mint
2023
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i3-wm on Linux Mint 21.3 + Fixing System Wide Default Font
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I was happy using Linux Mint’s Cinnamon for some months now. Lately, However, There were some weird annoying crashes that forced reboots. Upon probing, I found out that Muffin, Cinnamon’s window manager, was not cozy with an app that I needed for my VPN. This propted to try out i3. I always wanted to try i3wm since it’s minimal, distraction-free, hackable, and says no mundane mouse-driven window management (+ I also had a weekend free for config time 🙃 ). -
Registering AppImage as Desktop App in Ubuntu / Mint
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AppImage is a new packaging format that eliminates the need for building applications specific to distributions like Debian’s .deb or OpenSUSE/Fedora’s .rpm. AppImage can be used on any distribution, thats what makes it attractive to developers as they don’t have to build multiple packages tailored to different distributions. AppImage is not exactly an install package; it’s the app itself bundled together with the dependencies it needs. To “install” the AppImage package, all you have to do is make it executable and run it.