Did you download all your data before leaving?

Always wondered why my Chinese smartwatch quite often tells me to open Chinese spyware app because “satellite data outdated”. Looks like it’s an “assisted GPS”.

Some map apps ask for Bluetooth to increase location service. How does it work, how Bluetooth can help?

You know better, I never have had an Android, but some time ago I’ve tried searching if you can get screen time data older than 2 months and came to conclusion you can’t do it on Android either. But probably it’s not an issue if you can automate export and perform it regularly.

It would’ve been cool to have accumulative screen time across all devices. But as iOS user I don’t dream of it.

It will not.

$ time get_screen_time
03:33
real    0m0.005s
user    0m0.003s
sys     0m0.007s

I don’t know about android, but on iPhone only way to export screen time data is to screenshot it. Probably android is also restrictive.

If there is no lid (desktop pc), then it takes into account only systemd start and suspend messages, which is probably enough. Elegant!

Accumulative duration of working sessions. Work session is a period of time limited by any of “start” events and any of “end” events. E.g between “system started” and “suspend on”, or between “lid opened” and “system turn off”. Type of events determined by regex. Effectively it’s a screen time for most of people.

Can you give a hint on how to control screen saturation with color profile? I suppose task is to create synthetic color profile, without any calibration devices. I’ve spent some time trying to create such profile, but failed, all I found is gnome-gamma-tool, but it can create only VCGT tag.

This is so cool. I will check my Plasma version. What about Mac, are they also capable of fullscreen color management?

KDE Plasma, select the “built-in” color profile, and you’re done, no more oversaturated colors

Just did it. Fullscreen, not oversaturated. How is it even possible. ICC profile is built-in in memory of my laptop screen? Even Windows can’t do it. There’s a billion of tabs and menus in color management settings in Windows. I’ve spent billion time on this topic and you tell me I can just click a checkbox, even without a terminal? Why Gnome even exists…

There is no saturation slider, though. I’ve seen it on some screenshots.

I’ve spent a lot of time on color profiles and I didn’t include section about them because I came to conclusion it’s not possible to affect fullscreen saturation with them. Are you sure you can affect saturation system-wide with color profiles? Because in Gnome it’s not possible. I actually asked it in my post originally but no one commented on this matter yet.

This title and a photo of a smiling women are very informative, thank you.

For Bash - try blesh, it will enable some of common controls by default, and probably you will be able to manually enable other shortcuts. PSReadLine is calling xclip each time for copy/paste action for clipboard sync, probably it will be possible with Blesh too.

I’m fine, I got what I wanted. Apparently, it isn’t un-feature of Linux, it’s un-feature of ReadLine which is shipped with Bash.

I’ve got what I wanted, but I’m a powershell user. For Bash, blesh looks very promising - it’s functionally same component as PSReadLine which makes all this stuff possible in pwsh.

one of many un-features in Linux

What exactly? Shift-selection is already possible with Blesh. I think I’ve seen scripts for synchronizing buffer with clipboard. And everything else is a matter of redefining existing shortcuts.

I’ve heard about Linux being highly customizable and decentralized OS, and suddenly I can’t define my own shortcuts because there is a list of un-features?

I don’t care about Vi and Emacs, I already have my workflow and I’m trying to transfer it to Linux. When I will succeed, then (maybe) I will spend some time to explore other ways of interacting with terminal. Otherwise, it’s not freedom, it’s becoming a victim of OS.

I was able to test out what you’re looking for on macos and its default out of the box

This is so cool. Unfortunately, macos isn’t an option for me and never had been (for common reasons why people usually switch to linux).

I’ve got what I wanted with wezterm + powershell. I can edit my commands the same way I edit any text anywhere in the system, both in Windows and Linux, and I can copy-paste back and forth between terminal and any other app. This is awesome. This is freedom. This is UX done right.

I will paste below some observations I’ve made.

Possible solutions for Bash

• https://github.com/jirutka/zsh-shift-select - plugin for zsh as pointed out by @stupid_asshole69@hexbear.net and several other sources;
• https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh - ReadLine replacement for Bash (most promising);
• https://github.com/magenta404/natural-selection - plugin for FishShell;
• https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/p0jjno/how_to_use_shift_arrow_keys_to_select_text_in/ - most useful source on this topic.

Blesh

https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh/wiki/Manual-§4-Editing

• Super simple installation.
• Home/End - Jump to start/end as expected. ✅
• Ctrl+Backspace removes left char instead of left word. ❌
• Ctrl+Delete removes next word as it should. ✅
• Shift+arrows - char-wise text selection ✅
• Shift+Ctrl+arrows - word-wise text selection ✅
• Shift+Home/End don’t do anything. ❌
• Backspace/Delete: When smth is selected they delete it. ✅
• Copy/Paste/Cut: ❌
  • It’s Alt+W/Ctrl+Y/Ctrl+W instead of Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V/Ctrl+X.
  • All work with selection as expected.
  • All work with internal buffer instead of system clipboard.
• System clipboard:
  • Can’t copy selection to clipboard, can’t paste clipboard into selection.
  • Ctrl+Shift+C/V work as they do in vanilla bash: copy what is selected with mouse to clipboard, paste from clipboard.
• Ctrl+C prints current command and starts new one like in vanilla bash.

zsh-shift-select

• Stated to have best compatibiliy with Alacritty.
  • Alacritty requires Cargo (440MB).
    • cannot install package alacritty 0.16.1, it requires rustc 1.85.0 or newer, while the currently active rustc version is 1.75.0 Fail. Will use Gnome Terminal instead.
• Needs zsh, super simple installation.
  • Zsh should be default shell, gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV.
  • Plugin itself has simple installation, just git clone .zsh file and source it in .zshrc
• Ctrl+arrows - prints CD instead of moving word-wise ❌
• Ctrl+Backspace, Ctrl+Delete - are not deleting left/right word ❌
• Home/End - Jump to start/end as expected. ✅
• Shift+Left/Right - char-wise text selection ✅
• Shift+Ctrl+arrows - word-wise text selection ✅
• Shift+Home/End don’t do anything. ❌
• Shift+Up/Down - Select one line up/down ✅
• Backspace/Delete - When smth is selected - delete it. ✅
• Copy/Paste/Cut: ❌
  • Documented as Alt+W/Ctrl+Y/Ctrl+W instead of Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V/Ctrl+X.
  • Alt+W/Ctrl+Y work as copy/paste.
  • Ctrl+W removes previous word instead of Cut selection.
  • Work with internal buffer instead of system clipboard.
• System clipboard:
  • Ctrl+Shift+C/V work as they do in blesh and vanilla bash.
  • Can’t copy selection to clipboard, can’t paste clipboard into selection.
• Ctrl+C prints current command and starts new one like in vanilla bash.

wezterm + Powershell

PSReadLine starts with EditMode = Emacs by default.

Set-PSReadLineOption -EditMode Windows Fixes Ctrl+arrows, Ctrl+backspace, Shift+Ctrl+arrows.

Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Chord Ctrl+Delete -Function KillWord - Fixes Ctrl+Delete.

Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Chord Ctrl+o -Function AddLine - allows Ctrl+o instead of Shift+Enter to create a new line without trying to execute. Shift+Enter is not possible in Linux.

Reassigning Shift+Home/End in Gnome Terminal from scrolling viewport to something else is a rabbit hole, so I switched to wezterm, which fixed Shift+Home/End, and apparently also fixed a bug of Shift+arrows printing D;D;D; instead of selecting. But broke Shift+Ctrl+arrows. But you can fix it back by disabling this assignment in lua config.

Ctrl+C/V/X work fine, but without system clipboard synchronization. To fix it, install xclip. If it makes terminal freeze on Ctrl+C/X, update PSReadLine module.

• Ctrl+arrows ✅
• Ctrl+Backspace, Ctrl+Delete ✅
• Home/End ✅
• Shift+Left/Right ✅
• Shift+Ctrl+arrows ✅
• Shift+Home/End ✅
• Shift+Up/Down ❌
• Shift+Enter - Ctrl+o instead ✅
• Ctrl+C,Ctrl+V,Ctrl+X - Flawless ✅

Windows + conhost + Powershell Core

PSReadLine starts with EditMode = Windows by default.

• Ctrl+arrows ✅
• Ctrl+Backspace, Ctrl+Delete ✅
• Home/End ✅
• Shift+Left/Right ✅
• Shift+Ctrl+arrows ✅
• Shift+Home/End ✅
• Shift+Up/Down ❌
• Shift+Enter ✅
• Esc - clear current command ✅
• Ctrl+C,Ctrl+V,Ctrl+X - Flawless, all with system clipboard. ✅

Macintosh has nothing to do with it. Maybe I want to grow selection to the left with E and to the right with R - they are not Macintosh keys, but still I will have a hard time trying to get what I want.

Do you mean this whole concept of growing selection from the same cursor you type with and performing operations on this selected area as a single entity is a Macintosh-way, originated in GUI? And its foreign to terminals and terminals developed a different way of editing text and you propose learning this native text-editing without using foreign techniques like cursor-based text selection… This makes sense. And sure it’s possible to be effective in terminal while using it traditional way. If this is what you mean, now I understand.

I made a glimpse on the world where this shift-selection doesn’t exist and got excited about this feature even more, and I even think it’s genius.

System-wide clipboard is probably not the “traditional way” either, and it doesn’t work quite well in Linux terminals too.

A couple of years ago I invested some time into Vim and it was a pleasant experience, but it was detached from all other experiences I had on my PC. Mentally switching between different text editing modes is disgusting, I hate it so much. I don’t want a new one. I’m fine with the one I have.

Linux and its terminals are meaningful only as long as they do what I want them to do. I don’t care if some of my activities are “not Linux-way”.