Confirmation bias.

I had to look it up because I didn’t remember. Aparently “the hot chick” from 2002:

https://youtu.be/BWMfj_wZ9Ec

SNL might have been first but not being from the US I’ve never watched that.

Sorry, I didn’t mean to be an ass. It’s a dumb movie quote. I hope you get some proper answers fam.

You could put your weed in there.

The rules about insider trading only exist to make poor people feel better.

that’s kind of my point though. I’ve never considered switching because what I’ve been using is fine.

I’ve been using one of these since forever and it just works. Should I look at the others?

I don’t want this to be a “I use x and its the best” type comment so I won’t say which one.

I only use wireguard and wouldn’t touch openvpn just because it seems so complex in comparisson.

The price is fine, the speed is fine, wireguard makes it ubiquitous, never had a problem with reliability.

Cool thanks.

There’s several answers like this in this thread.

I feel like the community would benefit from a sticky explaining some basic etiquette and how not to “help”.

It’s not just dumping gen AI output in a thread, there’s other poorly considered answers here too.

I appreciate that you’ve made an attempt to help, but sadly this answer is like the other gen AI answers in this thread in that it just plain doesn’t work.

My question is something like “what is the command to do X” and your answer is really “here’s a script that could run a command if you knew what command to run”.

In this case claude has chosen gnome-screenshot for the screenshot, which hasn’t been part of gnome for many years.

I will acknowledge however that the gdbus call claud selected is actually the best way to get the active window title, it’s just that it doesn’t work unless you disable gnome shell security manually, each time you log in.

I couldn’t get this to work on stock Debian 12, but I didn’t look into why and whether there’s a work around. I might come back to it. Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks.

I didn’t really know hyprland was a thing prior to the comments in this thread. It looks great though.

However, the install process seems non-trivial so I’m going to wait until I have a little more time to play around with it.

No I’m not especially loyal to gnome.

How would I achieve this with hyprland ?

It’s funny you say that. I was thinking exactly the same thing about your comments.

I’ve asked for help, you posted a chatgpt response, and now you’ve claimed eleventy times that I seem like I don’t know where to start or don’t seem like the type to search things.

“OP should’ve googled it first” is one of the hallmarks of toxic communities.

Thanks for these suggestions.

I think xdotool kinda does “gnome magic” including simulating key presses to gnome.

It looks like ydotool and dotool only simulate key presses to gnome, which can’t achieve my aims.

I couldn’t figure out how to install wlrctl, but other attempts with other avenues have led me to believe that anything that starts with wlr is wlroots and gnome doesn’t implement those endpoints of the wayland api.

grim also doesn’t work with debian / gnome / mutter / wayland it appears.

I had a play around with this. Thanks for the suggestion.

It seems to use pipewire to capture the desktop. I can’t get pipewire to watch more than one monitor at a time. On this basis it’s a non-starter unfortunately. Screen cap tools can get the entire desktop.

Wow. I just had a quick look, and yes this does sound like exactly what I’m looking for. Just trying to install now but I’ll give it a go. Thanks.

No worries, your comments make you sound insufferable.

This might shock you but… I have actually spent some time looking into this.

The tools you’ve suggested aren’t compatible with Wayland. It seems that alternatives don’t really exist, or cause the problems I mentioned in my post.

Additionally, I have a few decades experience with Linux and while I’m not some amazing Linux guru I do know what a bash script is and how to “link two programs together”.

Finally, like everyone on the planet I also know what chatgpt is and might even consider using it to create a bash script if I knew what tools were compatible with Wayland.

I’m using a default debian / gnome setup, so that’s mutter + wayland.

Grim seems to error with compositor doesn't support wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1 which I don’t really understand. Searching that term suggests that gnome will never support wlr-anything.