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PSA: You can enable Wayland Greeter on SDDM for your Debian 13 (and maybe other distros), but you may have to change a few things

You'll first need to have these in your SDDM config.

[General]
DisplayServer=wayland

I'd just have it in a new file called /etc/sddm.conf.d/wayland.conf

If you're used to configuring your login manager thru KDE's settings panel, you do not want to add to its config file as it will get overwritten everytime you save your settings.

Next would be your systemd. I personally think this solution is less than elegant, but it seems to be well supported, and more importantly, it works.

You'll need to go to the SDDM's systemd service file, located on /lib/systemd/system/sddm.service. Simply uncomment a line with

After=plymouth-stop.service

Best to test by rebooting.

Note:

Failure to do the systemd step would result in the sddm.service failing to run. When this happen, simply switch to a free tty and login. From here, you redo the systemd step. You can also restart the sddm.service (it will work).

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coffee·Coffeebytimkenhan

Cold Brew, anyone?

Just started experimenting with cold brew. I noticed the extremely low water ratio of 1:4 as compared to your garden variety manual pourover of 1:15 to 1:18. Is it as thick as I imagine it would?

How much do you usually make in a single batch? How much (before diluting) would you put in a single serving?

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thinkpad·ThinkPadbytimkenhan

[HELP] Discoloration on the Exterior of T420

Hello good folks in the Lemmy Thinkpad community!

I have recently built a T420 from parts. Things have been running well. Since it's mostly from scraps, it's far from perfect, but it works.

One of my pet peeves is some discoloration along the edges and corners of the top cover. I am guessing this is the part where the paint got worn off from bumps and frictions. Is there a way to restore it? I honestly don't care about the rubberized coating, but having that consistent matte black would be really great.

I was thinking of that plastic model paint. Would it work well?

Also, the back part of magnesium chassis that's supposed to be painted black seems to have its bare color exposed.

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open-source nvidia driver with flatpak

Hopefully this is the right place to ask. Lemme know otherwise.

I got a Thinkpad W530 with Quadro K2000M GPU (Kepler). With coreboot, I was able to get around all the headaches related to Optimus only having the discrete GPU enabled.

The GPU itself is well-supported by nouveau driver, missing only a few features on the power management side of things.

Things are good when I run stuff natively. However, I have yet to figure out Flatpak. I know we use org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.* packages that are some kind of Mesa abstraction layer.

Things are much more straightforward with Intel and AMD GPU. It is actually quite easy with the proprietary NVidia driver, but it doesn't exactly come free.

The ultimate question is: Should I install one of those org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-<ver> packages with my nouveau? If so, which version?

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Problem Uploading Image: Vague Error Message

Tried uploading an image I took with my phone camera into a Lemmy post, and failed.

I gotta admit that the image was indeed large (4MB). Refusing it would be reasonable. After resizing the image, it was successful.

What I found to be unreasonable was the error message. It returned a bunch of JSON garbage on the pop-up.

I ended up having to move from my phone to my computer and went on the network inspect tool just to see what's going on (a "file too large" error).

I would suggest a clearer error message. I don't know how this could be implemented, but it will be a deterent to a lot of people.

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Secondary Monitor Glitching on KDE Wayland (open source Nvidia driver)

Hi everyone, I've neen having this issue when running KDE wayland with multiple screen on my Thinkpad W530. I'm using the nouveau driver.

The primary monitor is fine, but the secondary one is glitching.

This is tested on Gentoo as well as Debian. I know it's not hardware issue because it runs fine on X11.

Anyone have any idea about this issue?

Edit: I should probably mention that I was using DisplayPort in the photo, but I also tried VGA and it gave the same result.

Edit1: I was able to narrow down the problem somewhat. Switching the BIOS setting to "Discrete only" for the GPU (thanks coreboot!) seems to make the glitching go away! This means the Optimus would be to blame.

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jerboa·Jerboabytimkenhan

Opening Link

The current alpha is going great!

I'd like to make a few requests, especially regarding link handling.

  • Lemmy links (e.g. a lot of people linking recommended communities) with this app
  • Other links in regular browser, not in-app one

I hope that we'll reach beta (or better, stable) soon!

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