Posts for: #Linux

Software zoom for DJI action cams used as webcam

Since return to office after COVID19, I also had to bring my company-sponsored Logitech webcam back with me. In order to have decent video on my homeoffice days, I first experimented with my Sony Alpha but in the end I bought a Razer Kiyo. It has decent video/audio quality and an integrated ringlight - that really did nothing for me ^^.

Exactly two weeks after I threw away the bill and the packaging during spring cleaning in March, the Kiyo stopped working. When I plugged it in, the LED ringlight started flickering and Linux reported a USB disconnect.

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Program your Keychron/QMK keyboard with VIA on Linux

My daily driver is a wonderful Keychron Q65 Max keyboard. The one with the lovely knob, yes <3 !

It runs QMK and can be programmed either with VIA or since more recently with the official Keychron Launcher App.

For that to work a browser supporting WebHID API is required. Sadly, at the time of writing only Chrome-based browsers support this API. Still even on Chromium it did not work for me out-of-the-box on my Arch machine. The device showed in the permission request but nothing else happened for me. Looking at chrome://device-log/ revealed I was lacking system level permission to access this device from the browser:

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Tmux detach

Today I learned a very helpful tmux switch.

If, for any reason, you want to detach all other clients from a running session one can use the -d switch on the command line:

$ tmux ls
sys: 1 windows (created Fri Mar 24 13:43:08 2023)
blogging: 2 windows (created Sun Mar 26 10:04:53 2023) (attached)

$ tmux a -t blogging -d
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