Post AwImn2erth0NprnsnY by white_male@poa.st
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(DIR) Post #AwIlqr1oyjYSyEnGeu by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-07-19T20:05:36Z
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SHITTY PROGRAMMERS -- STOP MSKONG IT HARD TO GRAB THE ELEVATOR THUMB ON SCROLL BARS. THEY WORKED WELL 20 YEARS AGO AND NOW THEY DO NOT. THIS MEANS ESPECIALLY YOU LINUX. for fucks sake. Yes I'm done. Lol
(DIR) Post #AwImBVkPINlz3BUwrY by virbonus@sueden.social
2025-07-19T20:09:16Z
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@tomjennings But they *look* so much *prettier* now, don't they?
(DIR) Post #AwImn2erth0NprnsnY by white_male@poa.st
2025-07-19T20:16:08.870211Z
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@tomjennings >disabling mouse pane scrolling in spite of your poor hand eye coordination
(DIR) Post #AwImsRxvEUIVlyIKVU by istvan@noauthority.social
2025-07-19T20:17:07Z
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@tomjennings What’s so hard about precisely grabbing an element that’s only 2px wide and that goes invisible until you mouse over it on your high DPI display? </UI Designer>
(DIR) Post #AwInTdTVP69UBPnbFY by relentless_eduardo@freeatlantis.com
2025-07-19T20:23:45Z
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@tomjennings there are apps to widen scroll bars in some cases
(DIR) Post #AwIosWw8wuv96Dd2I4 by logical_map@mastodon.social
2025-07-19T20:39:29Z
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@tomjennings What window manager are you using? I'd assume you can change it on GNU/Linux.
(DIR) Post #AwJ1aVx5AfSSEio81o by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-07-19T23:01:55Z
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@logical_map Xcfe or however it's spelled (xfce?). I chose it because it's least worst. I truly hate customizing UI, beyond the basics as is reasonable to get going, and adjust. I don't know how people use shit like kde plasma. One accidental mis-mouse or errant key, and windows fling to mysterious nether regions, never to appear again. Virtual workspaces on all possible edges. Tools for undisciplined erratic thinking. Unless they simply enjoy "customizing" as a pursuit in itself. Been there, done that, done. Lol libre office began starting up with the window top half lodged above the top of the screen (no virtual space above it) but I did discover a key combination that let me drag it by a lower edge back to reasonableness. But then it happened again. Lol.
(DIR) Post #AwJ28799u1nf9NTgXo by jae@darkdork.dev
2025-07-19T23:07:57.873657Z
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@tomjennings @logical_map i3 is simple and easy out of the box. set couple keybindings maybe wallpaper if you like. get work done.
(DIR) Post #AwJ2C1SL0CvwewJQ2K by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-07-19T23:08:42Z
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@virbonus Lol no! Mine today looks like a botched amateur job! Now if it started out wide, the shrunk after say 10 seconds, then any time mouse hover it instantly stayed wide for 10 seconds... But why even narrow them today? Screens are huge! Mobile screens are narrow -- but fingers are not. My hands are not even big, though long fingers -+ but most stuff seems designed for the hands of children. I am *extremely* and ambi- dextrous -- but the shit I have to do to get the lower right corner of onscreen keyboards is eternally annoying. Why are onscreen keyboards rectangular? They should be wiser and fatter on the edges, when bent thumb precision is bad. Tight on the middle is ok. Its like there were all these advances in interface made 20, 10 years ago, and now it's all trivial nonsense. Pie menus or something might be great on mobile. Between Google and Apple all we get are insults.
(DIR) Post #AwJ2LWvRMxBcrlSTfk by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-07-19T23:10:25Z
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@relentless_eduardo Yeah, but it's all such a distraction and a botch job that such things are needed. Never mind folk without perfect dexterity and maybe fewer or damaged fingers, shitty eyesight (mine does not seem to be improving with age somehow)
(DIR) Post #AwJ4g3UgBrFXZir8Yi by logical_map@mastodon.social
2025-07-19T23:36:30Z
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@tomjennings I've enjoyed XFCE in the past for similar reasons. I've probably run almost every WM over the last three decades. I'm using KDE Plasma as I post this, though. I turn off the virtual desktops. I don't have anything at all on my desktop, just a gray background. I use the Icons-only task manager, so it is just a row of launch icons and a tray (always visible at the top). I see several options for changing app scrollbars on this screen.
(DIR) Post #AwJD9VcDVsYYp8wAGe by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-07-20T01:11:30Z
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@jae I found i3 and wayfire nicely minimal, but very hard to configure, I couldn't find a damn thing. Then messing with old fvwm, which I loved, made me realize I have gotten very lazy, and I didn't want to code widgets to tell me battery life or mount SD cards or whatever, that I had grown as indolent as everyone else. And fvwm runs only under X, and there's the silly battle...So xcfe installed from a single command line, was the least invasive, doesn't demand constant attention to acknowledge how cool it is. There's tons of choices, lol, that's part of the problem. I let my selection be bounded by the minima of annoyance, rather than the maxima of feetch, which approaches, unfortunately, infinity.@logical_map
(DIR) Post #AwJyfoGeOcDVmiknFA by relentless_eduardo@freeatlantis.com
2025-07-20T10:03:57Z
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@tomjennings if you change one aspect of the computer interface, it often makes another thing worselike for vision problems, if you make font bigger then sometimes the font will not fit in it its fieldsevery time I try to print a pdf from a document online (with .psd file) the fields are off
(DIR) Post #AwK2WYsMeVTRG6Ev3o by jae@darkdork.dev
2025-07-20T10:47:06.280604Z
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@tomjennings @logical_map there's a lot that can be customized on linux or bsd desktops. the freedom is great but the choice fatigue can be challenging. in the past i would codesearch github, find a dots repo i like, make a few changes and voila. magic.
(DIR) Post #AwK5J5Ay43jNFBCo2C by m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net
2025-07-20T11:18:04Z
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@jae@darkdork.dev @logical_map@mastodon.social @tomjennings@tldr.nettime.orgThat is why nowadays I pick the first thing, put as much effort as possible in making it comfortable to use and leave it be 😄OMG, this new thing is WAY more flexible — it allows you to describe widgets in lua and you can describe widgets that run inside other widgets in lua — can you imagine?! And! Last, but not least — it's written in pure Haskell!Not interested! Closing the tab 😏
(DIR) Post #AwKmwZJGG2XO1b9x6u by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-07-20T19:27:15Z
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@jae"Choice fatigue", that's good!@logical_map
(DIR) Post #AwKp7C1TNUwwta26jo by jae@darkdork.dev
2025-07-20T19:51:33.789400Z
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@tomjennings @logical_map doubt i'm the first one to say it, but it felt appropriate. it's why i don't use any streaming services. just a handful of beloved movies i enjoy over and over
(DIR) Post #AwVfnlgQJzyar1PR3o by elplatt@greatjustice.net
2025-07-26T01:29:01Z
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@tomjennings Don't you love when two or three overlap? I use an ergonomic mouse with no scroll wheel, so I eventually bought a macro pad just so I could scroll with my other hand and not have to deal with it.