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What is the most duct-tape thing you've done to Linux? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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tell me the most ass over backward shit you do to keep your system chugging?
here's mine:
sway struggles with my dual monitors, when my screen powers off and back on it causes sway to crash.
system service 'switch-to-tty1.service'

[Unit]
Description=Switch to tty1 on resume
After=suspend.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/switch-to-tty1.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=suspend.target

'switch-to-tty1.service' executes '/usr/local/bin/switch-to-tty1.sh' and send user to tty1

#!/bin/bash
# Switch to tty1
chvt 1

.bashrc login from tty1 then kicks user to tty2 and logs out tty1.

if [[ "$(tty)" == "/dev/tty1" ]]; then
    chvt 2
    logout
fi

also tty2 is blocked from keyboard inputs (Alt+Ctrl+F2) so its a somewhat secure lock-screen which on sway lock-screen aren't great.

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

My control key was broken, but I found that when I used an app and held down the space bar key, the CPU would get abnormally hot.

So I wrote an Emacs interrupt to interpret a rapid CPU rise as "press the control button".

Unfortunately the dev pushed an update that broke space bar heating, which broke my workflow. I opened a bug report about it, though...

[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://xkcd.com/1172/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How the fuck....

[–] Fuck_u_spez_ 19 points 3 months ago

Other way around.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's horrifying.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago

Hey, my setup works for me! Just add an option to enable CPU overheating in the next update!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Just think how many children are holding down spacebar to keep warm in the winter. We need to keep this feature around.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

This is an absolute winner IMHO. I’m imagining all the hotkeys that are accidentally activated when a CPU-intensive task spins up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wow...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

It's not real, it's an xkcd joke