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Link Diary June 2022
Videos, articles and other links I stumbled upon in june 2022, which I want to remember and share.
i3: Disable all shortcuts when gaming
I was playing Biomutant and accidentally made it close several times because of the key bindings the game used in busy fight situations.
The use of Q W A S D E
, Alt
and Shift
made me slip to the super key quite often. Super+Shift+Q in my case kills an application. Not so good while fighting.
Solution: modes.
When in a mode, new key bindings apply, which basically disables all usual bindings for the time being.
So I added a mode "play_game" with no bindings except the one to exit the mode (which is the same as how to enter).
I used the Scroll-Lock
key which is very far from any key I might press.
bindsym Scroll_Lock mode "play_game" mode "play_game" { bindsym Scroll_Lock mode "default" }
Link Diary May 2022
Videos, articles and other links I stumbled upon in may 2022, which I want to remember and share.
Framedrops in games using Ubuntu and Gnome
I experienced frame drops especially in AAA shooter games under Linux even through I have a pretty solid hardware setup.
So I ran the benchmarks of Borderlands 3 and Far Cry 5 with Windows and with Linux. The average values were pretty much the same. However the framedrops (short stops in fluid animation) were noticable under Linux but not under Windows.
I read somewhere, Gnome plays a role in this. So I installed a slimmer window manager and ran the benchmarks again.
With the slimmer window managaer (I used i3wm, maybe even XFCE is slim enough already - there are a lot of options) the games ran without framedrops stutter-free in the higher graphical settings.
An additional performance boost can be achieved when deactivationg anti aliasing in the game settings.