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New comment by magios in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

magios — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:34:54 +0000

i3wm with bindings in config to use xdotool to move and click the mouse is what i use.

New comment by magios in "Linux Terminal Memory Usage"

magios — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:22:23 +0000

i've been using xst https://github.com/gnotclub/xst, a fork of suckless st https://st.suckless.org/ for a long period, but there's also st-flexipatch https://github.com/bakkeby/st-flexipatch available which now includes sixel support

edit: the article did mention st but claimed it had no scrollback, that's what the patches are for. st-flexipatch makes it easy to enable or disable the patches via c preprocessor defines.

New comment by magios in "GNU Unifont"

magios — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 05:48:20 +0000

i use 1920x1080 screen res as i see no point to any higher res.

New comment by magios in "GNU Unifont"

magios — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:43:09 +0000

because i prefer monospaced pixel fonts, tho the underlying engine requires the ttf and now otf font, which is a vector format in order to render.

New comment by magios in "GNU Unifont"

magios — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:34:10 +0000

i use this font system wide, forced as the only font in firefox, with web or downloadable fonts disabled. i also have my some of my own characters in csur, the conscript unicode registry, that is mapped to u+e000 thru u+f8ff so the unicode codepoints used by random webpages for various glyphs show up as my own. qt is a pain to use sometimes with unifont only but iirc QT_FONT_DPI=128 environment variable fixes that. i just wish i could get unifont only to work in games like rimworld.

New comment by magios in "Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k"

magios — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 08:54:28 +0000

unifont has cjk support, bitmap fonts work just fine for the integer domain. been using unifont system and app wide for some integer number of years now. i believe the only app that i use that does not have unifont is the game rimworld, but i haven't investigated to see if there's any fix for that. for qt based apps i believe you have to use the environmental variable QT_FONT_DPI=128 or something similar, where the 128 is double the DPI, which may be some bug that i got around that may be fixed now

New comment by magios in "Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it"

magios — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:21:28 +0000

firefox on linux with a bunch of css stuff set to defaults or none !important shows a static image

New comment by magios in "A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation"

magios — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:22:02 +0000

i use i3wm so there are various keybindings you can use. for mouseless stuff i use xdotool to move the pointer in 16 or 64 pixel increments using the keyboard. if i could toggle the mouse pointer on and off i would.

New comment by magios in "Material 3 Expressive"

magios — Fri, 16 May 2025 16:58:45 +0000

another thing to block in firefox userContent.css as there doesn't appear to be an option for it in about:config

New comment by magios in "Is the 80 character line limit still relevant? (2008)"

magios — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 08:58:48 +0000

on a 1920x1080 display using bitmap fonts or their equivalent where each cell is 8x16, then three tiled windows without borders are 80 characters wide. font used is unifont, i3 window manger, xst terminal, vim, etc.

if i had a 2560x1440 display, i'd use four 80 character wide tiled windows.

New comment by magios in "Too many fonts in Windows 10 can cause slow application starts"

magios — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 18:40:02 +0000

iirc, to utilize the fontconfig font name matching system to determine if a particular font for say, subtitles, matches.

New comment by magios in "BeagleV-Ahead RISC-V board"

magios — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:43:24 +0000

i agree, that is a problem, mainline linux and working drm, that is direct rendering manager, drivers should exist before release of the product.

New comment by magios in "BeagleV-Ahead RISC-V board"

magios — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:38:28 +0000

well, if the soc is the same, thus same cpu, gpu, and npu, kernel and userspace support should be also roughly equal, tho the device tree will differ between the two devices. i do agree that many of these sbc computers have poor initial support and many end up remaining that way. perhaps we should be requiring that mainline linux support, and working drm drivers, for gpu, exist before the product is released.

New comment by magios in "BeagleV-Ahead RISC-V board"

magios — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 15:50:55 +0000

$150-$180 seems expensive for 4gb ram and 16gb flash when you can get an sbc with the same soc, the sipeed licheepi 4a with 16gb of ram and 128gb flash for $180, or $120 for 8gb ram and 8gb flash, or $135 for 8gb ram and 32gb flash

New comment by magios in "Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?"

magios — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 21:28:12 +0000

thinkpad 760xl here, svga+ screen, 166mhz pentium mmx, 64mb of ram, 2.1gb hdd, typically use it as a dos machine, tho it does have old slackware linux installed. if you still have the laptop, hold on to it, or if you don't want it, please give it one of the many retro groups who can maintain and keep these things going.

New comment by magios in "I don’t want to sign up for your newsletter (2018)"

magios — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 13:39:04 +0000

this is why I have downloadable or website fonts disabled and in browser, use a singular monospace bitmap font, unifont, and across the entire system. you can do this with your preferred font. also eliminates any risk of security due to font parsing issues.

New comment by magios in "Sony backs Raspberry Pi with fresh funding, access to A.I. chips"

magios — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 16:37:07 +0000

some of the cm4 variants do have flash memory, 8, 16 and 32gb mmc flash, but those are just as hard to obtain as standard raspberry pis. you use the raspberry pi io board or any of the third party ones to connect the cm4.

New comment by magios in "Sony backs Raspberry Pi with fresh funding, access to A.I. chips"

magios — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 16:16:48 +0000

are you referring to the Rockchip RK3588?

New comment by magios in "Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls"

magios — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:01:27 +0000

my solution to beat the tab accumulation problem is to have firefox simply close all tabs, clear browsing and download history, clear form and search history, and clear cache upon the user choosing to close the program. if the browser or computer crashes the tabs and everything else still exist. if a site meets your interests, bookmark it. note that cookies remain but are usually cleared periodically. also you can setup a folder of bookmarks, or a new tab page, that you can open up everyday and check the websites you want.

New comment by magios in "Modern Mono"

magios — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 06:21:52 +0000

unifont http://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html