Sync Update for Week 41, 2023

Solarmass

EbonJaeger I tried a new thing with spoiler tags, but adding them is a pain because they have to be in just the right place. Still didn't quite get it right. Hrm...

It's fine without spoilers! I read everything anyway! 😛

ermo

ReillyBrogan brent Specifically it now uses the system versions of libaom, libdav1d, libvpx, libwebp, and libwebpdemux.

Oh, wait, does that imply that these new libs uses joey's new glibc hwcaps work? I.e., they will support AVX2 and whatnot if the CPU supports it and mesa/nvidia hwdecode of the GPU supports it?

ReillyBrogan

ermo Yes, if they're built with that option. Some of the referenced libs are.

elusian

With the new update conky seems to be segfaulting inside libcairo

algent

elusian Please report your issue here: https://github.com/getsolus/packages/issues/new/choose

olivir

elusian I don't have segdefault as you mentionned on github but my conky desn't boot, I suppose lua script is not loaded too.

unclemez

EbonJaeger
I Love this presentation.
Would be cool if the contributor name could be clickable or we just over mouse pointer on it and see avatar and info about the person who worked to make us all proud and cool!
Good job Y'all!

presianbg

Hi,

Nice, having such informative posts is really awesome.
Just an idea: bring them to the main website as a regular blog post as it was used to be:
https://getsol.us/2017/05/08/this-week-in-solus-install-44/
and link the discussion here.

Not every newcomer is checking the forums (not sure about that), but everyone considering switching / trying Solus will take a look at the main website / blog. Having more posts there is proving the project is VERY VERY active, which will lead to more users (again not sure about this statement, just thinking aloud).

PS: for those of us using dnscrypt and pi-holes at home, what would be the best way to disable the systemd-resolved ? I tried to disable and mask the service, but something keeps removing my custom /etc/resolv.conf ?
I really appreciate having one more option to choose from, systemd-resolved is not my thing.

Cheers,
PY

ReillyBrogan

presianbg

sudo mkdir -p /etc/tmpfiles.d/
sudo ln -sv /dev/null /etc/tmpfiles.d/systemd-resolve.conf

This will disable tmpfilesd from re-creating the /etc/resolve symlink on boot. Although, why not just configure systemd-resolve to use your pi-hole as the DNS server? That would work just as well.

presianbg

ReillyBrogan

Thanks, I will try that.
I would like to use the dnscrypt-proxy as my local resolver. (for many reasons and functionalities, which are not covered by systemd-resolved).

Cheers,
PY

elusian

olivir

The segfault is only visible if you open conky in the debugger, but yes, the visible symptom is conky not opening (because the segfault causes it to crash on startup).

ReillyBrogan

presianbg Ah, I assume you need DNSSEC support then? It's a shame that systemd-resolve doesn't have good support for it yet, that was a huge point of contention when we were discussing integrating it. systemd-resolve is a huge QOL feature for most users however which is why it won out it the end. It integrates quite seamlessly with NetworkManager which means that VPNs that push out DNS servers work pretty much as users expect them to (combined with DNS routes received when roaming between different networks). I've got a bunch of DNSSEC-related issues followed on the systemd tracker so hopefully once the issues are resolved we can enable DNSSEC again by default.

Side-note, would you be interested in becoming the maintainer for dnsscrypt-proxy? I notice it hasn't been updated in a while and usually it's best if people who are actively using a package are the ones who keep it updated.

Sebastian

elusian Ok, so I have read that there is an issue with conky: (segfault causes it to crash on startup).
I also encounter very very weird behaviour under GNOME X11 when running conky. Just wanna be sure if it's like the same thing you have described, or a whole other issue:
So basically I had only three programs running: chrome in multiple windows, gnome-terminal in multiple windows and rednotebook. Then I ran conky and could observe extremely strange behaviour:
normally, the conky "window" only gets displayed when hiding all windows, e.g. on an empty workspace.
But when switching workspaces after running conky, the conky "window" or how you call it got displayed on top of the running application.
I observed several scenarios:
a)by then pressing super+D, which should hide all windows, only the conky window got hidden and back on top of all windows by pressing super+D again.
b) another time, I couldn't switch between windows on the same worksapce. Either by pressing alt+tab and choosing another program or by opening overview and choosing another window on the same workspace did't show any effect. Didn't switch the active window.
c) I was on a workspace where only a gnome-terminal was running. But behind the gnome-terminal was the chrome-window shown, which was running on another worskace! By opening overview, I could see that there only was the terminal running on this workspace, but after closing overview, there was the terminal window, and behind it the chrome window. Though I did't test if I could interact with this background chrome window.
Even after killing conky, the chrome window from another workspace was shown behind the terminal window. Only after I switched to another workspace and the back, the chrome window from another workspace was gon and only the terminal window left.

presianbg

ReillyBrogan

In reverse order:

YES, I would like to give it a try with maintaining some packages... maybe dnscrypt-proxy and VCMI, maybe others once I get familiar with the process. (I will give it a try in the end of the month due traveling plans).

Of course DNSSEC is nice to have, but I prefer dnscrypt-proxy over systemd-resolved because of the forwarding, cloaking and filter/block capabilities (the config files are very easy to maintain and clear to read).
I didn't knew systemd-resolved is fixing the DNS path resolution via VPN, but I still prefer the "static routes", which dnscrypt-proxy is offering.

Do not get me wrong, having systemd-resolved enabled by default is 100 times better than what we had before and really appreciate it.

Harvey

Discord 0.0.32 cherry-picked

youswer

Hey. How about supergfx plasmoid for KDE?
Very useful thing. This plasmoid I see in Nobara linux

alexxtasi

For me everything was ok, except the switch to systemd-resolved.
Not actually a problem, but since dns via systemd is new to me, I am not sure how to manage this, eg changing my primary dns.

Any suggestions, resources, docs on this ?

ReillyBrogan

alexxtasi systemd-resolved integrates with NetworkManager, so it will use the DNS server(s) of the NetworkManager interfaces you have. You can manually modify those DNS servers via NetworkManager and it will automatically update the DNS servers that systemd-resolved- uses. This is best for when you may want to swap DNS servers as you activate and deactivate networks (for instance, if your device is a laptop that you move between networks or if you use VPNs and may wish to use a different DNS server when the VPN is active).

If however you would prefer to always use a particular DNS server you can specify it by by creating the file file /etc/systemd/resolved.conf.d/dns_servers.conf and putting in contents like the following

[Resolve]
DNS=192.168.35.1 fd7b:d0bd:7a6e::1
Domains=~.

I'd recommend checking the Arch wiki for more complete configuration instructions.

alexxtasi

ReillyBrogan thanks for the suggestions ... I 'll try Arch's wiki, but strange is that there is no /etc/systemd/resolved.conf.d/ directory in my system !!

 ~ $ ls -l /etc/systemd/resolved.conf.d/
ls: cannot access '/etc/systemd/resolved.conf.d/': No such file or directory
 ~ $ ls -l /etc/systemd/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Οκτ  19 11:41 system
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Μαΐ  10 20:11 user

(Solus GNOME here with the latest update)

Staudey

alexxtasi thanks for the suggestions ... I 'll try Arch's wiki, but strange is that there is no /etc/systemd/resolved.conf.d/ directory in my system !!

That's because Solus is (aiming to be) stateless (https://github.com/clearlinux/clear-linux-documentation/blob/master/source/guides/clear/stateless.rst) [there will be a page on that topic on our own Help Center soon]

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