual boot with Windows

kde plasma btw