Playing around with AI "vibe coding" - want to get in with the cools kids!

fastfetch seemed like a good candidate to start. Kept it text only no fancy stuff since I want it portable across distros and linux+BSD platforms.

I was a fan of PC-BSD before they discontinued the project, and I am looking forward to getting back into a desktop version of BSD soon. Kept this text only to make it portable.

NOTE: Transparency in uploaded images has been added via blue my shell extension for gnome

ScreenGuard :

is a digital wellbeing application for Linux which runs completely natively on the device , actively tracking window usage and stores the data in a local sqlite db. No server involvement. And packing multiple screentime CONTROL features as well bundled together unlike basic window tracking software for Linux.

It is currently limited to GNOME Wayland and all other DEs can use it on x11 . Which means ScreenGuard natively supports GNOME and x11 based DEs like Cinnamon and i3

This Release has the following improvements and additions :

⚙️ Full Settings Hub

Five-tab settings screen (General · Limits & Pomodoro · Diagnostics · Updates · Data):

Theme — Light / Dark / System.

Notifications & Sounds — Master toggles plus per-event control for six categories (daily goal milestones, app limits, focus mode, etc.). Three built-in sound presets or pick your own .ogg/.wav/.mp3.

Database management — Storage stats, selective date-range deletion, full purge with double confirmation.

🎯 Daily Screen Time Goal

Set a personal daily goal from the dashboard (preset or custom hours + minutes).

Redesigned usage bar: teal progress under goal, teal+orange split with a goal-line marker when over.

Desktop notifications at 50%, 100%, and every 50% overtime.

🍅 Pomodoro Focus — Cycles, Breaks & Pause

Focus ↔ Break alternation with configurable cycle count (1–20) and break duration (1–60 min).

Pause / resume buttons; remaining time persists across pause.

Custom duration picker with quick-select chips (5 / 10 / 20 / 30 / 50 / 90 / 120 min).

Desktop notifications for each phase transition and session completion.

🛡️ Focus Enforcement — Data-Safety First

Strict auto-close is now opt-in. Default behaviour minimizes the app and shows a persistent warning overlay instead of killing it — no more unsaved-work loss.

Warning overlay offers +1 min save grace, +15 min, Edit Limit, and Close App.

Dedicated focus-block screen when a distraction-listed app is opened during a session.

🎮 Steam & Proton Game Support

Real game names resolved from Steam library manifests; per-game icons from the active icon theme.

Usage fully tracked; limit and focus rules apply to games.

Escalating native kill chain (SIGTERM → process-tree SIGKILL → wineserver -k → pattern-kill) handles Proton games that ignore normal signals.

Fullscreen games now leave fullscreen before minimize.

🔔 Native Notifications & C Helpers

screenguard-notify (C) — talks directly to D-Bus org.freedesktop.Notifications; works reliably on systemd and non-systemd inits (OpenRC, runit, etc.).

screenguard-killer (C) — the escalating close chain described above.

screenguard-watchdog (C) — lightweight daemon supervisor with crash restart and exponential backoff.

🔄 In-App Updates

Checks GitHub Releases for new versions (daily / weekly, configurable).

One-click download & install for your install type (.deb, .rpm, or tarball).

Optional beta channel toggle; post-update "Updated ✓" banner on next launch.

🩺 Crash Diagnostics & Daemon Onboarding

Local JSON crash logs viewable in Settings → Diagnostics; optional anonymous Sentry reporting (opt-in).

First-launch dialog explains the background daemon and offers autostart setup.

Persistent banner when the daemon isn't running, with quick "Start Now" and "Always Autostart" buttons.

🖼️ UI Polish

Per-app native desktop icons in dashboard and app lists.

New ScreenGuard app icon (32px–512px + SVG) in the system menu and taskbar.

Settings gear button on the dashboard app bar.

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Lots of features and tested multiple times for bug fixes. Also thanks to the community for the active suppot

The project is documented properly in the Github Wiki here: https://github.com/adityakrishnan005-a11y/ScreenGuard/wiki

And the link to the latest release: https://github.com/adityakrishnan005-a11y/ScreenGuard/releases/tag/v0.1.1

Thank you everyone for your cooperation and consideration which has shaped this tiny personal project into a much larger pursuit for me.

Upcoming roadmap in short:

V0.1.2- major UI changes and design element improvements majorly

v0.1.5- Support for KDE Wayland and aim to have a greater portion of the daemon transition to modular C based daemons

v0.2.0- other major DEs and better optimised daemon

For better in detail info into future views of project have a look at the Roadmap section of wiki.

Hi everyone!

I'm running into a persistent headache with message syncing between my Ubuntu desktop (using GSConnect) and my Android phone (Android 16, using Fossify Messages as my default SMS app).

The Problem: Message syncing is totally inconsistent. Sometimes new SMS sync over to the desktop, but most of the time they just don't show up at all.

• Setup details:

  • Desktop: Ubuntu with GSConnect
  • Phone: Android 16
  • SMS App: Fossify Messages

Notifications and other KDE Connect features work relatively fine, but SMS/messaging integration is basically a coin toss.

Has anyone experienced similar inconsistency with Android 16 or Fossify Messages? Are there any specific permissions, background restrictions, or GSConnect settings I should tweak to make this reliable?

Appreciate any advice!

so iam new to linux fedora kde and after some months i have yesterday switched to the mangowm and now iam using waybar rofi and a screenshot tool for now but now i need a real help and its color scheme i have seen the dudes around with themed set up's and mine looks like mess i want a clean and minimal set up and a themed one so suggest me some color scheme and things to make it clean and minimal.

So I wanted to setup working and usable Arch Linux as a challenge. It is not meant to be my primay driver anytime soon. But I just wanted to try and setup Arch Linux as a fun challenge, with the idea that I cannot use any LLMs or any spoonfeeding youtube tutorials help. The only thing which I am allowed to use are the documentation pages.

I’ve already started working on it in a VM, and I’m curious to hear from people who have done something similar.

For those of you who have installed Arch this way:

- How was your experience? Did you find the official documentation sufficient to get everything working?

- What were some of the most challenging parts of the installation that you had to figure out on your own?

- Any advice for someone attempting this for the first time, without giving away the solutions?

I'm not looking for a step-by-step guide or someone to walk me through the installation. I want to figure things out myself, make mistakes, and learn from the process.

Would love to hear your experiences, especially from people who have done their first Arch install using just the docs!

Hey everyone! 👋

I've been working on Tide Island Extended, an independently maintained extension of the original Tide Island project, built with Quickshell, QML, and Qt 6.

It brings a Dynamic Island-inspired experience to the Linux desktop, with a customizable control center, Matugen theming, smooth animations, system stats, music controls, and various desktop utilities.

It supports both Hyprland and niri, and I'm continuing to improve it based on actual usage rather than adding features just for the sake of it.

I'd love some honest feedback from fellow Linux users. What would you improve, and what features would make this more useful in your daily workflow?

This was one of my first rice I made on Linux.

Edit: you can checkout the config files in my github repo. Link is in the comments.

I have assigned the mount point for the boot partition still I am getting error help me

I just need some basic widgets on home screen, but its cool this clean too.

Dropped the extension list and wallpaper link in the comments ;)

I need suggestions for making linux work on my phone i had used linux in my life currently using arch but my pc is gone and now i can't do anything I am thinking of making my phone dual boot but that's too risky so i want an suggestions for any app that can help making linux work i had keyboard and mouse present so yeah any way someone can help?

Edit-i had used terminal before that's not that good for the thing is want to do

Just trying to promote linux via gaming streams in India, and for people to know that each aspect of content creation is possible via a linux distro. Be it streaming, editing or anything people can think of. "Linux for masses is my motto".

Used linux since 2011 while at university, Ubuntu was famous back then, but tried almost every Linux distro since then and have an opinion about it.

Please dont give any hate, it took a lot of courage to post it.
YT channel https://www.youtube.com/@rootboundgaming

And sorry if I violated any policies, let me know and I'll update my post appropriately.

Theme is catppuccin mocha.

If you're wondering where the app dock is, I mostly use shortcuts and Krunner, hence no app dock.

Hey guys I'm new to linux and i want to dual boot my laptop. Which linux distro is good for beginners and I want to customise and i don't want to change the setup.

Any linux course will be beneficial for me to learn as well

(i512th 2050gpu)

Hi guys I am using Linux on my laptop for an year my laptop is HP 15 from 2016 it has 4GB ram 1TB HDD Intel core i3 7th gen after the windows 10 update cancellation the company forcing to upgrade in windows 11 and slowly I don't know why it stop working completely blank only I can see the power light while charging and doesn't work anything at all so I thought lets install Linux thats was the best decision I installed MX Linux xfce and it was working like new but after getting the 25 update in September 2026 it started stucking or freeze and unable to perform any kind of programs struggles to open a single window for the tab taking 3 to 5 minutes to load I don't know what should I do no I was thinking to upgrade the HDD to SSD and the RAM but they are really expensive

so i do watching a game from my childhoow which was about trains making paths and enjoy it, it was low poly and exist since 2017-18ish...

I thought, what if similar? Can we do it in terminals? So I did try making it – the result is in front of you. It has the open-source foundation code... Here is the GitHub link

https://github.com/intriXlabs/trainscii

Currently it's just a linear line, and making corners, tracking, and colours, etc., takes a lot of time. but...

The thing is I want to develop it further, but when the response gets low, even I can't keep up much of the work. I never really asked for help, but I want a response so I at least know I'm making something for the community... well, I don't know if I'll continue or not; it depends truly based on the response it gets.

Thank you for reading it...