Pure black background makes it unreadable for me. When I encountered this on websites, i use the Firefox function to turn it into a black on white background theme, so my eyes don’t hurt reading longer text. Same logic applies to the terminal, especially when programming. I think pure black as a background shouldn’t be default. However I do actually appreciate darker tones as background, but its never pure black. It depends on the combination of colors for text (and on the rest of the system theme).

In what way is this E3?

No, Linux is not UNIX. It is UNIX like. MacOS is UNIX, based on a BSD system.

Probably because of “Linux is winning”. ;-)

That could be considered (relative) dead, given how many Windows users exist compared to Linux. In more serious note, I just think that Lemmy attracts more Linux users than Windows. That’s all to it.

Why is a MacOS related screenshot posted in a Linux community for a question about Windows?

I am actually aware of parallel and use it for a different tool / script I built. The purpose of parallel is different than xargs, right? I mean xargs works on each line of a stdout string, which is what I was using it for. I never thought parallel as an alternative to xargs and need to investigate into this idea more. Thanks.

You should use -r option for read command to preserve backslashes. I was using while loops before too, but wanted to have a compact single command replacement. And doing it with a while loop as an alias (or function) didn’t work well, because the command has to be interpreted. xargs does exactly that, as it is designed for this kind of stuff. Other than having less stuff to type, I wonder if there are benefits from one over the other while vs xargs. In a script, I prefer writing full while loops instead.

Text makes sense. I mostly read it as “Terminal” and do not know what the original meaning is with a certainty. Looking at Wikipedia, the source of truth, it’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface . You probably right about it.

Yes. Think of any terminal application with an interactive user interface, that mimics a GUI. Something that is not just controlled by commandline options like grep and sed in example.

TUI: Terminal User Interface, something like htop in example. CLI: Command Line Interface, something like grep in example.

You can also filter windows out of a screencast by choosing a special option from the pop-up menu that appears when right-clicking a window’s title bar:

An option to hide windows from Spectacle, when recording a screencast. Admittedly I am not much of a screencast person, but its good to know in case I need it as I have some future plans. So I could have some notes or the web browser open in same virtual desktop I am recording from.

• Snap - bad idea

This reply is in case you want to tile in KDE. I see you already found a solution with Yakuake / Guake tool and you don’t need to change to a tiling system just for that.

Well if you would use tiling window manager in KDE with the extension Krohnkite, it has a feature for doing exactly that. You can set a window to be a Dock (I manually chose the shortcut Meta+D for that) and it will attach to any side you want and not interfere with the other tiled windows anymore. And you don’t have to tile every window. In example on my Desktop 4, I set it to floating everything (which is no tiling at all) for games. You basically could set this floating mode be the default and whenever you want, you can start tiling specific Desktops or windows only.

Fedorai

Why is Vim a security hole?

BTW back in KDE 5 I did that, used an alternative tiling window manager (I think it was i3wm) instead KWin. It worked, but it had its own set of problems. Not sure if it is still possible, but based on my prior experience I wouldn’t recommend it anyway. Instead the tiling script / addon Krohkite should be used, as people recommend. I use it myself (and I am a tiling window manager guy) and it works well, as it is well integrated and smooth experience in KDE.

That’s manual tiling with the mouse. It’s not the same as auto tiling like PopOS does.

Also available through KDE Settings > Window Management > KWin Scripts > [Get New…] . Installing it through this method should automatically update whenever its updated.

You change the shortcuts in the Plasma shortcuts window. Just type in the KDE shortcuts search bar “krohkite” to show matching entries only.