State of touch support on linux in 2019

I've been using linux for a few years already, but none of my laptops had touch capability. I've been thinking about getting one with touch and 2-in-1 abilities. How is touch integration in linux? I mainly used GNOME over the years and it seems to be designed for touch, and the scaling is also good at least for integer sizes. I also wonder if it works at all on other environments like KDE or WMs like i3.

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Unboxing MYD-JX8MQ6 Dev Kit Based on NXP i.MX 8M A53 Quad Processor
https://youtu.be/KoeGNd2iDno

https://redd.it/czyrea
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How does the Italian public sector implement and use Free Software? Leonardo Favario, leader of Team Digitale and keynote speaker at Akademy2019, explains in this interview.
https://dot.kde.org/2019/09/05/developers-italia-and-new-guidelines-let-open-source-revolution-start-interview-leonardo

https://redd.it/czzf72
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Pine64 September Update: The PinePhone is real & shipping soon
https://www.pine64.org/2019/09/05/september-update-the-pinephone-is-real-shipping-soon/

https://redd.it/czzb9c
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[OC] code and comment weight: linux kernel 5.1.14 source code (link to used noscripts in comments)
https://redd.it/d00c3c
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We are living in the strangest of times.
https://twitter.com/ItalyPaleAle/status/1169354916281778176

https://redd.it/d00tdl
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Linux in the Porsche Taycan

A little nugget in yesterday's news about the launch of Porsche's electric car, the Taycan: its information and entertainment system is [built](https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/4/20849437/porsche-taycan-turbo-ev-photos-mission-e-car-hands-on) on Linux.

https://redd.it/d019gy
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Librem 5 Shipping Announcement – Purism
https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-shipping-announcement/

https://redd.it/d02qrq
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Trying to VNC to a Cinnamon Desktop.

I'm trying to set up vnc server access on my Fedora 30 install w/Cinnamon. When I log into the remote connection, all I'm getting is a background... no taskbar access. I've tried refreshing Cinnamon Desktop, and I've looked at my \~/.vnc/xstartup configuration... seems ok?


Any input is appreciated.

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KLFC - the only way I've found to edit the keyboard layout and preserve your sanity (works with XKB and other systems)
https://github.com/39aldo39/klfc

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First batch of Purism Librem 5 Linux smartphones ships in late September - Liliputing
https://liliputing.com/2019/09/first-batch-of-purism-librem-5-linux-smartphones-ships-in-late-september.html

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pkgtop v1.8 update (xbps, portage, nix support)

**pkgtop: Interactive package manager and resource monitor designed for the GNU/Linux.**

**GitHub:** [**https://github.com/keylo99/pkgtop**](https://github.com/keylo99/pkgtop)

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Linux and Lynx sites

I have created to sites that folks might be interested in:

- [A Unix/Linux site](http://crn.hopto.org/unix/)
- [A *text* only Lynx start page](http://crn.hopto.org/lynx/)

The first one has some UNIX history stuff, noscripts, links, and some fun historical files of note. *Enjoy!*

Mitch - *"In case of rain, the *war* will be held in the auditorium"*

https://redd.it/d011yy
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What happened to Akira?

There are no news since July:

[https://github.com/akiraux/Akira](https://github.com/akiraux/Akira)

[https://www.patreon.com/akiraux/posts](https://www.patreon.com/akiraux/posts)

Anybody has some news?

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RUNNS - simple network namespace manager.
https://github.com/dalegr/runns

https://redd.it/d092mp
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Why is it not possible to start X in the background?

If you start the X server, you will always switch to the VT where it is started. You cannot start X on VT 1, but stay on VT 2, you will switch to VT 1. You can pass the `-novtswitch` option which affects what happens when the X server is stopped. With this option, stopping VT is done without the VT switch.

Why is this not possible to start the X server without switching VT?

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Mirror: Low-resource file editor
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/d08mza/i_have_created_low_memory_file_editor_for/

https://redd.it/d0ajcw
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GUADEC 2019 – Space and Meaning
https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2019/09/05/guadec-2019/

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Dipping Toes into Bash Scripting

I'm slowly moving away from Medium as a medium of blogging due to their absurd paywall system. Either you make a product free or you don't. Now greedy authors are hiding their garbage writing behind a paywall and people are falling for that. So I built a blog with Hugo and started blogging there. Lately, been brushing up some bash noscripting skill and thought why not just document the whole process there and share it with the community. Be lenient.

[https://rednafi.github.io/post/brisk\_bash/](https://rednafi.github.io/post/brisk_bash/)

https://redd.it/d0c91o
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humungus — an hg server written in Go, supports `go get`, written by a core OpenBSD developer
https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/humungus

https://redd.it/d0c48d
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Chrome is the new IE. Switch to Firefox <3
https://redd.it/d0e7rl
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