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Thinking about making the switch and need some advice. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I have a T460 running Debian 12 with Cinnamon on it, which is Linux Mint's desktop environment. It runs perfect, never have any issues, I just have to be patient every now and then.

How are you doing financially? in c/[email protected]

type the distro you use and is and let your keyboard finish it in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

OpenSuse I think I will be in the office tomorrow morning if you want to come over and help me out with the mouse and pasting it by pressing the middle mouse button on the phone to the right of the door

Transphobes are doxxing Stardew Valley fans after they asked the game developer for pronouns in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, it's silly. I think the whole linguistic discussion is irrelevant. It's a new phenomenon, which is great. I love how language evolves.

Transphobes are doxxing Stardew Valley fans after they asked the game developer for pronouns in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Take a chill pill, read the article you linked and have a nice day.

Transphobes are doxxing Stardew Valley fans after they asked the game developer for pronouns in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Oh sure, I use singular they a lot too. And I have no problem using it for non-binary people. I just don't like wrong information being posted online without it being disputed.

Transphobes are doxxing Stardew Valley fans after they asked the game developer for pronouns in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, those examples are precisely what I mean. The article you linked to explains exactly what I mean, even stating that Shakespeare wouldn't have used "they" if he knew the gender of the person he referred to.

The referents in these cases are general, not specific people. "Not a man" - no one, not referring to a specific person. "Some more audience than a mother" - someone else than a mother, not a specific person. "Each one" - not a specific person but every person.

If you look at dictionary definitions over the centuries, you'll find singular they mentioned, but always specifically for this general meaning.

As an added note I don't think it makes a difference if the current use is new or not, and it shouldn't matter in this debate. Language changes all the time, even if people resist it.

Transphobes are doxxing Stardew Valley fans after they asked the game developer for pronouns in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (8 children)

This is only true if the referent is unknown. The new thing about singular they is that it is now being used for known referents. Which is perfectly fine of course, but not centuries old.

Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 14th in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

No microtransactions, although it does have DLC's. There are some doors you can't pass through unless you buy those, which is a little annoying but you always have another option. I do think it's better played with a controller though since the action can be very fast paced.

Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 14th in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

How do you like Dave the Driver? Would you recommend it?

Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 14th in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Dead cells. Never played it before, it's hard but fun. Runs great on the Steam Deck.

Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux! in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

What usually also works on Linux is selecting text with the mouse and pasting it by pressing the middle mouse button (or scroll wheel). You'd still need the mouse, but it's at least a little quicker ☺️

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Annoyance: tooltips displaying for inactive windows (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm a new user of KDE having recently installed OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I'm happy with most of it, but I have one big annoyance: the incessant appearance of tooltips and them not going away when the mouse moves. This is on X11, not Wayland.

I often have windows overlapping or next to each other. When switching windows and moving the mouse, I move over an inactive window to the active one. A tooltip then appears for an item of the inactive window that is in the background. In my opinion it shouldn't, because the window is inactive, but it does. What is even more annoying is that the tooltip will remain on screen, over the active window, even when I maximize the active window. It will be displayed on top of it. It often happens that I fullscreen a video only for there to be a tooltip from an inactive window displayed over it, or a tooltip from the program that spawned the fullscreen video.

The only way to remove the tooltip is to activate the inactive window, move my mouse so the tooltip disappears, switch to the previous window again and then very carefully make sure I don't trigger any new tooltips in the inactive window. I'm not always successful at this, which means I have to repeat this process. This seriously impacts my enjoyment of the system.

I have already tried some solutions, disabling tooltips for titlebars in the System settings/Appearance/Window Decorations/Titlebar Buttons section and unchecking the "Display informational tooltips on mouse hover" checkbox in Workspace behaviour. Signing out and back in and rebooting have no effect. The options just don't do anything, except remove the window preview tooltips from the Task Manager, which I do need to navigate between windows. These previews should not be classified as tooltips in my opinion, but that's another matter.

What are some other options I could try? Even though I appreciate tooltips sometimes to help me learn about this new system, at this point I'd rather there be none at all than having to deal with this annoying behaviour. Ideally I would like to disable tooltips for inactive windows, or conversely only show them for active windows. If that's not possible however, I'd like to learn how to disable them completely since the options in settings have no effect.

Some software information:
KDE: 5.27.8
KDE Frameworks: 5.110.0
Qt: 5.15.11
Kernel: 6.5.6-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics platform: X11

Thanks for any suggestions.