Does anyone know how to get Hints working on Mint Cinnamon?
I'm itching to use this but it malfunctions when I run hints in the Terminal: https://github.com/AlfredoSequeida/hints
It yields:
(hints:10812): dbind-WARNING **: 17:25:16.703: AT-SPI: Unable to open bus connection: Failed to connect to socket /run/user/1000/at-spi2-1RE4O3/socket: No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/redacted/.local/bin/hints", line 10, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
^^^^^^
File "/home/redacted/.local/share/uv/tools/hints/lib/python3.12/site-packages/hints/hints.py", line 375, in main
hint_mode(config, window_system)
File "/home/redacted/.local/share/uv/tools/hints/lib/python3.12/site-packages/hints/hints.py", line 229, in hint_mode
mouse_action["x"] + mouse_x_offset,
~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^
KeyError: 'x'
Does anyone have any idea of what to do here? Thanks in advance!
You're missing the at-spi2-core package https://github.com/GNOME/at-spi2-core
Hmm, thanks, though... I have no idea of how to make heads or tails of this. I see nothing to install. Would you know how to go about not missing it? lol you're definitely smarter than this newbie!
You just need to install the package from mints repos
sudo apt install at-spi2-core
Huh, I apparently already had this installed amid my tinkering. Thanks, but it didn't seem to help... I had to keep clicking or alt+tabbing to the window where I wanted the hints to appear right after typing
hintsin the console. Then the hints displayed in a zigzag fashion with no rhyme nor reason with respective to the buttons' location. FWIW, my display is at 200%, which may be what's causing the mouse to overshoot the coordinates, but even the hint locations are off.I also wasn't expecting to have to pull up the Terminal to type "hints" and quickly Alt+Tab to the target window to generate the hints... though I suppose a keyboard shortcut could bind the script to a function key or something...