Hammerheart

I've been struggling with getting a wezterm window running cmus on a specific workspace upon start up for a while now. I can't use assign because the only eligible criteria differentiating it from a generic wezterm window is the pid, and my attempts to get the pid from get_tree and use that have been unsuccessful. I thought I had figured it out, when I put these lines in a another file:

#! /bin/bash
sway workspace 10 && sway 'exec wezterm -e cmus'

then in my config file I have this: exec ./start_cmus.sh

But it doesn't work. If I run start_cmus from the shell, the expected behavior ensues (a wezterm window running cmus is opened on workspace 10).

Any tips?

I have to read more Zelazny after this. I was struck by two things in particular: The surprising playful quality of the prose. He has little vignettes dispersed among the main narrative, and it gave me the sense that Zelazny was having a lot of fun while writing this book. It was kind of refreshing after reading so many other self-seriously, rigidly constructed novels. It gave me a feeling similar to the ones I experience when I listen to some experimental music, where the process is not treated as a mere necessary evil on the way to the finish product.

The second thing was struck a chord was the ending. I liked how it was all show and no tell, which I wasn't expecting. It was kind of creepy, and very intense. I wasn't expecting such a visceral end to a book which, until then, had been rather laid back.

Now that I've finished it, I feel like it was very dense, thematically. I suspect I will revisit it and gleam many meanings which I missed this time.

I would like to open the thread to recommendations. I've heard he wrote a fantasy series that is pretty good, and I think I would like to check that out.

I am working on a rudimentary Breakout clone, and I was doing the wall collision. I have a function that I initially treated as a Boolean, but I changed it to return a different value depending on which wall the ball hit. I used the walrus operator to capture this value while still treating the function like a bool. I probably could have just defined a variable as the function's return value, then used it in an if statement. But it felt good to use this new thing I'd only heard about, and didn't really understand what it did. I was honestly kind of surprised when it actually worked like I was expecting it to! Pretty cool.

All I want to do is put a still image over a MP3 so I can upload a song to Youtube. (Sidenote: It feels really good to find a song I want to show someone that isn't already on Youtube. It used to be a somewhat regular thing i'd do, I have about a dozen Youtube videos that are just songs I uploaded because I wanted to show them to someone, but I guess Youtube got more stuff and my taste got more pedestrian, so I haven't felt the need to do it until now. Feels good!)

I used VEED, a web editor, and it produced a >300mb file. That seems a bit excessive. For the curious, this is the song: https://youtu.be/iLz7VXhCrnk

Every so often, I accidentally activate .... what ever this is... I can't seem to find any info on what it's called, or exactly what hotkey makes it happen. It kinda bugs me because tonight I wanted to turn it on, because I wanted to access something from my history that it would have been tedious to up arrow to. I thought windowsKey + , did it, but when I tried it in a new tab, it didn't work. Someone must know what this is and how to toggle it.

I started working through the 100 Days of Code course of Udemy last February, and I'm in the home stretch. I'm on the final lessons, which are really just prompts for projects. No hand holding, just a brief description of the goal. I recently finished a tkinter GUI program, the goal of which was to enable adding text watermarks.

I took a few liberties--mainly, I made it possible to layer a png on top of the background. It was a really fun project and quickly grew more complicated than I expected it to. I got some hands on experience with the Single Responsibility Principle, as I started off doing everything in my Layout class.

Eventually, I moved all the stuff that actually involved manipulating the Image objects to an ImageManager class. I feel like I could have gotten even more granular. That's one thing I would love to get some feedback on. How would a more experienced programmer have architected this program?

Anyway, I guess this preamble is long enough. I'm going to leave a link to the repository here. I would have so much appreciation for anyone who took the time to look at the code, or even clone the repo and see if my instructions for getting it to run on your machine work.

Watermark GUI Repo

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/14680192

I have a VPS, but no root access so I can't use apt, or even read a lot of the system files. I would like to get jellyfin (or any media server, really) running on it. Jellyfin has a portable installation option, so I followed the instructions in the docs to install it from the .tar.gz.

But it says I have to install ffmpeg-jellyfin, and I can't find a portable installation of that. My VPS already has ffmpeg installed on it. Will jellyfin work if I just point it to that instead? Or, how can I go about installing ffmpeg-jellyfin without root access?

I have a VPS, but no root access so I can't use apt, or even read a lot of the system files. I would like to get jellyfin (or any media server, really) running on it. Jellyfin has a portable installation option, so I followed the instructions in the docs to install it from the .tar.gz.

But it says I have to install ffmpeg-jellyfin, and I can't find a portable installation of that. My VPS already has ffmpeg installed on it. Will jellyfin work if I just point it to that instead? Or, how can I go about installing ffmpeg-jellyfin without root access?

I recently got ssh set up so I can do stuff in powershell on my desktop from my laptop. I want to be able to start a movie on my desktop from my laptop, instead of having to reach for my wireless keyboard. I was researching how to do this with SSH, and it looks like OpenSSH no longer allows you to run the server as a user, it can only be ran as a service which doesn't have access to the desktop.

What's the best way to achieve this functionality?

I'm working on a little gui app that will eventually (hopefully) add a watermark to a photo. But right now I'm focused on just messing around with tkinter and trying to get some basic functionality down.

I've managed to display an image. Now I want to change the image to whatever is in the Entry widget (ideally, the user would put an absolute path to an image and nothing else). When I click the button, it makes the image disappear. I made it also create a plain text label to see if that would show up. It did.

Okay, time to break out the big guns. Add a breakpoint. py -m pdb main.py. it works. wtf?

def change_image():
    new_image = Image.open(image_path.get()).resize((480, 270))
    new_tk_image = ImageTk.PhotoImage(new_image)
    test_image_label.configure(image=new_tk_image)
    breakpoint()

with the breakpoint, the button that calls change_image works as expected. But without the breakpoint, it just makes the original image disappear. Please help me understand what is happening!

edit: all the code

import io
import tkinter as tk
from pathlib import Path
from tkinter import ttk

from PIL import ImageTk
from PIL import Image

from LocalImage import Localimage
from Layout import Layout

class State:
    def __init__(self) -> None:
        self.chosen_image_path = ""

    def update_image_path(self):
        self.chosen_image_path = image_path.get()



def change_image():
    new_image = Image.open(image_path.get()).resize((480, 270))
    new_tk_image = ImageTk.PhotoImage(new_image)
    test_image_label.configure(image=new_tk_image)
    breakpoint()

TEST_PHOTO_PATH = "/home/me/bg/space.png"
PIL_TEST_PHOTO_PATH = "/home/me/bg/cyberpunkcity.jpg"
pil_test_img = Image.open(PIL_TEST_PHOTO_PATH).resize((480,270))
# why does the resize method call behave differently when i inline it
# instead of doing pil_test_img.resize() on a separate line?


root = tk.Tk()

root.title("Watermark Me")
mainframe = ttk.Frame(root, padding="3 3 12 12")
mainframe.grid(column=0, row=0, sticky="NWES")

layout = Layout(mainframe)

image_path = tk.StringVar()
tk_image = ImageTk.PhotoImage(pil_test_img)
test_image_label = ttk.Label(image=tk_image)

entry_label = ttk.Label(mainframe, text="Choose an image to watermark:")
image_path_entry = ttk.Entry(mainframe, textvariable=image_path)
select_button = ttk.Button(mainframe, text="Select",
                           command=change_image)
hide_button = ttk.Button(mainframe, text="Hide", command= lambda x=test_image_label:
                  layout.hide_image(x))
test_text_label = ttk.Label(mainframe, text="here i am")
empty_label = ttk.Label(mainframe, text="")

for child in mainframe.winfo_children():
    child.grid_configure(padx=5, pady=5)

entry_label.grid(column=0, row=0)
image_path_entry.grid(column=1, row=0)
hide_button.grid(column=0, row=3)
select_button.grid(column=0, row=4)
test_image_label.grid(column=0, row=5)
empty_label.grid(column=0, row=6)


image_path_entry.insert(0,TEST_PHOTO_PATH)
image_path_entry.focus()
breakpoint()



root.mainloop()

Sometimes my CMUS will randomly stop playing a track or it won't play the next track until I manually go in and hit c (for resume) or otherwise initiate playback. I would like to be able to see what happened before these instances so i could either fix my config or, if its a problem beyond the scope of my local environment, get info to write up a proper bug report with. Where can I find such logs? Would they be in the systemd journal or somewhere in /var ?

So I just had an issue where my shebang lines weren't parsing properly for a python script I was attempting to execute. A quick google revealed that it was probably because I wrote the scripts on windows and now I was trying to run them on Linux (so happy i finally made the switch btw. using the computer is fun again!). So i took the advice I found and tried to run :%s/^M/ (using C-v, C-m to insert the escape character), and it failed to find any matches. I tried the same command in vanilla vi and it worked.

Is there some setting I don't have configured properly? I would prefer to be able to do this sort of thing within neovim.