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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by andreareina on Thursday February 23, 2023 @08:09PM (#34919296)
My only complaint about arch/i3 so far is that updating Firefox forces a restart of Firefox, and I've got FF windows scattered over a few workspaces so I need to sift them back to their places.

Come to think of it I can probably prune one of the windows...

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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by 99112000 on Thursday February 23, 2023 @09:38PM (#34920060)
I'm almost sure this is an excerpt straight from https://youtu.be/7Nj9ZjwOdFQ
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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by andreareina on Friday February 24, 2023 @11:34PM (#34933938)
I'm flattered you think I achieve perfect window placement.
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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by twojacobtwo on Thursday February 23, 2023 @09:42PM (#34920086)
Would it be possible to create a script to save the desktop and screen position for each firefox window on close and restore them to the recorded desktops and positions on open? I haven't used i3 much (or arch at all), but I'm fairly certain I did something similar using Xubuntu some years back.
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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by raffraffraff on Friday February 24, 2023 @09:39AM (#34924897)
I did that on xubuntu too. Used xdotool, wmctrl and something else I can't recall.
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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by andreareina on Saturday February 25, 2023 @12:29AM (#34934176)
I'm vaguely aware of tools that'll do it for i3 but thus far I've just avoided restarting as much as I can. The call-out to James Mickens is not altogether inaccurate (:
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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by bladderlover23 on Friday February 24, 2023 @02:36PM (#34928951)
Keep in mind that you can downgrade firefox back after the update with pacman -U /var/lib/something, then just refresh/keep using the open windows with no issue.
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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by andreareina on Saturday February 25, 2023 @12:31AM (#34934188)
Aren't downgrades heavily discouraged in Arch?
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