u/tobomori

I have some forms which need filling in - which I have done by simply writing on the pdf form with my stylus. Literally just handwriting on the page using the NeoReader app.

If I then "embed data" and save them it looks at first as if I now have a new pdf with my handwritten changes on it. If I then email that to my phone, however, it's either a blank or for it or contains my changes - entirely depending on which app I use to open the file.

My concern then is that how can I be sure the pdf will have my changes for the person I'm sending the form to? What if they open the file in the "wrong" app?

Is there some way to export my changes so that it's just a normal pdf containing both the original form and my handwriting regardless of what software you open it in? As long, obviously, as the software supports standard PDFs. I've tried using the share option in the Notes app, but the results are the same.

If I search for his to do this then lots of people suggest using a "save as" option, but I can't find this anywhere.

Am I being stupid and missing something obvious? Is this even possible? Surely it must be?

Thanks in advance!

My daughter recently bought a MM Sterling Stingray Classic and it's a beauty. Plays very nicely and sounds great. At the shop, however, she asked them to only show her passive basses because I thought (quite possibly wrongly) that she'd be better off without the added complexity.

I happened to notice this morning, however, that it has a 9v battery which told me it must be active. Sure enough - looking it up online confirmed that it is an active bass.

What are the pros/cons of an active bass? I tried it without a battery and it still works - albeit with much lower volume. I assume that it gives her more control over the tone before it even hits the amp, but is she always going to be worrying about whether the battery will last?

How long does the battery usually last on an active bass?

Thanks in advance - I'm kind of hoping that my advice to stick with passive will turn out to be stupid and that she's actually got the forever bass she was hoping for...

Sailfish claims to run 99% of Android apps, so I'm wondering if anyone has tried using the Ollee Watch app with it?

Pretty much the title. I'm just setting up Jellyfish for the first time and am, so far, fairly impressed. One thing slightly annoys me, however, In my media directory I have some files sorted into directories - film series or tv series for example - and some files are just individual files at the top level of my media directory.

In general, Jelly fish seems to handle this well enough. However, when viewing my library - either in the web client or the roku one - it mixes the directories in with the files and it's not always obvious at first glance which is which. Is there any way to get Jellyfin to display the directories first and then the individual files?

Is it possible (or planned for the future) to allow setting the night DnD based on specified start/end times rather than sunset/sunrise?

Depending on user location and time of year, some people may find that DnD is activated for most of the day than it isn't...

I only realised after I'd spent about 40 minutes or so taking it apart and putting it back together. I kept getting jumbled characters on the screen. I assumed at first I was doing it wrong, so I went back and forth over the installation video and repeating everything. Then I went to the troubleshooting guide and saw that it matched the tell tale signs of being fake - most obviously the rubber strip was pink.

I'd been so looking forward to getting this up and running and now I'm exhausted and annoyed as well as just plain disappointed...

As I mention further down, I'm fairly sure this is a hypr* issue due to my config changes, so I don't believe it breaks rule 1. Apologies if I'm wrong.

I'm now on all lua configs and *most* things seem to be working and I can fix at least some of those that aren't.

One of the most annoying problems, however, is that I can no longer click on the waybar icon for a given workspace to switch to that workspace. The icon is there if the workspace, but clicking on it does nothing.

I haven't changed my waybar configs at all, so I'm assuming it's a issue with the way I've set up workspaces in my lua config.

I may have tried to be too clever and used for loops to set things up and assign them to monitors:

local terminal = "alacritty"

local audio = "pavucontrol"

local left = "HDMI-A-1"

local right = "HDMI-A-2"

local leftNames = { "steam", "zed", "idea", "calibre", "aseprite", "gdxtexturepacker", "skincomposer", "heroic", "gimp",

"reaper", "handbrake", "yoshimi", "frescobaldi", "musescore" }

local rightNames = { "dbvis", "shotcut", "beeper", "element", "discord" }

--map workspaces 1-4 to left monitor and 5-9 to right

for i = 1, 4 do

hl.workspace_rule({ workspace = "" .. i, monitor = left })

end

for i = 5, 9 do

hl.workspace_rule({ workspace = "" .. i, monitor = right })

end

--default workspaces

hl.workspace_rule({ workspace = "4", default = true })

hl.workspace_rule({ workspace = "5", default = true })

--named workspaces

for index, name in ipairs(leftNames) do

hl.workspace_rule({ workspace = "name:" .. name, monitor = left })

end

for index, name in ipairs(rightNames) do

hl.workspace_rule({ workspace = "name:" .. name, monitor = right })

end

--special workspaces

hl.workspace_rule({ workspace = "special:mc", on_created_empty = terminal .. "--class MidnightCommander -e mc" })

hl.workspace_rule({ workspace = "special:audio", on_created_empty = audio })

hl.workspace_rule({ workspace = "special:keepass", on_created_empty = "keepassxc" })

As you can probably tell I'm a complete lua noob, although not new at all to coding. Have I done something stupid that's causing waybar to not be able to switch workspaces?

When using the DeDRM plugin, if I try to select a backup file for the Android related functionality, it fails to select a file. It opens a file picker, I select a file and click "Open", but no file is then selected.

The resulting stack trace is:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "calibre/gui2/linux_file_dialogs.py", line 343, in looped

File "polyglot/builtins.py", line 61, in reraise

File "calibre/gui2/linux_file_dialogs.py", line 332, in r

File "calibre/gui2/linux_file_dialogs.py", line 285, in zenity_choose_files

File "calibre/gui2/linux_file_dialogs.py", line 245, in run_zenity

ValueError: GTK file dialog aborted with return code: 255 and stderr: This option is not available. Please see --help for all possible usages.

I'm aware that the bug could be with the plugin, although the stack trace leads me to believe it is more likely a Calibre issue.

For context, I am running on Arch linux, Wayland and Hyprland. I do have xdg-desktop-portal-gtk and xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland installed and running.

Any help/suggestions gratefully received! Thanks in advance!

I'm honestly not sure if this is an issue with hyprland/wayland or with the app itself, but I thought I'd start here.

I'm trying to configure a plugin in Calibre, but when I try and select a file it doesn't work. What happens is the file selection dialogue opens and I can choose the file. When I clock on select, though, I am returned to the previous dialogue with no selected file.

In the console output there is this trace:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "calibre/gui2/linux_file_dialogs.py", line 343, in looped

File "polyglot/builtins.py", line 61, in reraise

File "calibre/gui2/linux_file_dialogs.py", line 332, in r

File "calibre/gui2/linux_file_dialogs.py", line 285, in zenity_choose_files

File "calibre/gui2/linux_file_dialogs.py", line 245, in run_zenity

ValueError: GTK file dialog aborted with return code: 255 and stderr: This option is not available. Please see --help for all possible usages.

As far as I can tell, file dialogues in other parts of the app work perfectly well.

All help and suggestions gratefully received - thanks in advance!

I just recently got a Note Air 5C and I'm really pleased with it. One thing I had been hoping to do is write music on it, but I can't find any apps that don't either demand lots of money (e.g. musescore for Android) or seem like they aren't optimal for an e-ink context (e.g. Fender Notion). There are also lots for reading sheet music, but most of these don't seem to allow you to write it. You can often annotate it, but that's obviously not the same.

I had wondered if I might use the notes app with a manuscript paper template and then maybe use some sort of notation OCR software on my computer. I'm still planning on experimenting with that, but I'm not confident it'll work out.

All of which is to say: does anyone have any recommendations for an app that'll work well with my tablet? Or another approach that I haven't thought of?

I want to be able to point the midi out of my notation software (or any other midi software) to a simple soundfont player - in which I have selected a soundfont - and then point the output of that to my soundcard out via pipewire.

I see there are cli options such as fluidsynth and timidity, but I was hoping for a simple ui where I could load a soundfont file and work from there. I don't really mind what synth is being used under the covers.