I've placed a few strategic .trackerignore files around my file system in the hope that it stops GNOME Tracker from melting my laptop.
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Every now-and-again my laptop gets really hot. I'm pretty sure the culprit is GNOME Tracker, but I'm not sure I want to resolve the issue. Winter is coming!
Spent a minute to clean-up my AppIndicator icons. It's a silly little thing, but the coloured icons looked out of place and whilst they were not triggering me too much, it is nice to have them fit in with the other monochrome icons.
Switched the default font on my GNOME desktop from Cantarell to Inter. Apparently this is a GNOME design team initiative. Looks good! 👍️
The day job has disabled OpenVPN connections in favour of using IKEv2. Took me a minute to get it working under Debian using strongSwan. VPN vendor provided zero instructions for Linux, however Windows and macOS set-up instructions were well documented, naturally.
Tapping 3 fingers on my touchpad triggers middle-click paste. This can be a real pain in the arse when I'm using 3 finger swipe gestures on my laptop -- I often find random shit being pasted into my code editor.
Bookmarks
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Smile - mijorus.it Smile is a simple emoji picker for linux with custom tags support.
Works well with its complementary GNOME extension.
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Prompt – Happenings in GNOME Prompt is a terminal that marries the best of GNOME Builder’s seamless container support, the beauty of GNOME Text Editor, and the robustness of VTE. I like to think of it as a companion terminal to Builder.
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cfgnunes/nautilus-scripts A set of scripts for extending the functionality of the GNOME Files (Nautilus), Caja and Nemo file managers.
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GNOME Foundation hires “Professional Shaman” as new Executive Director
