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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023
  • BlindFrog@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Fedora and Linux Mint having no display output unless on safe graphics.
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    4 months ago

    Were you able to move on from the interim fix with “safe graphics” btw?

    I’m stopping by only at this time cause I came in from your “get better at [arch]” post.

    Have you checked if your BIOS has some proprietary stuff that restricts it to use only particular hardware? If nah, ignore me, my bad.
    Not the same situation but similar - I bought a former school desktop pc & had blank display issues. The pc wouldn’t accept using a different hdmi cable other than the first one I’d ever booted it up with - and even then, it would hang on the mobo logo. No one said turning off secure boot was a fix, but suggested it often enough that I checked the bios anyway. Lo and behold, there were multiple proprietary “security” features (not secure boot) in the bios that only allowed the pc to connect to approved devices or networks. Makes sense for a school/business. I didn’t care to find out how to whitelist “approved devices”, so I just turned off all the BIOS’s fancy security features.

  • BlindFrog@lemmy.worldtoAndroid@lemmy.world•Native call recording in 2024?English
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    8 months ago

    What’s native call recording? Like call recording with the default phone app?

    I use ACR Phone by “NLL APPS” in the play store. They have you download their app store to download their ACR Helper app to run in the background, which allows the recording. But the quality of the other end’s sound is based on your in-call volume. So after the call starts, I have to ensure the volume is turned all the way up. It doesn’t have to be on speaker.

    I haven’t needed to root, or else I’d have trouble getting on certain mobile games that check my phone for root.

  • BlindFrog@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Mint (noob) default apps with wine
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    9 months ago

    TLDR, scroll down to the script. Make a .sh file, allow it to run as a program, set it as your default program to open whatever filetype

    Navigate to the appropriate/your favorite folder to store portable applications. Make the below script as a new file called WhateverYouWant.sh
    Fellow newbies, the .sh is important.
    Then set this .sh file’s permissions to allow executing this file as a Program; may differ by distro.

    #!/bin/bash

    # Script to set a windows application (that runs through WINE) as the default to open PDF files:

    # PURPOSE: To convert Linux-style filename to Windows-style
    # to pass as an argument to wine when starting PDF XChange Viewer
    Filename="z:"${1//\//\\}

    # Assuming you use the default installation folder for PDF
    # XChange Viewer in Wine
    App='eval wine "C:\Program Files\Filepath\To\Your\PDFXEdit.exe" "'$Filename'"'
    $App

    # Adapted originally from:
    # http://sodeve.net/foxit-reader-on-ubuntu-linux-through-wine/
    # Archive.org'd at: \https://web.archive.org/web/20160918205551/http://sodeve.net/2007/12/foxit-reader-on-ubuntu-linux-through-wine/
    # Additional credit in 2024:
    # https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=153092
    # https://web.archive.org/web/20150213210206/http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=173574#p173574
    # https://web.archive.org/web/20150213210203/http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2009/03/pdf-annotation-under-linux-with-wine-and-pdf-xchange-viewer/

    You can also check the appropriate windows-formatted filepath with Winetricks, using its built in windows File Explorer, finding your .exe, and copying the path starting from "C:".
    [Edit: the default install folder in the script would normally be C:\Program Files, my bad. I downloaded the portable version and shoved it wherever, so my filepath looks like “C:\users\Froggy\Documents\PDFXchange test01\PDFXEdit.exe”]

    Mint Cinnamon 21:

    • right click your shell script file, Properties > Permissions > check on “Allow executing file as program”.
    • Then find a PDF file (or whatever filetype), right click, Open With > ‘Other Application…’ > browse for this .sh file you just made.
    • After selecting this .sh file, be sure to select “Set as default” before clicking OK.

    I could not tell you for the life of me why this didn’t work with a .desktop file on Mint 21.

    I spent the past few hours down the wrong rabbit holes with .desktop and exec=wine ‘filepaths’ and just about died of asphyxiation from absolutely nothing happening. I’ve been wanting to do the same thing too for a while, but decided that right before bedtime was the perfect time to look it up.
    [Edit: I figured out spacing in the script. Also moved the Mint specific instructions down the comment for flow clarity]