Yeah screensharing with Wayland is a sore spot with many apps. Slack being one of them, last I checked. I think many of them haven’t bothered to revisit the functionality once Wayland started rolling out a proper workflow.
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Huh. I only gave it a short try but at least on XFCE it seemed to work.
Will re-test that though.
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Very low energy prices today encouraged me to fly some more DCS in VR. I upgraded (using protonup-qt) to Proton GE 10-4, which has a nice new feature:
Putting the env var FSR4_UPGRADE=1 in front of your %command% in launch options now automatically replaces FSR3.1 with FSR4. I think it’s working in DCS, I set up FSR with scale 0.66 (very low) and it still looked quite OK, whereas I remember FSR3 looking incredibly ugly even at 0.8
Despite the constant 90 fps, moving my head still gave weird stutters. I’ve heard rumors that this is a known issue with tracking WMR headsets under Monado. If this isn’t fixed, I might have to buy a new headset after all.
Also haven’t fixed the UUIDs yet so I am still redoing my axis commands.
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Aannnd I got printing working on my Canon USB printer with shitty proprietary drivers.
- Follow CachyOS installer instructions as it walks you through installation of the OS: it tells you to enable CUPS if you want to use a printer
- Read the AUR page on printers when it doesn’t work yet: CUPS - ArchWiki
- Click on one of the six(!) links to the page on Printer-specific problems
- Find your printer’s model on that page and follow the link next to it. In my case, Canon LBP 6030 was mapped to AUR (en) - cndrvcups-lt so I installed that:
paru -S cndrvcups-lt - Try to print something. Nothing happens. Follow the suggestion in the first comment on the AUR page to install
libxml2-legacyand it works.
This is one of the worst printers to get to work driver-wise. Even on Windows it doesn’t work out of the box, and it’s always a pain to get to work. But I love how the Archwiki and AUR help with these kinds of problems. This stuff is genuinely easier on Arch-based distributions than on Ubuntu or Fedora.
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Doesn’t Lutris keep Proton up-to-date? Or is the one they supply a bit behind upstream?
I’m not running through Lutris, I only use it to install and update DCS. I’m running through Steam. From what I understand, Lutris does not support Proton, and I need Proton (Wine is not good enough) for OpenXR through Monado
Lutris does Proton I think!
At least I can choose it in some drop down menu.
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Guess I gotta look at how I can configure Lutris to run Proton then! Would make things a lot simpler.
I was also using cachyos-proton before but wanted to try this fresh Proton GE version for the FSR4 stuff. Which gives great performance, and is simple to use! And to think the Proton devs did this entirely via reverse engineering, as AMD has not released an FSR4 SDK. 
I’m not feeling like trying something experimental, I’ve copied the entire game folder, wiped the old install, installed it from the new installer and then transferred the saves.
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Love it, C:\-drive as cattle
For those not familiar with cloudnative IT:
https://cloud-rsp.devcom.vt.edu/articles/P/007-cattle-not-pets/
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Bah curse GOG and their off-by-one link name vs file name system. What kind of bull manure is this…
Of course it made me miss downloading a file. Not for the first time, mind you.
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Yeah, why can’t they label the links properly! I always have to do the conversion in my head: “I’ve got -5 so that is part six so I need to click part seven” 
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