KDE overrides Discord fontconfig setting

My fix for hinting in Discord stopped working when I tried out KDE. Turns out KDE just ignores per app/font settings altogether. People online suggest to use the KDE system settings option to change hinting: This actually changes hinting for everything though. From my research I learned that KDE specifically uses ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf for these settings.

Installing Ubuntu’s OBS package on Arch

The OBS build in the Arch repositories is built without the browser plugin. It sucks. The reasons are not entirely clear to me, and it’s possible to just build OBS myself; there is an AUR script for it (obs-studio-git). However, compiling this size of a program myself everytime it’s updated is kind of a pain

Sound Equalizer on Linux

This topic used to be pretty frustrating on Linux. On Windows, the default driver usually has a simple built-in Equalizer with the ability to save presets, which is good enough for most purposes and has no impact on performance and seemingly no bearing on quality or latency. On Linux, there’s a few options. I’m not

Remapping audio jacks

My computers front jacks are broken. Since forever, I’ve been using the ones on the back. I have a pair of loudspeakers and I sometimes like using headphones, but only one of the rear jacks is actually an output. So I need a way to remap one of the others to work as a headphone

Hide .desktop entries from app launcher

Since I use a pretty simple start menu that just displays all applications and a search bar underneath, it’s kind of a mess. A lot of entries are programs I will never ever use, a lot are…sound plugins that have their own standalone .desktop entries for some reason? At first I considered just deleting those

Sorting pacman packages by size

Since my SSD is uncomfortably small and I gave Arch only 20 GB to work with, one of the earlier things I did was write a script to list pacman packages and sort them by size. This isn’t a revolutionary thing and I could just as well have copypasted an existing version from stackoverflow or

Discord font rendering on Linux

When installing Arch Linux with Gnome, by default fontconfig applies “Slight Hinting” to all fonts. This looks fine for all cases except Discord. Whether I run Discord in Chromium or standalone, the font looks malnourished and weird, compared to Windows. According to the console, it definitely uses the same font as on Windows, Whitney. It

Modifying Field of View (FOV) in Final Fantasy XIV on Linux

FFXIV-Zoom-Hack FFXIV-Zoom-Hack is a Github project that provides a tool that can modify the game’s memory to change the maximum zoom and the FOV angle. The default FOV is horribly narrow so I always use this tool whenever I play on Windows to avoid headaches. Unfortunately, since it’s specifically a Windows tool, it does not

Getting Final Fantasy XIV to run in Wine/Proton

The Launcher After installing the game, I use boot/ffxivboot64.exe to run the launcher. The first problem that comes up for me is that the launcher doesn’t actually give me an option to log in with my existing account. This is likely an embarrassing oversight from Square Enix and I’ll forgive them for the time being.

Desktop Environment

For my DE, I chose Gnome (with GDM as login manager), with a few extensions. Dash to Panel moves the top panel to the bottom and adds a task bar, similar to Windows. It has transparency and window previews. The one unfixable drawback compared to Windows is that unfortunately it doesn’t have notification badges (Discord)