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For a long while I have had an issue with Pale Moon browser (which is based on the XUL platform, but is basically based on Mozilla Firefox.) on linux, where when downloading a file the "Save As..." dialog would not open, but only for some sites.

Looking around, I found some settings, like browser.download.lastDir which points to the last download directory and others, but nothing helped. But then I noticed browser.download.lastDir.savePerSite which means that f

I consider foobar2000 still one of the best audio players, mainly because of it's excellent media library system (for why even DeadBeef did not cut it for me!).

Of course it runs well on linux with wine, however media keys (the extra ones on most keyboards), did not go through when the window was unfocused!

Further investication revealed that even native applications such as VLC did not receive the keypresses when unfocused

qddcswitch is a Simple frontend for switching display inputs with ddcutil.

This application idea started when I installed a Windows virtual machine with it's own dedicated GPU, to play Windows games and use software which only worked well on windows. Because I used Windows 7, I could not use a tool which streams the windows screen to linux, so I had to use a physical cable.

But th

I dabble with music time to time, specifically electronic music. I am not a massive synth buff, so I use computers to make music with VSTs etc. I also use linux, and recently installed pipewire, a replacement for pulseaudio, jack, alsa etc.

My setup, using REAPER.

Installing

To install pipewire (on Arch Linux (btw)), you can install pipewire, and for alsa, pulseaudio and jack you can respectively install pipewire-alsa, pipewire-pulse and `pipewi