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Until now, I have been using Visual Studio Code to develop my PHP projects. However, I would like to give Kate a try, even though it offers slightly less in terms of overall scope. My PHP projects are usually organized in folders. In VSCode, I can save these as “workspaces” and also save various settings that only apply to that one project/workspace. I couldn't find any workspaces in Kate. I therefore assume that the equivalent is “projects.” Is that correct?

If so, how can I open a specific project? I haven't found a way to save a project under a specific name, so I have no idea how to open an existing project later.

Can someone briefly explain to me how working with projects in Kate is supposed to work?

BTW: I usually edit PHP files in a local directory, but when I save them in VSCode, the changes are also transferred to another computer via SFTP at the same time. Is there a similar option in Kate? I mean, without me having to trigger anything else.

I am trying to create some systemd units that are supposed to start scripts at certain intervals. With Cron, I used an expression like 0 3 */7 * * to start a job every 7 days at 3 a.m. That worked great. With OnCalendar, I have no idea how to implement "every 7 days". Or can I use OnUnitActiveSec here? Additional problem: The computer is not always on at the specified time. The job should therefore be repeated as soon as the computer is available again. I have set Persistent=true for this purpose. However, I suspect that OnUnitActiveSec is reset every time I restart the computer. Or does OnUnitActiveSec refer to the time when the unit was activated with systemctl enabled test.timer?

Coming from years of using GNOME, so please forgive me, if this is a stupid question.

When I have kwrite open and multiple documents open (one in each tab) and i press usual shortcuts like strg+c, strg+v, strg+s and so on, I get a annoying popup, which tells me that the shortcut has multiple meanings and it can't do what I want. If I have only 1 document open, it works fine.

From my point of view, this looks like a bug. Or do I have to setup something special?

Im using Arch Linux with kwrite 25.12.1

When I add images to my post, they sometimes don't appear in the mobile app on Android. I only see them when I edit the post. It probably has something to do with the size of the image. If I load smaller versions into a post, they are easily loaded. My tests included images in JPG format with a resolution of 6542x4365. File size at about 15MB. I assumed that the images would be automatically reduced before uploading and that EXIF data would be automatically removed. Obviously, this is not so. I was able to download the images in the browser. All Exif data was included, the file was also identical in size.

Is there a setting somewhere that can be automatically adjusted before uploading?

What I also noticed is that there is no way in Android to display the alt text of an image or to enlarge it full screen. Surely the latter is a mistake? Is it?

I have searched the settings in the app, but didn't found such a setting. I want to have bigger thumbnails for posts with images and link previews. Is that available or if not can this be implemented? I have added a screenshot from "Thunder" with exact such bigger thumbnails. Can this be done?

Creating *.desktop files for WIndows/Wine applications, specify sometimes a Icon like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Game to start
Comment=Play this game on Steam
Exec=steam steam://rungameid/738520
Icon=steam_icon_738520
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Game;

with Icon=steam_icon_738520. Is this extracted from the *.exe file and how do i get the name mentioned here? I know, that i can use the path to a *.png, but i would prefer to use the *.exe file itself.

In einem Projekt schiebe ich Video von meinen Kameras in ein Verzeichnis auf den Rasperry Pi4. Ein Cronjob geht dieses Verzeichnis dann durch und konvertiert diese Videos mit ffmpeg. Seit letzter Woche schlägt dies fehl. Folgendes Kommando wird dabei benutzt: ffmpeg -y -i "/tmp/4B9A9487.MP4" -vf format=yuv420p -c:v h264_v4l2m2m -b:v 8M -c:a aac -movflags +faststart "/tmp/4B9A9487_cv.mp4". Für einige Video klapp dies, für andere erhalte ich die Fehlermeldung: [h264_v4l2m2m @ 0x558fae9600] Could not find a valid device.

Das es aber für einige funktioniert, für andere nicht, glaube ich nicht, das dies am fehlenden device liegt. Denn wenn ich die Auflösung des Videos reduziere, funktioniert es durchaus. So klappt folgender Befehl mit den bisher fehlgeschlagenen Videos problemlos: ffmpeg -y -i "/tmp/4B9A9487.MP4" -vf format=yuv420p -c:v h264_v4l2m2m -b:v 8M -s 1280x720 -c:a aac -movflags +faststart "/tmp/4B9A9487_cv.mp4".

Geändert hat sich nur die Angabe der Auflösung mit -s 1280x720. Das Input Video hat hier 3840x2160. Ich vermute daher das der Rasperry Pi hier irgendwo mit 3840x2160 nicht mehr klar kommt und daher abbricht.

Was ist denn die maximale Auflösung die der Rasperry Pi hier unterstützt?

I use Darktable 5.0.1. I don't know if this is a bug or just a user error on my part. But I can remember that it worked differently in 4.8.x.

When I am in the lighttable module, I can select “rejected only” in the filter. I would now expect to see all rejected images. However, the opposite is the case. I now see all images that have not been rejected. However, if I select “all except rejected”, I see the rejected images.

Why is the filter effect reversed?

On Samsung Phones. there is a function called "Auto Blocker". If this is enabled, this blocks installing apps from unknown sources and via USB and ADB. In principle, this is a useful feature, but it also prevents the installation of updates via F-Droid. Even if F-Droid is classified as trustworthy in general and can therefore theoretically install apps and updates automatically, activating this function prevents automatic updates. If this function is deactivated, new apps and updates are installed automatically on request.

Is there a way to activate this function and still receive automatic updates via F-Droid? Does the installation of the F-Droid.apk via ADB/USB change anything in this constellation?

As my time with linux, I created a lot of scripts. Some of them have input parameters and sometimes I just forget this parameters.

So I wonder if there is some way to create autocomplete parameters, like i autocomplete a path by pressing the tab key?

For example a script. ./test.sh can be completed with parameter-one, eg. ./test.sh parameter-one or ./test.sh parameter-two. If i type now ./test.sh followed by tab it should add parameter-one if i press tab again it should change to parameter-two.

How can I do that? I'm on bash…

When I send a notification with notify-send -i /path/to/my/icon.png "title" "message" , it appears wonderfully in Gnome 47.4. However, the icon is very tiny. According to the screenshots I saw, the icon can be very large. It is also obviously displayed in addition to the app icon. Is there a way to send such an icon in the message or another way to create desktop notifications?

I'm using Gnome as DE and was really happy with it until my last update. I would like to re-install Gnome, but want to remove before that all Gnome stuff, settings and dependencies. This is no problem for the packages installed via pacman and also it's dependencies. But I fear that I don't know how to remove all relevant settings. Is there some special folder or set of files to remove, before I can start from scratch?