Push-to-talk in any application

Published: Apr 11 2020

Some scripts I wrote to enable system-wide push-to-talk (for X11 and PulseAudio). Some people might find it useful for the ongoing lockdown.

I can has systray?

Published: Jul 29 2015

In Plasma 5, support for the XEmbed-based “legacy” systray protocol was removed: only the new SNI protocol is handled. However, a lot of applications still do not handle the new protocol: Qt4 and Qt5 applications can be fixed by installing the sni-qt (currently in experimental) and libdbusmenu-qt5 respectively but other applications (such as GTK ones) must be patched/recompiled with SNI support. Without this, windows disappear into oblivion 😿. You can have a seamless systray-enabled Plasma panel with a single (OK, two) line of shell 😼.