In Wayland, window managers are usually called compositors, though. There aren’t many good. I thought about making one, but the keyboard layout stuff seems not to work out-of-the-box with the reference compositor Weston, which made me pause my efforts.

For question 1: idk how to convert tex to svg, but maybe there’s a program called tex2svg . Often programs are named like that. However, if you want the contents of a file (which is basically markup text) in the clipboard from CLI you would use on Xorg X11 xclip or xclipboard like so:

xclip -selection clipboard -in < myfile.txt

… or on Wayland wl-copy from wl-clipboard like so:

wl-copy < myfile.txt

For question 3: after you have reviewed the potentially dangerous script, you would move it to a directory for non distribution files, eg. /usr/local/bin/ if it is for all users on your system. You would add that path to the PATH environment variable for all users who need it, but maybe better not for root. I mean you can, but make sure the permissions don’t allow non-root users to write or replace the file/dir so nobody can use it to escalate their privileges.

You can have multiple installed in parallel and you should be able to switch during login. Some are super small and fast. Not sure if it matters if you run Xorg or Wayland, but those are cool: WindowMaker (wmaker), enlightenment (version DR16 was the best, but has been discontinued), blackbox (extra small and fast), notion (a tiling WM that allows to do some things with the mouse and can be user scripted with Lua)

needs an eye patch

notion is kinda like this, but no icons and the clock bar is at the bottom. highly scriptable in lua. it’s actually a tiling WM, but the tiling area can be just one massive thing. the tabs go on top of each tyling area, so if you have only one everything is maximized with tabs on top. i used it for a long time. customized some lua too, so its start menu thing opens on mouse click on the bar.

it will secure a lot of jobs 😆

if they switch it will cause a lot of trouble at first. it’s used everywhere. some management software has .ssh/ hardcoded.

they can’t be automatically backwards compatible, because it would mean an alternate location for a authorized_key file etc, which is dangerous. so, hosts updating need to be checked and migrated. some people will be locked out.

however, after the initial chaos it should be fine.

dood, moving a partition takes a gazillion years

yeah, that works. just small problems like maybe fixing the boot loader/efi or fstab because disks are enumerated differently or propietary drivers missing. you can also likely just export package manager selections, /etc, /var and your home dir as tarballs to change a fresh install of the same distro into yours.

i also did the reverse: on a dual boot gentoo+debian with 2 HDs, i installed vmware in gentoo and configured the HD of the debian install as HD in the VM and it ran very well. the linux kernel autodetects all drivers at boot anyway. same for X or Wayland nowadays. (long ago, it was different and you would have needed to swap 2 X configs, for example, but nowadays it’s all very flexible and dynamic)

storage vendors. hard disk and SSD manufacturers.

ironically published on youtube 😄

i already have an idea: dropdown to select the date as a UNIX time stamp in roman numerals

but Samsung isn’t cheap. it’s reasonably priced. cheap phones are 50€ . I use a cheap one as an alarm clock.

i’m suspecting elon is trying to run twitter into the ground for the US elections.

he showed his true colors when he insulted that diver, because he didn’t get to use his toy in a rescue mission.

it’s different in this case. twitter is nothing without users. oil companies don’t just sell car fuel. they also sell oil for plastics, lubricants, fuel for ships and heating, etc… twitter would die. oil companies would survive.

contrary to the dinosaurs, ppl have a choice

Samsung Galaxy S10e is pretty good and still available. Can recommend.

sounds like crash report, because that’s what their buttons say and they tend to hang forever not saying what’s happening.

For FOSS you pay with respect