What's a unique customization on your Linux machine you think no one else has?

I also seperate Firefox on different workspaces, but only manually. How is the extension called? Having it automated would save me some seconds every reboot.

On my desktop, I wrote a Python script that pulls a random Star Trek: The Next Generation or Deep Space Nine script from a folder and prints it in STDOUT. I use this in the XScreenSaver Text Manipulation > Program option to turn Star Trek into a screen saver.

Currently, I use it with the Apple II screensaver, but in its original incarnation, I used the Star Wars intro screensaver. 😈

When I press Super + PrtSc, a bash script performs the following:

Takes a screenshot of the entire desktop (import -window root) and saves it as ~/screenshot.png..

Analyzes the screenshot to calculate the "mean brightness" value of the image. It converts the image to grayscale and determines the average pixel brightness (a value between 0 and 1, where 0 is black and 1 is white).

Checks if the image is dark by comparing the mean brightness to a threshold of 0.2. If the mean brightness is less than 0.2 (i.e., the image is very dark), it applies a negative filter to the image (convert -negate), effectively inverting the colors (black becomes white and vice versa).

Sends the image to a printer (lp command) named MF741C-743C for printing.

Definitely not nobody but statistically VERY FEW people will have this combination:

• pop!os (fight me!)
• script that limits accumulator charge to 80% on asus laptop
• script that turns on vpn if out of home and kicks off a backup if at home (through wifi ssid)

Edit: nice try to fingerprint me, big tech. You succeeded! /j

My keyboard automatically change the keys depending of the app I'm using: closing a tab in the terminal or closing a tab inlthe browser are always the same key.

https://git.chimrod.com/smartcropad.git/about/

I use my DE mostly as it comes, that's got to be unique in this community

I have an old gamer keyboard with extra programmable keys on the side, which I use for cut, copy, paste, close tab, close window, etc. Logitech provides drivers/software for Windows & Mac only.

To make it work I have a custom monkey-patched USB driver that I compiled from source, some weird daemon that interacts with the driver and some shell scripts on top of that. I'm not sure how but it works thanks to a 9 year old youtube video made by a guy from eastern europe somewhere.

Custom cowsay written in Rust that pulls German song lyrics from my favorite band from a text file?

I am indecisive when it comes to wallpapers so I have a script somewhere which accepts tag-words as arguments and then scrapes wallhaven.cc for those words at the resolution of my setup and picks one that contains those words at random before downloading it to my wallpapers folder and setting it as my wallpaper image.

So for example, you could just know you want something blue so you would run wallpaper blue and it just grabs one and sets it. You could get a wallpaper of the sky, of a blue car, of the ocean, whatever happens to be a wallpaper that met the criteria of the word/s supplied.

my awesome wm config has a lot of customization. We're talking 5+ years of basically re-writing an entire theme, along with behaviours, widgets, and bindings.

I've got a RPI running a full-screen 'kiosk' view from homeassitant that turns an external display on/off based on a motion sensor.

So basically it's showing current temperatures, thermostat control, etc. but I have the display turn off after X minutes of no movement and turn on when there has been movement so it's only on when you're in the room.

Machined badge reading "Built Not Bought".

My dad used to put them on the cars he built.

I have a meshtastic script that runs once a day that sends a weather report for our local area at 6:00 am. It was based off a script that some awesome person did. I also have a script that once a week sends out ham/meshtastic events to all local people. Its worked out pretty well.

I've got basically the bspwm workflow, but on KDE.

So, bspwm has tiling of windows and doesn't want you to minimize (nowadays, it actually has a minimize-feature, but back when I last used it, it didn't). As a result, if a window is open, it is visible on some workspace. If you want to hide windows, put them on a different workspace.
I like that workflow, because while it probably seems complex when you first hear about it, it actually simplifies things. When you're looking for a window, you don't have to check all the workspaces and minimized windows and behind other windows.

KDE adds to that, in that I can have a workspace overview in my panel, so where I can see all workspaces with the windows that are visible on them (which with this workflow is all windows on that workspace). I like to call it my minimap.
It makes the workflow a lot easier to use, but it also allows me to group workspaces by location. So, if I'm working on a topic, I often have a Firefox window on one workspace, my text editor on the workspace below and then a terminal on the workspace below that. If I then realize, I need to quickly look up something for a related topic, I'll open up a new Firefox window two workspaces below that (leaving an empty workspace as separator). If I do something completely different, I might leave a whole bunch of empty workspaces in between. Or, well, KDE actually allows grouping workspaces with a feature called "Activities", so I'll often switch Activities.

I find that works a lot better for multi-tasking than the traditional Windows workflow of one window per application, with all kinds of different topics mixed into all kinds of ungrouped windows. If I switch between topics, I just go to the right location on my minimap and I've all the topic-related information in the windows that are there.

I have scripts set up to switch between my desk setup and my home theater setup that swap monitor configurations with wlrandr and default audio devices in wireplumber. These scripts are triggered with the "Netflix" button on my Nvidia Shield remote via Home Assistant and SSH. Simultaneously on Home Assistant power to the peripherals on my desk is toggled, the TV input is toggled between the Nvidia Shield and the PC, my AV receiver settings are toggled, and if the PC was asleep, it's turned on with a WoL magic packet.

I open links from different categories of websites in different firefox profiles via a bash script. For example the current one is named "memes".

Also i have a second panel at the top of my second monitor so i can always see the current date and time.