Fedora

Since I switched to GNOME and Wayland on my desktop I have been missing XScreenSaver. JWZ is rightly not planning to add support for this unless there are some significant changes in GNOME. I felt left out whenever I saw a new version with new hacks being released. Recently I stumbled over retrosaver by c-premus. It is basically a workaround to run the hacks on GNOME Wayland. It doesn’t lock the screen and leaves that to GNOME, so it isn’t really a replacement for XScreenSaver. At home, this is probably good enough. ...

For my new job, I (annoyingly) have to use a silly MacBook. For everything else, I have a nice, beautiful desktop running Fedora. I looked into KVMs to share my monitor and keyboard between the two computers, but couldn’t really find something reasonably priced and functional. Synergy/Barrier/InputLeap for keyboard sharing I have used Synergy before to share keyboard and mouse between Linux computers, and this was already a good step. There is a fork for Synergy on Linux called Barrier, which now has been forked again to InputLeap. Now the maintained version is Deskflow. It also allows copy & paste between systems. ...

I like looking at pictures of other people’s office set-ups. With most people working from home at the moment you see more and more nice workspaces especially tuned for video conferencing. I was lucky enough to have a space and a reasonable set-up already. By chance I also had ordered bits and pieces before everything was sold out on Amazon. There are a few things I still want to improve. The light is not ideal for video conferencing and I am also going to try a separate microphone for better sound. ...

This year I managed for the first time to attend Fosdem in Brussels. Since I started to be involved in open source software I always wanted to go, but somehow something else always came up. This time I made an early effort to book my vacation days, hotel and flight. I stayed at the Bedford Hotel & Congress Center, which was the worst part of the whole trip. Just avoid it. ...

It is that time of the year again where I make up stuff to ignore for the following twelve months. Last year I didn’t do it, but this year I will give it another try. I has been pointed out that these kind of resolutions doesn’t really fit into the agile way of making decisions that I do subscribe to in my professional life. I will again try to make follow up posts to check how I am doing during the year and possibly adjust the goals. ...