David Dyess .com

I used to try Wayland every once in a while and I'd always run into something that was a show stopper. Then, around October of last year, something changed and it became usable for me, so I used it into November. Then, my SSD began failing, I had bought a new SSD, re-installed openSUSE Tumbleweed, and couldn't remember how I had fixed KWallet to work with everything on Wayland. I've still tried it, off and on, and it worked for most things, just not those pesky passwords. Fast-forward to this morning and I dedicated some search time to finding the fix again. I blogged about the fix earlier, it's in the How-to category.

So I've been using Wayland again and it's really really good. I'm gonna play some games later. I'm hoping I can just use it all the time. I normally go from dev work to gaming and I don't like having to log out, re-log into X/Wayland, and vice-versa. I'm just gonna use one or the other, but I prefer Wayland if possible. Anyway, giving it a try again. I'm sure I'll blog an update some time :)

Back in November my SSD began failing and I had to re-install openSUSE Tumbleweed on a new drive. The downside to not having to fix my computer often is I don't have to do it often enough to remember how I did it. One of the things I hadn't fixed yet was being able to use KWallet with programs like Git GUI using on Wayland. It's actually the only reason, I know of, that I couldn't use Wayland. Well, I finally did some searching and found the fix:

• Open the .config/plasma-workspace/env folder in your Home folder

• Create a file, named something like startup.sh

• Insert this into that file:

#!/bin/sh 
SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/ssh/ksshaskpass 
export SSH_ASKPASS 
[ -n "$SSH_AGENT_PID" ] || eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"

• Save and close

• Open the .config/plasma-workspace/shutdown folder in your Home folder

• Create a file, named something like shutdown.sh

• Insert this into that file:

[ -z "$SSH_AGENT_PID" ] || eval "$(ssh-agent -k)"

• Save and close

• Logout

• Log in with Wayland

I hope this helps someone else. :)

For the past week and a half, I've been working to preserve someone's life work. Someone passed away and they've left behind a giant cache of data, which could, one day soon, be gone forever. Unfortunately, we don't have access to the raw data, just the resulting web site. It has been sobering, combing through it and trying to archive as much as possible. My initial goal is to archive the web site and everything generated from his data. I've mostly accomplished that.

I've also been writing scripts to scrape the data from the thousands of pages, scrape links that aren't in the site map, scrape links to external data sources. It's been a lot of work so far and I don't really have a lot to show for it, in comparison to what it will be eventually. The first step is preserving it, but there are further steps. I don't want to announce what data I'm currently talking about; I don't want someone else swooping in and trying to somehow monetize the opportunity.

I try to watch most of the Linux Experiment videos and this one stood out, because it's saying what I've been saying for quite a while. Now, I know there is missing data in his results, but the point wasn't the best optimized distro for gaming. The video is all about usability and what the user actually sees. You don't have to install a gaming distro to play games. Some of the worst distros I've tried were gaming distros, so just use what you want to use and game on that.

A funny video of friend of mine made...

Oops! I messed up. I forgot my SQLite database was in a certain folder, which I needed to do a refresh of said folder...so I deleted it. This means my database is brand spanking new again. Luckily I'd only added a couple of pages and about 9 posts, so not a huge loss. I definitely need to find somewhere else to put that database file though!

Reflection

On 12 May I wiped this site and installed a CMS I'm building named Grazie!, replacing my old Word Press site. I had been fixing some bugs, which I finally updated here earlier. I then decided to fix a few other things, so I did another update a few minutes ago.

I'll recreate the change log and fix my navigation links again. I did at least fix quite a few things today...damn it.