Josh Ellithorpe

Tap a YubiKey against your phone and the login just happens. Rest it on an NFC reader next to your Linux desktop and nothing happens at all: browsers on Linux only talk to security keys over USB, so the reader may as well not be plugged in. One small daemon closes that gap. Here’s how token2-fido-bridge works, the hardware on my desk, and the AUR package I published that makes the whole setup two commands on Arch....

Papirus XApp Symbolic Icons is out: a drop-in set that gives the xsi-* icon names used by Linux Mint, Cinnamon, and the XApp projects proper Papirus artwork. Upstream draws its own Adwaita-derived versions and installs them into hicolor, so on a Papirus desktop every app asking for one of those names gets an icon that matches nothing around it. The set covers 628 of the 666 names, at 16, 22, and 24 pixels where upstream draws only 16, and installs into the Papirus theme so xsi-* lookups resolve there fir...

Tiler is here: a grid-based window tiling extension for Cinnamon, built for anyone who wants flexible tiling without switching to a tiling window manager. It brings grid placement on a hotkey, multiple grids, gaps between windows, reserved screen space for docks and Conky setups, and one-press auto-tiling for the whole workspace, all working with the mouse or entirely from the keyboard. I wrote it from scratch, inspired by gTile, because the existing solutions never suited my needs....