This is not much of a post, so much as a reminder for myself. Something specific to my system makes it so that occasionally Fedora issues a Kernal Panic warning, and I have to select a prior version to load. Three times now I have had to locate this Stack Exchange web page to fix the problem, so I thought I should just record the way to solve the problem here. Although I think I may end up trying Debian with Gnome next time I have time to rebuild my system. I think I would get a lot out of the stability that both offer. I think using Gnome instead of KDE will be the largest adjustment, but also will be fun to try.
Categories: Tech
Teleprompter Apps for Linux
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A lot times when people record themselves, you see their eyes slowly drift down as they read through their script. An easy easy way to make it look like you know what your doing is to use a teleprompter app. It is not perfect, but at least it will keep your eyes in one place. For myself, I tried out two before settling.
Teleprompter by Nokse [link]
This is such a clean interface and very straight forward. I think Teleprompter fits right at home in a clean environment like Gnome. However, I am hoping to see more fine tuning control over the speed of the teleprompter, as I needed it to go just a little bit slower than it would allow me to lower the speed down to. I have opened a request on github for this, and hopefully the creator will be open to doing so, as I love the simplicity of Teleprompter.
QPrompt by Javier O. Cordero Pérez [link]
QPrompt does so many things. It can be complicated if you see the bar at the bottom and get overwhelmed, but it does not need to be. That is all stuff you can play with, but do not have to. Just click the little wrench icon and you can then adjust the “step acceleration,” or the speed of the prompter. This is what I ended up using for my needs, but I felt like this may be a lot for my simple needs. That being said, clearly a lot of effort went into QPrompt and it will probably serve more of the KDE mindset better. You have all the options you need, like opacity, alignment, velocity, countdown timers, backgrounds, and so on. If your like me, you can just paste your text in and set the speed and go as well. It should be noted that QPrompt runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, and Android.
Firefox CSS: Centered Bookmark Bar with Hidden Text
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I enjoy having my bookmark bar always showing, but the default styling is a bit much. This area is reserved for my most visited websites, a way to quickly jump from one to the other, and so seeing full names constantly is not necessary. Visually, I just think things should be centered and so there is that.
What This Changes
- Hide the bookmark text but show it if you hover over an icon.
- Adjust the padding around the icons so they aren’t so cramped together.
- Increase the icons sizes to 18px each. Anything more and it starts to look a bit blurry.
- Center the bookmarks and add a 2px padding below and above so they aren’t touching the edges of the bar.
- Style the separators on the toolbar using an RGBA color that goes well with the Nordic Dark theme. You can adjust this color to anything else you want at any RGBA color picking website. Just replace
rgba(77, 85, 101, 1)with whatever color you want.
The How
Changing the CSS in Firefox can seem complicated if you land at the official documentation pages, but it is a lot easier than that. A fair robust how-to page is housed on reddit and so I will not try to reinvent that wheel. Follow the link and when you get to the part about adding code, you can use what I have below.
My Better Firefox
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The Firefox browser is my favorite. Its community driven and privacy minded. It may seem like a lot to adjust but its no different than what I have had to do in other browsers.
I will build this post up over time as I make new changes.
**UPDATE December 20th, 2024** Well, that was short lived. I have decided going forward to dish out my Firefox stuff in pieces. An all encompasing post just is not condusive to me actually sharing neat tweaks, extensions, or ideas that I have on Firefox.
Adding Steam Games to the Menu Editor in KDE Plasma
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I recently made the switch from Linux Mint to Fedora KDE. I loved Mint, but my gaming has gotten a lot better since the move. In my time with Mint, I figured out how to add Steam games to the menu but I forgot to store this information before making the move. After figuring it out all over again, I am saving that knowledge here for myself.
This feels almost too short to be a post but I had a very difficult time finding this information here it is.
Linux Mint: Removing Width and Height Minimums for Discord
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Discord software has a minimum width and minimum height that it locks the software to. It can not be resized below these dimensions. For me, this meant that I could not resize the window to fit my one vertical monitor. This is how to fix all of that.
Step 1: Finding the Folder
Navigate to…
“~/.var/app/com.discordapp.Discord/config/discord/”
You can paste the file path into the file explorer and it should take you where you need to get to. If you are using other versions of linux, or different methods of install Discord, then a few google searches said alternative paths could be “~/.config/discord/ ” or “~/snap/discord/current/.config/discord”.
Step 2: Improving the Settings
Inside the folder will be a file called
The Boring Image Software Post
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There is no fanfare for this post. I have been trying new image software the last few months and I thought I would share a few useful ones.
ScreenToGif
Quickly capture a series of images and turn them into a gif (or webp). Frames can easily be trimmed out and you can play with scaling and time. I had to adjust the settings a few times to get a reasonable file size that was appropriate for my blog posts. Sadly it is Windows only. You can see things in action in my Fauns in Peril post. Download from https://www.screentogif.com/ and visit their subreddit page or discord where the author frequently responds.