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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Yes. I can confirm, it works even on Gentoo. But I stick to the Flatpak version, anyway, because there I was able to tell it to use Xwayland instead of wayland directly (through Flatseal).

    It seems the wayland support isn’t great yet and it tries to grab keys combination that are reserved for my window manager (Gnome). In the flatpak sandbox I don’t have any issues.

    Only game running game detection will not work in the sandbox.

    Or is there even a setting to tell it, using the X11 backend so that the keybind issues for the native version go away?







  • I have gone from borgbackup to rdiff-backup to reduce complexity and dependencies. rdiff-backup’s incremental strategy needs more space than deduplication from borgbackup, but you don’t need fuse and borg itself to restore your latest backup.

    With rdiff-backup you can just use cp -a to restore all your files. Only if you need a file you deleted ages ago, you need it.

    I relied on borgbackup for a long time, never had an incident. But then I wanted to try the new replication borg2 feature and almost lost my original borg1 repo. With rdiff-backup you can just rsync the repo to another drive and have two copies of your offline offsite redundant backup. Encryption is a non-issue, you can run it on top of every other filesystem and LUKS or over SSH.

    Granted, I just switched to rdiff-backup, but I am loving the simplicity of it already.


  • Finally I found the time to write down, how I use Ghostscript:

    gs \
        -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
        -o /output/gs_file.pdf \
        -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress \
        -sProcessColorModel=DeviceCMYK \
        -sDefaultCMYKProfile=/path/to/ISOcoated_v2_eci.icc \
        -sColorConversionStrategy=CMYK \
        source/file.pdf \
        -f
    

    I don’t now which of ProcessColorModel or ColorConversionStrategy is the important one. I kept both and did not bother to try to omit one of them. -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress makes sure that embedded bitmaps are in 300dpi and I think -f prevents Ghostscript staying in interactive mode after all pages have been finished.